Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Join us on Thursday, April 23, for the Philly Cinematheque screening of "Free Beer Tomorrow," followed by a discussion with directors LuSter P. Singleton and Julia M. Applegate.

"Free Beer Tomorrow" is a documentary film project that tells the story of Jack's/Summit Station, Ohio's longest running le***an bar.

Register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-beer-tomorrow-film-screening-and-qa-with-directors-tickets-1986091756909?aff=oddtdtcreator .

This Friday (4/17) please join us at the Annenberg School for the "Media Mappers on the Globe" symposium!

Ennuri Jo (CARGC Postdoctoral Fellow), Liang Wu (Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University) and Weilin Zhu (Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia) will present how they use the Media Mapper tool (mediamapper.app) to support their research in global media studies.

Learn more and register: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/media-mappers-globe .

Media Mappers on the Globe Join us for a mini-symposium showcasing the Media Mapper, a geospatial visualization tool developed with support from the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication.

Join us in two weeks for the "Media Mappers on the Globe" symposium organized by CARGC postdoctoral fellow Ennuri Jo!

On Friday, April 17, Jo will introduce the Media Mapper tool (mediamapper.app) and its flagship project, Aqueous Earth Catalog, which maps bodies of water around the world that are significantly referenced in or featured in films and video texts. Jo will be joined by Liang Wu (Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University) and Weilin Zhu (Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia), who will each present how they use the Media Mapper to support their own research in global media studies.

Learn more and register: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news.../events/media-mappers-globe .

Please join us next Thursday, April 2, for the Philly Cinematheque screening of "Leila and the Wolves," followed by a discussion with Dr. Kareem Estefan.

The film combines fictional drama, archival footage, fantasy sequences, mosaic pattern, and more to counter the colonial, male-dominated version of history.

Register to attend:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leila-and-the-wolves-film-screening-discussion-with-dr-kareem-estefan-tickets-1985398069070?aff=oddtdtcreator .

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Monroe E. Price, who laid the groundwork for CARGC and helped shape the thinking and scholarship of so many in our community. We are honored to carry his legacy forward and extend our heartfelt condolences to all who knew him.

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania mourns the passing of Monroe E. Price, J.D., retired Professor of Communication and a towering figure in the field of international communication. He passed away at the age of 87 on March 16, 2026. 

A legal scholar, a communication theorist, and an institution builder, Price built a career that defies any categorization. Over five decades, he left his mark on fields as varied as Native American law, freedom of expression, media reform, and cross-border communication in the global system.

Throughout his illustrious career, Price held faculty positions at the Annenberg School, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law. He was dean of the Cardozo School of Law from 1982 to 1991 and founded the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School.

Price joined Annenberg in 2004, and over the next sixteen years, he shaped the school’s engagement with the world in a lasting way. In 2006, he founded the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS), a center designed to bring together students, academics, lawyers, regulators, civil society representatives, and others working in the media sector the opportunity to evaluate critically and discuss comparative, global, and international communications issues. The center drew on law, political science, and international relations to explore public policy issues and how media and globalization were reshaping the nature of states and public life.  

Those who knew Price, remember him as a kind, open-hearted, and deeply curious person. He approached every person he met with genuine interest and warmth, and even brief encounters often grew into lasting connections. His generosity of spirit matched his intellectual seriousness, and both will be deeply missed.

The Annenberg community extends its deepest condolences to his wife, Aimée Brown Price, his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Read more about his life at the link in our bio.

Save the date! Join us for the "Media Mappers on the Globe" symposium on April 17. This half-day event highlights the Media Mapper (mediamapper.app), a geospatial visualization tool developed with support from CARGC.

Our postdoctoral fellow Ennuri Jo will introduce the Media Mapper and its flagship project, "Aqueous Earth Catalog". She will be joined by Liang Wu (Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University) and Weilin Zhu (Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia), who will each present how they use the Media Mapper to support their own research in global media studies.

Learn more and register: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/media-mappers-globe .

Media Mappers on the Globe Join us for a mini-symposium showcasing the Media Mapper, a geospatial visualization tool developed with support from the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication.

Next Thursday (3/19), Philly Cinematheque will host a screening of "Another News Story", followed by a discussion with CARGC Research Director Dr. Eszter Zimányi.

This documentary film provides a critical entry point into news production and how journalists covered the European refugee crisis.

Register to attend via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/another-news-story-film-screening-and-discussion-with-dr-eszter-zimanyi-tickets-1984640030757?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true .

CARGC is excited to co-sponsor this upcoming symposium. Please join us on March 20th in person or over Zoom!

Allillanchu wawqi-paniykuna!

The Quechua Language and Culture Program at the University of Pennsylvania (Quechua at Penn), the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Department of Philosophy at Temple University invite you to the First Symposium Indigenous Philosophy across the Americas: Epistemologies and Ontologies outside of Settler Colonial Hegemony.

Join this hybrid Symposium on Friday, March 20th, 2026 at the University of Pennsylvania! Venue: McNeil 403

For more information about this event, please follow the link below: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/quechua/symposium-on-indigenous-philosophy/

Explore more about the Quechua Language and Cultures Program at Penn: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/quechua/

Chaypiña tinkusunchik!
We look forward to your participation and attendance!

On Monday, we had the pleasure of hosting a screening of "Working Girls" followed by a conversation with director Paromita Vohra. The event also marked the launch of The Philly Cinematheque, a new initiative led by our doctoral fellows Gabriella Bellot and Anna Murphy.

The Philly Cinematheque, housed in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, brings a community-focused approach to an eclectic program of global film and television screenings. In doing so, it functions as both an informal gathering place and an intentional intervention to further embed cinema—as a modality, a space, and a method—in communications scholarship.

Please mark your calendars for the upcoming screenings!

Join us at Public Trust for Working Girls, a film screening and conversation on Monday, March 2, 2026 from 5:30pm-8:30pm about the invisible lives of women in India whose labor sustains their society. Following the screening, director Paromita Vohra will engage in conversation with scholar Bakirathi Mani. Presented with the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication and the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.

Working Girls (2025), directed by Paromita Vohra, is a vibrant, thought-provoking documentary that journeys across India to explore the often unseen worlds of women’s labor. From the bustling streets of Kolkata, Pune, and Mumbai to the sloping hills of Shillong, the temple town of Madurai, the fields of Latur, and cities including Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad, the film traces a wide social and geographic landscape. Through the lives of domestic workers, dancers, mothers, farmers, ASHA workers, surrogates, s*x workers, union leaders, and grassroots organisers, it reveals the many forms of work that remain invisible yet are essential to everyday life.

Blending sharp wit, rich music, and a deep engagement with the legal and historical forces shaping women’s lives, Working Girls challenges conventional ideas about what counts as work and whose labour is valued. The film brings humour and clarity to questions of gender, power, and visibility, while foregrounding the systems that structure care, reproduction, and survival. Directed by feminist filmmaker Paromita Vohra and created in collaboration with the Laws of Social Reproduction project, the documentary offers an urgent yet joyful portrait of resistance, resilience, and everyday survival—and invites audiences to rethink not only how we understand labor, but who is recognized as a worker.

Learn more at: https://publictrust.org/working-girls

Image: Asha Workers Strike, film still from Working Girls, directed by Paromita Vohra (2025)

CARGC is excited to co-sponsor the book salon and roundtable on the new edited volume, "Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power" (Duke UP; edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews), moderated by Dr. Rahul Mukherjee.

This event is happening tomorrow (February 19) from 3-4:30 pm via Zoom. Register to attend via https://mec.sas.upenn.edu/events/2026/02/19/decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power .

Join us on Monday, March 2, 5:30pm-8:30pm at Public Trust for a film screening of "Working Girls", followed by a conversation with director Paromita Vohra and Dr. Bakirathi Mani.

For more details, please visit https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/working-girls-film-screening-and-qa-director-paromita-vohra .