Department of Communication Debuts Annual Lecture Series

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On Friday, Feb. 28, the department of communication will host its inaugural Communication Annual Lecture. This year’s talk, “Post-Disciplinarity and Public Scholarship in Communication Studies,” will be given by Silvio Waisbord, professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University at 12:30 p.m. on the third floor of the Integrative Learning Center’s Communication Hub.

In this talk, Waisbord argues that long before “interdisciplinary” became a buzzword, communication studies was already a “post-discipline,” crossing multiple academic fields.

Waisbord’s most recent books are “Communication: A Post-Discipline” and “The Communication Manifesto.”

The Communication Annual Lecture series invites national and internationally-recognized scholars every spring to the UMass Amherst campus for dialogue with faculty, students and the campus community at large about their outstanding scholarship and contributions to the field of communication in the analysis of contemporary social problems.

“In this forum we want to recognize and highlight academic excellence, plurality of perspectives and methodological traditions within the discipline,” said Martha Fuentes-Bautista, senior lecturer and director of engaged research and engagement.

Speakers in the Communication Annual Lecturer Series are nominated and selected by members of faculty and the graduate student body at large.