Events

The CDCS Colloquium talk draws on the narratives and practices of live streaming to understand how it becomes a form of cultural and economic production in which gender and sexuality become central to digitally-mediated and scale-making communications. It also discusses the intersecting politics of technology, labor, and gender that live streaming’s prevalence in contemporary China and its global expansion informs us about.

Racial Segregation and the January 6th Insurrection; Jacob Rugh, Brigham Young University;

Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film; Clive Chijioke Nwonka, University College London; 12:15 p.m.; room 108, Annenberg School; register: https://tinyurl. com/nwonka-reading-oct-6 (Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication)

Celebrate the publication of Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt by Sarah Banet Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins, and The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women by Leigh Gilmore; 5-7:30 p.m.; room 109, Annenberg School;

Registration: https://tinyurl.com/asc-book-launch-oct-5  

A joint book launch for Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt by Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins and The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women by Leigh Gilmore

Open to the public

Documented; a documentary produced by Jose Antonio Vargas that chronicles his journey to America from the Philippines, his personal struggles as he tries to understand h ow to be “American,” and his very public outing of himself as an undocumented citizen and the subsequent challenges of dealing with a broken immigration system; noon; location TBA; register: https:// tinyurl.com/gse-film-oct-4  (Graduate School of Education)

Radical Acts of Justice tells the stories of ordinary people joining together in collective acts of resistance: paying bail for a stranger, using social media to let the public know what everyday courtroom proceedings are like, making a video about someone’s life for a criminal court judge, presenting a budget proposal to the city council. When people join together to contest received ideas of justice and safety, they challenge the ideas that prosecutions and prisons make us safer; that public officials charged with maintaining “law and order” are carrying out the will of the people; and that justice requires putting people in cages. Through collective action, these groups live out new and more radical ideas of what justice can look like.

Monday, October 2, 2023 @ 4pm

Andrew Kim, Penn PSC

When Good is Bad: Hyper-selectivity, Model Minority Image, and the Earnings of Less-Educated Asian Americans

Location: 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (367 McNeil – Sociology Conference Room)

This talk explores queer media activism in Bangladesh, firstly, through a genealogical account of LGBTQ+ community organizing within the nation-state, along with critically analyzing how adopting a Western framework of queer activism, primarily based on visibility, coming-out strategies, and pride rallies, presented itself with extreme existential challenges for gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual individuals. 

Queer Deshi Blogging Networks: Legal Rights, Religion, and the Politics of Blog Publics in Bangladeshi LGBTQ+ Activism

This talk, by Mohammed Rashid, explores queer media activism in Bangladesh, firstly, through a genealogical account of LGBTQ+ community organizing within the nation-state, along with critically analyzing how adopting a Western framework of queer activism, primarily based on visibility, coming-out strategies, and pride rallies, presented itself with extreme existential challenges for gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual individuals.