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Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies The Interdisciplinary Working Group for Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies includes faculty, graduate students, and emeriti from the departments of English, History and Art History and Archaeology. For the past four years our focus has been the British Empire but we are seeking to expand our range to the history of other European, colonial, and indigenous cultures between 1700 and 1900. We meet two to three times per semester to discuss collectively chosen articles from the field as well as work in progress by members. All are welcome. Please contact Noah via email for more information, meeting times and places, and any questions. Ethnographic Studies: Planning a Field School The Field School Planning Group will meet on a regular basis to discuss and plan holding a Field School on the MU Forestry’s field school site near Poplar Bluff , MO, in the summer of 2009. This group has already been talking with the Folklife Center in Washington DC which will send both “experts” on field schools and equipment to work with the group of faculty who are planning to teach during this field school—topics to be discuss include ethnographic research, qualitative vs. quantitative research, geography and landscape studies, photovoice, doing field research on cultural spaces and religions places, and other topics. All interested faculty and graduate students are welcome to come to this group and participate. Please contact Soren via email for more information, meeting times and places, and any questions. Diaspora Studies Expanded and Revisited The Diaspora Group will be working on intersections and cooperative planning of research, teaching, and service endeavors. This group is interested in working cooperatively on a variety of themes, issues, and questions that drive the study, teaching, and understanding of African Diaspora (and other diasporic) cultures. In particular, we will be convening to consider how our scholarly, creative, and other research can be used to explore and invite engagement with the places where we Critical Theory and Public Culture The Creative Impulse This collaborative group is meant for writers, artists, poets, musicians, scholars, environmentalists—that is, just about anyone who ponders the notion of “the creative impulse.” Please contact Arthur directly via email for more information, meeting times and places, and any questions you may have. Social class and Culture At this juncture in American and global history, questions of class and culture are finding new audiences and new scholarship, drawing from both classical perspectives and more recent trends in critical theory and cultural studies. This group is for anybody working in areas having to do with the relationship between class (defined socially and/or economically) and cultural production, consumption, and/or expression (or other ways of thinking about culture). Narrative and Healing This group, a continuation and expansion of last year's group "The Body Project," will consider a number of topics linked by the ways they hover around the edges of the medical and can be illuminated by the concept of "narrative." "The Body Project" focused on disability and the ways art has challenged some received ideas. This year's group will continue that line of thinking but also consider subjects such as disability, illness, and trauma, and the ways that narrative can help us reconfigure them. We have people interested in this gropu from theater, neuroscience, medicine, literature, social work, folklore, and film. Y'all come. Visual Literacy This group has been meeting for some time and welcomes all persons who work with visual literacy, media, images, technology discourses, etc. Last year several members of this group presented on their research which included blogging, images of the World Trade Center in the media, images of domestic violence, film and literature, etc. Please consider continuing with this group or becoming a new member. The new facilitator, Kristin Schwain, would also like this group to begin a conversation about the possibility of developing a Visual Literacy or Visual Culture certificate program or graduate or undergraduate minor, which might provide a more formal relationship between those people and departments that work on visual culture and would give this group move of a power base for negotiating for services, databases, etc. on campus. |
For all interested faculty and graduate Students are invited to join any of these groups Please contact the group facilitator if you want to be a member of one (or more) of the collaborative groups. |
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