Queens College Media Studies
Colloquium Series Spring 2024
Join us for an exciting exploration of cutting-edge media research and scholarship at the Queens College Media Studies Masters Colloquium! Our Graduate Media Studies program is proud to host regular colloquia, providing a platform for engaging conversations with both esteemed colleagues and practitioners from outside the university.
Weekly Event Details:
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: G-Building, Room 200, Queens College
Virtual Attendance: Zoom Link – http://mediasquat.com/
This semester’s guests:
Esteban Kelly March 6
Esteban Kelly is the Executive Director of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and has offered visionary leadership and creative strategy in economic democracy and co-op movements for over twenty years. He is a co-founder and worker-owner of AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance), a worker co-op that builds capacity for social justice movements and projects through intersectional training, consulting and facilitation.
Reverend Billy and Savitri D March 20
Founders of the Church of Stop Shopping and the Stop Shopping Choir, Reverend Billy and Savitri D oppose the mono-culture in the broadest terms: consumerism, militarism and capitalism’s attack on nature. They focus their energy on hyper local issues and global ones, confronting and contending with racism and economic inequality within thier own community and organizing with the understanding that both are at the heart of nearly every issue. They work for the Earth.
Emily Drabinski March 27
Emily Drabinski is Associate Professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She edits Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. Drabinski serves as the 2023-24 President of the American library Association.
Mark Hurst April 3
Mark Hurst is an entrepreneur and writer concerned with the idea of “good experience”—in particular, what enables or detracts from meaningful experiences of creativity, technology, community, and life. Mark Hurst is the founder of Creative Good, the New York-based consultancy and creative platform that he founded in 1997. He has spent his career writing, speaking, and advising teams about how to create better products and services. He has created a number of his own projects, too.
Allison Elliot April 10
Allison Elliott is the Archival and Special Projects Coordinator at The Feminist Institute, where she has worked on queer history, community archives, and zines. She is currently overseeing the Memory Lab, a pop-up archival project where participants can digitize analog materials for the TFI Digital Archive. Elliott earned her MA in Media Studies + Social Justice from CUNY Queens College in May 2023.
Edisa Weeks April 17
Edisa Weeks is a choreographer, educator and director of DELIRIOUS Dances. Weeks creates intimate environments that merge theater with dance. Described by the New York Times as having “a gift for simple but striking visual effects,” her work has been performed in a variety of venues including Aaron Davis Hall, Dixon Place, Guggenheim Museum, Harlem Stage, Jacob’s Pillow, The Kennedy Center, The National Black Arts Festival, Summerstages Dance Festival, and The Yard. She has also performed in swimming pools, senior centers, sidewalks, storefront windows and various living rooms, including living rooms in Berlin, Germany, as part of Haus der Kulturen der Welts 50th anniversary celebration.