Communications Colloquium
The doctoral program in communications hosts sessions on both novel and vintage communications scholarship.
The colloquium is open to all interested. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, contact the student organizers, Colin Agur (ca2393@columbia.edu) and Lynn Berger (lb2417@columbia.edu). All events below are free and open to the public.
Save the Date
Monday, Dec. 5
Prof. Helen Nissenbaum, NYU
"A Contextual Approach to Privacy Online"
Past Events
Fall 2011
Thursday, Sep. 15
Maurice Walsh, University of Oxford
"Ireland 1920: Journalism and the Morality of Great Powers"
Wednesday, Sep. 28
Prof. Elihu Katz, University of Pennsylvania / Annenberg School of Communication
"No More Peace!: How Disaster, Terror and War Have Upstaged Media Events"
Monday, Oct. 24
Prof. Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College
"Thesis Drift: Reading James W. Carey's Dissertation in the Context of his Career"
Thursday, Oct. 27
Prof. Patricia Aufderheide, American University
"Beyond the Copyright Wars: Fair Use, Free Speech, and Reframing the Policy Debate"
Tuesday, Nov. 1
Prof. Nikki Usher, George Washington University
"NYT and the Great Recession: Watchdogs and Business News Values at Work"
Monday, Nov. 14
Prof. Christina Dunbar-Hester, Rutgers University
"Technological Activism At Work"
Spring 2011
Thursday, Feb. 24
Daniel Kreiss, Yale Law School
"Taking Our Country Back: Crafting Networked Politics"
Monday, Mar. 7
Prof. Hugh Slotten, University of Otago
"Public Broadcasting in the United States: The Early History"
Monday, Mar. 28
Prof. Catherine Bertho Lavenir, Université Sorbonne
?Do New Media Really Matter??
Monday, Apr. 4
Prof. Marita Sturken, NYU
"Visuality and the Memory of War: The Erasure of Iraq"
Thursday, May 5
Prof. Monroe Price, University of Pennsylvania / Annenberg School of Communication
"Strategic Narratives and the Arab Spring"
Monday, May 9
Prof. Rasha Abdulla, American University in Cairo
"The People Want to Tweet the Revolution"
Fall 2010
Wednesday, Dec. 1
Prof. Mitchell Stephens, NYU
"Journalism and News: Untangling their Histories"
Friday, Nov. 12
Prof. Jonathan Coopersmith, A&M University Texas
"The Failure of Fax: Analog Technology in a Digital World"
Wednesday, Oct. 27
Prof. Philip Howard, University of Washington
"Digital Technology and Democracy in the Muslim World"
Thursday, Oct. 21
Frank van Vree, NYU Steinhardt/University of Amsterdam
"Shock and Penance: An Archeological Approach to the Early Imagery of Nazi Crimes"
Tuesday, Oct. 12
Lisa Gitelman, NYU Steinhardt
"Daniel Ellsberg and the Lost Idea of the Photocopy"
Spring 2010
Monday, Apr. 19
Laura DeNardis, Yale University
"Technologies of Dissent"
Monday, Mar. 22
Ove K. Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School
"Knowledge Regimes: A Comparative Project on Where Policy Ideas Come from in Four Different Countries"
Monday, Mar. 8
Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University
"Making Civic News: NGOs and Journalism"
Tuesday, Feb. 23
Amelia Arsenault, Univesrity of Pennsylvania
"The Convergence of Networks and the Importance of Nodes: Mapping the Global Networks of the Information Industries"
Thursday, Feb. 4
Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Journalism is Dead. Long Live Journalism"
Monday, Feb. 8
Erica Robles, New York University
"Mediating Congregation: The Aesthetics and Technics of an American Megachurch"
Fall 2009
Tuesday, Sept. 22
Dominic Pettman, The New School
"After the Beep - Answering Machines and Creaturely Life"
Thursday, Oct. 15
Victor Pickard, NYU
"Can Public Policy Save the News? The Uncertain History and Future of Journalism"
Thursday, Oct. 22
Joseph Turow, University of Pennsylvania
"Digital Media and the Transformation of Consumer Culture"
Wednesday, Nov. 4
Matthew Hindman, Arizona State University
"The Elephant and the Butterfly: The Curious Political Economy of Web Traffic"
Tuesday, Nov. 24
Dave Karpf, Brown; Josh Braun, Cornell; and Lokman Tsui, University of Pennsylvania
"A Roundtable on Technology and Democracy"
Spring 2009
Monday, Feb. 16
Daniel Carey, National University of Ireland, Galway
"The American Way of Death: Reportage on murder from Capote to Gilmore"
Friday, Mar. 27
Thomas Streeter, University of Vermont
"The Net Effect"
Monday, Mar. 30
W. Russell Neuman, University of Michigan
"Digital News"
Tuesday, Apr. 14
Lisa Keller, SUNY Purchase
"Truimph of Order"
Monday, Apr. 27
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
"Cultures of Use and the Constituting of Digital Power"
Wednesday, May 5
William Grueskin, Columbia University
"A Conversation about the Future of Journalism Education"