TV in the Academy
A conference at the University of Vermont Nov. 18-19, 2011, 427 Waterman Building
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Friday 11/18
5:00 pm Introductions, Tom Streeter (Sociology, UVM)
5:30 Torture in real time: 24, biopolitics, ideology Hilary Neroni (Film and TV, UVM)
6:15 From Aca-fans to Tea Parties: Why the Frankfurt School Matters Now More than Ever David Jenemann (Film and TV, UVM)
Saturday 11/19
9:00 Production/Studies: Industry, Labor, and the Trouble with Binaries Miranda Banks (Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College)
9:40 Mapping Media Convergence: Television, Affect, and Queer Public Space Hollis Griffin (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Colby College)
10:20 Break
10:30 Television in Transition Shawn Shimpach (Communication, UMass Amherst)
11:10 The History of Now: Media Ecology and the News Mark Williams (Film and Media Studes, Dartmouth)
12:00 lunch Lunch, 427 Waterman
1:15 Television and Possibility Amelie Hastie (English/Film and Media Studies, Amherst College)
2:00 Summing up and discussion Sujata Moorti (Women's and Gender Studies, Middlebury)
3:00 Conclude