Calls for Submission

The Black Doctoral Network Conference Committee is inviting abstract submissions for the 2016 conference themed “Changing Research for a Changing World.” It will take place on October 27-29 in Atlanta, GA. This year’s meeting aims to address how recent social, political, and economic shifts have influenced scholarship. Some of the questions we pose for the […]

Panelists are sought for a proposed paper session for the National Communication Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia on November 10-13, 2016. Popular television plays a key role in shaping social norms and interpreting movements for political change. Traditionally, depictions of gender and sexuality have been constrained by network conventions and advertiser interests. However, the recent

We are now into the second century in which aerial warfare is commonplace in a range of forms, and the second decade in which drone warfare is routinized. As paradigm, strategy, and tactic, violence-at-a-distance has become a predominant model of military engagement.  Even a partial list of its manifestations reveals its reach and diversification: the

The American Studies Program and the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis University are pleased to announce a conference scheduled for October 27-28, 2016, to evaluate the legacy of comedian Lenny Bruce. His corrosive and transgressive satire as well as his boldness in pushing the envelope of the laws of