At least that’s what Monty Python claim. And, in a little more than a month, I will get to enjoy the glory of Finland in person for four weeks or so, courtesy of the International Institute for Popular Culture at the University of Turku. Two public lectures. One incredibly compact seminar introduction to cultural studies. […]
Found haiku of the day (grad seminar reading edition) [Rerun Sunday]
to uphold basic human justice you must do so for everyone – Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual, p. 93 [And I know I’m sorta cheatin’ the syllable count in the last line a bit, but no one really enunciates that second E in “everyone,” do they?] You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun […]
High price for a hard road
As I write these words, there is precisely one copy — described as “gently used” — of The Hard Road to Renewal, Stuart Hall’s only solo-authored book, available on Amazon. I’ve noticed this mostly because my copy of Hard Road is among the books that the US Postal Service swallowed back in May, and it’s […]
Videos of the week
From “Professor Stuart Hall Week” (24-28 Nov 2014) at Goldsmiths, University of London. Closing Remarks Professor Catherine Hall, University College London from Goldsmiths, University of London on Vimeo. Stuart Hall Interview: Angela Davis from Goldsmiths, University of London on Vimeo. Stuart Hall Interview: Professor Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina from Goldsmiths, University of London […]
Crossroads 2008 [Rerun Sunday]
Several people (including many blog-less friends not linked here) have asked me about the Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference in Kingston, Jamaica that wrapped up early last week. And I would be hard-pressed to do better than Melissa Gregg’s summary of the event . . . except, perhaps, to simply say to all those people […]
Call for Proposals: The Life and Work of Stuart Hall
Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, Another University Is Possible: Praxis, Activism, and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy, Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, Greater Los Angeles Area, California, 21-24 May, 2015 We would like to invite submissions for the 13th Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, to be held at the Riverside Convention […]
Book arrival day
It’s been a long, Long, LONG time coming. How long? This is a book that Jayne Fargnoli first approached me about writing in 2001. At the time, I was still teaching at the University of South Florida, Blackwell was five years away from being acquired by John Wiley, and the Association for Cultural Studies didn’t […]
3rd ACS Institute — 7-12 December 2015
The formal announcement of the keynote lineup for the next ACS Institute is below. But I want to add an extra plug for the event. To be sure, as ACS Chair, I’m a little biased. That said, I’ve been a part of the first two Institutes — in Ghent and in Klagenfurt — and they […]
Why Cultural Studies?: A short tease
Last week, my friend Ted Striphas (so cool that he has two blogs) stumbled across an Amazon link for my really-really-long-time-coming-but-finally-almost-here book, Why Cultural Studies? and posted some nice words of congratulations about it to Facebook. My friend Kembrew McLeod called it “the cultural studies equivalent of waiting for GnR’s Chinese Democracy.” My friend Timothy […]
Ten books
If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably seen some version of the “Ten Books” meme. A friend there tagged me, and I agreed to follow through … but I’d rather do so here. Partially because it’s a way for me to keep up my renewed commitment to blogging regularly, but also because I’d prefer not to […]