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Media and Memory at the Vidéothèque de Paris
Catherine E. Clark on how “the utopian rhetoric that accompanied the Vidéothèque’s creation helps illuminate and call into question the utopian promises of the much more recent revolution in digital history.”
Find out more »Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba
Coco Fusco explores the work of performance artists from the 1980s to the present and examines how the Cuban state has wielded influence over performance.
Find out more »Coming of Age in Dystopia: The Darkness of Young Adult Fiction
Kristin Cashore and Kenneth Kid on why dystopias, devastating apocalyptic visions, and tales of personal trauma are such a staple of young adult literature.
Find out more »Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
Find out more »Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
Kevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
Find out more »The Mysteries of the Southern Reach: In Conversation with Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer will discuss his role as one of the leading practitioners of “weird fiction,” the environmental and ecological concerns that inform his work, and his massive crossover success.
Find out more »The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
Thomas DeFranz “wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials.”
Find out more »Ryan Cordell: “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
Ryan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
Find out more »[POSTPONED UNTIL 2016] Media in Transition 9: Mediating Audiences
The 9th international Media in Transition conference, on how we “still strive to somehow develop, constitute and assess a wide variety of audiences.”
Find out more »Danielle Keats Citron: “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace”
Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment.
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