Speaker: Scott Wilson (Sewanee, the U.S.)
Date: March 9, 2015 – Monday
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: R270, Bld5, Songjiang Campus
Language: English
Summary: A discussion of how popular media frames stereotypes of sub-populations as well as attempts to challenge those stereotypes. The lecture draws on Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony and counter-hegemony. The lecture focuses on the U.S. depictions of blacks (and to a lesser degree, Asians) in movies and on television. The lecture concludes with a discussion of how political changes in the U.S. have shaped the presentation of racial categories and the difficulty of challenging stereotypes. The lecture includes some film clips and several photos to illustrate the presentation of racial stereotypes.
Speaker Biography: Scott Wilson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Sewanee: The University of the South. Scott Wilson became interested in China as an undergraduate at Oberlin College. Since then, he has lived in China for over three and one half years during five extended periods of research and study abroad.
He began his career researching the social and political consequences of China's rural reforms in the agricultural regions around Shanghai. Based on his early research, he published two book chapters in The China Handbook (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997) and in Social Connections in China (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and one article in The China Journal (1997). After rural industrialization supplanted farming in his former research sites, he turned to researching foreign direct investment and globalization in Shanghai. Currently, he is working on a journal manuscript on multinational corporations and rule of law in China and on a book manuscript that explores the transplantation of foreign business practices to China. The book manuscript is tentatively entitled, Re-Made in China.
Wilson teaches courses in the areas of comparative politics, international relations, and social theory for the Political Science Department. His courses on Asia, including Chinese Politics, China and the World, States and Markets in East Asia, and Comparative Asian Politics, are part of the Asian Studies curriculum. When not teaching or shuttling his two daughters to dance classes and athletic events, he may be found out running the trails of Sewanee or cooking up Chinese food.
