In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 06 Oct 92 15:21:04 -0400. <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 17:55:34 EDT I thought the group would be interested in a forthcoming conference at MIT. Popular Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference Killian Hall, Building 14, MIT 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge Fri. Oct. 16 8:30 a.m. Registration 9:15 a.m. INTRODUCTION David Thorburn, MIT " Appropriating the Popular" 9:30 a.m. Popular Resistance Jean Franco, Columbia "The Romance of the Popular: Depoliticizing Global Culture" Marc Zimmerman, Un. of Ill. "Latin American Popular Culture: New Modes of Accomodation and Resistance" 11 a.m. Popular Culture/ Popular Commodities Miriam Formanek-Brunell, Wellsley College "Marketing a 'Campbell Kids' Culture: Engendering New Kid Dolls, 1902-1914" Martin Roberts, MIT "World Music and the Global Cultural Economy" Janice Radway, Duke "Engineering the Book for the Modern 'Selling Machine': The Origins of the Book of the Month Club." 12:30 LUNCH 3 p.m. Technology and Popular Culture Henry Jenkins and Mary Fuller, MIT Spatial Stories: Nintendo and Renaissance New World Narrative Lynn Spigel, USC Popular Memory and 50s Television Sherry Turkle, MIT Reconstructing the Self in Virtual Reality Response: Rosalind Williams, MIT 4:30 Reception 7:30 KEYNOE SESSION Roger Chartier, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales "From Popular Culture to Popular Cultures: A Concept Revisited" Response: David Hall, Harvard Divinity School Sat. Oct. 17 8:30 Contintental Breakfast 9:30 GENDER, RACE AND POPULAR CULTURE Tricia Rose, Rutgers "Technology and Orality in Rap Music" Ronny Ambjornsson, Umea University "Life as a Project: The Male Radical in Popular Culture" Sandra Buckley, McGill "Contemporary Japanese Comics and Video" 11:15 Discussion Groups 1 Folk Culture, Mass Culture, Popular Culture: Definitions and Debates Discussion Leader: David Hall 2 Television Culture Discussion Leader: John Fiske, UW-Madison 1 p.m. Lunch 2:30 p.m. Open Discussion Summary Perspectives: Reading the Popular Panelist: Chartier, Fiske, Franco, Radway For more information, call 617-253-8150 or Write MIT Cultural Studies Project 14N-233A 77 Massachussetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Y'all come. Henry