ANNOUNCING THE 9TH ANNUAL CRITICAL THEMES IN MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE AT THE NEW SCHOOL.

I've been on the organizing committee for this conference since the middle of Fall semester, and we're all really proud and excited to see that the conference has finally arrived. To all who are interested/will be in the New York City area on Saturday the 4th of April:

THE 9TH ANNUAL CRITICAL THEMES IN MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE AT THE NEW SCHOOL.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

10:00 a.m. AMY GOODMAN, Democracy Now!

6:00 p.m. DOMINIC PETTMAN, Eugene Lang College, New School

Join us at 10 a.m. on April 4th at Tishman Auditorium to listen to award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, host of the daily, grassroots, global radio/TV news hour Democracy Now! give the opening Keynote address followed by a signing of her book, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. Books available for purchase at event.

Stay for three sessions of graduate student panels throughout the afternoon, followed by Dominic Pettman's closing Keynote address, "After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life" at 6 p.m. in Wollman Hall. Dr. Pettman is Associate Professor of Culture & Media, Eugene Lang College, New School and the author of After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion (SUNY, 2002), Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object (with Justin Clemens: AUP, 2004), and Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age (Fordham, 2006). He is currently working on a new book on “media machines and species being.”

Conference Event: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Where: The New School, 66 West 12th St., New York, NY

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Visit www.criticalthemes.com for a full schedule!

Sponsored and hosted by The New School, the Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference provides a distinguished forum for graduate students from around the world to present original scholarship on media studies and society. Now in its ninth year, Critical Themes papers are selected from a pool of local, national, and international submissions to reflect the breadth and depth of the field of media studies. Topics include globalization, networked publics, mediated environments, identity & representation, media and social change, popular culture, political economy, and more.