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Past events

• May 2-4, 2024:听Media Aesthetics: Experience, Practice, and Pedagogy听The media aesthetics project examines and engages the saturation of ordinary life by varieties of constant mediation, while also examining the diverse array of mediated experiences and modernities worldwide. Here we have in mind new forms of digital technology from smartphones, ubiquitous wireless networks, social media, and streaming platforms. Art forms such as literature, cinema, music, and visual art remain important here. But now, with the durationally encompassing nature of contemporary mediation, we look to aesthetic experience broadly for its power to navigate the everyday.

• April 9, 2024: An evening with former 91吃瓜网colleague Adrienne Russell,听presenting听her听new book听The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech and Activists are Vying for our Future听(Columbia University Press 2023).听In her book, Adrienne argues that our听inadequate response to climate change is intertwined with the profound challenges facing our communication environment.听She will discuss her research on journalists, activists, scientists, and other advocates for climate action, how their efforts are often compromised in today鈥檚 media landscape, and what we can do about it. Adrienne Russell听is Mary Laird Wood Professor of Communication and co-director of the听Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy听at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is currently a fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin.听

• February 1, 2024: Rethinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect.听Comments by contributors: Professor Jayson Harsin (AUP), Professor Bilge Yesil (CUNY Graduate School) and Professor Hannah Westley (AUP) with response by Francois Allard-Huver (Universit茅 de Lorraine).

• October 19-20, 2023:听Discourse on the Plague (1347-1600): Authorities, Experience, and Experiments, Conference at The American University of Paris.听Co-organized by Brenton Hobart (The American University of Paris) and V茅ronique Montagne (Universit茅 C么te d鈥橝zur).听Medical treatises, historical writings and literary narratives about the plague use a common linguistic register which repeated itself from Antiquity through Renaissance Europe and which persists in today鈥檚 popular and scholarly imagination of how we envision epidemic disease听鈥� Covid language and plague language are to a large degree one and the same. The听truth听concerning disease is thereby molded, if not skewed, by a preconceived discourse, which the writers of such听truth听are (or feel) forced to revisit: to prove knowledge of and move beyond past disease; to establish themselves as authoritative; likely, to learn how to transform ineffable horror into the art form that the printed word is.

• Wednesday, May 10, 2023: MCGC presented Book in Progress Workshop on Dr. Merten Reglitz鈥檚 (U of Birmingham) The Human Right to Free Internet Access.
• Wednesday, May 3, 2023: MCGC鈥檚 Working Paper Series presented research in progress by 91吃瓜网scholars Noemie Oxley and Fatima Aziz, with an external discussant to be announced. Imaginaries of contemporary conflicts: engaging with the War in Ukraine on TikTok.
• January 25, 2023: Degenerations of Democracy听(Harvard UP, 2022), dialogue with the authors, Charles Taylor, Dilip Gaonkar, and Craig Calhoun. Featuring commentaries by American University of Paris professors Stephen Sawyer and Julian Culp, and Ilaria Cozzaglio, Goethe University Frankfurt. The event was co-sponsored by the 91吃瓜网Center for Critical Democracy and moderated by 91吃瓜网professor Jayson Harsin.
• Spring 2022 Mellon-funded Lecture Series: Comparative Critiques of Post-truth politics and theory (lecture series and edited volume).听Speakers included: Jack Bratich (Rutgers U.); Ergin Bulut (Koc University, Turkey); Katherine Higgins (U Penn); Jinsook Kim (Emory University);听 Alison Hearn (U. of Western Ontario); Kaarina Nikunen (U. Tamere), Lee Edwards (LSE), Bilge Yesil (CUNY). Edited volume forthcoming (summer 2023) from lecture series: Jayson Harsin (ed.) Post-truth and Trust in a Globalized Society: Popular Truth and Consequences. London: Routledge.