Category Archives: Cafe Discussion Groups

The wolf pack minus Beau So, it’s the holiday season, what does this mean for us at St. Lawrence? Free cider at the bookstore, formal season, finals, negative degree weather, and puffy jackets. It also means gift-giving and receiving, as … Continue reading →

As the majority of our Cafe Discussion Group are seniors, we decided to do a analysis of a cultural practice specific to senior year at St. Lawrence; Senior Blues. Last night was Tuesday Blues and all of us were in … Continue reading →

A major theme of interest that arose in our class discussion of Edward Said’s “Orientalism” was Said’s argument that Western perceptions of “The Other” or the “Oriental” in fact reveal more about the West than they do about The Orient. … Continue reading →

In “De-Eurocentricizing Cultural Studies”, Stam and Shohat explain the importance of a multicultural outlook on international affairs, and recognize that Eurocentric discourse has generated a bound set of world power relations in favor of the West. European discourse isn’t limited … Continue reading →

In Faye Ginsburg’s “Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media,” she explores how the indigenous communities of Australia are attempting to create a space for themselves in Australian consciousness and popular culture through media. Immediately, we drew on … Continue reading →

Upon our reading of Hall’s “The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity”, Chloe and I immediately drew parallels to our shared abroad experience this past spring in Kenya. Kenya is certainly a (rather new) nation-state attempting to secure and … Continue reading →

Notes from Global Studies Cafe Discussion: Keira, Kat, Gill, Asana, and Nicole (scribe) Revisiting Stuart Hall on globalization: local and global; old vs. new OLD – culture based on exclusion: monarchy privileges the ‘royal blood’; anyone outside the monarchy does … Continue reading →

The Battle of Algiers depicts a situation in which ideology is created and shows how it works to suppress the Arab inhabitants of the city. The French colonial power is strict and powerful, but the Arab FLN (The National Liberation … Continue reading →

Orientalsim is a term used to describe the Western perception of the Middle East. Edward Said notes its difficult to understand true Orientalism due to principles of the production of knowledge. the first principle being, that it is difficult to … Continue reading →

Asana Hamidu (Scribe),Tommy Matt, Kat Lukens, Gillian Hunt, & Nicole Eigbrett 10/3/13 It was a sunny day and we met infront of the student center, exchanged pleasantries and moved on to discuss the subject at hand. Before we moved on … Continue reading →