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September 2019
Ian Condry, “Sound, Learning and Democracy: The Curvature of Social Space-Time through Japanese Music, from Underground Techno to Pop Idols”
Professor Ian Condry explores contemporary Japanese music, with a comparison of diverse examples, such as female Japanese rappers, underground techno festivals, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku, and the pop idol group AKB48.
Find out more »Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
Find out more »The William Corbett Poetry Series
The inaugural event, featuring poets Ruth Lepson, Keith Jones, Daniel Bouchard, Fanny Howe, Roland Pease, Michael Franco, Patrick Pritchett, Ed Barrett.
Find out more »October 2019
Helen Elaine Lee: “Pomegranate”
Helen Elaine Lee reads from the manuscript of her novel, Pomegranate, about a recovering addict who is getting out of prison and trying to stay clean, regain custody of her children, and choose life.
Find out more »Design and Semantics of Form and Movement
DeSForM (Design and Semantics of Form and Movement) seeks to present current research into the nature, character and behavior of emerging typologies of connected and intelligent objects within adaptive systems.
Find out more »Anushka Shah, “How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System”
Anushka Shah asks, our trust in politics and public institutions is falling globally — can entertainment and pop culture be a way out?
Find out more »Andrea Cohen: The William Corbett Poetry Series
Andrea Cohen is the author of six poetry collections, including, most recently Nightshade and Unfathoming.
Find out more »Paloma Duong, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”
Assistant Professor Paloma Duong on "how revisiting our assumptions about digital media and cultural agency, both in Cuba and in the broader hemispheric context, can speak to the dreams and demands of constituencies that operate between, beneath, and beyond the pressures of global markets and the nation-state."
Find out more »November 2019
Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
Lancaster University's Lucy Suchman's concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations.
Find out more »2019 Comparative Media Studies Graduate Admissions Information Session
Please RSVP. Meet faculty and research managers, learn about the program, and ask questions. Followed at 5pm with an event with The Black List's Franklin Leonard.
Find out more »December 2019
T.L. Taylor, “Play as Transformative Work”
Professor of Comparative Media Studies T.L. Taylor will explore the ways game live streamers are transforming their otherwise private play into public entertainment.
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