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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

IAS lecture "From the Dance Hall to Facebook"

THE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES presents a public lecture by Professor Shayla Thiel-Stern, "From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Mass Media, Crisis, and American Teen Girls' Public Recreation from 1905 to 2010." The event will be held on Thursday, February 7th from 1:30-3:30pm in 125 Nolte Library.

For an event flyer, click here: Shayla Thiel-Stern flyer.pdf
Shayla Thiel-Stern discusses how the American media historically has used news gathering and reporting techniques that foster moral panic about one historically marginalized and trivialized group-teenage girls-contributing to a patriarchal cultural discourse that equates the feminine with the private and domestic.
Organized by the Childhood and Youth Studies Across the Disciplines Research Collaborative.
Thursday, February 7, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
125 Nolte Library, 315 Pillsbury Drive S.E.
Please join us; refreshments will be served.