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.

When information became a thing that could exist at the end of your fingertips, those fingers belonged to women.

Ijeoma will share how Poetic Justice has thinking through this question by developing a series of generative sound and video portraits of linguistic and ethnic diversity in US cities, Black thought and expression in the US, liberty and equality across multiple countries, and Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the US.

Alexandra To will describe some of the game design opportunities present in centering the experiences of people of color from the beginning

Samantha N. Sheppard examines how Nottage’s play and paratexts produce a speculative fiction and archive about Black women’s media histories, staging what she calls a phantom cinema.

Are the MetaHuman Creator and similar simplified building tools democratizing the field of digital content creation? Are they fostering more diverse representations and narratives, and supporting the free play of identity in playable media?

Jorge Caraballo will draw from experience as the former Growth Editor at Radio Ambulante – Latin America's most popular documentary podcast – and highlight different ways in which storytelling can be the starting point of new collective identities.