This talk outlines the conditions of loving in technoculture and explains the ways and manners of “practicing of togetherness” in high tech environments. It will show what technologies tell us about the way we love and critically rereads late modern paradigms of emotional and affective experiences, challenging the existing critical approaches to technological and technologized love. Ania Malinowska is an author, cultural theorist and associate professor in media and cultural studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia (Poland),

Please join us 4pm on Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 via Zoom for a talk by Provessor Adrian Ivakhiv (University of Vermont/Carsey-Wolf Center) entitled "The Invasion of Ukraine as a Turning Point." What are the implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the hindsight of its first six weeks, for world affairs? This talk by Adrian Ivakhiv will highlight the role of media and "information war," the refugee crisis, and policy responses by western and other countries, to understand how

Mapping Alzheimer's: A Journey of Friendship and Discovery A documentary about a lifelong partnership between two brilliant young scientists from different parts of the world who have discovered a rare genetic mutation afflicting hundreds of members of a single family. Their research, which spans continents and three decades, could unlock the mystery behind a cruel killer: Alzheimer’s disease.

Centering the global as media and medium, “The Global Imagination of Racial Justice: Coalition, Comparativism, Community” invites scholars and artists to explore ways to bridge U.S. national and global conceptions of racial justice through comparative projects in literary, and media studies. We seek funding for a Spring symposium that brings together artists, writers, and scholars that employ decolonial, intersectional, and transnational methodologies to create a common social agenda in and through difference. This project advances the broader mission of literary

Ecologies of Childhood: A Global and Environmental Research Conference The research project Ecologies of Childhood examines environmental discourse in global children’s literature, media, and culture, as well as the collaborative performance of childhood evident within a variety of visual and verbal media ecologies. It will culminate in a large, interdisciplinary, and international research conference entitled Ecologies of Childhood: Children’s Literature, Culture, and the Environment, which will be convened at UCSB on August 12-17, 2023. This will be the 26th Biennial Congress of