The Georgia Workshop

on Culture, Power, and History

The Culture, Power, and History workshop is organized by Elizabeth Cherry (lcherry@uga.edu), Erin Winter (erinwin@uga.edu), and David Smilde (dsmilde@uga.edu) of the University of Georgia and receives financial support from the University of Georgia Center for Humanities and Arts.

Its objectives are:

v To provide a discursive space for social scientific research that:

� sees meaning and meaning creation (Culture) as central to the way humans create social structure,

� regards structured inequality (Power) as a central aspect of the social world, or

� focuses on concrete actors and structures as they develop through time (History).

v Open up the process of knowledge creation by focusing on work-in-progress.

v Build interdisciplinary links and foment communication among interested researchers.

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Our focus is in getting smarter by expanding, not reducing, the scope of our interaction. The only requirement for participation is enthusiasm.

The workshop meets on the campus of UGA, Fridays from 3:30-5:30 pm in Baldwin 114A (directions from Atlanta). The paper to be presented is available for download on this web page at least a week in advance. Workshop discussions begin with a 5-10 minute introduction by the author, brief comments by a discussant, followed by open discussion for the rest of the meeting. Follow these links to take a look at past schedules: (2002-03 Schedule) (2003-04 Schedule) (2004-05 Schedule) (Fall 2005) (2007-08 Schedule). To read a narrative of the 2003-04 season published in the ASA Culture Section Newsletter (pp.13-15), click here.

Workshop members also communicate via a low-traffic open listserv.  To subscribe, send the command �subscribe GCPH Your Name� (excluding quotation marks) to listserv@listserv.uga.edu in the message body, not the subject line.  To post to the list, send your message to GCPH@listserv.uga.edu.  If you wish to leave for any reason, just send the command �unsubscribe GCPH� to, again, listserv@listserv.uga.edu in the message body. 

Fall 2008

September 26 - David Smilde, University of Georgia. Participation and Politics: Emerging Fragment�s of Venezuela�s Bolivarian Democracy

October 24 - Alison McLetchie, University of South Carolina. The Parasitic Oligarchy: Political Elites in Trinidad & Tobago

November 7 - Ann Mische, Rutgers University. Partisan Performance: Stylistic Enactment and Suppression in Brazilian Youth Activist Publics (Cosponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute)

November 14 - Daniel Shank, University of Georgia.