The Cultural Studies Praxis Collective (CSPC) is a multi-year collaboration of faculty and academic staff at UW Bothell (UWB), UW Seattle (UWS), Cascadia Community College (CCC), Bellevue Community College (BCC), and Evergreen State University (ESU).

Its long-term goals are to generate and disseminate new research on the multiple locations of the humanities, to initiate and institutionalize curricular innovation across the four campuses, and to build and develop arts and cultural pathways for community-based research and teaching.

Members of the CSPC pursue these goals by working with a wide variety of organizations and projects, including the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies at UWB and the Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students at UWS.

This diverse ongoing work is focused through two overarching questions: 1) How can the best traditions of critical cultural work generate creative and collaborative practices across communities?; 2) How can scholars housed across a range of educational, social, and cultural institutions in the Pacific Northwest build sustainable pathways for this type of collaborative praxis?

ORCA site for collective members

CSPC Website 2007-2008
CSPC Website 2006-2007

Toby Miller
Media & Cultural Studies
University of California, Riverside

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
6:00-8:00 pm
North Creek Events Center, UW Bothell
Reception to follow

Press Release

Are demands for more media, more speech, and more publicity the best response to every question or controversy?  Toby Miller points to some of the limitations of this assumption, especially with regard to how cultural citizenship has been theorized and applied in cultural studies and media studies.  He suggests that future work in those fields needs to think through a “green” model of cultural citizenship, one that places demands for more media, speech, and publicity in the context of the disastrous environmental impact of an uncritical emphasis on growth as an end in itself.

Miller’s lecture marks the launch of the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) program at the Bothell campus of the University of Washington.  MACS links the interdisciplinary study of art and culture to project-based learning embedded in a diverse network of community organizations and partnerships. 

Toby Miller is Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.  He serves as the editor and co-editor, respectively, of the journals Television & New Media and Social Identities.  His recent books include Cultural Policy, co-authored with George Yúdice (2002); Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age (2006); and Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention (2008). 

Bruce Burgett (Co-Director)  •  Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren (Co-Director) •  Miriam Bartha  • Andreas Brockhaus •  Diane Douglas  •  Brian Ganter •  Michael Gillespie •  Danny Hoffman •  Amanda Hornby •  Craig Jeffrey •  Gray Kochhar-Lindgren •  Bruce Kochis •  Ron Krabill •  Sarah Leadley •  Jared Leising •  Kari Lerum •  Nader Nazemi •  David Ortiz •   Debora Barrera Pontillo •  Becky Rosenberg •  Amanda Swarr •  Elizabeth Thomas