Department of Journalism & Media Studies
School of Communication, Information and Library Sciences
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone 732-932-7500 ext: 8174
Email dkumar[at]scils.rutgers.edu

Forthcoming Invited Lectures

(On Sabbatical 2008-09)

Forthcoming Conference Presentations

"The Iranian Revolution Thirty Years On: A Comparative Analysis of News Media Coverage in the United States," 14th International conference of the Arab-U.S Association for Communication Educators, Nov. 7-10, Cairo, Egypt.

Invited lectures

Lectures on Media, Class, and Outside the Box:

“Media, Globalization, and Labor: Lessons from the UPS Strike,” Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, July 9, 2008

“Media, Globalization, and Labor: Lessons from the UPS Strike,” Garden Room, Sierra 2 Center, Sacramento, July 10,

Keynote Address: “Ten Years Since the UPS Strike: Lessons for the Labor Movement,” at GCEU conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, August 10, 2007.

“10 Years Since the UPS Strike,” presentation at Teamsters Local 805, NY, August 4, 2007.

“Material and Immaterial Resistance: The Role of Collective Struggle in Media Reform,” Cardiff University, UK. Hosted by the School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies, March 27, 2007.

“Material and Immaterial Resistance: The Role of Collective Struggle in Media Reform,” Westminster University, UK. Hosted by the Communication and Media Research Institute, March 28, 2007.

“Cultural Studies, Collective Resistance and the UPS Strike,” one of four invited guests at the 11^th Annual Cultural Studies Conference, Indiana University, February 9-10, 2007.

“Race and Class in the US : Lessons from Katrina,” New York University , New York, NY, September 29, 2005.

Lectures on Islam, War, and Imperialism

“Exposing the ‘war on terror’: The Crisis in Pakistan, Elections, and its Aftermath.” Panel discussion (with Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Saadia Toor), Pace University, March 25, 2008.

“The Hypocrisy of the “War on Terror”: The Case of Afghanistan,” IVAW Newark Chapter, Dana Library, Rutgers University-Newark, March 5^th, 2008.

“Orientalism in Film,” Panel discussion on Race, Ethnicity and the Moving Image, (with Barbara Cooper and Carter Mathes), Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, February 1, 2008.

“The Hypocrisy of the “War on Terror”: Pakistan in Crisis,” City College of New York, January 17, 2008.

 “Islamophobia: The Attacks on Muslims and the Vilification of Islam,” Five Towns Forum, Hewlett Public Library, December 14^th, 2007.

“The Hypocrisy of the War on Terror: Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Thomas Hunter Hall, Hunter College, Dec 5, 2007.

“Women and Islam,” SUNY Cortland, December 7, 2006.

“Ports, Cartoons, and Nukes: Islamophobia and US Imperialism in the New Millennium,” Ithaca College, NY, December 6, 2006 (this talk was part of the discussion series “Global Fury/ Global Fear: Engaging Muslims” hosted by the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies).

Keynote Speaker: “Islam and the Media,” at the annual awards meeting organized by the American Muslim Women’s Association, Yonkers, NY, November 5, 2006.

“Islam and Islamophobia,” invited lecture for the summer lecture series hosted by Westchester People’s Action Coalition, July 13, 2006.

“Free Speech, Democracy, and Islam: The Danish Cartoon Controversy,” Columbia University, NY, March 27, 2006.

“The Danish Cartoon Controversy and the Demonization of Muslims,” University of Vermont, VT, March 15, 2006.

“The demonization of Islam and Muslims” invited to speak at a community forum organized by the Coney Island Avenue Project, Brooklyn, NY, March 4, 2006.

Invited to contribute to a symposium on “Lessons from Iraq: Journalism and Professional Responsibility During Times of War,” Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, September 23, 2005.

“Unveiling Imperialism: Media, Gender, and the War on Afghanistan,” University of Vermont, VT, November 18, 2004.

Guest Commentator at an International Public debate on “Can Citizens get Objective Information about the ‘War on Terrorism,’” Forsyth Country Public Library, Winston-Salem, NC July 29, 2004.

“The Media during War,” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, March 28, 2003.

“The Media After 9/11,” Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC, February 20^th, 2003.

 “Women, the Media, and the War on Afghanistan” presented at a forum on “Post 9/11:  Specter of  War and Prospects for Peace,” Wake Forest University, NC, Oct 15, 2002.      

“Muslim Women, the Veil, and the Current Conflict,” Wake Forest University, NC, Nov 13, 2001.     

“Why Islam is not the Enemy,” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, Sept. 24, 2001.

Conference Presentations

“Play it Again, (Uncle) Sam: A Brief History of US Imperialism, Propaganda, and the News,” International Association of Media and Communication Research, Mexico City, July 21-24, 2009.

“Islam and Oil: US-Saudi Relations and its Representation in the Media,” International Association of Media and Communication Research, Mexico City, July 21-24, 2009.

“Islam and Oil: US-Saudi Relations and its Representation in the Media,” International Communication Association, Chicago, May 21-25, 2009.

“Resistance is (Not) Futile: Towards a Dialectical Understanding of Propaganda and Consent Formation,” Twenty Years since the Margins conference, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, Dec 19, 2008.

“Islam, Political Islam, and US Foreign Policy: News Media Representations from 1945-2008,” Representing Islam conference, University of Manchester, UK, 5-6, September, 2008. 

“Framing Islam: An Analysis of the Political, News, and Entertainment Spheres,” (top paper), International Communication Association, Montreal, CA, May 22-26, 2008

"Political Islam Through a Historical Materialist Lens," National Communication Association, Chicago, November 14-18, 2007.

“Media Reform and Labor Struggle: Lessons from the UPS Strike,” UDC conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 25-28, 2007.

“Media reform and the labor movement,” Global Fusion Conference, Sept. 7-9, 2007, St. Louis, Mo.

“Transnationalism and Solidarity: Imperial Constructions of Gender post-9-11 and its Challenges,” IAMCR conference, Paris , France, July 23-25, 2007.

“Why Collective Struggle Matters: The Case for the Dominance/Resistance Model of the Media,” 20 Years of Propaganda conference, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada, May 15-17, 2007.

“Veils, Bans, and Wars: The West’s failed attempts to “liberate” Muslim Women,” Oxford Roundtable, Oxford , UK , April 1-6, 2007.

"Islamophobia and the Attacks on Arabs and Muslims." Left Forum, New York, NY, March 11, 2007.

“What’s Class got to do with it?: Agency and Social Change in Media Studies,” National Communication Association, San Antonio, Nov, 2006.

“What’s Class got to do with it? Agency and Social Change in Media Studies,” National Communication Association, San Antonio, Nov, 2006.

“Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike,” How Class Works Conference, SUNY, Stony Brook, June 8-10, 2006 .

“The Immigration Debate: A Class Analysis,” Union of Democratic Communication, Florida, May 18-21, 2006 .

“Islamophobia and the Left: A Critique of Liberal Imperialism,” National Communication Association, Boston, Nov, 2005.

“Class Frameworks in the News,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London, England , March, 2005.

“Class and Hegemony in the Era of Globalization,” National Communication Association, Chicago, Nov, 2004.

“The Status of Globalization Theory in Communication/Media Research: A Case for Rigor,” National Communication Association, Chicago, Nov, 2004.

Respondent, “Globalization and Outsourcing,” National Communication Association, Chicago , Nov, 2004.

“War Propaganda and the (Ab)uses of Women: Media Constructions of the Jessica Lynch Story,” International Communication Association, New Orleans, May, 2004.

“Axis of Deception: Media and Propaganda in the 2003 War on Iraq ,” International Communication Association, New Orleans, May, 2004.

“Media and Propaganda: Selling the War on Iraq ” presented at the First Vice President’s Program Panel Session at the National Communication Association, Miami, November, 2003.

“Marxism and Communication” roundtable discussion at the National Communication Association, Miami, November, 2003.

“Imperialism Unveiled: Afghan Women, the Media and the ‘War on Terror’” presented on a “Theme Plenary” session at the International Communication Association, San Diego, May, 2003.

“What’s Good For GM is Good For America: The Construction of Nationalism on Network Television,” presented at National Communication Association, Atlanta, November 2001.

“Where is Feminism Going? A Marxist Critique of the Politics of Mainstream Feminism” presented at International Communication Association, Washington D.C., May 2001.

"'Human Need Not Corporate Greed’: The 'Battle in Seattle' and the Representation of Anti-Corporatism in the Media,” presented at National Communication Association, Seattle, November 2000.

“‘Us’ and ‘Them’ in Strike Reporting: The Nationalist Narrative in American Network Television News,” presented at National Communication Association, Seattle, November 2000.

“Globaloney, Media and Resistance: Organized Labor’s Response to Globalization” at National Communication Association, Chicago, November 1999.

“Theory and Practice: The Retreat from Class in Cultural Studies” at National Communication Association, Chicago, November 1999.

“Retheorizing Resistance: The Crisis of Capitalism, Labor Struggles, and the Mass Media,” at National Communication Association, Chicago, November 1999.

“Unparcelling Hegemony: Class Struggle, the Mass Media and the Public Sphere” at Working-Class Studies: Class, Identity and Nation, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, June 9-12, 1999 .

“Unparcelling Media Mythology: Public Opinion and Newspaper coverage of the UPS strike,” at Central States Communication Association / Southern State Communication Association, St. Louis, Missouri, April 7-11, 1999.

“Media, Labor and Representation,” at Standard/Deviation, Duquesne University , Pittsburgh, PA, November, 1998.

“Containing Dissent: The Red Scare, the Cold War and Anti-Terrorism,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, Nov., 1997.

“Miss-representing America: Swimsuits, Nationalism and Democracy,” Consoling Passions Conference , Madison, Wisconsin, April 1995.

“The Text as a Site of Struggle: A Materialist Analysis of Coolie,” Association for Education in Journalism and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1994.

“The Media in the Context of Indian Society: Towards a Cultural Studies Approach,” Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 1993.

RADIO
"Media Matters" with Robert McChesney January 20, 2009
WBAI interview May 1, 2007
CounterSpin interview June 1, 2007
WBAI interview August 1, 2007

WBAI Roundtable on "Islam and the Structure of Global Power"
Part 1 November 18, 2007
Part 2 November 25 2007

VIDEO
BOOK LAUNCH at SUNY-Stony Brook, May 7, 2007

Long Island Alternative Media
Public Access TV
On Islamophobia