Conversations and Questions
Central questions in the study of cultural production include:
- How are cultural forms produced, preserved and struggled over in the contemporary moment?
- Where and how are innovative sensibilities, perceptual fields and modes of understanding the world being generated?
- Who should determine how cultural heritage and community histories are displayed, represented and performed?
- How are global digital economies of reproduction, transmission and transformation altering visual experience?
- What contributions are artists, musicians, performers and other producers of culture making in re-imagining public spheres, forms of citizenship, and struggles for social justice?
Areas of Inquiry
The cultural production program encompasses many areas of interdisciplinary exploration. Working within and across the three major clusters of concentration in the program, students and faculty in the program are engaged in multiple coversations about diverse sites of cultural production. These conversations include, but are not limited to, the following problems and phenomena: