The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned-- Antonio Gramsci
The Culture, Power, and History Workshop is organized by Tim Gill (timgill1984@gmail.com) , Matthew May (mmay84@gmail.com) , and David Smilde (dsmilde@uga.edu)
Its objectives are to provide a discursive place for social science research that:
*sees meaning and meaning creation (Culture) as central to the way humans create social structure
*regards structural inequality (Power) as a central aspect of the social world
*focuses on concrete actors and structures as they develop through time (History)
*opens up the process of knowledge creation by focusing on work-in-progress
*builds interdisciplinary links and foments communication among interested researchers
More abut the Workshop:
Our focus is on building a knowledge base by expanding, not reducing, interaction. Therefore, the only requirement for participation is enthusiasm.
Workshop members also communicate via a low-traffic open listserv. To subscribe, send an e-mail with the command 'subscribe GCPH Your Name' (excluding quotation marks) to listserv@listserv.uga.edu in the message body, not the subject line.
To post to this list, send your message to GCPH@listserv.uga.edu
If you wish to leave for any reason, just send the command 'unsubscribe GCPH' (excluding quotation marks) to listserv@uga.edu in the message body
For directions to the workshop from Atlanta click here
For information on past workshops please click here .
If you missed our series on Latin American Ethnography (2010-2011) and The Social History of Socialism (2011-2012) please make sure to join us in the 2012-2013 year for our next series entitled: Political Ethnography We will be hosting discussions of research throughout the academic year by scholars from both UGA and outside universities. Please check our website for more information throughout the semester. |
Throughout the 2011-2012 year we hosted discussions of research by Susan Eckstein (Boston University),
Andreas Glaeser (University of Chicago), and Jeremy Straughn (Westminster College). Thank you to our visitors and participants
who came to discuss current research on previous and current forms of socialism in both Europe and Latin America.
We would like to thank the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, The Latin American
and Caribbean Studies Institute, the German and Slavic Studies Department, and the Department of Sociology for their sponsorship
of this workshop series entitled The Social History of Socialism .