Cultural Studies Now

I'm speaking at this conference on 21st July. My paper looks at how design students respond to cultural studies which appears to be replacing traditional 'heroic' design history on courses. I won't give the conclusions away except to say 'it's a good thing'.
And to critics who wonder what happens to design history? It's still there, only this way students engage in it rather than passively receive it. Sure, you'll sell fewer books, but it's about time design history started being interesting and critical rather than simply celebratory.

I'll post the summary of my presentation here after the conference (my holiday starts the day after and I'm ready for it!)

Cultural Studies Now

A major conference at the University of East London

July 19th - 22nd 2007

http://www.uel.ac.uk/culturalstudiesnow

In a technocratic age of cosmopolitan capitalism, is there still a place for a Cultural Studies which is both
politically committed and relentlessly experimental in its intellectual, institutional and creative practices?

Cultural Studies Now will be the largest conference of its kind to have been held in the UK for many years. Explicitly addressing the present, past and future fate of the discipline conceived as a radical intellectual project, the conference will feature over 100 panels on a wide range of topics, with contributors from every continent. Keynote addresses will come from Ien Ang, Rosi Braidotti, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Jeremy Gilbert, Alan Grossman, Judith Halberstam, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Doreen Massey, Áine O'Brien and Horace Ové.

Registration (including food by Leon Lewis):

Full conference £200 (students and concessions £140)
day rate £60 (students and concessions £45)

Only two weeks left to book your place!

Please see our website for full details and registration: