The objective of the Transnational Cultural Flow Working Group is to bring together scholars from a variety of academic departments – including Film Studies, Communication, Art History, Anthropology, and History – to allow for a new forum for interdisciplinary work that has the transnational flow of cultural products as its center in order to learn and share our respective disciplinary expertise and approaches. The group is interested in analyzing cultural flows that operate at the intersection of postcolonial geopolitical areas, whether in contact with the colonial center or at its margins. In particular we would like to focus on two larger inter-related themes as they bear upon the analysis of cultural flows. The South-South movements and flows of cultural products which skip or override the once necessary voyage to the Metropole (the recent Arab uprising is an exemplary case-study of decentered connectivity, where the flow of information moved horizontally –geographically and politically speaking); and, the afterlife of cultural products in the post-colony. That is to say, the renegotiation and reappropriation of “western” cultural products by the once colonial subjects, and their reuse as political tools.
Organizers:
Luca Caminati (Film Studies, Concordia University)
Andrew Ivaska (History, Concordia University)
Members:
Kay Dickinson (Film Studies, Concordia University),
Krista Lynes (Communication Studies, Concordia University),
Setrag Manoukian (Anthropology, McGill University),
Elena Razlogova (History, Concordia University),
Masha Salazkina (Film Studies, Concordia University),
Alice Jim (Art History, Concordia University)
Gavin Walker (History and East Asian Studies, McGill)
Workshop Research Assistants:
Beatriz Bartolomé Herrera (Concordia University)
Philipp Dominik Keidl (Concordia University)
Website:
http://cissc.concordia.ca/workinggroups/transnational/
Organizers:
Luca Caminati (Film Studies, Concordia University)
Andrew Ivaska (History, Concordia University)
Members:
Kay Dickinson (Film Studies, Concordia University),
Krista Lynes (Communication Studies, Concordia University),
Setrag Manoukian (Anthropology, McGill University),
Elena Razlogova (History, Concordia University),
Masha Salazkina (Film Studies, Concordia University),
Alice Jim (Art History, Concordia University)
Gavin Walker (History and East Asian Studies, McGill)
Workshop Research Assistants:
Beatriz Bartolomé Herrera (Concordia University)
Philipp Dominik Keidl (Concordia University)
Website:
http://cissc.concordia.ca/workinggroups/transnational/