CULTURAL STUDIES : ONE DAY WORKSHOP BY KALYANI VALLATH

ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON CULTURAL STUDIES BY Dr. KALYANI VALLATH

 Today's blog is about one day workshop on CULTURAL STUDIES by Dr. Kalyani Vallath  at our Department of English ,MKB University.

(Dr. Kalyani Vallath)

            Dr. Kalyani Vallath, a passionate and energetic teacher, successful , a Q- shop owner , Edu- Entrepreneur,  a living example of  literary entrepreneurship ,director of Vallaths TES. to know more about Vallaths TES CLICK HERE. Dr. Vallath's teaching style is quite unique , when you are studying about  completely different cultures sometimes you must feel exhausted but when there a teacher like Dr. kalyani ma'am teaches you ,there's no chance to for you to get any kind of exhaustion. In her teaching, for the better understanding of students she uses day to day life experiences. She introduced her self as  ,"I AM A PASSIONATE TEACHER "  and she is truly a passionate teacher.

                  we call ourselves as secular  country , so why this blood shed in the name of religion, there's a politics behind it and to understand this politics one has to study cultural studies. Cultural study is interdisciplinary study. the main focus of cultural study is to know how culture relates to the larger society, political dynamics of mass media and everyday cultural practices , how culture transforms individual experiences , social realities and power relations which draws on social theory , philosophy , history , linguistics and media. Cultural studies is about studying human nature and culture. In the session ma'am explained about :

Evolution of cultural studies 
Marxist Revisionism 
Hegelian Dialectical Method 
New Left
Working class culture and Mass Culture 
Cultural Intermidiaries 
Popular cultural studies 
Subcultural studies 
Trauma studies 
Visual cultural studies 
Celebrity cultural studies 

                               After the session my understanding about the cultural studies is changed i came to know about the importance of cultural studies. Not just food , cloths , festivals  and rituals but politics , economy, geography, history  all are part of the culture.it ( cultural studies ) teaches us to come out of our own immaturity. it helps to see things more maturely. apply reasons to solve something .

                              If i had to explain about cultural studies to a layman first i would try to make the layman understand about what is cultural study, why it is important to study and to understand cultural studies. I would explain all the cultural theories in simple language using day to day life examples as the way Kalyani ma'am did in  her lecture.

EXAMPLES GIVEN BY Dr. VALLATH:

1} Dr. Vallath gave an example of how on her visit to Assam , people there served a disgusting dish made out of animals blood ,and there was a person who told her that why they eat such a disgusting dish because  there was  a history behind the people  who were eating that why , whey they were eating it because of the lack of food they had to eat it , just to survive . after knowing the history of that people Ma'am's perspective about the people changed.

2} Ma'am shared her experiance that how when she shaved her head how people commented on her new look , some called her rebellion, some thought that she had cancer and some people who used to hate her actually started to love her and the people who used to love her started hatting her. But the real reason behind her going bald was that because of late night work and lack of sleep she started losing her hair and that's why she shaved her head.

                       It was a rather very fruitful session,  i came to know about the importance of cultural studies. It's about us , it helps us to understand each other's cultural differences , it makes us mature , it makes us more tolerant , it makes us to apply reasons. Dr. Kalyani was so friendly and enthusiastic and also a great teacher, a bold , courageous and  very dawn to earth human being.

AUDIO - VIDEO OF THE SESSION :

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