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Interested in media studies and society? A fan of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now? Come to the 9th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference at The New School! As part of the organizing committee, I helped evaluate the papers selected for presentation, and I can tell you Saturday promises to offer an engaging and thought-provoking lineup.

DETAILS
Saturday, April 4, 2009, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
The New School, 66 West 12th St., New York, NY
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Visit www.criticalthemes.com for a full schedule!

FEATURED SPEAKERS
10:00 a.m. AMY GOODMAN, Democracy Now!
6:00 p.m. DOMINIC PETTMAN, Eugene Lang College, New School

Join us at 10 a.m. on April 4th at Tishman Auditorium to listen to award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, host of the daily, grassroots, global radio/TV news hour Democracy Now! give the opening Keynote address followed by a signing of her book, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. Books available for purchase at event.

Stay for three sessions of graduate student panels throughout the afternoon, followed by Dominic Pettman’s closing Keynote address, “After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life” at 6 p.m. in Wollman Hall. Dr. Pettman is Associate Professor of Culture & Media, Eugene Lang College, New School and the author of After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion (SUNY, 2002), Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object (with Justin Clemens: AUP, 2004), and Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age (Fordham, 2006). He is currently working on a new book on “media machines and species being.”

Sponsored and hosted by The New School, the Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference provides a distinguished forum for graduate students from around the world to present original scholarship on media studies and society. Now in its ninth year, Critical Themes papers are selected from a pool of local, national, and international submissions to reflect the breadth and depth of the field of media studies. Topics include globalization, networked publics, mediated environments, identity & representation, media and social change, popular culture, political economy, and more.

Posted on March 30th, 2009 by DeepthiW
Filed under: Media, School, Uncategorized