BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250802T154408EDT-1419feVSHi@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250802T194408Z DESCRIPTION:Media@9I制作厂免费 is pleased to welcome Sarah Banet-Weiser as its fa ll 2012 Media@9I制作厂免费 Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar. During her stay within the Department of Art History and Communication Studies this October\, Pro fessor Banet-Weiser will give a talk entitled\, 鈥業鈥檓 Like Totally Saved鈥: Branding Religion and the Moral Limits of the Market\, on Tuesday\, 2 Octo ber 2012 at 5:30 p.m. in Leacock 26. The event is a collaboration between Media@9I制作厂免费 and the AHCS Speaker Series\, and is free and open to the pub lic. Abstract: Branding in the contemporary era has extended beyond a b usiness model\; branding is now both reliant on\, and reflective of\, the most basic social and cultural relations. Brand cultures are spaces in whi ch politics are practiced\, identities are made\, art is created\, and cul tural value is deliberated.聽 One example of a brand culture is religion\, where branding religious lifestyles represents a new marketing and busines s opportunity\, where there is not one specific product\, but rather a pol itically diffused notion of religious identity\, that is re-imagined and r eframed not only within consumer items\, but also within the ways in which religion is organized\, institutionalized\, and experienced in everyday l ife. Here\, I examine two religious brand cultures\, Prosperity Christiani ty and New Age Spiritualism\, as a way to address such questions as: what is at stake in the fact that we are increasingly comfortable living in bra nd culture? What might be gained\, and what is lost\, through this kind of living? Biography: Sarah Banet-Weiser is a Professor in the School of C ommunication at USC Annenberg and the Department of American Studies and E thnicity. Her teaching and research interests include feminist theory\, ra ce and the media\, youth culture\, popular and consumer culture\, and citi zenship and national identity. She teaches courses in culture and communic ation\, gender and media\, youth culture\, feminist theory and cultural st udies. Her first book\, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Page ants and National Identity (University of California Press: 1999)\, explor es a popular cultural ritual\, the beauty pageant\, as a space in which na tional identities\, desires\, and anxieties about race and gender are play ed out. She has also authored a book on consumer citizenship and the child ren鈥檚 cable network: Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship (Duke University Press: 2007)\, in addition to her co-edited book\, Cable Visio ns: Television Beyond Broadcasting\, co-edited with Cynthia Chris and Anth ony Freitas (New York University Press: 2007). Her most recent book is Com modity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times (New York Univers ity Press: 2012)\, co-edited with Roopali Muhkerjee. Her current book proj ect\, Authentic鈩: Political Possibility in a Brand Culture (New York Unive rsity Press\, forthcoming)\, examines brand culture\, youth\, and politica l possibility through an investigation of self-branding\, creativity\, pol itics\, and religion. It is scheduled to be released in fall of 2012. She has published articles in the academic journals Critical Studies and Media Communication\, Feminist Theory\, the International Journal of Communicat ion\, and Television and New Media\, among others. She co-edits\, with Ke nt Ono\, a book series with New York University Press\, 鈥淐ritical Cultural Communication\,鈥 and is the editor of American Quarterly. For more infor mation\, visit: http://media.mcgill.ca/ DTSTART:20121002T213000Z DTEND:20121002T230000Z LOCATION:Leacock 26\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Sarah Banet-Weiser lecture 鈥 鈥業鈥檓 Like Totally Saved鈥: Branding Rel igion and the Moral Limits of the Market 鈥 2 October URL:/channels-contribute/channels/event/sarah-banet-we iser-lecture-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%98i%E2%80%99m-totally-saved%E2%80%99-brandin g-religion-and-moral-limits-m END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR