Fall 2016 Newsletter SCMS FACULTY NOTES
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA STUIDES Fall 2016 Newsletter SCMS FACULTY NOTES David Cratis Williams, Professor and Director Associate Professor Christopher Robe recently published of the SCMS, attended the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting two articles. “Rewiring the Apparatus: Screen Theory, Media of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) in Activism, and Working-Class Subjectivities” was published Birmingham, Alabama, March 17-19, 2016. He served as a in the Spring 2016 issue of Rethinking Marxism: A Journal program respondent/discussant for the program, “Chernob- of Economics, Culture and Society and was co-written with yl Retrospective at the Thirtieth Anniversary.” As a follow-up, Todd Wolfson and Peter Funke. This fall, Robe published Williams also attended the 2016 Summer Convention of the “Criminalizing Dissent: Western State Repression, Video Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Activism, and Counter-Summit Protests” in Framework: (ASEES) and The International Association for the Humani- Journal of Cinema and Media. ties (IAH, or MAG in the Ukrainian acronym). He served as respondent/discussant for the program, “Chernobyl Retro- Ilene Prusher, a member of the journalism faculty and an spective - 30 Years On.” In addition, he stopped in Kiev with advisor for the University Press, recently published articles other panelists on the program and toured the Chernobyl in the New York Times, TIME, and The Christian Science Museum. In between these two discussions of public and Monitor. Prusher also contributed to the TIME cover story on rhetorical memories of Chernobyl, Williams co-directed the Orlando massacre. the Biennial Wake Forest Argumentation Conference held in Venice, Italy, May 30-June 2.
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