The Center for Global Culture and Communication

(CGCC) is an interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern

University School of Communication. It is an event-

centered scholarly space for exploring ideas and issues

within a transnational comparative frame. It connects

scholars and cultural practitioners across departments

and schools within Northwestern and beyond.

Sponsored and Funded by Office of the Dean,

Barbara O’Keefe (2002)

DIreCtOr

Dilip Gaonkar, rhetoric and Public Culture

GraDUate StUDeNt aSSOCIateS

Ian Blechschmidt, J. Dakota Brown, Daniel Elam,

Gabriela Garcia, Angela Leone, Liam Mayes,

Rob Mills, LaCharles Ward

CGCCEvents2014–2015

JUNe 5, 2015

Twilight Aesthetics II: Cinema and the Ends and the Passings of the Worlds

CONveNer: Dilip Gaonkar (rhetoric and Public

Culture, Northwestern University)

SPeakerS

Ackbar Abbas (Comparative Literature, University

of California, Irvine); Nora Alter (Film and Media

arts, temple University); Greg Flaxman (english and

Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina);

Keya Ganguly (Cultural Studies and Comparative

Literature, University of Minnesota); Tom Gunning

(Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago);

Sarah Keller (art and Cinema Studies, University

of Massachusetts, Boston); Alessia Ricciardi (French

and Italian, Northwestern University)

Attendance: 20–30

May 27–28, 2015

Global Media and the Public Sphere: Perils, Possibilities, and Paradoxes

CONveNerS: Dilip Gaonkar (rhetoric and Public

Culture, Northwestern University) and Nick Couldry

(Media and Communications, lse)

CO-SPONSOr: London School of economics (lse)

SPeakerS

Pablo J. Boczkowski (Media, technology and Society,

Northwestern University); Joshua Takano Chambers-

Letson (Performance Studies, Northwestern University);

Lilie Chouliaraki (Media and Communications, lse);

Nick Couldry (Media and Communications, lse);

Robert Hariman (rhetoric and Public Culture,

Northwestern University); Shani Orgard (Media

and Communications, lse); Janice Radway (rhetoric

and Public Culture, Northwestern University);

Wendy Willems (Media and Communications, lse)

Attendance: May 27, 25–35; May 28, 20–30

Conferences

NOveMBer 1, 2015

Symposium on Visual RhetoricSecuring the Image: Surveillance, Verification, and Global Violence

CONveNer: Robert Hariman (rhetoric and Public

Culture, Northwestern University)

SPeakerS

Rachel Hall (Communication Studies, Louisiana State

University) and John Lucaites (Communication and

Culture, Indiana University)

Attendance: 15–20

DeCeMBer 4–5, 2014

Second Annual Workshop on Globalizing Race StudiesRace and the New Orders of Theory

CONveNerS: Sherwin Bryant (History, Northwestern

University) and Dilip Gaonkar (rhetoric and Public

Culture, Northwestern University)

JOINt SPONSOr: the Wits Institute for Social

and economic research (wiser), Johannesburg,

South africa

CO-SPONSOr: Program in african Studies (pas)

FaCULty SPeakerS aND DISCUSSaNtS

Sherwin Bryant (History, Northwestern University);

Dilip Gaonkar (rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern

University); David Theo Goldberg (Director, Humanities

research Institute, University of California, Irvine);

Barnor Hesse (african-american Studies, Northwestern

University); Achille Mbembe (Senior Scholar, wiser);

Charles W. Mills (Philosophy, Northwestern University);

Sarah Nuttall (Director, wiser)

GraDUate StUDeNt SPeakerS

aND DISCUSSaNtS

J. Dakota Brown (rhetoric and Pubic Culture,

Northwestern University); Jean-Pierre Brutus

(african-american Studies, Northwestern University);

Cecilio Cooper (african-american Studies,

Northwestern University); Bernard Attah Forjwuor

(History, Northwestern University); Delali Kumavie

(english, Northwestern University); David Molina

(rhetoric and Pubic Culture, Northwestern University);

Jared Rodriguez (african-american Studies,

Northwestern University)

PuBLIC LECTuRES

DeCeMBer 4, 2014

“Are We All Postracial Yet?”

David theo Goldberg

DeCeMBer 5, 2014

“The Idea of Non-Racialism”

achille Mbembe

Attendance: Dec. 4, 45–55; Dec. 5, 65–70

Workshops and Symposia

FeBrUary 27, 2015

Critical Theory in Critical Times Annual WorkshopCritical Theory of Legal Revolutions: A Discussion with Hauke Brunkhorst

CONveNer: Cristina Lafont (Philosophy,

Northwestern University)

JOINt SPONSOr: Critical theory Cluster

CO-SPONSOrS: alice kaplan Institute for the

Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Department

of German, and rhetoric and Public Culture Program

SPeakerS aND DISCUSSaNtS

Mark Alznauer (Philosophy. Northwestern University);

Hauke Brunkhorst (Sociology, University of Flensburg,

Germany); Michael Geyer (History, University of Chicago);

Joshua Kleinfield (Law, Northwestern University);

Regina Kreide (Political Science, University of Giessen,

Germany); William Scheuerman (Political Science,

Indiana University)

Attendance: 40–50

MarCH 3–5, 2015

Shipwrecks & Spectators: A Workshop on Hans Blumenberg’s Metaphorology

CONveNerS: Peter Marx (theatre, University

of Cologne) and William West (english and Classics,

Northwestern University)

JOINt SPONSOr: University of Cologne

CO-SPONSOrS: Weinberg College of arts & Sciences,

alice kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Department of

Classics, Department of english, Department of German

and the Program in Comparative Literary Studies

FaCULty SPeakerS aND DISCUSSaNtS

Tracy Davis (theatre & Drama and english, North-

western University); Dilip Gaonkar (rhetoric and Public

Culture, Northwestern University); Robert Hariman

(rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University);

Marianne Hopman (Classics, Northwestern University);

Anselm Haverkamp (english, emeritus, New york

University); Anja Lemke (Philosophy, University of

Cologne); Peter Marx (theatre, University of Cologne);

Peter Scheinflug (theatre and Media Culture, University

of Cologne); William West (Classics and english,

Northwestern University)

GraDUate StUDeNt SPeakerS aND

DISCUSSaNtS, UNIverSIty OF COLOGNe

Sascha Förster, Felix Gregor, Julia Martel,

Sabine Päsier, Sebastian Schinkleider, Teresa Taubert,

Christina Vollmert, Alex Weinstock, Elena Weber

Attendance: 25

PuBLIC LECTuRE

MarCH 4, 2015

“Nothing Fails Like Success, Poetics and Hermeneutics:

A Postwar Initiative by Hans Blumenberg”

anselm Haverkamp

Attendance: 35

Lectures

May 5, 2015

Climate Change, Capitalism, and History: A Conversation

SPeakerS aND DISCUSSaNtS

Dipesh Chakrabarty (History, University of Chicago)

and Michael Warner (english, yale University)

MODeratOr: Dilip Gaonkar (rhetoric

and Public Culture, Northwestern University)

Attendance: 50–60

NOveMBer 7, 2014

“The Mana of Mass Society”

William Mazzarella (anthropology,

University of Chicago)

JaNUary 30, 2015

“Melodrama after Sentiment:

Adventures in Media Crossing”

James Chandler (english, University of Chicago)

aPrIL 13, 2015

“Manipulation, Scraping, and Verification:

Securing the Integrity of Images”

David Campbell (Independent Scholar)

May 1, 2015

“Debt and Deferral:

Considerations on the Katechon”

Peter Szendy (Philosophy and Musicology,

University of Paris, Ouest Nanterre)

Average attendance: 20–35

JULy 13–17, 2015

Summer Institute in Performance StudiesMarxism, Performance, and the Body

CONveNer: Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson

(Performance Studies, Northwestern University)

GraDUate StUDeNt COOrDINatOr:

Andreea S. Mico (Performance Studies,

Northwestern University)

vISItING aND PartICIPatING SCHOLarS

Lauren Berlant (english, University of Chicago);

Jennifer Doyle (english, University of California,

riverside); Andrew Leong (english, Northwestern

University); D. Soyini Madison, (Performance Studies,

Northwestern University); Tavia Nyong’o (Performance

Studies, New york University)

vISItING aND PartICIPatING StUDeNtS

Kelly Chung (Performance Studies, Northwestern

University); Misty De Berry (Performance Studies,

Northwestern University); Eddie Gamboa (Performance

Studies, Northwestern University); Paige Johnson

(theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC

Berkeley); Stefanie Jones (theater, CUNy Grad Center);

Leong Ran Kim (theater arts and Performance

Studies, Brown University); Scott Leydon (Performance

Studies, Northwestern University); Joshua Lubin-Lev

(Performance Studies, New york University);

Jonathan Magat (Performance Studies, Northwestern

University); Andreea S. Micu (Performance Studies,

Northwestern University); Lakshmi Padmanabhan

(Modern Culture and Media, Brown University);

Tyrone S. Palmer (african-american Studies, North-

western University); Ethan Philbrick (Performance

Studies, New york University); Shoniqua Roach

(Performance Studies, Northwestern University);

Ray San Diego (Culture and theory, UC Irvine);

Ashlie Sandoval (Performance Studies, Northwestern

University); Karin Shankar (theatre, Dance, and

Performance Studies, UC Berkeley); Leila Tayeb

(Performance Studies, Northwestern University);

Jean-Thomas Tremblay (english Language and Literature,

University of Chicago); Tanushree Vachharajani (english,

Northwestern University); Michelle Velasquez-Potts

(rhetoric, UC Berkeley)

Average attendance: 35–40

Summer Institutes

JULy 20–25, 2015

Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public CulturePolitics, Mediation, and the Affective Turn

CONveNerS: Dilip Gaonkar (rhetoric and Public

Culture, Northwestern University) and Robert Hariman

(rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University)

GraDUate StUDeNt COOrDINatOr: Rob Mills

(rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University)

vISItING SCHOLarS

Lars Tonder (Political Science, University of

Copenhagen); Jonathan Flatley (english, Wayne

State University); Samuel Fleischacker (Philosophy,

University of Illinois, Chicago); John Brenkman (english,

Graduate Center at City University of New york);

Jessica Greenberg (anthropology, University of Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign)

vISItING aND PartICIPatING StUDeNtS

Joshua Barnett (Communication, University of Utah);

Beatrice Choi (rhetoric and Public Culture, North-

western University); Jake Dionne (Communication and

rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University); Amy Fallah

(Communication, University of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill); Gabby Garcia (rhetoric and Public Culture,

Northwestern University); Joe Hatfield (Communication

and rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University); Jon Carter

(Communication Studies, University of Nebraska);

Tyler Hiebert (Communication and Journalism, University

of Southern California); Kate Hoyt (Communication

Studies, University of Denver); Liam Mayes (rhetoric

and Public Culture, Northwestern University);

Dave Molina (rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern

University); Rob Mills (rhetoric and Public Culture,

Northwestern University); Lital Pascar (rhetoric and

Public Culture, Northwestern University); Michelle Shaw

(rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University);

Misti Yang (Communication Studies, University of

Nevada, Las vegas)

Average attendance: 25–30

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the center for global culture and communication presents

Manipulation, Scraping, and Verification: Securing the Integrity of ImagesDavid Campbell is a writer, professor, and producer who analyses visual storytelling and creates new visual stories. He is the author/editor of six books and more than 60 articles, and has produced visual projects on the Bosnian War, imaging famine, and the visual economy of HIV-AIDS. As a research consultant to World Press Photo he directed their 2012–13 Multimedia Research Project and a 2014 project on “The Integrity of the Image.” He was also Secretary to the World Press Photo Contest in 2014 and 2015.  David produces multimedia and video projects, and all his work can be seen at www.david-campbell.org.

The symposium is sponsored by the Center for Global Culture and Communication and the Department of Communication Studies / Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture. For additional information contact either Robert Hariman (r-hariman2@northwestern.edu) or administrative assistant Dakota Brown (jdakotabrown@u.northwestern.edu).

The Center for Global Culture and Communicationpresents a lecture by David Campbell

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