Doctoral candidates Rae Randleman and Debbie Brown recently attended the annual Cultural Studies Association conference, held this year at the University of Utah. The theme was “Ecologies: Relations of Culture, Matter, and Power.” This year was also special as Stuart Hall, the “father of cultural studies,” was honored due to his recent passing.
Rae was accepted into a closed seminar entitled, “Against the Romance of Collaboration,” and may be doing further work on the subject with this group. Debbie was accepted into a seminar entitled, “Workshop for Job Seekers in Cultural Studies.” Debbie also had a paper accepted called “Postcolonial Ecologies of Aid to African Nations,” which she presented as part of the panel, “Natural Order: Critical Examinations of Science, Visualization and Hegemony.” Additionally, Debbie was invited to chair this panel.