Events

Events at UVM

May 2000: an excerpt from journalist/programmer Ellen Ullman's keynote address at UVM last October has been published in the May 2000 issue of Harper's magazine. (For a sample, click here.)
Tuesday, May 2, 2000: College of Arts & Sciences Dean's lecture Series presents Frank Manchel, Professor of English "Sink or Swim: Hollywood After World War II"; 5 - 7 p.m. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building
Friday, April 28, 2000: "Tough Guise: the media, violence and the crisis in masculinity." A lecture by Prof. Sut Jhally of the University of Massachussetts; 3:30 pm, L108 Lafayette, University of Vermont

Political debate and media coverage keep repeating the muddled thinking of the past. Headlines and stories focus on youth violence, "kids killing kids" . . . This is entirely the wrong framework to use in trying to understand what happened in Littleton - or in Jonesboro, Ark., Peducah, Ky., Pearl, Miss., or Springfield, Ore. This is not a case of kids killing kids. This is boys killing boys and boys killing girls. What these school shootings reveal is not a crisis in youth culture but a crisis in masculinity. -- Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz, The Boston Globe (May 2, 1999, E1)
Friday, April 8, 2000: "Rites of Revelation: Television and the John Rocker Story." A workshop by Professor Joseph Won, English, using footage of the newscasts to demonstrate how he uses media in the teaching of US Culture; 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Media Room 001, Bailey-Howe Library

Atlanta Braves relief pitcher, John Rocker, made a number of inflammatory remarks about Asians and Afiran American, women, immigrants, and homosexuals in the December 27, 1999 issue of Sports Illustrated. How did the news media handle the story? What can students learn about racism in America? When is television footage useful as a pedagogical tool?
Wednesday, April 12, 2000: "Black Profiles in White Space: The Fugitive, the Fugitive Slave, and Rodney King." A talk by Professor Alan Nadel of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Dewey Lounge at 3:30.
Friday, March 10: a workshop on "American History X" by Frank Manchel at 2:30, L207
Friday, Feb. 18th, 2000: a workshop by Prof. Ted Lyman, Art, on "Helping Students Interpret the Photograph." in Williams 403. Besides being an accomplished filmmaker, Prof. Lyman is also an expert in the cultural history of the photograph (and of visual technologies in general). He is also involved in planning UVM's curriculum for media technologies of the future.
Saturday, February 19th, 2000: A day-long workshop on the social, political, and ethical implications of Info. Tech. in the classroom, with two visiting speakers: Carolyn Marvin from UPenn's Annenberg School of Communication, and Justine Cassell from the MIT Media Lab. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Center for Teaching and Learning.
February 10: a talk by Prof. Julie Roberts, Communications Sciences, UVM and Rebecca Amblo, Franklin County Health, "UP WITH THE TIMES OR DOWN FOR THE COUNT? LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE IN VERMONT," Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building,
October 9, 1999: a day long symposium "Information Technologies: What's Feminism Got to Do With It?" 10 to 4:30 p.m., in Waterman's Memorial Lounge. San Francisco writer and software engineer Ellen Ullman was the keynote speaker, and gave an address titled "Wouldn't You Rather Be At Home? The Internet and the Myth of the Powerful Self." Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program in conjunction with the UVM Working Group for the Study of Media, Culture, and Society, this symposium was open to all faculty, staff, students, and community members who want to explore the tensions and connections between feminist theories and information technologies.