UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland | Director: Professor Liam Kennedy
Sponsored by UCD Clinton Institute, UCD Film Studies and teh IADT Centre for Public Culture, this new seminar series showcases new and developiong scholarship on up-to-the minute topics in contemporary public culture.
This series will feature speakers from the US, Ireland, the UK and elsewhere reflecting on new developments in media and visual culture, the politics of labour and the cultures of recession.
September 29th, 5pm
Seminar Room, UCD Clinton Institute
Prof. Laurie Ouellette, University of Minnesota
It's Not TV, It's Birth Control: Reality Television and the 'Problem' of Teenage Pregnancy
October 27th, 5pm
IADT Dun Laoghaire, Atrium A019
Prof. Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
When Homeland Terror Passes for Bureaucratic Security: The Wire Meets The Office
November 15th, 6pm
J208, John Henry Newman Building, UCD School of English, Drama and Film
Dr. Sinéad Moynihan, University of Exeter
The Lost Apostrophe: Irish-American Identity and the Search for Roots, 1960s to Present
For more information contact Professor Diane Negra: (01) 7168493, or diane.negra@ucd.ie