Book Launch JMU Cultural Studies, Bd. 1: 'Global Cultural Studies?'
17.05.2023Mittwoch, 17. Mai, 18.30 Uhr, Graduiertenschule (Hubland Nord, Gebäude 21 = Beatrice-Edgell-Weg 21)
Global Cultural Studies?
Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames
Im Band stellen zwölf junge Wissenschaftlerinnen aus Deutschland und Indien die Frage, ob und wie sich das Projekt der Cultural Studies in unsere 'globalisierte/transnationale' Gegenwart tragen lässt (siehe die unten stehende Buchbeschreibung).
Eine Teilnahme über Zoom ist ebenfalls möglich.
Um Anmeldung wird gebeten – unter der Adresse: culturalstudies@uni-wuerzburg.de
Mit freundlichem Gruß
Tobias Jetter (Herausgeber)
Zeno Ackermann (British Cultural Studies) & MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (American Cultural Studies)
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Can cultural studies attend to the problems of our globalized world?
Or is this project of “engaged scholarship” too deeply rooted in the parochial terrain of the national?
This collection of essays – the first volume in the new JMU Cultural Studies publication series – attends to this vital yet difficult question. Based on joint seminars bringing together emerging scholars from Germany and India, the contributions confront “classic texts”
from US-American, British, and Indian cultural studies with the specific concerns and contemporary perspectives of the authors. The collection thus tests the potentials of the tradition to speak to the transnational as well as the national environments of the very present. Emphasis is placed on Marxist and feminist legacies which are then projected into the domains of contemporary, food, and film studies.