CREST and The College of Saint Rose are thrilled to host Dr. Kara Keeling, currently a Visiting Professor at Williams College, on Tuesday, April 24. Her lecture will commence at 7 pm in the Carondelet Symposium, located on the third floor of the Thelma P. Lally School of Education (1009 Madison Avenue) at The College of Saint Rose.

Use this link for directions to the campus, as well as a campus map: http://www.strose.edu/Visitors/map_directions.asp. Here is part of a press release describing Kara Keeling’s upcoming talk:

DIGITAL IDENTITY POLITICS FOCUS OF LECTURE AT SAINT ROSE

The Center for Citizenship, Race and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) at The College of Saint Rose will present a lecture by Dr. Kara Keeling of the University of North Carolina on today’s digital media and social movements.

Keeling will deliver her lecture, “I = Another: Digital Identity Politics,” Tuesday, April 24, at 7:00 p.m. in the Carondelet Symposium, Lally School of Education, 1009 Madison Ave., Albany. This program is free and open to the public.

A member of UNC’s Department of Communication Studies, Keeling’s current research and teaching interests include digital media and social movements, African-American and Black diaspora film and media, queer film and media and critical theory. She works at the intersection between media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, Black studies and women’s studies. Her essays on media and popular culture have appeared in The Black Scholar, Qui Parle and numerous other journals. Currently, Keeling is completing her first book The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme and the Image of Common Sense, which will be published by Duke University Press later this year, and she is beginning work on her second book, tentatively titled Digital Media and Social Movements.