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Date: January 26, 2012 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Robeson Room Dissertation Proposal Presentations: Sangmin Kim, Stacey Cumberbatch |
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Date: February 2, 2012 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room G Candidate Job Talk: Eli Jelly-Schapiro |
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Date: February 9, 2012 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room G Candidate Job Talk: Dan Berger |
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Date: March 1, 2012 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room G Neil Brenner "After Neo-Liberalization." (Harvard, Graduate School of Design and Director, Urban Theory Lab ) Neil Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the coordinator of the Urban Theory Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Political science from the University of Chicago; an MA in Geography; and a BA in Philosophy. Brenner's writing and teaching focus on the theoretical, conceptual and methodological dimensions of urban questions His work builds upon, and seeks to extend, the fields of critical urban and regional studies, comparative geopolitical economy and radical sociospatial theory. |
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Date: March 8, 2012 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room G Jason Farman "Emerging Media, Acceleration, and Information Overload: A Media Archaeology Approach." (University of Maryland, College Park, Amercian Studies and Digital Cultures and Creativity Program) Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of American Studies and a Distinguished Faulty Fellow in the Digital Cultures and Creativity Program. He received his Ph.D. in Digital Media and Performances Studies from UCLA. His recently published book, Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media (Routledge, 2011), demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives: the practice of embodied space. |
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Date: March 22, 2012 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Robeson Room Elizabeth Maddock Dillon "Zombie Politics." (Northeastern University, English) Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is an Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her research areas and interests are: early American literature, Atlantic colonialism, the early novel, feminist theory, political theory, aesthetics, transatlantic print culture, Caribbean literature, and early American drama. Author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford University Press, 2004), she is currently completing the manuscript for New World Drama: Theatre of the Atlantic, 1660-1850 that will be published by Duke University Press. |
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Date: April 12, 2012 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room G Stephen Groening "Screens on a Plane." (George Mason University, English) Stephen Groening is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. He recieved his doctorate in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota and holds a Master's degree in Cultural Studies from Claremont University and a B.A. in 20th Century Literature and Film from Hamilton College. He is currently working on a book manuscript, Cinema Beyond Territory: InFlight Entertainment and Atmospheres of Globalization, which is an inquiry into two dominant facets of modern life: mobility and visuality. |
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Date: April 26, 2012 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room G Dissertation Proposal Presentations: Gyu Tag Lee, Martha Deutscher |
