Cultural Studies Research Group
The Cultural Studies Research Group (CSRG) was the earlier iteration of what is now the membership of the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS).
The CSRG was founded in 2011 to promote and develop cultural studies research at the UW and to serve as a context for student research training. It began as a diverse team of interdisciplinary scholars with an impressive track record of cultural studies and social justice related research from across the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Winnipeg. Initial support was provided by the Faculty of Arts, the University of Winnipeg’s Associate Vice-President Research and Innovation, the Chancellor, the President’s Office, and the Provost and Vice-President Academic and International.
Cultural studies itself is a field of inquiry concerned with how formations of knowledge, power, affect and materiality come to circulate in and as “culture.” The Cultural Studies Research Group (CSRG) aimed specifically to seek out modes of productive intervention that make a difference in everyday lives and in the institutional worlds of culture, education, society and politics. Dr. Angela Failler (founder and current Director of CRiCS) led a collaborative study on the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights as one of the CSRG's inaugural projects.
