The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Begins	16 Apr 2009 - 4:00pm
Ends	16 Apr 2009 - 6:00pm
Location	66 West 12th Street. Room 501

Join the Media & Culture Concentration as we welcome GPIA's newest faculty member,

Sean Jacobs

Thursday, April 16, 2009
4:00 - 6:00 PM
66 W 12th Street, Rm 501

After an exhaustive search that yielded many excellent candidates, Sean Jacobs emerged as GPIA's newest faculty member in Media & Culture. If you missed his job talk, this is your chance to meet him and hear him speak on his background, research and interests, as well as his extensive experience in international (and particularly, South African) media and journalism. Also, come to get a sneak preview of his proposed Fall 2009 course, 'Africa and the West,' which will explore the history of images of Africa in Western media (print media, television and more recently, online), and examine how such images have shaped and continued to shape both the outcomes and our understanding of key events in recent African history.

Come prepared to welcome Sean, and show him what GPIA students have to offer!

 

 

Sean Jacobs, a native of Cape Town, South Africa, holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of London and a M.A. in Political Science from Northwestern University. He is working on a book on the intersection of mass media, globalization and liberal democracy in postapartheid South Africa. He is co-editor of Thabo Mbeki's World: The Politics and Ideology of the South African President (Zed Books, 2002) and two other books. His most recent scholarly articles have appeared in Politique Africaine (2006) and Media, Culture, and Society (2007). He is a regular contributor to the Guardian's Comment is Free site.