You are kindly invited to attend the end of term colloquium for ENGL 796: Cultural Politics – The Very Idea. Students from the class will present brief papers applying their work on the course to a wide variety of cultural political movements and artists. Please feel free to come to some or all of the sessions, which will begin at 12 noon.
Program
12:00-12:10 Introduction
12:10 – 1:20: Session I
Dylan Woods, ‘Penn and Teller: The Cultural Politics of Magic’
Sumer Jafri, ‘Muslim Comedians, The New Political Powerhouses: Combating Islamophobia Through Humour’
Lillian Black, ‘PeopleWatching from my Loving Bed: A Rhetorical Investigation of the Political Impacts of Streamed TV Series’
1:30- 2:40: Session II
Robyn Peers, ‘Loaded Landscapes: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in Berlin’
Pamela Schmidt, ‘Phantom City: Memory and Post-war architecture in Warsaw’
Elizaveta Shatalova, ‘Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, mon amour, Jean-Luc Godard’s Le petit soldat and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Unhomme qui ment as Cultural Artefacts of a French National Identity in the 1950s-60s’
2:40 – 3:10 Coffee Break
3:10 -4:20, Session III
Carla Haddad, ‘Targeted and Vilified: The Rise of post-9/11 Arabophobia in America’
Ryan Van Til, ‘The Pentagon-Hollywood Pipeline: An Analysis of the US Military’s Influence on the Film Industry’
Carmen Barsomian-Dietrich, ‘”Always – always – be satisfied”: How Culture and Politics Demand Diversity in Theatre’
4:30-5:20, Session IV
Valerie Uher, ‘“Prison Bars Cannot Confine Ideas”: Labour Unrest, the Carceral State and the Art of the Winnipeg General Strike’
Elianne George El-Amyouni, ‘Cultures of Resistance: Arguments for a Palestinian Counterculture’