Lecture Series Overview
Each Spring, ICS presents the annual Institute for the Study of Culture and Society Lecture Series. Before our move to the College of Arts and Sciences, the series was known as the Provost Lecture Series. The series continues to bring cutting edge scholarship across a wide spectrum of fields to BGSU under its new title. Through the Lecture Series, ICS has fostered intellectual vitality and excitement at BGSU, set a broad agenda for intellectual work, and enhanced the credibility across campus of work in the humanities and the arts.
Our nationally known guest speakers also participate in graduate level seminars with faculty members and graduate students. Prior to each seminar, readings drawn from the speaker's past and present work are distributed to the participants to provide a common basis for discussion. The diverse disciplinary backgrounds of the participants generate a fertile forum for discussion made more accessible by the intimate and informal environment, allowing participants closer contact with a guest speaker than would normally be available.
In addition, if guest speakers' work includes performance elements, ICS holds workshops in the arts for both BGSU and the general public. When possible, speakers also give presentations in classes. Additionally, speakers are invited to contribute to the "Working Papers on Cultures, Peoples, and Historical Systems," a publication co- sponsored with Ethnic Studies.
Working Papers by ICS guests include:
- "The First Boomer: Bill Clinton, George W., and Fictions of State" by Eric Lott
- "What's White Got to Do With It: Giuliani, the 'Holy Virgin Mary' and the Critical Study of Whiteness" by David Roediger
- "Women, Children, and Borders" by Donna Guy
- "Is The Fatherland Really a Motherland?" by Ann Anagnost
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