[International] The importance of linking the study of race and ethnicity in media to global change

[Jenna Graff <graff@uwosh.edu>]

Dear International Listserv Members:

The following speaker will focus on the importance of linking the study
of race and ethnicity in media to global change.

Speaker Series on Minorities and Women in Journalism
To celebrate liberal arts, the Journalism Department, African-American Studies, and UWO Women's Center co-sponsor the Speaker Series on Minorities and Women in Journalism.  The speaker of fall 2006 is Dr. K. E. Supriya presenting, "Changing the Channel: Globalizing Diversity in Media Studies."

In her speech, Dr. Supriya will argue for the importance of linking of the study of race and ethnicity in media to global change.  The reasons for doing so are two-fold.  Globalization shows the importance of the concepts of ethnicity and nationality and moving in this direction as researchers, students, and professionals refreshes race-based study of media. Also globalizing diversity in media studies provides analytical tools and approaches to research media-driven processes of hybridity and confluence.  These reasons will be developed using examples from South Asian and Asian American identity and the spread of hip hop.
The speech is open to the public, which will be held on Oct. 12, Thursday, 9:40-11:10 a.m. in Ballroom A, Reeve Union.
        
Dr. Supriya is an associate professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She teaches and researches in the areas of global media and cultural identity. She is author of Remembering Empire: Power, Memory, and Place in Postcolonial India (2004) and an essay "Bending it Like Beckham: Sex, Soccer, and Traveling Indians" (forthcoming, 2006).
For more information, contact James Tsao, Chair of Journalism Department at Tsao@uwosh.edu.


James Tsao, Ph.D.
Chairman and JLID Fellow
Department of Journalism
800 Algoma Blvd.
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI  54901-8696
TEL: 920-424-0352
Fax: 920-424-7146
Email: Tsao@uwosh.edu
http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/journalism/

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