Cultural Transformations and Youth in the Age of New Media
Convener: Korina Jocson, Department of Education
This seminar series will focus on cultural transformations taking place in various communities. With an emphasis on youth, it will provide an interdisciplinary forum for understanding how individuals and groups shape and are shaped by cultural forms in the age of new media. It will specifically draw on the work of academics, writers, artists, and media producers whose cutting-edge perspectives have shaped existing and emerging scholarship in both the humanities and social sciences.
New Approaches to Book History, Emphasizing History of Publishing and Quantitative Approaches
Faculty Co-conveners: Joseph Loewenstein, Professor, Department of English and Director of Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities; and Lynne Tatlock, the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
This seminar will deal with one of the most coherent and powerful developments in literary scholarship in the last quarter of the twentieth century, that was the return, transformed, of bibliographical scholarship, the study of the historicity of textual transmission and of the effects of the textual market on the intellectual and emotional lives of writers and readers.
