MCC Events

A look back at just some of the events the department has hosted in the last 20+ years through the posters circulated.

Flyer for Disruptive Media with Mack Hagood and TL Taylor — Part of MCC’s event series 2×2: New Edges in Media Studies, organized by Professors Susan Murray and Laine Nooney.

flyer for Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp's keynote lectures on October 19, 2017 — Part of MCC’s event series 2×2: New Edges in Media Studies, organized by Professors Susan Murray and Laine Nooney.

Flyer for News on the Right with Reece Peck and Khadijah White — Part of MCC’s event series 2×2: New Edges in Media Studies, organized by Professor Erica Robles-Anderson and Visiting Professor AJ Bauer.

Flyer for Selling Green featuring MCC alum Melissa Aronczyk and Toby Miller — Part of MCC’s event series 2×2: New Edges in Media Studies, organized by Professor Erica Robles-Anderson and Visiting Professor AJ Bauer.

Flyer for the International Obitel Conference — Organized by Professor Juan Pinon, the Obitel conference convened scholars from Latin America and Europe in fall of 2019.

flyer for the 2017 Neil Postman Graduate Conference 'Lyric Communicability — The 2017 Neil Postman Graduate Conference ‘Lyric Communicability’ featured keynote Fred Moten.

2016 Postman Graduate Conference 'Boundary Conditions' with keynote Achille Mbembe — The 2016 Neil Postman Graduate Conference ‘Boundary Conditions’ with keynote Achille Mbembe.

flyer for Mistakes Were Made 2.0, Computer History Decompiled — Mistakes Were Made 2.0 was part 2 of a symposium organized by Professors Erica Robles-Anderson and Laine Nooney.

Scholars and artists considered the representation of black women in the visual arts while examining how the conceptual and technical strategies used by these millennial artists unwork the seemingly fixed categories of dark matter and maters.

Brochure listing the 2016/17 Department Lecture Series — Public events hosted by the department for the 2016/17 academic year.

Flyer for an event in April 2014 called Queer Asian Cityscapes with Audrey Yue and Peter Jaclson. — An event organized by Professor Radha Hegde in April 2014 called Queer Asian Cityscapes with Audrey Yue and Peter Jaclson.

flyer for the October 2014 symposium Derrida and the Hauntology of Media — This symposium on Derrida was organized by Professor Allen Feldman.

The 2013 LeBoff Public Lecture with Jonathan Sterne — The 2013 LeBoff Public Lecture delivered by Jonathan Sterne

flyer for the March 2013 symposium Surface Reading/Machine Reading

An international conference exploring how the field of visual culture is responding to the global economic crisis and the transformation of visualized media with over fifty leading international scholars, artists, filmmakers and new media practitioners held at New York University May 31-June 2, 2012

PROGRAM was a collaborative, interdisciplinary event series organized by graduate students within New York University’s departments of Media, Culture, and Communication; English; and Comparative Literature exploring the cultural, historical, aesthetic, and political impact of software and programming logic.

A 2012 conference on the theory, practice, and business of video games. — A 2012 conference organized by Visiting Professor Liel Leibovitz on the theory, practice, and business of video games.

flyer for the 2013 Postman Conference 'Para|Sites' — The 2013 Neil Postman Graduate Conference ‘Para|Sites’ featured keynote Manuel Castells

Flyer for the 2013 symposium on media in China and India (1977- Present) — A 2013 symposium organized by Professor Arvind Rajagopal with colleagues in Cinema Studies on media in China and India (1977- Present)

The 2012 LeBoff Public Lecture delivered by Lauren Berlant

Occupy Wall Street was the backdrop of the 2012 Neil Postman Graduate Conference with keynote Simon Critchley.

Inside the Internet Garage was a talk series hosted by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, about the early days of the commercial internet. Guests included Tim O’Reilly, Founder of O’Reilly Media; Eric Hippeau, former Huffington Post CEO; Jay Walker, founder of Priceline.com; and Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, technology reporters for the Wall Street Journal.

This Fall 2006 undergraduate conference featured special guest Nusrat Durrani, Senior Vice President of MTV

Press Release for the 2005 Marshall McLuhan Lecture featuring David Byrne:

Canadian Consulate General • Consulat général du Canada 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020-1175

News Release • Communiqué #00-81February 23, 2005

The Canadian Consulate General Presents The 2005 Marshall McLuhan Lecture

David Byrne I  PowerPoint

New York - The annual Marshall McLuhan Lecture celebrates the intellectual heritage of the Canadian media visionary who declared “the medium is the message.” A true visionary himself, David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, will deliver the 2005 McLuhan Lecture. Using the software application PowerPoint as an ‘artistic agent,’ Byrne demonstrates that there is more complexity to this dumbed-down marketer’s sales tool than you might think.

Byrne, who works in film, music and visual art, has been described as having the ability to elevate “the mundane to the level of art, creating icons out of everyday materials to find the sacred in the profane.” Byrne’s presentation, I  PowerPoint, does just this by going beyond simply pointing out the subtle sets of biases contained in the medium, how it streamlines our thinking and limits us, ultimately elevating it to the level of art. Byrne will be signing his most recent book, Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information following the event. 2005 is the first year the McLuhan Lecture will take place at New York University.

Previous McLuhan lecturers include Tom Wolfe, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, and Camille Paglia. The Marshall McLuhan Lecture is presented by the Canadian Consulate General, the McLuhan family, and the Department of Culture and Communication at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education.