[Air-L] Affect Conference @BGSU - announcement - fyi

[Radhika Gajjala]

*DIGITAL/MEDIA, RACE, AFFECT*
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*AND LABOR CONFERENCE*

Bringing together layered and intersecting themes associated with media,
digital
worlds, labor, affect, globalization, and race.

Organized by Radhika Gajjala, Director, American Culture Studies

Co-organizers: Franklin Yartey, Katherine Barak, Kelly MacDonald, Melinda
Lewis, Mike DelNero, Yeon Ju Oh

Bowling Green State University

April 14 & 15, 2011

Sponsored by American Culture Studies

Keynote Speaker (April 14th, 7:00pm-201 BTSU)

Dr. Anna Everett, Professor of Film, Television and New Media

Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will

be our keynote speaker on this topic. Dr. Everett is the author of

Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism,

1909-1949 and Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace.

Special Panel (April 15th, 11:00-12:30pm Olscamp 101)

Dr. Jillana Enteen (Northwestern University/Associate Director and

Director of Undergraduate Studies Program), Dr. Teri Senft (University of

East London, U.K/Program Leader & Senior Lecturer, Media Studies), Dr.

Vicki Mayer (Tulane University - Associate Professor, Communication/Editor
of Television
& New Media, New Orleans, Louisiana).

Contact: 419-372-0586 / raceandaffect at gmail.com

Planning Committee:

Aditi Paul

Alexander Champlin

Anca Birzescu

Bernard Frampton

Cassandra Jones

Franklin Yartey

Katie Barack

Kelly MacDonald

Makhter Sall

Melinda Lewis

Mike DelNero

Sean Watkins

Yeon Ju Oh

Free and open to the public


-- 
Radhika Gajjala
Director, American Culture Studies
Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies
101 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH  43403

http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik