culture

 

some themes and ideas in the critical study of culture

 

This is a series of one hour weekly sessions designed to introduce researchers to key issues in the contemporary study of culture with particular reference to key constructs and terms such as: ideology; discourse; hegemony; dispositif; precarity; multitude; representation; cultural politics; and so forth.

 

The sesions take place on Thursday mornings from 09:30-10:30 in John Street starting 23/9/2010.

 

schedule autumn 2010

 

23/9/10

 

criticism, critique and critical theory

 

30/9/10

 

culture - a complicated word

 

7/10/10

the aesthetic

 

14/10/10

ideology

 

21/10/10

discourse and dispositif

 

28/10/10 and 4/11/10

Break

 

11/11/10

modernity, modernism and mass culture

 

18/11/10

avant-gardism and cultural revolution

 

25/11/10

hermeneutics

 

2/12/10

guest speaker

 

9/12/10

cultural commodities and intellectual properties

 

16/12/10

public culture and public relations

 

For additional information on the collaborating institutions consult www.dit.ie, www.ncad.ie, www.iadt.ie and www.ulster.ac.uk.