Ibrahim Er (LLC) and Olha Martynyuk (Fulbright Researcher)
CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now Spring 2019
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216
Date & Time
April 22, 2019, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Description
CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now lunchtime series showcases exciting new faculty work in the humanities in a dynamic and inter-disciplinary setting with short, informal presentations and time for discussion (Lunch will be served at 11:30am)
Ibrahim Er
PhD Candidate, Language, Literacy, and Culture Program, UMBC; Spring 2019 Dresher Center Graduate Student Fellow
PhD Candidate, Language, Literacy, and Culture Program, UMBC; Spring 2019 Dresher Center Graduate Student Fellow
Global Television Formats and National Identities
Localization of global television formats in countries is a complex sociological, cultural, economic, and political phenomenon shaped both by local actors involved in the creation of the iteration and by discursive and material conditions of knowledge production, distribution, and reception. During this transformative and regenerative process, the content and stylistics of television formats are reinterpreted and tailored to fit the home national culture, identity, and taste. This talk will focus on these traveling television programs and use them as a means to discuss the two-way relationship between the global and the local/national.
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Olha Martynyuk
A Fulbright Visiting Researcher at UMBC; Senior Lecturer at National Technical University of Ukraine "Ihor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute"
A Fulbright Visiting Researcher at UMBC; Senior Lecturer at National Technical University of Ukraine "Ihor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute"
The Bicycle Craze of 1890s Ukraine from an American Perspective
Despite the fact that the Russian Empire was late in launching its own mass production of bicycles, the elites were quick to purchase imported bikes from the West. A decade before automobiles arrived, modern type of bicycles, with wheels of the same size, a chain-drive transmission, and air-filled tires, became the most prestigious means of individual transport. In this talk, Olha Martynyuk will explore early marketing strategies of American bicycle producing companies and impact they had on public debate and mobility in Eastern Europe.
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