Vienna shows Minnesota love and solidarity.
Vienna – Week 14 photo dump
Spring has arrived in Vienna in earnest — bordering on summer! — so I’ve broken out the sandals and the shorts. Meanwhile, my weather app tells me that Minneapolis is below freezing right now. Wien for the win! Again!
Time flies
The Diplomatische Akademie Wien runs on a trimester system, which is a teaching rhythm that doesn’t quite match any other I’ve ever experienced. Back in Minneapolis, UMN is on spring[sic] break this week, and the semester is roughly at its halfway point. Here, though, my “Digital Culture and Technology” seminar meets for the last time […]
No Reason
Earlier this week, I did a thing. It was streamed online and also archived on YouTube. You can also find it embedded below.
Vienna – Week 4 photo dump
Another week, another batch of semi-random photos from Vienna … but Minneapolis is very much on my mind right now.
Representing Stuart Hall
Back into the archives this week, this time for a guest lecture I did for a large undergraduate class here at the University of Minnesota in 2012. At least that’s what my notes tell me. I was asked to come in and say some useful words about Stuart Hall and his importance to media studies […]
Oakland 2006
One of the recurring quirks of (and gripes about) academic conferences has to do with scheduling. To be sure, conference organizers have it rough in this regard, since they’re pretty much guaranteed to make someone unhappy with whatever they do. No one, after all, wants to be on the first morning panel on the final […]
Found in Translation
Last week, I said I’d share the other thing I did at the shoulda-been-2020-but-there-was-a-pandemic-so-it-was-2022-instead “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” conference. And so here it is. The “Giulia” who gets mentioned is my co-panelist, Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer, who only lacks a full name in my talk because she had spoken immediately before me, and the live audience presumably […]
Minneapolis 2020
Everyone has a crazy pandemic story (or three). Mine found me traveling to Heidelberg for a 12-day working vacation (part spring break, part set-up for a course I was hoping to co-teach in Heidelberg that summer) in March 2020, and then getting “stuck” there for 9 months. The same travel restrictions that kept me from […]
Reminds Me of Somethin’
So I did a thing tonight as part of this thing. And though I know no one came to see me, when the real stars of the show were Shelby J and Dr. Fink, several people said kind words to me after about my talk. So I figured I’d share it here, with a few […]