Media Migrations: Gender, Representation, and Cultural Movement(s)

This panel will explore the concept of “media migrations” from two perspectives. It will explore representations of migration, in terms of the movement of bodies across borders, and it will explore the movement of media itself, in the form of images and ideas, across culture, space, and time. It will examine how media migrations inform social identities, in relation to gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, nation, and class. The panel’s focus on the intersection of gender and media is designed to explore how social constructions of masculinity and femininity are negotiated in dialogue with media and how media that engages migration themes and/or moves within or across spatial territories serves to socialize, reveal, or reinvent gender identities in complex and unconventional ways.

Moderator and Discussant: Dionne Bennett, Ph.D., Department of African American Studies, LMU
Richard "Sonny" Espinoza, Ph.D. Department of Chicana/o Studies, LMU
Min Jin Lee, Writer
Frederick Moten, Ph.D., Department of English, USC
Nicole Hodges, Doctoral Student, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC

University Hall 1000
Ahmanson Auditorium