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Agenda for Robert Jensen Visit
to CCSU— 2/07/08
12:30 to 1:45
Alumni Hall |
Workshop with
Communication and
Journalism students and
invited Staff of the
Recorder: “Power,
Privilege, and the
Press.” |
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2:00 to 3:15
Alumni Hall |
Talk on pornography and
gender violence for WGSS
200: Introduction to
Women, Gender and
Sexuality Studies and
other interested
students, faculty and
staff. |
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5:00 to 6:30
Alumni Hall |
Public
Lecture: “The State of
the Media and the State
of our Democracy.” |
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Robert Jensen is an associate
professor in the School of
Journalism at the University of
Texas at Austin. Jensen joined
the UT faculty in 1992 after
completing his Ph.D. in media
ethics and law in the School of
Journalism and Mass
Communication at the University
of Minnesota. Prior to his
academic career, he worked as a
professional journalist for a
decade. At UT, Jensen teaches
courses in media law, ethics,
and politics. He also is
director of the Senior Fellows
Program, the honors program of
the College of Communication.
In
his research, Jensen draws on a
variety of critical approaches
to media and power. Much of his
work has focused on pornography
and the radical feminist
critique of sexuality and men's
violence. In more recent work,
he has addressed questions of
race through a critique of white
privilege and institutionalized
racism. In addition to teaching
and research, Jensen writes for
popular media, both alternative
and mainstream. His opinion and
analytic pieces on such subjects
as foreign policy, politics, and
race have appeared in papers
around the country. He also is
involved in a number of activist
groups.
Jensen is the author of
Getting Off: Pornography and the
End of Masculinity (South
End Press, 2007); The Heart
of Whiteness: Confronting Race,
Racism and White Privilege
(City Lights, 2005); Citizens
of the Empire: The Struggle to
Claim Our Humanity (City
Lights, 2004); and Writing
Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas
from the Margins to the
Mainstream (Peter Lang,
2001); co-author with Gail Dines
and Ann Russo of Pornography:
The Production and Consumption
of Inequality (Routledge,
1998); and co-editor with David
S. Allen of Freeing the First
Amendment: Critical Perspectives
on Freedom of Expression
(New York University Press,
1995).
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html
Sponsored by the CCSU
Communication Department; the Center for
Public Policy & Social
Research and
the Governor William A. O'Neill
Endowed Chair in Public Policy
& Practical
Politics. |
