The Culture Club: Cultural Studies Scholars’ Association and the Popular Culture Scholars Association are proud to present the 2014 Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies, “Clash and Convergence: Explorations of Culture in an Age of Uncertainty,” being held February 21st-23rd at the Bowen-Thompson Student Union, Bowling Green State University.
The conference will feature over twenty panels with outstanding scholarly and activist work from Ohio, the Midwest, and the world. Disciplines and fields represented include popular culture, media studies, American studies, communications, history, literature, and related fields. Also featured are opening remarks by Dr. Bob Batchelor (Thiel College), and keynote addresses by José Gonzalez and Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Mr. Gonzalez, former teacher in the Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District and community activist, will deliver a talk entitled “Tucson Unified: A Dream Deferred, A Civil Rights Struggle ,” discussing the fight to retain this curricular program which led to improved retention of students, as well as a higher proportion of Latina/o students going on to college. Ms. Armstrong’s talk, entitled “The Modern TV Woman: How The Mary Tyler Moore Show Pushed Boundaries and Paved the Way for Carrie Bradshaw, Liz Lemon, and Mindy Lahiri,” will discuss the ways in which women have changed the television industry from the 1970s to the present.
The conference is open to all members of the community, and while donations are accepted, no registration fee is required. Further information, including panel titles, locations and time, may be found at http://bgsu.orgsync.com/org/pcsa/conference . We hope to see you there!