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Katina Rogers (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/krogers/) started the
topic Nov 14: Media Blackness
(http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/futures-initiative/forum/topic/nov-14-media-blackness/)
in the forum Futures Initiative
(http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/futures-initiative/forum/)
Join the Futures Initiative on Monday, November 14 from 12-1 for “Media
Blackness,” an engaged conversation about the rendering of blackness in,
across, and through multiple forms of media. The discussion will include
multiple perspectives on the intersections of blackness and aesthetics in
film, television, digital media, and beyond. Panelists include Cathy N.
Davidson(CUNY Graduate Center), Shelly Eversley (Baruch College), Racquel
Gates (College of Staten Island) and Michael Gillespie (City College).
*Space is limited, so RSVP now
[https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=28918202121
(https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=28918202121)] !*
For those joining us in person, a reception and signing of Michael
Gillespie’s new book Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black
Film (Duke University Press) will follow.
We invite you to also join a Twitter chat on “Media Blackness” on November
14 from 11 to 12 p.m. at the hashtag #fight4edu.
11:00 – 12:00 Twitter chat
12:00 – 1:00 In person and livestream event
1:00 – 2:00 Reception & book signing
This panel is the third in this year’s series The University Worth Fighting
For. This series ties student-centered pedagogical practices to
institutional change, race, equality, gender, and social justice. RSVP here
to join us in person.
This event is co-sponsored by the GC English Department, the American
Studies Certificate Program, the Film Studies Certificate Program, the
Center for the Humanities, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
*Panelist Bios*
*Cathy Davidson* (FI Founding Director and Distinguished Professor at the
CUNY Graduate Center) is a scholar of the history of technology and a
leading innovator of new ideas and methods for learning and professional
development–in school, in the workplace, and in everyday life. Davidson has
published more than twenty books including Revolution and the Word: The
Rise of the Novel in America; The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions
in a Digital Age, with David Theo Goldberg; and, most recently, Now You See
It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live,
Work, and Learn. She was appointed by President Obama to the National
Council on the Humanities, is the first educator to join the Board of
Directors of Mozilla, and is the 2016 recipient of the Ernest J. Boyer
Award for “Significant Contributions to Higher Education.”
*Shelly Eversley* (Professor of English, Baruch College) teaches American,
feminist, and black studies. She is Academic Director of The City
University of New York’s Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, and is the
founder of equalityarchive.com. She is the author of The “Real” Negro: The
Question of Authenticity in Twentieth Century African American
Literature(Routledge), as well as of several essays. She is editor of The
Modern Library’s The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano or, Gustavus
Vassa, The African and editor of The Sexual Bodyand The 1970s, both special
issues of WSQ, She is editing the forthcoming book on 1960s African
American literature and culture in transition for Cambridge, and she is
writing a new book titled The Practice of Blackness, or Integration’s
Discontents.
*Racquel Gates* (Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, College
of Staten Island) specializes in the representation of blackness in popular
culture. Some of her work has appeared in the journals Television & New
Media, Film Quarterly, and the anthologies Watching While Black: Centering
the Television of Black Audiences and Saturday Night Live and American TV.
She is currently completing a book, Double Negative: The Black Image and
Popular Culture, which is under contract with Duke University Press.
*Michael Gillespie* (Associate Professor of Film, City College) is a film
theorist and historian with an interest in black visual and expressive
culture, film theory, genre, visual historiography, global cinema,
adaptation theory, popular music studies, and contemporary art. His new
book, Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (Duke
University Press, 2016) frames black film alongside literature, music, art,
photography, and new media, treating it as an interdisciplinary form that
enacts black visual and expressive culture.
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