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Faculty invited to present works in progress
A Works in Progress series that invites faculty members to present their works in progress for an audience of colleagues and others from around campus was launched last fall and will continue this spring.
Sam Binkley, assistant professor of organizational and political communication, began the series in the fall with a presentation from a visiting scholar, Stuart Ewen, of Hunter College in New York. Ewen is the author of All Consuming Images: On the Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture and Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture, among other works.
Emerson Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts Eric Gordon followed in November with a presentation called “Becoming Data: Mapping, Navigation and Loss in the Networked Culture.” Most recently, Binkley presented a chapter from his forthcoming book, Consuming Aquarius.
“This series is good for workshopping ideas, books,” says Binkley. The series will also prove enlightening for students, he adds, who might not realize that faculty “have separate intellectual endeavors” beyond the classroom.
On Feb. 16, scholar-in-residence Erica Williams will discuss “Why the Music ‘Put [Him] All A-Tune’: Wagner’s Lohengrin and the Politics of Cultural Segregation in Du Bois’s ‘Of the Coming of John’” beginning at 6 p.m., 4th floor Conference Room, Walker Building. To participate in future events, contact Samuel_Binkley@emerson.edu. Sponsors of the series are the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs.
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