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PAST EVENTS

April 10, 2014

PARGC’s inaugural symposium, “The Revolutionary Public Sphere: Contention, Communication and Culture in the Arab Uprisings,” explored the active field of revolutionary cultural production that emerged out of the popular rebellions that have swept the Arab world since December 2010. View symposium website here and photos from the event  here.

April 3, 2014

As a prelude to the inaugural PARGC symposium, Annenberg PhD students Lyndsey Beutin, Nicholas Gilewicz, Sun-Ha Hong, and Aaron Shapiro presented papers exploring social practice art, digital parrhesia, self-immolation, and flash mobs as frameworks for understanding the revolutionary public sphere. View abstracts here.

March 27, 2014

Drawing on research in post-earthquake Haiti, Dr. Sheller - Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University - explored how natural disasters demobilize and remobilize, producing uneven mobility and communication systems that reinforce unequal distributions of network capital and exacerbate uneven access to communication networks.

March 20, 2014

Shayna Silverstein, a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum, examined how the term karama, or dignity, has become a framing device by which Syrian activists articulate creative new ways to negotiate the ongoing escalation of violence, sectarianism, and technologies of destruction.

February 27, 2014

Through a close examination of “Wilada min al-Khasira” (Birth from the Waist) Part Three - a Syrian TV drama from the 2013 Ramadan season - this colloquium presented by PARGC Postdoctoral Fellow, Donatella Della Ratta, looks at the political economy of cultural production in Syria and at the power relations that shape it.

Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Global Communication

Featuring Michael Curtin

September 18, 2013

Michael Curtin,  the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara delivered PARGC's Inaugural Distinguished Lecture titled “In the Shadow of Official Ambition: National Cultural Policy Confronts Global Media Capital."

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COSPONSORED EVENTS

October 31 - November 1, 2013

Queer Method Conference

October 23, 2013

Digital Dissent and the Egyptian Revolution with David Faris

View video here.

October 10, 2013

Digital Methods, Ethical Challenges Symposium

View program here.

View video: panel one, panel two, panel three.

 

 

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