C21 Fellows’ Presentations and Open House

Presentations: 4:00 pm Curtin 118
Open House: 5:30 pm Curtin 939

Please join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) in welcoming our new crew of fellows by celebrating the accomplishments of the old. Several of last year’s fellows will be giving brief, informal talks about the work they did during their fellowship year:

Erica Bornstein (Anthropology)
Rules for the Unruly: Legal Activism and Naysaying in India

Nan Kim (History)
Protests against the Construction of a Naval Base on Jeju Island, South Korea

Nadine Kozak (SOIS)
How State Governments and Telecommunications Companies Are Challenging Municipalities’ Attempts to Expand Broadband

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (English)
Refusing the Death of Cinema: The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture

Tanya Tiffany (Art History)
Nuns, Naysaying, and Sacred Images in Imperial Spain, 1563-1709

Immediately following the presentations, please join us for our annual open house in the Center’s seminar room, where we will be welcoming the new C21 fellows . . . as well as welcoming back C21 director Richard Grusin. Refreshments will be served. Scenic views will be offered.