Our Fall 2020/Winter 2021 Subversives series was profiled in the Santa Barbara News-Press. Recordings of all virtual discussions can be accessed at CWC: Subversives.

Our Fall 2020 discussion of Sorry to Bother You with director, writer, musician, and activist Boots Riley was featured on the university KCSB website.

The UCSB Current recently published an article discussing our fall 2021 public programming series Global TV. These four virtual events will examine how and why a particular program might travel and take hold with an international audience, addressing questions about the role of contemporary streaming services and global flows of creative labor.

Television has traditionally been understood through national frameworks, corresponding to national networks of television distribution. The Carsey-Wolf Center series “Global TV” explores the way some contemporary television programs and formats have become unmoored from their national contexts of production and distribution.  The series will spotlight a number of recent shows that showcase this phenomenon, including a French heist caper, a South African vigilante thriller, and a crime drama set at the epicenter of political and social change in twenties Berlin; each of these shows both transcends and is rooted in its national context and culture.

History, Identity, and Protest: Activist and Media Narratives about Black Lives Matter and Parallels to the Civil Rights Movement Activists around the globe have referenced past social movements or repression to try to mobilize anti-government resistance and political change—from 2015 protesters in Burkina Faso carrying signs and images invoking assassinated revolutionary Thomas Sankara, to Myanmar’s anti-coup demonstrators in 2021 picking protest dates and tactics to recall the country's 1988 and 2007 uprisings. Statements and photos in traditional media and shared