The Center for Global Culture and Communication & The Media Aesthetics Project jointly present: Spectacles of Information October 23 & 24, 2025 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Kresge 1515 Convened by Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric, Media, and Publics) & Patrick Noonan (Asian languages and Cultures) Funding for the event is provided by a global catalyst grant from the
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
Call for Applications 2024 Summer Institute in Rhetoric, Media and Publics Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 In Person July 15–19, 2024 The deadline for applications is Monday 27 May 2024 Conveners: Michael Streicher Metzger (Pick-Laudati Academic Curator of Cinema and Media Arts, Block Museum, Northwestern University) Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric, Media, and Publics, Northwestern University)
The Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) & The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Jointly present a conference on “Rethinking and Unthinking Popular Sovereignty” Thursday-Friday 23-24 May 2024, 10:30am to 5pm Kresge Centennial Hall Room 2-350 https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/616161 Lunch and light refreshments will be served on both days.
Cannibal Capitalism How Our system is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet– and What We Can Do about It (Verso, 2022) Nancy Fraser (Philosophy, The New School) Respondents Ashley Bohrer (Gender and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame) Michael Dawson (Political Science, University of Chicago) Johanna Oksala (Philosophy, Loyola University-Chicago) ON ZOOM Friday, April
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
The Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) & the Center for Transcultural Studies Jointly present Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum on The Force of Non-Violence (Verso, 2020) Judith Butler (Distinguished Professor, Department of Comparative Literature & Program of Critical Theory, UC Berkeley) Judith Butler’s recent book shows how an ethic
The Center for Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) Invites you to an in-person conference on Rhetoric and Politics of Protest and Social Mobilization II Friday, May 26, 2023 TGS Commons 2122 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60201 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Participants Banu Bargu (History of
Critical Theory in Critical Times WORKSHOP Focused on Professor José Medina’s The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance Friday, May 19, 2023 3:30-6:30pm Harris Hall-108, 1881 Sheridan Rd, Evanston Reception to Follow A Discussion With JOSE MEDINA Invited Commentators: Luvell Anderson Syracuse Miguel Caballero Northwestern Marcela Fuentes Northwestern Nancy Tuana Penn State This event is generously co-sponsored by The Center for Global
