{"id":9390,"date":"2024-01-29T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.4.100.129\/academics\/ms\/?page_id=9390"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:20:10","slug":"colloquium_spring24","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/colloquium_spring24\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters Colloquium Series Spring 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.23.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/08\/Media_Studies_homepage_MA_Program.jpg&#8221; parallax=&#8221;on&#8221; background_blend=&#8221;screen&#8221; text_text_shadow_style=&#8221;preset2&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><b>Queens College Media Studies<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><b>Colloquium Series Spring 2024<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Join us for an exciting exploration of cutting-edge media research and scholarship at the Queens College Media Studies Masters Colloquium! Our Graduate Media Studies program is proud to host regular colloquia, providing a platform for engaging conversations with both esteemed colleagues and practitioners from outside the university.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly Event Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a05:00 PM &#8211; 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0G-Building, Room 200, Queens College<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtual Attendance:<\/strong>\u00a0Zoom Link &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/6a395143-d6d1-4ac6-9b5f-0fe62dc46bd7?j=eyJ1IjoiaDNwdSJ9.ese8_uNc-F28K6UwrkR9sm4iMkv1H7QxY_OO-hUUI6I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/6a395143-d6d1-4ac6-9b5f-0fe62dc46bd7?j%3DeyJ1IjoiaDNwdSJ9.ese8_uNc-F28K6UwrkR9sm4iMkv1H7QxY_OO-hUUI6I&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1706647329720000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0_mHgCpU1Dh6qBREyijrE5\">http:\/\/mediasquat.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>This semester&#8217;s guests:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Esteban Kelly<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0March 6<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9397 size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 215px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 215\/215;float: left;padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Esteban.jpeg\" alt=\"Esteban Kelly\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Esteban.jpeg 215w, https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Esteban-150x150.jpeg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>Esteban Kelly is the Executive Director of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and has offered visionary leadership and creative strategy in economic democracy and co-op movements for over twenty years. He is a co-founder and worker-owner of AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource &amp; Training Alliance), a worker co-op that builds capacity for social justice movements and projects through intersectional training, consulting and facilitation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Reverend Billy and Savitri D<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0March 20<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9399 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 197px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 197\/200;float: left;padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/RevBilly-296x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Reverend Billy\" width=\"197\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/RevBilly-296x300.jpeg 296w, https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/RevBilly.jpeg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>Founders of the Church of Stop Shopping and the Stop Shopping Choir, Reverend Billy and Savitri D oppose the mono-culture in the broadest terms: consumerism, militarism and capitalism\u2019s attack on nature. They focus their energy on hyper local issues and global ones, confronting and contending with racism and economic inequality within thier own community and organizing with the understanding that both are at the heart of nearly every issue. They work for the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revbilly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/b4472104-9d97-4ca5-9335-dbee04ada1d7?j%3DeyJ1IjoiaDNwdSJ9.ese8_uNc-F28K6UwrkR9sm4iMkv1H7QxY_OO-hUUI6I&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1706647329720000&amp;usg=AOvVaw27gywIpmEQ2nB2AhJLuksi\">https:\/\/revbilly.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Emily Drabinski<\/strong> \u00a0 March 27<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9396 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 203px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 203\/247;float: left;padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Emily-245x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Emily Drabinski\" width=\"203\" height=\"247\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>Emily Drabinski is Associate Professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She edits Gender &amp; Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press\/Litwin Books. Drabinski serves as the 2023-24 President of the American library Association.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Mark Hurst<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 April 3<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9398 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 215px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 215\/215;float: left;padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Mark-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Mark Hurst\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Mark-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Mark-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Mark.jpeg 377w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>Mark Hurst is an entrepreneur and writer concerned with the idea of \u201cgood experience\u201d\u2014in particular, what enables or detracts from meaningful experiences of creativity, technology, community, and life. Mark Hurst is the founder of Creative Good, the New York-based consultancy and creative platform that he founded in 1997. He has spent his career writing, speaking, and advising teams about how to create better products and services. He has created a number of his own projects, too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Allison Elliot<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 April 10<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9394 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 247px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 247\/167;float: left;padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Allison-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Allison Elliot\" width=\"247\" height=\"167\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>Allison Elliott is the Archival and Special Projects Coordinator at The Feminist Institute, where she has worked on queer history, community archives, and zines. She is currently overseeing the Memory Lab, a pop-up archival project where participants can digitize analog materials for the TFI Digital Archive. Elliott earned her MA in Media Studies + Social Justice from CUNY Queens College in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Edisa Weeks<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 April 17<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9395 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 212px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 212\/309;float: left;padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2024\/01\/Edisa.jpeg\" alt=\"Edisa Weeks\" width=\"212\" height=\"309\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>Edisa Weeks is a choreographer, educator and director of DELIRIOUS Dances. Weeks creates intimate environments that merge theater with dance. Described by the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0as having \u201ca gift for simple but striking visual effects,\u201d her work has been performed in a variety of venues including Aaron Davis Hall, Dixon Place, Guggenheim Museum, Harlem Stage, Jacob&#8217;s Pillow, The Kennedy Center, The National Black Arts Festival, Summerstages Dance Festival, and The Yard. She has also performed in swimming pools, senior centers, sidewalks, storefront windows and various living rooms, including living rooms in Berlin, Germany, as part of Haus der Kulturen der Welts 50th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &nbsp; Queens College Media Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2024 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Join us for an exciting exploration of cutting-edge media research and scholarship at the Queens College Media Studies Masters Colloquium! 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