AGLSP, Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs

Registration is open for the 2026 AGLSP National Conference which will be held July 16-18 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Learn more on our conference page. Submit your presentation abstract by April 13th. We hope to see you there.

Annual Conference 2026 — ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE LIBERAL STUDIES PROGRAMS This year’s conference will be held at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, the new home of the national AGLSP office. Join fellow interdisciplinary and liberal studies students, alumni, and program directors for three days of lively discussions and fascinating scholarship!

Send in your proposals now! ➡️ https://www.aglsp.org/annual-conference-2026

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music MIT Associate Professor Leslie Tilley is both an ethnomusicologist, studying music in its cultural settings, and a music theorist, analyzing its formal principles. One of her core interests is how artists, from improvisers to cover bands, fashion their work out of existing knowledge.

2026 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference: Oppositions The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites proposals for participation in its twenty-fourth annual meeting, which will be held fully online. Proposals on all topics relevant to cultural studies will be considered, with priority given to those that engage this year's theme, Oppositions.As its roo...

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How artist Gordon Parks' foundation keeps his legacy growing 20 years after his death Civil rights photographer and artist Gordon Parks' legacy continues to grow, even as the 20th anniversary of his death approaches.

David Szalay, The Booker Prize Winner for FLESH, is going on tour! This April catch him at the locations below. Learn more about the tour here: https://bit.ly/3ODGKHh

Don’t miss the final day of our 50th anniversary conference panels … https://sites.google.com/aglsp.org/2025conference/presentations/saturday-presentations

50 years old and tearing it up — https://sites.google.com/aglsp.org/2025conference/presentations/friday-presentations

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“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972. When the show aired, in the late 1960s, it drew attention for its embrace of multiculturalism, flashy appearances from celebrities and public figures (including James Earl Jones and Jesse Jackson), and radical approach of using the television to promote children’s education. At the time, Adler observed that 97 per cent of American households had televisions, and 80 per cent of the country’s 12 million preschool children had watched the show. It had a significant impact on children’s learning: children from poor or middle-class families who watched “Sesame Street” did better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who did not.

“It is as though all the lessons of New Deal federal planning and the ’60s experience of the ‘local people,’ the techniques of the totalitarian slogan and the American commercial, the devices of film and the cult of the famous, the research of educators and the talent of artists had combined in one small experiment to sell, by means of television, the rational, the humane, and the linear to little children,” Adler wrote. As the federal government continues its defunding of public media, Revisit Adler’s review: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/gtAqkq