The refusal to define women of color's work creating the material infrastructure for digital media as "real" work set the stage for our contemporary moment's hostility against women of color’s work witnessing and documenting racism online and moderating digital environments.

As the English did with colonial “promotional literature”, how do you persuade people to leave their indigenous communities to start new ones in a foreign and sometimes hostile place?

Most discussions of the voice frame it as a human faculty that is connected to self and agency, as when we say that a political group “has a voice,” or when the tone of voice is taken as expressing a speaker’s inner meaning or selfhood. But how to understand voices that are produced prosthetically?

Director Sandra Rodriguez explores how artificial intelligence and human creativity meet at a crucial junction, to create compelling virtual worlds and characters that invite interaction, discovery and play.

New Comparative Media Studies/Writing faculty member Sulafa Zidani will explore how memes function both in navigating the contested cultural and spatial politics and carving out space in the cultural landscape for youths’ aspirations.

The struggle of successive generations of education reformers who attempted to meet massive social and economic crises through careful instruction in media viewing and collective discussion.

Nick Thurston on his current book project, Document Practices, which explores aesthetic and political frameworks for analyzing acts of re-publishing already public documents.

At this Colloquium, we publicly honor our late professor Jing Wang's life and work, featuring brief talks by some of those who knew her best.

The collision of prejudice and visibility has led to a series of controversies that involve "regulatory definitions" imposed by institutions or legislatures, some of which are the subject of Schiappa’s forthcoming book, The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex & Gender in the 21st Century. 

A talk and Q&A about Corman's graphic novels and short comics on the topics of generational and personal trauma, New York City history, Polish-Jewish life, and amateur women's wrestling.