“‘I was scared to death’”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents “‘I was Scared to Death’: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Genre Studies,” a talk by Radio/Television/Film professor Janet Staiger.

Wednesday, November 7, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Staiger is the author of several books in media studies, including Media Reception Studies (NYU Press, 2005), Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception (NYU Press, 2000), and Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 1995). She is currently working on a project tentatively titled “Formulas, Affects, and Inflections: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Film Genre.” This continues her work on gender and sexuality, reception, and institutional studies as part of understanding film and media in culture.

“Transformations of intersubjectivity and emotion in American society”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents a talk by Bethany Ogdon, visiting speaker.

Wednesday, October 31, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Ogdon left a tenure-track job at Hampshire College because she wanted to move to Austin. Her research interests focus on current transformations of intersubjectivity and emotion in American society. Her talk concerns “the declining status of love as it now emerges across current scientific research, art production, media representation, and a wide range of recent socio-cultural phenomena.” She is an adjunct professor at St. Edward’s University and is also teaching courses at ACC.

“Network Identity, Power, and Conventions”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents “Network Identity, Power, and Conventions: How Human Rights Crisis
 Survivors Might Speak and Be Heard on a Global Level,
” a talk by Lena Khor, UT Cultural Studies portfolio student.

Wednesday, October 24, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Lena Khor is a doctoral candidate in English who is researching the
 possibilities and limits of speaking as a “global” subject in the context of
 identity politics. Her research interests 
include 20th century World Anglophone
 literature, human rights and humanitarian rhetoric, and globalization studies.

“Oppositional Practice in the Belly of the Beast”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents “Oppositional Practice in the Belly of the Beast: Building Progressive Programs in Reactionary Departments,” a talk by UT Radio/Television/Film Professor Sandy Stone.

Wednesday, October 10, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Tales of tears and joy from the fifteen year history of “New Media” at UT, and how we lived to tell them. Professor Stone, author of The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age (MIT, 1995) founded and runs the ACTLab. Her research includes New Media production, video production, performance, installation, gender and sexuality with emphasis on Transgender, weird sciences, and fantasy/science fiction.

“Cows, Christians, and Cultural Studies”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents “Cows, Christians, and Cultural Studies: Forging an Interdisciplinary Perspective on the History of Animal Welfare,” by UT American Studies Professor Janet Davis.

Wednesday, October 3, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Davis, author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top, is writing an interdisciplinary social and cultural history of the animal welfare movement from 1866-1930. Her research interests include American popular culture, American foreign relations, animals, American social movements, working class culture, modern South Asia.