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CMS Colloquium Series
The CMS colloquium
series is intended to provide an intimate and informal exchange
between a visiting speaker and CMS faculty, students, visiting
scholars and friends.
Unless
otherwise noted, colloquia are held on Thursdays, 5-7 p.m.
in Building
2, Room 105.
Spring 2006
| Feb.
9 |
Sex
in Games
with Brenda Brathwaite, Professor of Game Design,
Savannah College of Art & Design, whose book Sex
in Video Games will be published in the fall.
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Tuesday
Feb. 14
6-8 pm
6-120
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Author
and Web Activist Cory Doctorow
CMS presents Cory Doctorow, a writer and web
activist who posts all of his writing to www.craphound.com.
He is the author of Down and Out in the Magical
Kingdom, an activist with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, and co-founder of the website www.boingboing.net.
Co-sponsored with Writing and Humanistic Studies and
OpenCourseWare. |
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| Feb. 23 |
MIT Communications Forum |
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| March
2 |
Children's
Programming at WGBH with Kathleen Shugrue,
senior producer of FETCH, a new reality game show for kids that will premiere on PBS on May 29. |
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Wednesday
March 8 |
MIT Communications Forum |
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| March
16 |
Moving
Image Media Mash-Up with Carl Goodman, director
of digital media for the Museum
of the Moving Image. |
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March
23
5-7 pm
186 Brookline Avenue, Boston |
Road
Trip to 5W!TS with Matt DuPlessie, founder
of 5W!TS, a provider
of immersive, interactive experiences. |
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| April 6 |
MIT Communications Forum |
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Wednesday
April 12
5-7 pm
32-144
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Consuming/
Producing/ Inhabiting South Asian Digital Diasporas
with Radhika Gajjala, associate professor in
the School of Communication Studies at Bowling Green
State University and author of Cyberselves: Feminist
Ethnographies of South Asian Women. Co-sponsored
with the Center for
Bilingual/ Bicultural Studies. |
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| April 20 |
MIT Communications Forum |
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April
27
5-7 pm
Bartos
Theater |
Notions
of Loyalty within Brand and Fan Cultures with
Convergence
Culture Consortium faculty advisors Ian Condry, assistant
professor of Japanese cultural studies at MIT; and Robert
Kozinets, associate professor of marketing at the Schulich
School of Business, York University, Toronto. |
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May
4
5-7 pm
2-105
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May
Irwin's Kiss: The Beginnings of Cinema and the Transformation
of American Culture with Charles Musser, co-chair
of the Film Studies Program and professor of American
Studies, Film Studies and Theater Studies at Yale. |
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