Events
November 5 - 4:00 pm
Part of the 2009/2009 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series
Free & open to the public
3rd floor of the Columbia College Library
Dr. Michele Janette
Director of Cultural Studies, Kansas State University
"Presentation to Cultural Studies Majors on the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Kansas State University"
Michele Janette teaches a wide range of cultural studies courses, form "Theory and Practice of Cultural Studies" to "Chinese and Vietnamese Literature" to "Women in Literature" to "Film." Her research focuses on Vietnamese American literature. She is the editor and compiler of My Viêt, and anthology of Vietnamese American literature in English from 1962 to the present, forthcoming 2010. Her published articles include an analysis of "guerrilla irony" in Lan Cao's novel Monkey Bridge, a consideration of how Tony Bui's film Three Seasons reconfigures the way we look at Vietnam, an interview with Maxine Hong Kingston, and a rediscovery of the earliest Vietnamese American novel, No Passenger on the River (published in 1965).
November 12 - 4:00 pm
Part of the 2009/2009 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series
Free & open to the public
3rd floor of the Columbia College Library
Dr. Zizi Papacharissi
Professor and Head of the Department of Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago
"The Virtual Geographies of Online Social Networks: Social Behaviors and Architecture of Online Spaces"
Zizi Papacharissi (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2000), is Professor and Head of the Communication Department, at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. Her most recent work, A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age (Polity Press, 2010) discusses how online media redefine our understanding of public and private in late-modern democracies, and she is also currently completing an edited volume on online social networks, titled The Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites (Routledge, 2010).
November 19 - 4:00 pm
Part of the 2009/2009 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series
Free & open to the public
3rd floor of the Columbia College Library
Dr. Mehdi Semati
Associate Professor of Communication, Northern Illinois University
"Cultural Studies of Iran"
Mehdi Semati is Associate Professor of Communication at Northern Illinois University. His research interests and writings address Iranian culture and media, cultural politics of global media, and cultural studies. His writings have appeared as book chapters and as articles in various scholarly journals. His books in English include Media, Culture, and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State (Routledge, 2008). New Frontiers in International Communication Theory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), and Studies in Terrorism: Media Scholarship and the Enigma of Terror (Southbound, 2003). His work in Persian includes The Age of CNN and Hollywood: National Interest, Transnational Communication (Nashr-e Nay, Tehran, 2007). His current research addresses Iranian cultural studies, popular culture and religion, and culture and technology in Iran.
December 3 - 4:00 pm
Part of the 2009/2009 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series
Free & open to the public
3rd floor of the Columbia College Library
Dr. Jeffrey T. Nealon
Liberal Arts Research Professor of English, Penn State University
"The Song Remains the Same: On the 'Post-Postmodern' Economics of Classic Rock"
Jeffrey T. Nealon is Liberal Arts Research Professor in the English Department at Penn State University. He has published widely on contemporary cultural theory, and is the author of Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction (Cornell, 1993), Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity (Duke, 1998), The Theory Toolbox (with Susan Searls Giroux, Roman & Littlefield, 2003), as well as co-editor of Rethinking the Frankfurt School (SUNY, 2002). His latest book is And Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications since 1984 (Stanford, 2008).