CGCC Events 2018 – 2019

The Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC) is an interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University School of Communication. It is an event- centered scholarly space for exploring ideas and issues within a transnational comparative frame. It connects scholars and cultural practitioners across departments and schools within Northwestern and beyond.

Sponsored and Funded by Office of the Dean, Barbara O’Keefe (2002)

DIRECTOR

Dilip Gaonkar, Rhetoric and Public Culture

GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES

J. Dakota Brown, Gabriela Garcia, Liam Mayes, Jose Luis Quintero Ramirez, LaCharles Ward Conferences OCTOBER 19, 2018 Philip Kitzberger (Consejo Nacional de Investiga- Desarrollos Contemporáneos ciones Científicas y Técnicas & Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina); Nadia Koziner (Consejo Nacional Sobre Medios, Cultura y Sociedad: de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina); Argentina y América Latina Lila Luchessi (Instituto de Investigación en Políticas Públicas y Gobierno & Universidad Nacional de Rio Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina Negro, Argentina); Andrea Mallimaci (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina); Santiago Marino (Universidad SPEAKERS: Adriana Amado (Centro para la Infor- de Buenos Aires, Universidad de San Andrés & Univer- mación Ciudadana, Argentina); Silvia Andreoli sidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina); Mora Matassi (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina); Lucía Ariza (NU); Constanza Mujica (Universidad Católica de Chile); (Defensoría del Público, Argentina); Natalia Aruguete Patricia Nigro (Universidad Austral, Argentina); Paula (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Onofrio (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina); Técnicas, Argentina); Ingrid Bachmann (Universidad Lorena Retegui (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Católica de Chile); Micaela Baldoni (Universidad de Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina);Tatiana Ruediger Buenos Aires & Universidad Nacional de General (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil); Luis Santana OCTOBER 25–26, 2018 Sarmiento, Argentina); Martín Becerra (Consejo (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile); Iván Schulíaquer Navional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas & (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Volatility: Scale and Affect SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina); Sarah Técnicas & Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Globalizations, Global, and World: Bishop (City University New York); Baird Campbell Argentina); Lucas Silva (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, SPEAKERS: Lauren Berlant (English, University of History, Literary Criticism, and Spaces (Rice University); Gonzalo Huerta Cánepá (Universidad Brazil); Danilo Carvalho Silva (Fundação Getúlio Chicago); Benjamin Lee (Anthropology & Philosophy, Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile); Manuel Carballo (Defensoría del Vargas, Brazil); Ana Slimovich (Consejo Nacional de New School); Erin Manning (Fine Arts, Concordia of the Present Público, Argentina); Ornella Carboni (Consejo Navional Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad de University, Canada); Brian Massumi (Communica- de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina); San Andres & Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina); tion, University of Montreal, Canada); Robert Meister University of Victoria, Canada Noshir Contractor (NU); José Crettaz (Universidad Celeste Wagner (University of Pennsylvania); Silvio (History of Consciouness, University of California–Santa Argentina de la Empresa); Mariano Dagatti (Consejo Waisbord (George Washington University) Cruz); Sianne Ngai (English, University of Chicago) SPEAKERS: Jonathan Arac (English, University of Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Pittsburgh); Alex Beecroft (Language, Literatures, and Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & Universidad de CONVENER: Pablo J. Boczkowski (Communication CONVENERS: Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Public Cultures, University of South Carolina); Harris Feinsod Buenos Aires, Argentina); Claudia Daniel (Consejo Studies, NU) Culture, NU) and Benjamin Lee (Anthropology & (English, NU); Kedar Kulkarni (Literary and Cultural Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Philosophy, New School) Studies, FLAME University, India); Radha Kumar Argentina); Leslie DeChurch (NU); Agustín Espada JOINT SPONSOR: El Centro de Estudios sobre Medios (History, Syracuse University); Chris Chekuri (History, (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina); Patricia y Sociedad en Argentina [MESO] CO-SPONSOR: The Center for Transcultural Studies San Francisco State University); John Pincince (History, Ferrante (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Loyola University); Susan Andrade (English, University Sociales, Argentina); Silvia Ramírez Gelbes (Univer- Attendance: 100 Attendance: 40 of Pittsburgh) sidad de San Andrés, Argentina); Ariel Goldstein (Consejo Navional de Investigaciones Científicas y CONVENERS: Neilesh Bose (History, University Técnicas & Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina); of Victoria, Canada) and Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Diego Gómez Zará (NU); María José Guembe (Defen- Public Culture, NU) soría del Público, Argentina); Gerardo Halpern (Defen- CO-SPONSORS: University of Victoria Canada Research soría del Público, Argentina); Mariana Heredia (Consejo Chair in Global and Comparative History; University of Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas & Victoria Department of History; University of Victoria Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina); Belén Global South Colloquium; University of Victoria Centre Igarzábal (Universidad de San Andrés & Facultad for Global Studies Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina);

Attendance: 25 JOINT SPONSORS: Department of Communication Studies, NU; Department of Media and Communications, LSE; Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Workshops Attendance: 80 and Lectures

Institute for Human Sciences [IWM],

MAY 30–JUNE 1, 2019 OCTOBER 12, 2018 MAY 17, 2019 Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, The Novel at Sea Media Aesthetics: A Workshop and Electoral Politics SPEAKER: Christian Thorne (English, Williams College) SPEAKERS: Tung-Hui Hu (English, University of MAY 20–21, 2019 SPEAKERS: Ewa Atanassow (Political Thought, Michigan); Carolyn Kane (Communication and Design, Bard College, Berlin, & Visiting Fellow, IWM, Vienna); Attendance: 20 Ryerson University, Canada); Martin Shuster (Center for Media, Gender, Feminism: Mukulika Banerjee (Anthropology & the South Asia the Geographies of Justice & Director of Judaic Studies, Third Annual NU – LSE Symposium Centre, LSE, London); Arudra Burra (Philosophy, Indian Goucher College) Institute of Technology, Delhi); Ayse Caglar (Social CONVENERS: James Hodge (English, NU) and Dilip London School of Economics and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna & Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU) Permanent Fellow, IWM, Vienna); Craig Calhoun (Social SPEAKERS: Kate Baldwin (English, Tulane University); Sciences, Arizona State University); Luciana Chamorro Shakuntala Banaji (Media and Communications, LSE); CO-SPONSOR: Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture Elizondo (Anthropology, Doctoral Candidate, Columbia Jack Bratich (Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University); Deval Desai (Law, Postdoctoral Research University); Sara de Benedictis (Sociology & Communi- Attendance: 35 Fellow, Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy, cations, Brunel University London); Simidele Dosekun Graduate Institute, ); Nilufer Gole (Sociology, (Media and Communications, LSE); Tanya Horeck (Film, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris); Media and Culture, Anglia Ruskin University); Jo Littler May 22, 2019 Ludger Hagedorn (Philosophy, Permanent Fellow, IWM, (Culture and Creative Industries, City University of Vienna); Aishwary Kumar (History, Stanford University At Home Abroad: Taking the London); Bingchun Meng (Media and Communications, & Visiting Fellow, IWM, Vienna); Benjamin Lee (Anthro- LSE); Rachel O’Neill (Media and Communications, LSE); Northwestern Academic Mission Abroad, pology & Philosophy, New School); Claudio Lomnitz Jan Radway (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU); Angela (Anthropology, Columbia University); Shalini Randeria a Decade at NU – Q Ray (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU); Catherine (Anthropology & Sociology, Rector, IWM, Vienna); Rottenberg (American and Canadian Studies, Univer- Charles Taylor (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal) FEBRUARY 15, 2019 SPEAKERS: Banu Akdenizli (Communication, sity of Nottingham); Christina Scharff (Gender, Media NU–Qatar); Aimen Jan (Junior in Communication, and Culture, King’s College London); Alison Winch KEYNOTE Symposium on Visual Rhetoric NU–Qatar); Craig LaMay (Journalism, NU–Qatar); (Media Studies, University of East Anglia) “Democracy against Democracy: Reframing the Public Image Jocelyn Mitchell (Liberal Arts, NU–Qatar) KEYNOTES The Electoral Crisis of Liberal Constitutionalism” CONVENER: Everette E. Dennis (Dean and CEO, SPEAKERS: Cara Finnegan (Communication, Univer- “Feminism and the Politics of Resilience: (Political Philosophy, NU–Qatar) sity of Illinois–Urbana Champaign); Anne Demo Women, Media and the End of Welfare” Rector, Central European University, ) (Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State JOINT SPONSOR: Northwestern University–Qatar Anglea McRobbie (Communications, Goldsmiths, University); Claire Sisco King (Communication Studies, CONVENERS: Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Public University of London) Vanderbilt University) Culture, NU) and Shalini Randeria (Anthropology & “Love Your Body but Hate It Too: Sociology, Rector, IWM, Vienna) CONVENER: Robert Hariman (Rhetoric and Public Femvertising and Its Limits” Culture, NU) JOINT SPONSORS: Institute for Human Sciences Rosalind Gill (Cultural and Social Analysis, City [IWM] and Center for Transcultural Studies [CTS]. CO-SPONSORS: Program in Rhetoric and Public University of London) Special Funding provided by the Mastercard Culture and The Graduate School Foundation CONVENERS: Sarah Banet-Weiser (Media and Attendance: 25 Communications, LSE) and Shani Orgad (Media and Attendance: 40 Communications, LSE) NU – LSE Faculty Exchange Program

Northwestern University, Evanston Campus Northwestern University, Evanston Campus

APRIL 17, 2019 APRIL 18, 2019 NOVEMBER 2, 2018 Lecture Lecture Reading Group Emotion as an Organising Principle Don’t Let the Misogynists Grind You Down: Critical Theory in Critical Times: for Understanding and Creating Popular Feminism and The Handmaid’s Tale Seyla Benhabib Networked Journalism APRIL 19, 2019 Attendance: 30 APRIL 18, 2019 Workshop

NOVEMBER 9, 2018 Workshop Empowered: Popular Feminism Workshop Artificial Intelligence: How to Understand and Popular Misogyny Exile, Statelessness, Migration: a Technological Disruption for News Sarah Banet-Weiser A Discussion with Seyla Benhabib Media and Communications, LSE Charlie Beckett Media and Communications, LSE INVITED COMMENTATORS: Craig Calhoun (Social JOINT SPONSOR: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Sciences, Arizona State University); Mary Dietz (Political JOINT SPONSOR: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs CO-SPONSORS: Department of Communication Science, NU); José Medina (Philosophy, NU); Linda Studies; One Book One Northwestern Program; Medill Zerilli (Political Science, University of Chicago) CO-SPONSORS: Department of Communication School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Studies; Program in Media, Technology, and Society CONVENER: Cristina Lafont (Philosophy & Critical Communications Theory, NU)

JOINT SPONSOR: Critical Theory Cluster

CO-SPONSORS: Kreeger Wolf Endowment; Depart- ment of Political Science; Department of German; Department of Philosophy

Attendance: 100 Summer Institutes London School of Economics, London Campus

NOVEMBER 28, 2018 Guest Lecture Materiality and Meaning

NOVEMBER 29, 2018 Guest Lecture NU); Maddie Dennison (Rhetoric and Public Culture, New Challenges of Journalism NU); Cara Dickason (Screen Cultures, NU); Anna Doyle (Anthropology, EHESS, France); Ashley Ferrel (Rhetoric Northwestern University, Evanston Campus NOVEMBER 29, 2018 and Public Culture, NU); Bailey Flynn (Rhetoric and Public Lecture Public Culture, NU); Eric James (Rhetoric and Public MAY 13, 2019 Culture, NU); Zoe Meng Jiang (Cinema Studies, New The Paradox of Abundance York University); Gary Kafer (Cinema and Media Lecture Studies, University of Chicago); Dani Kissinger (Screen The Emerging Social Order of Pablo J. Boczkowski Cultures, NU); Ryan Leach (English, University of Cali- Data Colonialism: Why Critical Social Communication Studies, NU fornia–Santa Barbara); Tony Wei Ling (English, Univer- JULY 15–19, 2019 sity of California–Los Angeles); Elana Maloul (English Theory Still Matters! JOINT SPONSOR: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Rhetoric and Public Culture Summer Institute Language and Literature, University of Michigan); Gabriela Mayes (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU); Liam CO-SPONSOR: Media and Communications, LSE MAY 15, 2019 Media Aesthetics Mayes (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU); Tamas Molnar Workshop (Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University, CO-CONVENERS: Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Public Canada); Pierre Pernuit (History of Contemporary Art, MARCH 11, 2019 Deconstructing the Ideologies Culture, NU) and James Hodge (English, NU) Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France); Jose Quintero of “Surveillance Capitalism” Public Lecture (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU); Ben Riggs (Screen The Price of Black Motherhood VISITING AND PARTICIPATING SCHOLARS Cultures, NU); Jacqueline Ristola (Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University, Canada); Katy Nick Couldry John Brenkman (English, City University of New York); Rossing (English Language and Literature, University Media and Communications, LSE Scott Durham (French and Italian, NU); Jennifer Fay Workshop of Michigan); Jessica Ruffin (Film and Media, University (Cinema & Media Arts, Vanderbilt University); Robert of California–Berkeley); Rebecca Uliasz (Computa- JOINT SPONSOR: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Interventions and Disruptions Hariman (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU); Lauren tional Arts and Media, Duke University); Ariel Weiner Jackson (English, NU); Patrick Jagoda (English and CO-SPONSORS: Department of Communication of Cultural Representations of Gender (Comparative Literature, NU) Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago); Studies; Program in Media, Technology, and Society Michael Kaplan (Communication Studies, City University Visitor: Kate Baldwin Attendance: 30 of New York); Kate Mondloch (History of Art and Archi- Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU tecture, University of Oregon); Patrick Noonan (English, NU); Scott Richmond (Cinema Studies, University of JOINT SPONSOR: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Toronto, Canada) CO-SPONSOR: Media and Communications, LSE VISITING AND PARTICIPATING STUDENTS Average Attendance: 25–35 Harry Burson (Film and Media, University of Cali- fornia–Berkeley); Jeremiah Barker (Creative Writing, Aaron Jacobs (History, Brown University); Lando Kirchmair (Institute of Public, European and Interna- tional Law, University of Salzburg, & Institute for Public Law and International Law, Bundeswehr Univer- VISITING AND PARTICIPATING STUDENTS sity, Germany); Valeria Korablyova (Institute of East European Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic); Tara Asgar (Performance, School of the Art Institute of Juho Korhonen (Sociology, Brown University); Matyáš Chicago); Troizel D.L. Carr (Performance Studies, New Křížkovský (Political Theory, Charles University, Czech York University); Robin Conrad (Dance Studies, Texas Republic); Francisco Longa (Arts and Humanities, Woman’s University); Susana Costa Amaral (Spanish National University of La Plata, Argentina); Soumaya and Portuguese, New York University); Themal Ellawala Majdoub (Sociology & Faculty of Economic and Social (Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago); Roy Burg Feistritz, Austria Sciences and Solvay Business School, Free University Gómez Cruz (Performance Studies, NU); Ashley Ferrell of Brussels, Belgium); Liam Mayes (Rhetoric and Public (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU); Mariam Karim JULY 8–12, 2019 AUGUST 17–24, 2019 Culture, NU); Somabha Mohanty (Political Science & (Information & Women and Gender Studies, University International Relations, Graduate Institute of Interna- Performance Studies Summer Institute of Toronto, Canada); Malú Machuca Rose (Gender and IWM Summer School tional and Development Studies, ); Vasil Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison); Bring It In: Transnational Feminisms Democracy and Demography Navumau (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, Gervais Marsh (Performance Studies, NU); Candice University of Tartu, Estonia); Pablo Ouziel (Center in Practice Merritt (African American Studies, NU); Michell Miller CONVENERS: Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Public for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Canada); (Performance Studies, NU); Romi Morrison (Media Arts Culture, NU) and Shalini Randeria (Anthropology & Christoforos Pavlakis (Bophana Audiovisual Resources CONVENER: Marcela Fuentes (Performance Studies, and Practice, University of Southern California); Laura Sociology, Rector, IWM, Vienna) Center, Cambodia); Elena Rodina (Media, Technology, NU) Pérez Muñoz (Romance Languages and Literatures, and Society, NU); Ambika Roy Bardhan (Geography, Harvard University); Cordelia Rizzo (Performance FACULTY Jadavpur University, India); Eugen Stancu (History VISITING AND PARTICIPATING SCHOLARS Studies, NU); Arnaldo Rodríguez-Bagué (Performance of Ideas and Mentalities, University of Bucharest, Studies, NU); Cara K. Snyder (Women’s Studies, Univer- Alanna Armitage (Regional Director, Eastern Europe Emilia María Durán Almarza (English, University of Romania); Klaudia Wegschaider (Politics and Interna- sity of Maryland); Amy Swanson (Interdisciplinary PhD and Central Asia, United Nations Population Fund, Oviedo, Spain); Danielle Bainbridge (African American tional Relations, , UK) in Theatre and Drama, NU); Nitya Seshadri Vedantam Switzerland); Holly Case (History, Brown University); Studies & Theatre, NU); Marie Bardet (Instituto de Altos (Dance, State University of New York–Buffalo); Ivan Krastev (Political Science, Permanent Fellow, IWM, Estudios Sociales, National University of San Martín, JOINT SPONSORS: Institute for Human Sciences Benjamin Zender (Performance Studies, NU) Austria); John Palatella (Former Literary Editor, The Argentina); Joshua Chambers-Letson (Performance [IWM] and Center for Transcultural Studies [CTS], Nation); Till van Rahden (History, University of Montreal, Studies, NU); Laura G. Gutiérrez (Mexican American Chicago–New York City. Special Funding provided by Attendance: 30 Canada) and Latina/o Studies, University of Texas–Austin); the Mastercard Foundation. Jennifer Nash (African American Studies & Gender PARTICIPATING SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS and Sexuality Studies, NU); Praba Pilar (Independent Attendance: 35 Artist, Oakland); Mabel M. Rodríguez Centeno (Humani- Istvan Adorjan (Sociology, University of Chicago); ties, University of Puerto Rico–Río Piedras); Shayna Gargie Ahmad (Psychological Medicine, King’s College Silverstein (Performance Studies, NU); Keijaun Thomas London, UK); Roman Birke (History, Friedrich-Schiller- (Independent Artist, New York) University Jena, Germany); Luca Bonadiman (Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School); Daniela Calciu (Architecture, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Romania); Luciana Chamorro (Anthropology, Columbia University); Marharyta Fabrykant (Psychology, Belarusian State University, Belarus); Julia Fierman (Anthropology, John Jay College, City University of New York); Ulrike Flader (Anthropology and Cultural Research, University of Bremen, Germany); Gabriela Garcia (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU); Sarah Hayes (Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria); Marcin Kilanowski (Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland);

an interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University School of Communication