U-M conference to discuss digital media in South Asia

September 28, 2015
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 9:15 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Oct. 2; 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Oct. 3, 2015

EVENT: The two-day conference, free and open to the public, assembles an international group of scholars from South Asia to look at how digital media—everything from Facebook and Twitter to cell phones and the Internet—is shaping activism, popular culture and politics in the subcontinent.

For a list of speakers and topics for this year’s conference, visit myumi.ch/LB2WQ.

PLACE: U-M Center for South Asian Studies, Room 1636, School of Social Work Building,1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor

SPONSORS: Benefactors Ranveer and Adarsh Trehan, and the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; co-sponsored by the Global Media Studies Initiative and Department of Communication Studies.