Cultural Studies Matters: A Conference on Cultural Studies and
Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
Friday & Saturday, April 22nd and 23rd, 2005

As part of an enduring effort to create and promote a cultural
studies program in the Department of Arts and Humanities at
Teachers College, Columbia University, TC Students for a Cultural
Studies Initiative (TCSCSI) is sponsoring a Graduate Student
Conference. We contend that cultural studies is not just an
important intellectual endeavor, but is a field that has also had a
significant impact on the practice of education, and therefore ought
to be supported in institutions, like TC, that focus on the
preparation of educational practitioners and researchers alike. It
is our aim to:

• demonstrate the origins of cultural studies in education
• explore the range of creative contributions that cultural
studies is making in education
• clarify the status of cultural studies in education as a
coherent and cogent multi-disciplinary endeavor with its
own forms of inquiry
• characterize recent changes in its focus and direction
• establish its relation to the arts and humanities

Graduate students working on masters or doctoral studies or
collaborating with advisors or mentors on research projects,
postdoctoral fellows, recent graduates, professionals, and
educators are all encouraged to submit proposals. Topics and areas
within education broadly conceived include: visual culture,
popular culture, new media, media pedagogy, race and gender
studies, branding, youth cultures, technoculture, film &
television, psychoanalytic pedagogy, critical pedagogy, literary
theory, youth & violence, urban studies, and disabilities studies.
In addition, Teachers College is offering a one credit companion
course to the conference open to graduate students and teaching
professionals.

Keynote speakers: Stanley Aronowitz (Distinguished Professor of
Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Culture,
Technology, and Work at the CUNY Graduate Center), Donna Gaines
(author of Teenage Wasteland), Douglas Kellner (George F. Kneller
Philosophy of Education Chair, Graduate School of Education, UCLA),
Cameron McCarthy (Research Professor of Communications and Professor
of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana -
Champaign), and Alissa Quart (author of Branded: The Buying and
Selling of Teenagers). Workshop to be conducted by: Rhonda Hammer
(Lecturer, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information
Studies). Other workshops to be announced.

Individuals interested in participating in the conference can apply
by submitting the following: name, mailing address, e-mail address,
institutional and departmental affiliation, title of paper or
project, and an abstract that is not to exceed 500 words. This
information should be sent to the address below no later than the
1st of March 2005.

Papers presented at the conference will be considered for
publication in Subject Matters, A Journal of Cultural Studies,
Education, and Subjectivity and a special issue of InterActions:
UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies
(http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions).

For further information and to apply, please contact:
Cultural Studies & Education @ TC
Conference Submissions
c/o Audra DiPadova
509 West 121st street #105
New York, New York 10027
E-mail: tc.scsi@...
To register and for additional information, please visit our
website: www.subjectmatters.org

Sponsored by: The Center for Educational Outreach & Innovation
(CEO&I)
Co-sponsored by: The Teachers College President’s Diversity and
Community Grant Fund: CCD, the TC Office of Student Activities &
Programs (OSAP), and the Center for the Study of Culture,
Technology, and Work at the CUNY Graduate Center