Working Group on Globalization and Culture

The 2007-2008 project of the Working Group on Globalization and Culture is entitled Worlds and Contact Zones. Participants in Practicing Transnational Cultural Studies: Dialogues between Working Groups at Yale University and New York University, a conference at the Voluntown Peace Trust on May 11-13, 2008, may access the papers here.

The Working Group on Globalization and Culture is a continuing collective research project, a cultural studies "laboratory," that has been running since the fall of 2003. The group is made up of graduate students and faculty from several disciplines.

The Working Group meets regularly to discuss common readings, to develop collective and individual research projects, and to present that research publicly. The general theme for the working group is globalization and culture, with three principal aspects: a) the globalization of cultural industries and goods, and its consequences for patterns of everyday life as well as for forms of fiction, film, broadcasting, and music; b) the trajectories of social movements and their relation to patterns of migration, the rise of global cities, the transformation of labor processes, and forms of ethnic, class, and gender conflict; c) the emergence of and debates within transnational social and cultural theory. The specific focus, projects, and directions of the working group are determined by the interests, expertise, and ambitions of the members of the group, and change as its members change. To inquire about joining the working group, contact Michael Denning.

The research of the Working Group is disseminated in Work and Culture, the ILC's Working Papers series.

The 2006-2007 project was entitled Audiopolitics: Measures of Global Soundscapes

Members of the Working Group

2007-2008

Julian Bittiner

Amanda Ciafone
Michael Denning
Rossen Djagalov

Amina El-Annan
Daniel Gilbert

Christina Moon

A. Naomi Paik

Ariana Paulson

Van Truong

Charlie Veric

Fall 2006-Spring 2007

Amanda Ciafone
Michael Denning
Rossen Djagalov
Daniel Gilbert

A. Naomi Paik

Van Truong

Charlie Veric
Kirsten Weld

Spring 2006

Amanda Ciafone
Michael Denning
Rossen Djagalov
Daniel Gilbert

Mandi Jackson

Christina Moon

Bethany Moreton
A. Naomi Paik

Ariana Paulson
Olga Sooudi

Kirsten Weld

Fall 2005

Amanda Ciafone
Michael Denning
Rossen Djagalov
Daniel Gilbert

Mandi Jackson

Christina Moon

Bethany Moreton
A. Naomi Paik

Ariana Paulson

Olga Sooudi
Laura Trice

Kirsten Weld