CCFI Noted Scholars Lecture Series
2007 – 2008
Bronwyn Davies
Legitimation: Neoliberal Imperatives and Post-structural Challenges
November 27, 2008
Dr. Bronwyn Davies is well known for her work on gender, classroom research and her writing on poststructuralist theory. More recently she has been working on a critique of neoliberalism as it impacts on subjectivities at work and on the relations between pedogogy and place. Her books include: Life in the Classroom and Playground; Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales; Preschool Children and Gender; Shards of Glass; Children Reading and Writing Beyond Gendered Identities; Poststructuralist Theory and Classroom Practice; Power/Knowledge/Desire: Changing School Organization and Management Practices; Gender in Japanese Preschools (with Hiroyuki Kasama); A Body of Writing; (In)scribing Body/landscape Relations; and Doing Collective Biography (with Susanne Gannon). She is currently working on a new book called Pedagogical Encounters.
Legitimation: Neoliberal Imperatives and Post-structural Challenges– Introduction Legitimation: Neoliberal Imperatives and Post-structural Challenges – Talk Legitimation: Neoliberal Imperatives and Post-structural Challenges – Discussion Legitimation: Neoliberal Imperatives and Post-structural Challenges – Audio Legitimation: Neoliberal Imperatives and Post-structural Challenges – PodcastMegan Boler, Darin Barney, and Douglas Kellner
Learning 2.0: Digital Cultures, Media and Citizenship for a New Millennium
October 3, 2008
Internationally renowned invited scholars presented leading-edge research on Digital Cultures, Citizenship and New Media and took up key questions regarding education in what Castells has termed the "Network Society".
Digital Cultures, Introduction – Video Digital Cultures, Discussion – Video
Pause for Thought: Millennial Citizenship, and Making Sense of “Truth(s)” and Media Politics through Satire
Dr. Megan Boler is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Theory and Policy Studies, at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is Associate Faculty of the Center for the Study of United States and the Knowledge Media Design Institute also at UT. Her books include Feeling Power: Emotions and Education (NY: Routledge 1999); Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silences (M. Boler, ed., Peter Lang, 2004); and Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008). She is currently completing a three-year funded research project, “Rethinking Media, Citizenship and Democracy: Digital Dissent after 9/11,” through interviews and surveys examines the motivations of producers of “digital dissent”--practices of digital media to counter mainstream media. She teaches philosophy, cultural studies, feminist theory, media studies, social equity courses in Teacher Education program, and media studies at the Knowledge Media Design Institute at University of Toronto.
Pause for Thought – Video Pause for Thought – Audio Pause for Thought – Podcast
Raising the Innovation Nation: Technology, Citizenship and Education
Dr. Darin Barney is Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship, and Associate Professor, Art, History and Communication Studies, McGill University. Barney is the author of Communication Technology: The Canadian Democratic Audit (UBC Press: 2005); The Network Society (Polity Press: 2004; second printing 2006); and Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (UBC/Chicago/UNSW 2000) which was awarded the 2001 Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Research by the McGannon Center for Communication Research at Fordham University. He is co-editor with Andrew Feenberg of Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice (Rowman and Littlefield: 2004) and recipient in 2003 of the inaugural Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Aurora Prize for outstanding contribution to Canadian intellectual life by a new researcher.
Raising the Innovation Nation – Video Raising the Innovation Nation – Audio Raising the Innovation Nation – Podcast
Digital Cultures, Media and the Transformation of Citizenship
Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan; Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; works in cultural studies such as Media Culture and Media Spectacle; a trilogy of books on postmodern theory with Steve Best; and a trilogy of books on the media and the Bush administration, encompassing Grand Theft 2000, From 9/11 to Terror War, and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy. Author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, Kellner is editing collected papers of Herbert Marcuse, four volumes of which have appeared with Routledge. Kellner’s latest book is Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombings to the Virginia Tech Massacre. His website is at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html.
Digital Cultures, Media and the Transformation of Citizenship– Video Digital Cultures, Media and the Transformation of Citizenship – Audio Digital Cultures, Media and the Transformation of Citizenship – PodcastAihwa Ong
Worlding Cities, Pied-a-terre Subjects
September 16, 2008
Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has conducted research on questions of modernity, citizenship, sovereignty, and neoliberalism in emerging Asia-Pacific contexts. She is the author of /Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia /(1986); /Flexible Citizenship /(1999); /Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America/ (2003); and /Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty/ (2006). Edited volumes include /Global Assemblages:Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems /(co-editor Stephen J. Collier, 2005) and /Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar /(co-editor Li Zhang, 2008). Her new work focuses on biotechnologies and sovereignty in East Asia. Ong has lectured around the world, and her writings have been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
Worlding Cities, Pied-a-terre Subjects – Introduction Worlding Cities, Pied-a-terre Subjects – Video Worlding Cities, Pied-a-terre Subjects – Audio Worlding Cities, Pied-a-terre Subjects – Podcast2007 – 2008
Patti Lather
Getting Lost: Reading for Differences in Qualitative Research
July 29, 2008
Dr Patti Lather is a Professor in the Cultural Foundations in Education Program, School of Educational Policy and Leadership at Ohio State University where she teaches qualitative research in education, feminist methodology and gender and education. She has held visiting positions at the University of British Columbia, Goteborg University, and the Danish Pedagogy University as well as a 1995 sabbatical appointment, Humanities Research Institute, University of California-Irvine, seminar on feminist research methodology. She was the recipient of a 1989 Fulbright to New Zealand. She is the author of three books, Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/In the Postmodern (1991 Critics Choice Award) and Troubling the Angels: Women Living With Hiv/ Aids, co-authored with Chris Smithies (One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998) and Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science (2007). Articles and book chapters have appeared in various venues related to her interests in (post)critical methodology, feminist ethnography, and poststructuralism. Her in-process book, Engaging (Social) Science: Policy from the Side of the Messy, is under contract with Peter Lang Publishers.
Getting Lost – Video Getting Lost – Audio Getting Lost – PodcastHelen Hok-Sze Leung Local Sex on Global Screens?
Reflections on the New Queer Asian Cinema
March 13, 2008
Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. She has published widely on queer cinema and queer cultural politics in Asia, particularly Hong Kong. Her first book Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong is forthcoming in 2008 from the University of British Columbia Press. She has also been involved with Out On Screen: Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival in various capacities over the years as panel organizer, community programmer, and jury member. She is currently developing a new project on cinematic violence and intimacy in “body genres.”
Local Sex on Global Screens? Introduction Local Sex on Global Screens? Video Questions & Discussion Video Local Sex on Global Screens? PodcastJacques Rancière
The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking
March 7, 2008
Jacques Rancière is the Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Paris VIII where he taught from 1969 to 2000. He continues to teach, as a visiting professor, in a number of Universities, including Rutgers, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Berkeley. His work has been translated into 14 languages, and has been subject to numerous special issues, symposia and critical commentaries. His latest titles to appear in English translation are: Disagreement, Politics, and Philosophy (1998), Short Voyages to the Land of the People (2003), The Philosopher and his Poor (2004), The Flesh of Words (2004), The Politics of Aesthetics (2005), Film Fables (2006), and The Hatred of Democracy (2007).
The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking Introduction 1 The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking Introduction 2 The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking Video Questions & Discussion Video The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking PodcastDevon G. Peña
Transnational Place-Making: Food, Justice, and Autonomy
February 5, 2008
Devon Peña is Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies and an activist in the environmental justice movement. His book, The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border won the “1998 Outstanding Academic Book” award of Choice Magazine and the American Library Association. The book is a study of women workers and their struggles against capitalism and environmental destruction in the maquiladora industry of Juarez, Mexico. His most recent book is Mexican Americans and the Environment (2005, University of Arizona Press). Peña is adjunct professor with Women’s Studies, the Center for Water and Watershed Studies, Latin American Studies, Program on the Environment, and the Institute for Public Health Genetic.
Transnational Place-Making Video Transnational Place-Making PodcastThomas Foster
Innocent by Contamination: Queer World-Making, Ethnicity and Technicity in Samuel R. Delany’s, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
January 22, 2008
Thomas Foster is Professor of English at the University of Washington, and the former director of the Cultural Studies Program and an adjunct faculty member in Cognitive Science at Indiana University. He is the author of The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory (University of Minnesota Press). This talk forms part of his current book project, which is focused on the expropriation of cyberpunk convention by writers and artists of color and is tentatively entitled Ethnicity and Technicity: Race, Nature, and Culture in the Cyberpunk Archive.
Innocent by Contamination Video Questions & Discussion Video Innocent by Contamination Podcast
Searching for common understanding: parent and teacher beliefs about the role of parents in young children’s literacy development, Patricia Porte (2007)