Past Events
Sana Haroon
Women and the Taliban Movement in Contemporary Pakistan
Bartley 1001
Wednesday, April 13 4:30 p.m.
(cosp. CAIS, WGS)
Anna Deavere Smith (cos. Africana Studies) Monday, March 14, 7 pm Villanova Room (cosp. with Africana studies and Women and Gender Studies)
Karl Smith, Regional Editor, Eastern PA
Community cultural and online news writing.
Wednesday, March 16th
Falvey Library Lounge 6p.m.
Brought to you by:
The Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric & The Cultural Studies Program
Steve Brouwer; Revolutionary Doctors How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the world's conception of Health Care
Pedro Lastra Poet, Literary critic and José María Arguedas close friend Cartas de José María Arguedas a Pedro Lastra Ed. Edgar O'Hara
Celebrating the Centenary of José María Arguedas
José María Arguedas 1911-1969
October 28-29, 2011
Villanova Connelly Center
"New Visions of Velazquez" Miguel Hermoso Cuesta February 2, 2012 SAC 300 4:00-6:00 PM
Susan Rose, Charles A. Dana professor of Sociology, Dickinson College
"Gender Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: The Global Clothesline" Monday, February 6th 6 p.m.
Driscoll Hall, Room 240
Co-Sponsored by: Writing & Rhetoric & The Center for Peace & Justice Education.
Reception for CST majors
Mach 29 at 4:30 pm Connelly Center, in front of the Cinema
“Community Culture and Online News Sites” Samantha Strike, Editor, Radnor Patch, http://radnor.patch.com/ Wednesday, March 16 at 6 pm Falvey Lounge (Cosp. with CWR)
“Terrorists Under the Bed: America and the New Bogeymen” Thursday, March 17, at 6 pm Falvey Library Café (Co-sponsored with CAIS)
NO NEWS from HARARE, film by WENDY DENT
The DIRECTOR presents her SHORT FILM, DISCUSSES MEDIA BAN in ZIMBABWE
February 22, 2011 at 4:30 pm. Connelly Ctr, Bryn Mawr Room
Demanding Democracy in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Jordan; Who's next?
Roundtable discussion with Nour Kanawati, Maghan Keita, Marwan Kreidie, Hafeez Malik, Silvia NagyZekmi, Barbara Romaine, Catherine Warrick, and Karolina Wolnicki
Thurs. Feb. 10th at 4:00 pm in the Cinema, Connelly Center co-sponsored by the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies
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Pulizter prize winning investigative reporters, Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News,
discussed their award winning crime fighting series, "Tainted Justice," which describes the connections they uncovered between druglords and narcotics officers in a West Kensington neighborhood.
October 25, 2010 at 6 pm SAC 300
Co-sponsored by the Concentration in Writing Program
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A Conference on Cultural Studies was organized in 2008 as part of an Honors course, Introduction to Cultural Studies taught by Professor Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. The keynote speaker was Professor Marwan Kraidy from the University of Pennsylvania. Students read their papers on topics as diverse as advertisements, political discource manipulation and gender issues.
The following are examples of the presentations:
- Michael Rogers: "Cracking the Culture Code: How Advertisers USe Cultura; INdicators to Create Effective Campaigns"
- Maggie Grace: "One Way Fits All: Love Designed by Disney"
- Emily Novosedlik: " Fundamentalism 101: East-West"
- Ashka Shah: "Disregard for Geography: Spatial Expansion and De/Colonization"
- Stefanie Trotta: "Image: Visual Culture and the Perception of the Female"
