Paul Levitz, who served 30 years as an executive at DC Comics, is currently working on a book on Will Eisner and the birth of the graphic novel for Abrams Comic Arts.
Video, podcast, and summary: “Ultimate Truths: Comparing Science and the Humanities”
James Carroll, Rebecca Goldstein, Alan Lightman, and Robert Weinberg talk with Seth Mnookin on “the differences and similarities in the kinds of knowledge available through inquiry in the sciences and humanities.”
Video, podcast, and summary: “Documentaries, Journalism, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling”
Raney Aronson, Katerina Cizek, Jason Spingarn-Koff, and Francesca Panetta on what new forms of documentary can contribute back to journalism.
Podcast: CMS Alumni Panel
Three Comparative Media Studies alums — Parmesh Shahani, Rekha Murthy, and Sam Ford — return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
Podcast: Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”
Doris Sommer’s new book, The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities, revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development.
Podcast: Helen Nissenbaum, “Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation”
Data obfuscation is a compelling “weapon-of-the-weak,” which deserves to be developed and strengthened, its moral challenges countered and mitigated.
Podcast: Caetlin Benson-Allott, “By Design: Or, What Remote Controls Can Teach Us about the Nature of Control”
Georgetown’s Caetlin Benson-Allott on how the technical and design evolution of remote controls reveal how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media, consumer electronics, and each other.
