Elihu Katz Colloquium: Angharad N. Valdivia, University of Illinois
- Hybrid Event: Annenberg Room 500 and on Zoom
"Transnational Gender Through Mediated Neoliberalism: Three Nodes of Possibilities"
About the Talk
This presentation tracks the limits of neoliberal approaches to development, social justice, and intersectional gender equity. Foregrounding the production and circulation of Chile’s LasTesis’ “Un violador en tu camino;” the celebrity fueled “girls hold up half the sky” so-called movement; and the latest iteration of “spitfire” production in the US, this presentation explores contemporary attempts to mediatize gender in relation to oppression, activism, agency, and resistance.
About the Speaker
Angharad N. Valdivia is a Research Professor, former Head of Media and Cinema Studies, and former Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. Professor Valdivia’s gender and media studies research always straddles political economy and cultural studies, further enhanced by an intersectional and transnational approach. Her books include A Latina in the Land of Hollywood; Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media; A Companion to Media Studies; Latina/o Communication Studies Today; Mapping Latina/o Studies; Latina/os and the Media; and The Gender of Latinidad: Uses and Abuses of Hybridity. She served as editor of Communication Theory (2009-2011) and the International Encyclopedia of Media Studies. She is currently preparing for her Fall 2022 Guest Museum Curatorship with Spurlock Museum where she will curate a multi-media quinceañera project. She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association. She is co-editing a book entitled Rebooting inequality: A reader on critical media studies approaches to film & TV (NYU Press) with Isabel Molina-Guzmán.
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