Don’t miss the next JNT Dialogue at 6 pm, April 8th, 2010 (Thursday) in the Student Center Auditorium (with food and reception following at the Student Center University Gallery). JNT Dialogue is a Lecture series focusing on current issues in literary and cultural studies. It is sponsored by the EMU English Department and the Journal of Narrative Theory. The Lecture is open to the public.
Globalization Now: Flows and Limits: A JNT Dialogue Guest Speaker Series
Crystal Bartolovich
Title: If Oil Could Speak, What Would it Say?
Paul Smith
Title: Flowback: The End of Globalisation as They Know it
Crystal Bartolovich is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. With Neil Lazarus, she edited the collection Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies, and has authored over 30 essays on a wide range of topics in Marxism and cultural theory in venues such as Cultural Critique, New Formations, and Interventions.
Paul Smith is currently Professor of Cultural Studies at George Mason University. He is nationally and internationally known for his work in cultural studies, American culture, literature and film, in gender studies and in Marxist theory. His books include Pound Revised, Discerning the Subject, Clint Eastwood—A Cultural Production, Millennial Dreams—Culture and Capital in the North, and Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy. He is editor of a number of other volumes, including Men in Feminism (with Alice Jardine), and the forthcoming Rethinking Cultural Studies (Temple 2010)
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