International Institute Symposium on <i>New Media/Social Change: Implications for Area Studies</i>

The New Media/Social Change symposium questions the impact “new media” (social, network, digital) have had on cultural and political formations and practices and how this impact relates to area studies.

Opening Comments - 8:30 a.m.

Panel 1 - 9:00 a.m.
James Der Derian, Professor, Brown University
Adrift in Berlin: Global Media, Quantum Leaps, and the Re-territorialization of Area Studies

Panel 2 - 10:10 a.m.
E. Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
From Digital Direct Action to Leaking: How to Understand the Politics of Anonymous

Panel 3 - 11:20 a.m.
Victoria Bernal, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
From 'The Social Network' to 'The Facebook Revolution': Reflections On Culture and New Media

Panel 4 - 2:00 p.m.
Joe Straubhaar, Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Title TBA

Panel 5 - 3:10 p.m.
Annabelle Sreberny, Professor, Centre for Media and Film Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
New Media and the 'Middle East': Thinking Allowed

Closing Discussion - 4:30 p.m.

U-M RESPONDENTS
Kelly Askew, Director, African Studies Center; Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican/African Studies

Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies

Juan Cole, Director, Center for South Asian Studies; Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History

Mary Gallagher, Director, Center for Chinese Studies; Associate Professor of Political Science

Shazia Iftkhar, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

Nojin Kwak, Director, Nam Center for Korean Studies; Associate Professor of Communication Studies

Malcolm McCullough, Associate Professor of Architecture

Aswin Punathambekar, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

Paddy Scannell, Professor of Communication Studies

Atef Said, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology


For further information, please see www.ii.umich.edu/events/newmediasymposium.