Cultural Materialism: Philosophy, Methods and Concepts 

13th Apr 2021 10:00am - 16th Apr 2021 4:00pm 

A workshop over three days with Professor Michael Wayne (Brunel), Dr Peter Thomas (Brunel) and Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh (University of Kent).

• Tuesday April 13^th 10.00am - 1.15pm
• Thursday April 15^th 10.00am - 1.30pm
• Friday April 16^th 2.10pm - 4.10pm

This workshop will engage with cultural materialism as a distinctive approach to the study and understanding of cultural phenomena and the structuring of power. We will discuss some key concepts and debates in the cultural materialist tradition, with particular reference to the work of Raymond Williams, Edward Said, Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall and the South Asian Subaltern Studies tradition. Students will have a chance to think about how these debates and approaches are relevant to their own research. The workshop is aimed at doctoral students interested in culture and power and methodological approaches to grounding culture materially; it will be of interest to students of national cultures and identities and the cultural politics of imperial power projections as historic legacies and contemporary dynamics of race and class in particular.  

Please register for the event here: Cultural Materialism: Philosophy, Methods and Concepts Tickets, Thu 15 Apr 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite