[ecrea] The USC Annenberg Summer Institute on Diversity in Media and Culture, June 16-20, 2014

The USC Annenberg Summer Institute on Diversity in Media and Culture
June 16-20, 2014
US Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
University of Southern California

We welcome applicants for the inaugural USC Annenberg Summer Institute 
on Diversity in
Media and Culture, June 16-20, 2014. The Institute will bring together 
exemplary
doctoral students and faculty members from across the disciplines of 
Communication and Media
Studies and around the nation to discuss issues of race, gender and 
difference in media, within
the shifting conditions of technology, production, circulation and 
consumption as well as the
shifting discourse of difference in the areas of politics, culture and 
globalization. Approximately
20 doctoral students will be chosen to participate based on submitted 
papers and
recommendations from their advisors.

The Institute will be divided into workshop sessions that feature 
current work from Institute
faculty (listed below) and research seminars in which all participants 
present and discuss their
own work-in-progress. Speakers in the workshop sessions will examine 
race, gender, and
difference in the media from a variety of interdisciplinary and 
methodological perspectives. The
Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of 
disciplinary and interdisciplinary
fields and who are interested in current critical debates in 
Communication and Media Studies.
Applications, including a statement of background and interests and a 
paper that fits within the
Institute?s broad topical range, should be sent to: USC Annenberg Summer 
Institute, School of
Communication, USC Annenberg School, 3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 
90089. Applicants
should have their faculty advisor send a supporting recommendation to 
the same address.
Applications and recommendations can also be submitted via email to: 
(commdir /at/ usc.edu).
The Institute will cover participants? travel to Los Angeles and housing 
in USC dormitory space.
Deadline for Applications: February 1, 2014 / Notification of 
Participants: April 1, 2014


S. Craig Watkins
The University of Texas at Austin

http://theyoungandthedigital.com/


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