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| Organizers |
Georgia Roberts, Anoop Mirpuri, and Keith Feldman (English)
*An open invitation to participate*
We invite participants in this cluster who: 1) are interested in engaging with a group of scholars who will share and bring valuable critique to one another’s work; and 2) want to be involved in a broader discussion of the most innovative and provocative scholarship, artistic and activist work surrounding issues such as empire, neoliberalism, privatization, U.S. globalism, incarceration, military violence and police brutality. To these ends, we believe it is necessary to locate these inquiries in the historical present—a moment backlit by the condition of permanent war.
Project Archive 2005-2006
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| Project Overview |
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Public Rhetorics Permanent War is a collective of humanities graduate students and faculty who share a scholarly interest in understanding and clarifying the production and role of public rhetorics during what increasingly appears to be a state of globalized permanent war.
This research cluster focuses its attention on the overlap and articulation of three particular sites transformed by globalization from which we believe public intellectual work can emerge, namely, humanistic scholarship, organic social activism, and artistic cultural production. Although the relationship between activist and academic work has often been fraught, our project seeks to bring the work of artists, performers, and scholars together in order to both enable and understand the linkages forged by intellectual and creative engagement with larger communities of global citizens.
Part of the impetus for PRPW is for us to inspire and develop a cohort of scholars invested in producing intellectual work that engages pressing political questions. Accordingly, not only will we pursue a small set of seminar-style readings over the course of the year, but we will periodically offer a venue for the presentation of works-in-progress by both interested faculty mentors and graduate students. From draft journal articles and conference papers to dissertation and book chapters, we are interested in cultivating a supportive community that might enable us to further hone our own critical scholarly practices.
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November 8, 2006 • 4:00 pm
Communications 202
First meeting
December 13, 2006 • 3:30 pm
Communications 202
Work-in-progress worshop
January 25 and 26, 2007
Readings and visit from
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California)
Download 1/25 and 1/26 e-Flyers
Feburary 2007
Work-in-progress workshop
March 2007
Reading
April 17, 2007
Visit from Angela Y. Davis (History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
April 19-22, 2007
Cultural Studies Association Meeting Seminar led by PRPW organizers
Portland, Oregon
May 29, 2007 • 3:00 pm
Communications 202
Work-in-progesss workshop and planning session |
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