Founded in 2018, Critical Mediations is a graduate student conference dedicated to advancing Cultural Studies scholarship within the field of Communication.
The annual gathering is organized by a committee of doctoral students at USC.
19/02/2019
Hey y'all! Our CFP for our 2019 conference IS UP! Please apply, and circulate widely!
xoxo-CM 2019
Critical Mediations 2019: The Unruly Canon Please submit proposals by March 31, 2019
Up next, ’s Keynote address by Dr. Dilip Gaonkar.
Join us for the last event of the evening, where the will vibrate on coveting crowds and fearing riots, at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
05/10/2018
‘Agnes and Her Afterlives: Tr*******al Archives, Lost and Found,’ with Emmet Harsin Drager, Zackary Drucker, and Chase Joynt, led by Quinn Anex-Ries for USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s .
“Virtually every tr*******al does not tell the truth in answer to the doctor’s questions. Knowing this you will be able to appreciate the significance of a particular case...”
- Belt, Los Angeles-based urologist and pioneer of s*x reassignment surgery
04/10/2018
Re-creation and re-vision of history through the during USC Annenberg’s .
04/10/2018
T-12 hours!
03/10/2018
To clarify how 1968 enabled the evolution of the Black image on screen, Adrien Sebro, Ashley Young, Philana Payton, and Dr. Todd Boyd (a.k.a. Notorious Ph.D.) will contextualize the cultural, political, and environmental shifts that engendered the Black image as a subject.
Popular Media Roundtable | 1968 and the Development of the Black Televisual Landscape 3:00 – 4:30 pm ANN L105A Television brought the Civil Rights Movement, the rise of the Black Panther Party, and the Anti-War Movement to the attention of the world and to the cultural consc…
01/10/2018
From the first photos of earth taken from space to the invention of the microchip.Join SoledadAltrudi, Franny Corry, MC Forelle, and Andrea Alarcon Sojet for a multi-modal presentation exploring the overlaps in Cultural Studies and STS by unpacking several 1968 moments of technological significance.
Cultural Lineages II | Sociotechnical Imaginaries DAY TWO | Friday October 5 1:00 – 2:30 pm ANN 106 Technologies are historical texts. When we read them, we are able to read history. – Eden Medina, 2014 For three days in the summer of 1968, the Fo…
26/09/2018
How is the global revolutionary spirit of 1968 linked to the development of imperial strategies and state repression tactics?
Explore these important questions w/us on Oct.4, 10:30am @ !
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Social Movement Legacies II | Revolt, Counterinsurgency & Global ‘68 DAY TWO | Friday, October 5 10:30 am – 12:00 pm ANN 106 Speakers analyze how the global spirit of revolt that made 1968 a pivotal year is historically bound to the development of imperial strategy,…
26/09/2018
From to the 1968 International Psychoanalytic Congress in Copenhagen, Emmett Harsin Drager, Chase Joynt, and Zackary Drucker will examine how tr*******al stories take shape in official archives and in the popular imagination.
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Gender and Sexuality Roundtable | Agnes and Her Afterlives: Tr*******al Archives, Lost and Found DAY ONE | Thursday, October 4 6:00 – 7:30 pm ANN L105A Virtually every tr*******al does not tell the truth in answer to the doctor’s questions. Knowing this you will be able to appreciate the sig…
24/09/2018
How do music, visual art, and poetry both stabilize and destabilize the dominant narratives and legacies of 1968? Join us during Cultural Lineages I: Rebel Imaginaries, October 4th, at 3:45pm http://bit.ly/RebelImaginaries
Cultural Lineages I | Rebel Imaginaries DAY ONE | Thursday, October 4 3:45 – 5:30 pm ANN 106 Reflecting on specific cultural artifacts and interventions, speakers analyze how art stabilizes and destabilizes the dominant narratives and le…
17/09/2018
Critical Mediations' Closing Party & Fundraiser for NDLON, Friday, October 5th! -
Featuring DJ Francesca Harding.
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08/09/2018
Guest speakers, featured USC faculty and more! - https://mailchi.mp/00725b2195cf/2018panelists