Reflective blog on Cultural studies by Dr. Kalyani Vallath

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Here I am  writing about my such one wonderful and memorable experience of lecture by DR. Kalyani madam. So, here I am reflecting my learning which I learn from her lecture.Mam has special came to take Cultural studies and also talked about Net and SET exams.

• I remembered in last year we have also listened mam but it online not live. That time we also enjoyed.  This time luckily she come to Department for enhancing our knowledge. The topic with which she dealt, we had already studied it two times and we know about it. As cultural study was an umbrella term  and including all kind of theory, it is a large context or subject. But now after attending Mam's class I would sure that I came to more know about cultural studies.

• she touched upon topics like ;


• What is cultural studies?
• The Beginning of cultural studies
• About Pioneers
• Circuit of culture
• Major influences
• Cultural Intermediaries
• Popular culture studies
• Subculture studies
• public sphere
• Posthumanism
• Trauma Studies
• Queer studies

# What I meant by cultural studies???!
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• If I talk about Cultural studies then in simple words we can say it studies about us human beings who are living on earth. It is interdisciplinary study, relates to the larger society,it has political dynamics of Mass media and everyday cultural practices. In a way it relate with a lay man to high class man . It deal with every person's life, way of living, culture, business. It talks that how culture transforms individual experiences,social realities and power relations,social theory, Philosophy, History, Linguistic and Media.In simple language it talks about everybody's life,their culture, what ,why and where they living,what they are wearing,their food,their rights. It doesn't discuss on any particular class of people.It doesn't mean that only elite or high class of people only have their culture but every single man has culture. If anywhere we goes and met there new people and their culture and we happily accepted or it touches our heart then it is Cultural studies. It gives space to us to not only stuck or remain with our culture but it give space to us.



# How would you explain lay man about Cultural studies????


 • If we have to explain lay man about Cultural studies then it is easy that there is culture or tradition where they are living, with which they are leaving.Mam has explained it well that she says our India is a great that it has different kind of culture in over all india. She gave one example of Aasam that in case maybe their have lot of slavery, poverty, in a case they don't have anything to eat and they cut and eat animals with their blood,then we can say that they are bad or we are good because they are doing it by their situation.

# Examples which we get cathchy from lecture:-


• So, first at all I want to say that she has taken many examples from our routine life ,from a middle class family. She is taking very much relevant and real or silly examples which we can easily understood.Here I like two examples of her own life one at Singapore and second at Aasam , both place she has to sacrifice for food.As we know that Cultural studie is also developing of updating with today's time. On more thing that whatever matter she is telling is directly connect with cultural studies. She don't talk only about high classes's culture but also middle class stream which which she is dealing.She has taken example of water bottle from which she is gone to drink but suddenly she look bottle as example and well discuss about political act . We learnt that how cultural studies connect with our Perspective, Tradition, society,our own experience and etc.

So, as the way mam has taught is superb. What an superb personality she is. She knows where to stop,where to repeat,where to give hard voice or sharp tone and with many  interesting marvellous expression she touch directly our heart. She has a talent to keep grab student's attention or to teach them even a boring some topics. She don't talk about only particular city, County but she talks about all our world.So,At end I surely can say that I enjoyed this full-day session and also gain alot of knowledge about cultural studies.

                 

Thank you!!!!......