New Media Working Group
The New Media Working Group aims to combine academic perspectives from all edges of new media in order to serve as an interdisciplinary venue for learning, discussion, and research. Our group includes members across the disciplines of the history of art, art practice, architecture, engineering, the school of information, African American studies, sociology, performance studies, music, ethnic studies, film, and rhetoric. Since the group’s meetings are structured according to the research interests of our diverse members, our intellectual focus is dynamic and interdisciplinary in nature.
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What Benjamin Read (& Saw)
We envision this working group as something of a salon where faculty
and graduate students will be able to discuss the work of Walter Benjamin. In contrast
to other Townsend groups devoted to Critical Theory, our aim is not solely to read
Benjamin and his contemporaries, but to read with him—to read what he read and take
time to look at what he saw. We wish to put Benjamin’s thought in dialogue with the
philosophers, thinkers, artists, and cities with which he was engaged—especially those
History of Emotions Working Group
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Medieval Philosophy Working Group
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Labor, Philosophy, and Change Working Group
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Mann, Benjamin, and Canetti
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Transnational & Ethnic American Studies Working Group
TEASWG, now in its tenth year, exists to create an interdisciplinary conversation about postcolonial and transnational methods of scholarly inquiry in American Studies.
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Phenomenology Working Group
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Frankfurt School Working Group
Email Megan O'Connor (mocon@berkeley.edu) or Erin Greer (erin.greer@berkeley.edu) with any questions.
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Critical Theory
The Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory permits interested students to specialize in critical theory, and to obtain certification of this specialization, while pursuing a Ph.D in an established UC Berkeley Department. Critical Theory is not an independent degree granting program. Students admitted to the DE and completing the requirements will receive a parenthetical notation to that effect on their doctoral degrees.