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Discipline(s) and Academic Area(s):
Cultural Studies, Art Theory, Film Theory
Project period: From August 2003 till August
2006
Host Institution(s)/Country(ies):
European Humanities University (Minsk, BELARUS) and Vilnius University (LITHUANIA)
Working Language(s):
Mandatory: English, Russian
Program Directors:
Name: Almira Ousmanova, Andrei Gornykh
Associate Professors
European Humanities University, Dept. of Culturology
Contact Information:
EHU, pr.F.Skoriny, 24, Minsk, 220030, BELARUS
ausman@ehu.by, project co-director andhor@ehu.by,
project co-director
Project Description:
The project is focused on the development of interdisciplinary scholarship
in the field of Cultural and Visual Studies and exploration of various methodologies
(such as semiotics, Film Studies, Feminist Theory, psychoanalysis, etc.) for the
analysis of contemporary visual culture (be it TV, cinema, public art, advertising,
visual arts or Net-culture). The project's aim is to encourage the introduction
of new courses related to Cultural/Visual Studies into the University curricula
(for the students of Depts. of Culturology, Film- and Art Theory, Philosophy,
Sociology and History) with the application of multimedia technologies, and to
provide incentives for interdisciplinary and international co-operation amongst
academics from the region.
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Core Resource Faculty:
Name: Steven Melvill (2004)
Title, position, institution: Professor, Dept. of the History of Art, Ohio State
University, USA
Name: Valery Podoroga (2004)
Title, position, institution: Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy,
Moscow
Name: Michael Ann Holly (2004)
Title, position, institution: Director of Research and Academic Programs, Clark
Institute, USA
Name: Keith Moxey
Title, position, institution: Dept, of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia
University
Name: Luisa Passerini (2005)
Title, position, institution: Professor, Dept. of History, University of Turin
(ITALY)
Name: Thomas Elsaesser (2005)
Title, position, institution: Professor, Thomas Elsaesser , School of Cultural
Analysis, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Name: Laura Mulvey (2006)
Title, position, institution: Birbeck College, London, UK
Name: Slavoj Zizek (2006)
Title, position, institution: Senior Researcher, Institute of Social Research,
Ljubljana
Name: Dana Heller (2006)
Title, position, institution: Professor, Old Dominion University (USA)
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