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Department Seminar,Spring 2008

4:00 p.m. Tuesday, 101 BCSB

January 22 No Seminar
January 29

Michael Mario Albrecht "“Why Authenticity ‘Matters’ in Web2.0:  Lonelygirl15 and the Contested Terrain Between the Real and The Fake.” 

February 5 Michael Lawrence "Counting Our Losses: The Naming and Numbering of the 9/11 Dead" 
February 12

Brendan Young "Communication and Social Support in AA Sponsorships"

February 19 Dieter Boxmann "Nip/Tuck and the Devolution of Medicine's Heroic Ethos"
February 26

Joy Hayes "Communication as a Human Right:  National Broadcast Policy and Community Radio in Mexico"

March 4

Kristine Fitch "Bety la Fea meets Ugly Betty:  Acquiring an idiom for class in the U.S."

March 11 Perry Howell "(Self-) Discipline & Punish: Mood Logs, Surveillance, and the Personal Panopticon"
March 18

Spring Break

March 25

The Class Room and the Real World: The Politics of Making Connections. A Panel Conversation Concerning How We Teach Communication During a Time of War.

Participants:

Barbara Biesecker, Steve Duck, John Peters Michael Lawrence, Chitra Akkoor, David Morris, Eve Bottando

April 1

TBD

April 8

Larry Grossberg, Hitchcock Lecture "Cultural Studies and Economics: A Prolegomenon”

April 15

Gina Giotta "From Paint Daub to Pixel: Camouflage's Digital Renaissance"

April 22 TBD
April 29 TBD
May 6

Ceremonial last event

May 13 Finals week - no seminar