Week of Events
MIGC 2018: Asymmetry
The theme of MIGC 2018 is Asymmetry, and features as keynote speaker Lisa Parks (MIT), a global media scholar whose research focuses on three areas: satellite technologies and media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media, militarization and surveillance. She …
Bagels for Lunch, with Christopher Newfield
Bagels for Lunch, with Christopher Newfield
On Tuesday, February 13, we’ll have a special lunch edition of our Friday Bagel Hour with guest Christopher Newfield (UC-Santa Barbara) who is on campus to deliver the L&S Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Does the U.S. Need Public …
Our Heavenly Bodies (Wunder der Schöpfung)
Our Heavenly Bodies (Wunder der Schöpfung)
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Live musical accompaniment by Coupler! In 1925, German director Hanns Walter Kornblum set out to create a film that would summarize all available astronomical knowledge and a dreamy investigation of what wonders might …
Lisa Parks: Asymmetries of the Vertical: Mediating the War on Terror from 9/11 to Trump
Lisa Parks: Asymmetries of the Vertical: Mediating the War on Terror from 9/11 to Trump
MIGC Keynote with Lisa Parks (MIT) Lisa Parks’ talk will feature material from her upcoming book, Rethinking Media Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror, which addresses power issues in drone wars and vertical power relations in the Trump …