Dr. Zahra Stardust, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology
Dr. Adrienne Massarani, Associate Professor School of Communication American University
Dr. Tiera Tanksley, UCLA Post Doctoral Fellow & Public Voices Fellow with the Op Ed Project and the MacArthur Foundation
Dr. Tai Neilson, Senior Lecturer in Media at Macquarie University
Cultural Collisions or Coalescence
Dr. Craig will discuss matters relevant to marginalized citizens/communities, media representation, media ownership, political economy, and popular culture.
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Dr. Kokas argues that US government leadership failures, Silicon Valley's disruption fetish, and Wall Street's addiction to growth have fueled China's technological goldrush.
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Dr. Liu discusses the connections between trauma and industrial & finance capitalism, and the implications of failing to recognize and understand these connections.
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Roger Lancaster, Rashmi Sadana, and Alexander Monea discuss their recent and forthcoming book projects.
Dr. Aram Sinnreich discusses the coevolution of musical culture, law, and technology over the arc of modern Western legal and cultural history, from the Renaissance to the present day.
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Afterlives of Jim Crow?
In his recent book, The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr. takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South.
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After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle
The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it achieve so little in the way of substantive reforms?
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Doing Cultural Studies in De-globalizing Times: China, Media, and Transpacific Entanglements
This talk draws on my on-going research to rethink a cultural studies approach to the study of media and politics amidst the rhetoric and reality of “de-globalization.”
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The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution
Part intellectual history, part critical theory, The Last Man Takes LSD challenges the way we think about both Michel Foucault and modern progressive politics. Using his acid trip at Zabriskie Point as emblematic of his move from power to the self, this book argues that Foucault contributed to a tectonic shift in the intellectual and political life of the era and its legacy even today.
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The Uses and Abuses of Jim Crow: Contemporary Race Theory and the Problem of History
Dr. Magubane will discuss the ways in which much of contemporary theory misunderstands history—particularly the Jim Crow period—and how that misunderstanding is the source of many critical and conceptual shortcomings.
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