The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies hosts an annual fall colloquium presenting research by UT students and faculty and visiting faculty. Join us Mondays from 12-1 in EPS 1.128 for new and in-progress research in cultural studies!
September 29
Amporn Jirattikorn: Pirated Transnational Broadcasting: The Consumption of Thai Television Soap Operas among the Shan Community in Burma.
October 6
Ward Keeler: Why Are Burmese Transvestites Better at Making Women Beautiful Than Women Are?
October 13
Lalitha Gopalan (Dept of Radio, TV, and Film).
October 20
John Hartigan: Making Sense of Race: America’s National Conversation.
October 27
Mathangi Krishnamurthy: Trespassers Will be Recruited: Attrition and recruitment in the Indian call center economy.
November 3
Heather Barfield: Artaud’s Daughters in New Media Culture.
November 10
Patricia Clough, (Queens College, CUNY)
“Scenes of Secrecy, Scales of Hope”
November 17
Marina Potoplyak: Modernity in Print: Publishers and Avant-Garde Literary Groups in Petersburg and Buenos Aires during the 1920s.
November 24
Afsheen Nomai: Culture Jamming: Ideological Struggle and the Possibilities for Social Change.
December 1
Dan Villarreal: Heritage Mandarin Speakers in Taipei, Taiwan.
