Symposium
Sponsored by the Global Communication Program and the Peggy & Marc Spiegel Center for Global and International Studies at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, this symposium addresses the relationship of Media to the Global Diaspora. The symposium focuses primarily on the migrations of the past 100 years and how the “living traditions” transmitted by these communities are continually subject to loss, gain and interpretation. Media developed during this same period play a role, both direct and indirect, in this process as these traditions become transplanted into their “new home.” The symposium has the following objectives:
- To encourage academic discourse focused on transnational migratory populations and the role new media plays in transmitting and sustaining their living traditions.
- To create a forum for researchers in the liberal arts and other disciplines studying the nature, significance and consequence of global migration.
- To provide a concert performance of traditional music and dance illustrating the vitality of these living traditions.
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30AugWhat is to be gained and/or lost when Technology and the Humanities intersect in the production of art? As an invited speaker at the New Media and Global Diaspora Symposium, Catherine Crowe addressed this question on the Roger Williams University campus in October 2008. Crowe, an enamellist and musician, cautions us against prescriptive technologies that are often privileged over human judgment and creativity. Continue reading
Tags: Catherine Crowe, creativity, New Media and Global Diaspora Symposium, Technology and the Humanities
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26MayYuni Jeongyun Ko discusses the implications of the phenomenon known as the Korean Wave—the spread of Korean popular cultures around the East and Southeast region. Particularly, she considers the role of the Korean Wave in forging conversations across and beyond national boundaries among Asian nations that share complicated (neo)colonial and postcolonial histories. Ko’s paper was originally presented at the New Media and Global Diaspora Symposium at Roger Williams University in 2008. Continue reading
Tags: Korean popular cultures, New Media and Global Diaspora Symposium, the Korean Wave, Yuni Jeongyun Ko
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26MayEmploying Judith Butler’s theory of perfomativity, Mignonette Chiu analyzes the complex linkages between the expansion of Chinese language media, beauty pageants, gender as symbolic capital in the project of nation-building, and the potential refiguring of a global Chinese “nation.” Chiu’s paper was originally presented at the New Media and Global Diaspora Symposium at Roger Williams University in 2008. Continue reading
Tags: beauty pageants, Chinese language media, gender, Mignonette Chiu, nation-building, New Media and Global Diaspora Symposium, performativity
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07FebThe concept of the public sphere has been frequently examined by different authors and in a variety of diverse contexts. The notions of democracy, public participation and functional public opinion are all materialized within such a unique conception. Nael Jebril questions the possibility of creating a public sphere among the Palestinian communities abroad and analyzes some of the communication aspects between those communities and their homeland with particular attention to the role of new media to the public sphere. His research was originally presented at the “New Media and Global Diaspora Symposium” hosted by Roger Williams University in October 2008. Continue reading
Tags: civil society, Habermas, Nael Jebril, New Media & the Global Diaspora, Palestinian diaspora, the Frankfurt School, the public sphere
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