Category Archives: Gender Studies
Two Events – Bullying and Disability – Tonight Hamline University
Book Talk and Discussion on Disability Studies and the Hollywood Industrial Complex
!! Book Talk and Release !! Conversations in Conflict Studies Series presents~ Friday, February 25, 2011 at 12:30 p.m. …400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Conference Room Syracuse University, New York Book Talk and Release of “Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis” (Palgrave 2010) Please join us as co-editor Anthony Nocella, Instructor at … Continue reading
American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics
The 18th Annual American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics American University, Washington DC February 11-13, 2011 http://www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages With great excitement Jennifer Grubbs, with the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) who manages the CriticalAnimalStudies listserve is helping organize the 18th Annual American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics. There will be two … Continue reading
New Book “Hollywood’s Exploited” is Out
This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a compelling and exciting analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts (and the larger industry and society to which they are dialectically related) in light of Giroux’s ideas about public pedagogy. ___________________ Benjamin Frymer is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Hutchins School of … Continue reading
Academic Repression Book Coming Soon
The extreme repressive attacks on Churchill, Finklstein, Fontan, Best, Massad, the “Dirty Thirty,” and many others represented in this book demonstrate the repressive logic of “US democracy,” whereby political elites, the mass media, and the education system establish and police the parameters of acceptable discourse. Churchill became America’s own Salman Rushdie terrorized by the fatwa … Continue reading