{"381661":{"#nid":"381661","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Latin\/o American Media Studies Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and Georgia State University will host the first Latino American Media Studies Symposium. The event is sponsored by The School of Modern Languages and The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and the School of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University.The event will be held at both campuses and the program is as follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMARCH 26, 2015 1-5 PM, TROY MOORE LIBRARY,\u0026nbsp;GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003EParticipants: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECristina Venegas\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; author of \u003Cem\u003EDigital Dilemmas: The State, The Individual and Digital Media in Cuba (\u003C\/em\u003ERutgers UP, 2010).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAngharad Valdivia\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author of \u003Cem\u003ELatina\/os and the Media\u003C\/em\u003E (Polity Press, 2009).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMorgan Ames\u003C\/strong\u003E, postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Irvine; author of \u201cTranslating Magic: The Charisma of OLPC\u0027s XO Laptop in Paraguay,\u201d in \u003Cem\u003EBeyond Imported Magic: Science and Technology Studies in Latin America\u003C\/em\u003E (MIT Press, 2014).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOrlando Luis Pardo Lazo\u003C\/strong\u003E, cyber-activist and visiting fellow of the International Writers Project at Brown University; webmaster of the photoblog Boring Home Utopics and the opinion blog \u0022Lunes de post-Revoluci\u00f3n,\u0022 translated in English as \u0022Post-Revolution Mondays.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Alonso\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor of Spanish at the Georgia Institute of Technology; co-author of \u201cInfotainment and Alternative Press\u201d in \u003Cem\u003EThe Future of News: An Agenda of Perspectives\u003C\/em\u003E (University Readers, 2010).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EH\u00e9ctor Fern\u00e1ndez L\u2019Hoeste\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor of Spanish at Georgia State University; editor of\u003Cem\u003E Redrawing the Nation:\u0026nbsp; National Identity in Latin\/o American Comics\u003C\/em\u003E (Palgrave, 2009).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraphCxSpFirst\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMARCH 27, 2015 1-5 PM, PRESS ROOM A,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESTUDENT SUCCESS CENTER, GEORGIA TECH\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003EParticipants: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERicardo Dominguez\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego; co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater and designer of the Transborder Immigrant Tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnita Say Chan\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor of media and cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author of \u003Cem\u003ENetworking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism\u003C\/em\u003E (MIT Press, 2014).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELuis Correa-D\u00edaz\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia; co-editor of \u003Cem\u003ELatin American, Spanish and Portuguese Literature in the Digital Age\u003C\/em\u003E (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2010).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOsvaldo Cleger\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor of Spanish at the Georgia Institute of Technology; author of \u003Cem\u003ENarrar en la era de las blogoficciones: literatura, cultura y sociedad de las redes en el siglo XXI\u003C\/em\u003E (Mellen Press, 2010).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiley Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/strong\u003E, GoSTEM program director at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022paragraph\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnastasia Valecce\u003C\/strong\u003E, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Spelman College; 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