The Circulating Cultures Working Group, now beginning its fourth year, brings together faculty from a range of disciplines: African American Studies, Anthropology, Art & Art History, English, Film Studies, French, and History. Group members share a common interest in the circulation of cultures in print, digital, oral, and audiovisual forms, especially as print crosses borders to create transnational disruptions and connections. Topics for individual projects along with collective readings have included the circulation of architectural forms, photography, and film; theories of material culture, literature and deep time, Creolization and hybridity, capitalism and modernity; and, responses to environmental crises.
If you would like to learn more about this working group, please contact the director: Anny Curtius, anny-curtius@uiowa.edu