At UC Irvine's Department of Women’s Studies' quarterly roundtable series on keywords -- contested terms with overlapping, sometimes catachrestic, meanings -- Lear Center deputy director Johanna Blakley discussed how new communication technologies have transformed the public sphere, exponentially expanding the public stage and obscuring its connection to the physical world. What are the consequences of taking our private lives public in this virtual space?

Other speakers included Professor Christine Balance, Asian American Studies, UCI; Professor Dana Collins, Dept of Sociology, Cal State Fullerton; and Raquel Gutierrez, performance artist and the co-founding member of the performance art ensemble, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan.

Moderator: Professor Jeanne Scheper, Women's Studies, UCI

Wednesday, May 20
UC Irvine