2013 TV Studies Symposium

Generation(s) of Television Studies (12 April 2013, University of Georgia)

Event date: Friday, April 12, 2013

Purpose: To assess the generation of the past, present and possible futures of the international and interdisciplinary scholarly field of television studies; to help nurture a new generation of television-studies scholars; to recognize, acknowledge and celebrate the contributions to television studies of Dr. Horace Newcomb (Lambdin Kay Chair of the Peabodys, Grady College) over his 42-year career.

Main-program participants (circa 2013):

Dr. Horace Newcomb (Lambdin Kay Chair, Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards , Grady College, University of Georgia)

Dr. James Hay (Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, Institute of Communications Research, Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois-Urbana)

Dr. Jeffrey P. Jones (Associate Professor; Director, Institute of Humanities, Old Dominion University)

Dr. Amanda Lotz (Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan)

Dr. Alisa Perren (Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Georgia State University)

Dr. Thomas Schatz (Mrs. Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Chair in Communication, Department of Radio/Television/Film, University of Texas at Austin)

Dr. David Thorburn (Professor of Literature; Director, MIT Communications Forum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Dr. James F. Hamilton (Associate Professor, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Grady College, UGA) (as of 2016, is now Head, Dept. of Entertainment & Media Studies, Grady College, UGA)

Program sponsors: 

Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, UGA; Grady College, UGA; The Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, UGA; The Peabody Awards, UGA; Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, UGA; Department of Theatre and Film Studies, UGA; Department of Communication Studies, UGA; Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; Television and New Media and Sage Publications.