Please join us in CHAT as we welcome Fabienne Darling-Wolf (School of Media and Communication) for her Distinguished Faculty Lecture, "The Lessons of Charlie, or Locality in the Age of Globalization."
Because it targeted specific individuals engaged in a debate about values, ethics, and religion at both the local and the global level, the attack on Charlie Hebdo on 7 January, 2015, provides a powerful terrain on which to tease out the dangerous undertows of power struggles that globalization scholars of varied theoretical convictions have long discussed in their work. Drawing from reactions to the attack in the French press and in social media, this presentation explores the lessons to be drawn from this tragedy. What can the events at Charlie Hebdo teach us about the relationship between globality and locality? What can we learn about the role of the media in shaping these imaginaries? What, in turn, can these theoretical musings teach us about the theory and practice of politically engaged journalism under conditions of globalization?