Assessing the Occupy Movement [December 5 - 9, 2011]

Monday, December 5, 2011 - Kevin Howley (DePauw University) presents: What’s Wrong with this Picture?: Amy Goodman on Mainstream Media’s Portrait of the Occupy Movement 

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - Edward Miller (The College of Staten Island/CUNY) presents: How to Occupy a Speech Act: The Mic Check as Performative Utterance

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - Elspeth Van Veeren (University of Sussex) presents: Dressing for (Dis)Occupation: On Subject Positioning and the ‘Occupy’ Movement

Thursday, December 8, 2011 - Helga Tawil-Souri (New York University) presents: A Palestinian Take on Occupy Wall Street

Friday, December 9, 2011 - Sheila A. Brennan (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University) and Sharon M. Leon (Roy Rosenzweig Center) present: A First Look at the Occupy Archive

Theme week organized by Alisa Perren and Karen Petruska.

Image from David Shankbone via Flickr.  Used and altered under Creative Commons License permission.