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Registration is now open for the Radical Aesthetics & Politics Conference Registration is free and open to the public Space is limited - reserve your seat now Email Portia Seddon to register: portiaseddon@gmail.com  View conference information: About Program Abstracts Presenters Discussants Location

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Critical Studies in Expressive Culture is a collective of scholars, activists, artists, and musicians working to rethink intersections between aesthetic practices and social theory. Our work considers aesthetic practices and political action in terms of their radical contours, interrogating the boundaries of the political in music and art, and vice versa, getting at the root of knowledge systems

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Conference: Friday October 7th, 8:30 – 3pmCUNY Graduate Center (Proshansky Auditorium) Over the course of the past three decades investment in public higher education has declined dramatically. Most American public university systems, such as California, Wisconsin, and Illinois, have experienced serious reductions in their state funding requiring dramatic cutbacks in academic programs

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“Radical Aesthetics and Politics: Intersections in Music, Art and Critical Social Theory”9 December 2011Hunter College, CUNYIn the past few decades, the study of sonic, visual, textual, and other media practices have emerged as productive areas of cultural analysis and critique. Often constitutive of paradoxes and tensions within society, these aesthetic practices have prompted critical

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CSEC's next discussion will explore underground/popular culture dynamics, as well as the discursive modes surrounding this in social theory. Some basic theoretical starting points for discussion follow: are the categories "underground" and "popular" necessarily opposed? Are they dialectical or complementary? Music genres such as heavy metal, punk, rap, and techno/house can trace their formations

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Below are some notes and queries from CSEC's discussion, "Popularizing 'Culture': The Marketing of Indigeneity and Cultural Expression."Cynthia Enloe1) In “Carmen Miranda On My Mind: International Politics of the Banana,” Cynthia Enloe (1990) exposes the international political system’s reliance on artificial notions of masculinity (e.g. the “manliness” of guns and money), as well as those of

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Below are some updates regarding the format of the group and our discussions:1) While we are maintaining the discussion forum on Google Groups, a network that allows us greater flexibility and organizational freedom than many listserv support systems, we will modify the group's participation format so as to encourage the type of dynamic and dialogical flow of research and ideas enabled by the

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Participation in the Critical Studies in Expressive Culture discussion network is open to students and scholars of any discipline. Members of the consortium contribute to themed online discussions through the Google Groups discussion page on a monthly basis, and are encouraged to submit editorials, reviews, announcements, and to initiate discussions via the Google Groups discussion page and the

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Columbia University's Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) will be hosting the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on the Middle East, South Asia and Africa from April 15th to the 17th. Please see the description below:The discipline that was once called “Oriental Studies” has been divided up in various ways in today’s university. Post-colonial literature has a

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The Consortium on Human Rights and Expressive Culture will begin its next discussion on Monday, 15 February, 2010 with the theme of Ownership and Cultural Property. Discussants should be prepared to address ideas of "public culture" and the performance of cultural ownership, as well as national property rights conflicts, and how these figure into human rights discourses that emphasize global

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Below is the information for a film that will be open for one week in New York on November 13th, 2009 at the Village East Cinema (2nd Ave @ 12th St.). The film addresses (neo)colonial and neoliberal roots of global poverty, and should be of interest to Consortium members, especially as a contemporary expressive medium of human rights discourses. Please see the film's website for further details

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Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe5 November - 31 March 2009Romanian Cultural InstituteBelow is the information for an upcoming festival in New York. Note the Festival Symposium on Thursday, November 5th, and the NYPL exhibit, Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, which are of particular interest to the Consortium. We will be

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Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Perspectives of New Cultural PracticesThursday, 10 September 20091:00pm to 7:00pm11 E. 52nd St. New York, NYBelow is the information for a free conference at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, on Thursday September 10th, 2009. Consortium members are encouraged to attend, as we will be organizing a discussion related to this topic in January 2010.------

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The next discussion of the Consortium on Human Rights and ExpressiveCulture will be from Monday, 21 September through the followingMonday, 28 September 2009, with the theme of "Contemporary WartimePropaganda." We will be studying propaganda as a form of expressiveculture while paying special attention to its political andnationalistic aims, and to its production in contemporary areas ofconflict.

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The Consortium on Human Rights and Expressive Culture will hold itsnext online discussion with the theme: "Popularizing 'Culture': TheMarketing of Indigeneity and Cultural Expression" from August 17ththrough August 24th, 2009. We will be discussing popular notions of"culture" as propagated by both popular media and commercial marketingstrategies. We will also examine the effects of co-opting

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The Opinions and Reviews pages provide Consortium members with a space to comment on critical contemporary issues that relate to the Consortium's problematic. We invite opinion pieces, media/news critiques, article reviews, and book reviews for submission to the Consortium blog. If you would like to submit a short essay to the Opinions and Reviews page, please send an email to chreculture@

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Below is a summary of our previous discussion, "Accessible Scholarship: Popular vs. Academic Culture"The accessibility of academic research to non-academic circles is a major focus of this consortium. As scholars concerned with the impact of our research on the societies we study, it is necessary for us to ask ourselves how exactly that impact is to be felt. Is anthropological research more

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The Consortium on Human Rights and Expressive Culture will hold its next online discussion with the theme: "Accessible Scholarship: Popular vs. Academic Culture" from June 23rd to June 30th on its Google Groups discussion page. Participants will discuss the documents from the reading list below, and should prepare 3-5 in depth questions to raise during the discussion that relate to her/his work.

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Research for the consortium is structured around online discussions, which are open-ended, yet thematically organized and edited by the discussion moderator. At the start of a discussion, bibliographies are circulated to participants, who will read these sources and undertake any additional research. Contributors are expected to actively take part in discussions, where they will raise questions

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Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2004. Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Adorno, Theodor1976. Popular Music. In Introduction to the Sociology of Music. Pp. 21-38. New York: Seabury.Adorno, Theodor, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukács.2002. Aesthetics and Politics: Key Texts of the Classic Debate Within German Marxism. London:

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