Reflective blog on Workshop of Cultural Study by Kalyani Vallath ma'am

One day work shop in department of English, MKBU. The workshop on the " cultural studies". Dr.  Kalyani Vallath came and give a information about the cultural studies. She came from the kerla. The work shop on the 27th December 2019. Throughout the day ma'am deal with this topic with full energy. The session start at  9:00 am and the complete at 5:30 pm. The session is fruitful and the knowledgeable.

The session start with the basic information of the cultural studies. Cultural studies emerge from the Marxism. Then the how culture relate the society community and the religion. And then talk about the major "Influence of of the cultural studies". First one is Frankfurt school.

*Frankfurt school
Frankfurt school is the major influence of the cultural studies. In the Frankfurt school  major figure are max Harkheimer, Thador Adarno, Erich fromm, Herbert Marcuse,  Walter Benjamin and Leo Lowenthal are the major figure of the Frankfurt school. In that the major ideas and the practice of the cultural studies. The method of Dialectic two mathod under that the method. One is struggle of opposite and the Dialectic of enlightenment. Than the talk about the cultural industry. In that the new left repressive of Desublimation.  In that German is the father of the New left.  Many other countries in the new left.

Center for contemporary cultural studies the another topic of the cultural studies. It said that the cultural studies is revolution. New approach of culture pioneered by Haggart and William in 1950s and 60s.  In that the many major figure are Richard Haggart, E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams. Richard Haggart came from the working background and the Haggart's influence in that time. The E. P. Thompson was British historian and a new left scholar. He said that class is relationship. Raymond William give three types of the structure of the culture.
1. Dominant Culture
2. Residual Culture
3. Emergent Culture

*Cultural Materialism

Cultural materialism a method of criticism rooted in Marxism. In the cultural materialism Jonathan Dollimare and Alan snifield In political Shakespeare. Stuart Hall is major figure of the cultural materialism. He give the four model of communication. 1.Production, 2. Circulation, 3. Use and 4. Reproduction. He give type of encoding and decoding communication model in 1973. Major influence in the cultural studies are Louis althusser, Antonio Gramsi, Roland Barthes and the Michael foucault these are the major figure of the cultural studies. The full day I enjoyed the lecture and Lot many things u learn.