University Program in Cultural Studies

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urban landscape As universities are facing new pressures and scholars are facing the complexities of a changing world, the field of cultural studies has gained both importance and visibility. No single model has emerged as the dominant organization of cultural studies as either a research or pedagogical practice. The University Program in Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary program with both curricular and scholarly resources and responsibilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Its goal is to encourage interdisciplinary research and education in cultural studies and to help produce a viable and flexible model for cultural studies and its role in the contemporary university by working closely with other departments and interdisciplinary programs.

 

Reading Group for Steven Shapin

January 22, 2010
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Hyde Hall

Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will visit Carolina and Duke University April 8 to lead a colloquium on "subjectivity and taste" and deliver a lecture titled "The History of the Ivory Tower."

In anticipation of Shapin's visit, reading group meetings have been scheduled to meet in Hyde Hall at 4 p.m. on the following dates: January 22, February 26 and March 19 at 4 p.m. For more information and to access the readings for each of the meetings, visit each calendar entry on the IAH Web site. We will post readings as they become available.

This event is co-sponsored by the IAH, the Carolina Lectures in Critical Thought Series and Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute.

Readings

Conclusion to Leviathan and the Air-Pump by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer (Princeton University 1985)

How to be Antiscientific by Stephen Shapin (From The One Culture: A Conversation About Science, Univ. of Chicago Press 2001)

Steven Shapin review of Bruno Latour (Sage publication) of Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society by Bruno Latour

 

The University Program in Cultural Studies administers a concentration certificate for both MA and doctoral students who wish to augment their field of study with interdisciplinary study in cultural theory and methods. The certificate program allows graduate students to achieve fluency in historical and contemporary critical cultural theories and relate these theories to a variety of individual research questions. More >>