CCS Notes Fall 2020 CCS NOTES Official Newsletter of the Cultural & Critical Studies Division of AEJMC
In This Issue: Keeping Passion Alive P. 1: Note from the Division During Challenging Times – Head the work of Cultural and P. 4: Panel Programming and Division Engagement Critical Studies is more P. 6: International Travel important than ever During COVID-19 Pandemic A Note from Division Head Ruth DeFoster P. 7: Critically Examining As I write this update in November, winter has come to Capitalism Minnesota, and the city of St. Paul is blanketed with snow. This P. 9: Toxic Conversations Do season of Northern cold and darkness is always difficult, but the Not Have to be the Norm routine challenges of this season have been exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic and the aftershocks of a bitter and vitriolic P. 10: Teaching Online election season. Amidst California Fires To call this year “unprecedented” or P. 12: PF&R Award Recipients “exceptional” has become a trite P. 14: Job Hunt During cliché, but the reality is that the COVID-19 Pandemic past nine months have upended all of our lives in ways that we couldn’t P. 15: Listen to Our New have imagined just a year ago. Podcast — Media and Culture I frequently tell my students that Also Inside: simply getting through this semester is an accomplishment. I CCSD Officers would like to extend that affirmation to all of you: It’s okay to Stay connected! feel disillusioned, frustrated and tired during this season. The Submit to the AEJMC struggles of adapting to new online teaching modalities, the Midwinter Conference relentless drumbeat of an out-of-control pandemic in the U.S., and the shameful, borderline seditious behavior of the now Award Winners