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Department of English | School of Mass Communications | School of the Arts An NEH Year Program Funded by the VCU Honors College |
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About the Series VCU’s Honors College, using a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, has funded a year-long series of events focused on the impact of digital technologies on contemporary culture generally and the humanities and arts specifically. The series is sponsored by VCU’s Department of English in collaboration with the School of Mass Communication and the School of the Arts. The program is broadly interdisciplinary, drawing upon scholarship and creative work in both the humanities and the arts. It is meant to encourage dialogue among our disciplines through encounters with major theorists and practitioners in the fields of media, art and literary studies. Our program recognizes the fact that traditional disciplinary divisions no longer define our academic or professional futures, and therefore proposes to explore the many convergences among printed, visual, and virtual texts. It is thus very much connected to VCU’s new interdisciplinary PhD program in Media, Art and Text (MATX). Media, art and text both reflect and influence pop culture. And communities form and reform within that culture. We would define media broadly: in both the artistic sense of a medium used by an artist and in the sense of channels of communication. The series will include lectures, panels discussions, demonstrations of emerging media and uses of new technologies, among other events. Among the issues and questions the series will address are:
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