I’ll be taking part in the next episode of Breaking Culture Live this afternoon, broadcasting on their YouTube channel at noon NYC time (5 pm UK): https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingCultureLive/streams

We’ll be discussing my new book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal – available #openaccess on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats (https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal) - addressing what serves as its sub-subtitle: “Why the #arts are so white, male, and middle-class, and what we can do about it.”

‘Breaking Culture Live is a Cultural Studies Association affiliated program hosted by Past President Sean Johnson Andrews. Every Wednesday we spend our lunch hour breaking down the breaking news with cultural studies scholars and activists, discussing their work ... ‘

Subscribe to the Breaking Culture Live YouTube channel and tune in at 11:00 am Chicago, noon NYC time, 5 pm UK: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingCultureLive/streams

#DefundCulture #culture #class #copyright #decolonisation #UKPolitics #theory #culturalstudies #culturewar #WorkingClass

Breaking Culture Live

Breaking Culture Live is hosted by Sean Johnson Andrews. Each week we talk to a cultural studies scholar about the breaking news and their latest work in the field. We especially draw upon activists, professors, and graduate students affiliated with the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) or authors published in the CSA's jounal, Lateral. We also regularly share video lectures that use media and cultural theory to analyze a case study. Please subscribe to the channel to get regular updates. Sean Johnson Andrews is Associate Professor Emeritus of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago. He is the Past President of the Cultural Studies Association. You can keep up with his writing at https://breakingculture.substack.com/

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Yu Liu's book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" covers Anglo-Chinese relations 1600-1830 and their influence (via Spinoza) on #RomanticLiterature - e.g. #Coleridge & #Wordsworth - & art & landscape gardening

#Romanticism #EnglishLiterature #China #philosophy #CulturalStudies

George Buchanan’s Afterlives: Borrowings of Buchanan’s Works in Scottish Libraries, c.1750–1840
14 May, Stirling – free (suggested donation £5)

Prof Katie Halsey traces how George Buchanan’s works were borrowed & read in Scotland across the 18th & early 19th centuries, & what this suggest about literate culture more broadly

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evening-talk-inside-the-eighteenthcentury-reading-room-tickets-1982190395833

#Scottish #literature #libraries #18thcentury #19thcentury #culturalstudies

Evening Talk: Inside the Eighteenth‑Century Reading Room

Katie Halsey is Professor of Eighteenth- Century Literature at the University of Stirling, and Co-Director of its centre for Eighteenth-Cent

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#Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) for the ERC project #EMPOWER: Sites of Romani Genocide and Community Commemoration in East & Central Europe.
Open to applicants from #history, #anthropology, #culturalstudies or related disciplines.
📅 Deadline: 22 April 2026
https://leibniz-ios.de/en/vacancies-and-internships/details/postdoctoral-researcher-erc-consolidator-grant-project-empower

🆒 A Oficina de História e Imagem do IHC vai regressar em Abril, com a sessão "'Becoming Opaque' — A opacidade como resistência ao estereótipo fílmico". O anfitrião será a Tigre de Papel e a oradora a nossa @paulaalbuquerque

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/ohi-2026-01/

#Histodons #CulturalStudies #FilmStudies #HistóriaEImagem #EstudosFílmicos #EstudosCulturais #Cinema #Colonialismo #Colonialism

#newissue

Uno #specialissue di #AltreModernità che analizza l'eredità del Contemporary #CulturalStudies di Birmingham attraverso tre interviste ad Angela McRobbie, Lynne Segal e Iain Chambers.
E ancora: il linguaggio come pratica sociale alle rappresentazioni di classe, il colonialismo in #HeartOfDarkness e l’#otherness in #HanifKureishi, l'identità #queer nella poetica di Kae Tempest, la genealogia della #FashionTheory, e molto altro...

@cultura

⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2776?mtm_campaign=mastodon

"How I Became a Tree" by Indian author Sumana Roy is a #nonfiction meditation about #trees & plants & our relation with them, from a perspective of how culture & the arts, science & spiritual leaders engage with nature & a re-enchanted world.

#CulturalStudies #History #LiteraryStudies #Ecocriticism

In "Return to My Trees" Matthew Yeomans walks among modern & ancient #forests in #Wales - getting lost in #history #nature & #folklore - from #druids to #Industrialisation & into the future

#CulturalStudies #TravelLiterature #travelogue #CelticStudies #WelshHistory

🇺🇸 Esta tarde, há workshop integrado no ciclo "Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional": a FLAD acolhe "Between Culture and Diplomacy: US / Portugal relations in the 1940s-70s", um workshop com especialistas na história das relação entre os EUA e Portugal, que apresentarão os seus mais recentes estudos sobre várias dimensões desta relação.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/between-culture-diplomacy/

#Histodons #Portugal #USA #EuroSpy #Films #CulturalStudies #HistóriaCultural #Cinema #GuerraFria #ColdWar

No dia 19 de Março, a FCSH acolhe a Jornada do Centro de Estudos e Documentação José Mário Branco – Música e Liberdade, onde serão apresentadas várias dimensões da actividade do centro.

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/jornada-cedjmb-ml-2026/

#Histodons #MúsicaPortuguesa #Arquivos #JoséMárioBranco #EstudosCulturais #Musicologia #Musicology #CulturalStudies #PortugueseMusic #Archives