Events and Activities

Automating the News. How algorithms are rewriting the media. November 13, 2020 (jpg)

Democracy Without Shortcuts. October 23, 2020 (jpg)

Media Aesthetics Symposium. November 22, 2019 (jpg)

Roderick P. Hart. Local Voices and Why Hope Survives. October 31, 2019

MEDIA AESTHETICS – 2019 RHETORIC AND PUBLIC CULTURE SUMMER INSTITUTE — July 15-19, 2019

Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, and Electoral Politics — May 30 – June 1, 2019

MEDIA, GENDER, FEMINISM — May 20-21, 2019

A PREHISTORY OF THE CLOUD – GRADUATE WORKSHOP WITH TUNG-HUI HU — MAY 16, 2019

MEDIA AESTHETICS: A WORKSHOP — MAY 17, 2019

GRADUATE WORKSHOP – DECONSTRUCTING THE IDEOLOGIES OF“SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM” – NICK COULDRY — MAY 15, 2019

THE EMERGING SOCIAL ORDER OF DATA COLONIALISM:WHY CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY STILL MATTERS! – NICK COULDRY — MAY 13, 2019

GRADUATE WORKSHOP – EMPOWERED: POPULAR FEMINISM AND POPULAR MISOGYNY – SARAH BANET-WEISER — APRIL 19, 2019

DON’T LET THE MISOGYNISTS GRIND YOU DOWN: POPULAR FEMINISM AND THE HANDMAID’S TALE – SARAH BANET-WEISER — APRIL 18, 2019

GRADUATE WORKSHOP ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: HOW TO UNDERSTAND A TECHNOLOGICAL DISRUPTION FOR NEWS – CHARLIE BECKETT — April 18, 2019

EMOTION AS AN ORGANISING PRINCIPLE FOR UNDERSTANDING AND CREATING NETWORKED JOURNALISM – CHARLIE BECKETT — April 17, 2019

Symposium on Visual Rhetoric: Reframing the Public Image – February 15, 2019 (jpg)

Critical Theory in Critical Times: EXILE, STATELESSNESS, MIGRATION – A Discussion With Seyla Benhabib — November 9th, 2018

VOLATILITY: SCALE AND AFFECT – October 25-26, 2018

Christian Thorne – The Novel at Sea — October 12, 2018

New Modes of Political Protest: 1968 to 2018 — 2018 RHETORIC AND PUBLIC CULTURE SUMMER INSTITUTE – July 9-13, 2018

5th Annual Global Race Studies Workshop – Racism, Patriotrism and Black Protest (jpg)

II NU-LSE SYMPOSIUM – POPULAR CULTURE, POPULIST POLITICS, AND MEDIA ETHICS – April 26-27, 2018

PAUL FROSH Communication & Journalism Hebrew University of Jerusalem – NOTES ON THE SCREENSHOT: REMEDIATED PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE POETICS OF DIGITAL MEDIA, FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Elizabeth Povinelli – The Four Axioms of Existence – February 7, 2018

DISTANT THUNDER: POLITICS AND POETICS OF A RECEDING OCTOBER REVOLUTION – OCTOBER 25, 2017

GLOBALIZATIONS, GLOBAL, AND WORLD: HISTORY, LITERARY CRITICISM, AND SPACES OF THE PRESENT – OCTOBER 19-20, 2017, Keynote

GLOBALIZATIONS, GLOBAL, AND WORLD: HISTORY, LITERARY CRITICISM, AND SPACES OF THE PRESENT – OCTOBER 19-20, 2017

The Politics and Rhetoric of New Populims – July 17-21,2017

2017 Summer Institute In Performance Studies Improvisation, Narrative, Beauty – July 10-14, 2017

After Obama: The Politics of Difference And The Rhetoric of Nationalism – May 12, 2017

Democratic Agendas: Negotiating Climate Change, Capitalism, and the New Populisms – April 19-21, 2017

Charles Taylor, March 9, 2017

Craig Calhoun, Debt and the New Populisms. March 3, 2017 [jpg]

NIKOLAS KOMPRIDIS, Philosophy and Political Thought & Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University – Nov, 2016

The Ethics of Mediation – Oct, 2016

The Public Image – Oct. 8, 2016 [jpg]

Summer Institute, July 19-23

Spring 2016 Events

Claudio W. Lomnitz, May 24

Alejandro Dujovne, May 23

Face, Body, and Image in Cinema, May 19-20

John Durham Peters. May 9

Bart Cammaerts. April 28 [jpg]

Bart Cammaerts. April 27 [jpg]

Jason Read. April 22 [jpg]

Jason Read. April 21 [jpg]

Jean-Christophe Plantin. April 18 [jpg]

Winter 2016 Events

Fall 2015 Events

Sounds of South Asia Series

Global Perspectives on Race, Knowledge and Institutions in the 21st Century. February 18-19, 2016.

Charles Taylor (McGill University) Retrieving Realism. February 12, 2016.

Conference on Beauty and Form. January 28-29, 2016.

Critical Theory in Critical Times Workshop. November 13, 2015.