Critical insights from C21's Tennessen Scholars
C21’s Graduate Student Bagel Hour on Friday, September 28th, had a special edition featuring an interesting discussion with Sharon Marcus from Columbia University on her new project, “The Drama of Celebrity: Imitation.”According to Marcus, celebrity tends to combine the normative and the anti-normative. Most celebrities embody paradoxes: they are masculine and feminine, normative (they are […]
Over the course of a week, I discussed the human-like qualities of Amazon’s Alexa with a class of undergraduates, participated in a history seminar in which we interrogated writings by Hegel and Marx and their theories of consciousness and materiality, and engaged with colleagues and mentors at Dr. N. Katherine Hayles’ guest lecture and discussion […]
Having arrived at its 50th anniversary a markedly different entity than when it was first founded, it is particularly fitting that the theme uniting the Center for 21st Century’s work for the past year was In the Eschaton. Grappling with issues of shifting ideals, transition, endings and resurrections, six scholars took to the podium in […]
In conjunction with its 50th anniversary year in 2018-19, the Center for 21st Century Studies awarded six graduate-student scholarships named for long-time Center Deputy Director Carol Tennessen. Tennessen Scholars attend all C21 events, help foster engagement among the Center’s active graduate student community, and contribute to the Tennessen Scholars blog. Meet the Tennessen Scholars: KRISTA GRENSAVITCH (pronouns […]