Currents in media studies over recent decades have not only expanded the range of scholarly inquiries into once-marginalized historical and cultural subjects, but broadened our recognition of what constitutes media in the first place. Indeed, inherently decentralizing studies of the networks, industries, infrastructures, and ecologies of communication have reinforced and deepened the push to recover
IT TAKES A MOVEMENT Social Mobilization and Rebuilding Democracy July 3-9, 2023 Organized by The Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC), Central European University (CEU), and the Center of Transcultural Studies (CTS) — Around the world, democracies are breaking down. Many are being dismantled from within while others face attacks
2022 Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 In Person July 18–22, 2022 The deadline for applications is Monday, June 20, 2022 Media Aesthetics IV: The annual Rhetoric and Public Culture Summer Institute at Northwestern University is scheduled to be held on July 18-22, 2022 (with arrival July 17 and departure
The Center for Global Culture and Communication and the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University invite applications from graduate students (MA, MFA, and/or PhD-track) and recent graduates for a 5-day institute exploring performance as creative research. This institute will engage the principles of SoulWork* to explore the sociocultural power of “Ritual, Repetition, and Rehearsal”
