February 19
2pm-4pm
Sage 4711
Please join the Communication and Media Department for a seminar titled "Suspended Lives: Cryonics and Cultural Techniques of the Undead" from Dr. Ethan Stoneman, Associate Professor and Chair of Rhetoric and Media at Hillsdale College.
February 26
11:30am-1pm
Sage 5711
February 26
2pm-4pm
Sage 4711
Please join the Communication and Media Department for a seminar titled "Empowering Communication in the Age of AI: Research, Teaching, and Leadership" from Dr. Lu Tang, Professor at the Department of Communication & Journalism, Texas A&M University and the Director of the Data Justice Lab affiliated with the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science.
A new must-have resource for students, instructors, and debate coaches has arrived with the release of A Short Guide To Policy Debate by Alexander Hiland, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication & Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This concise, practical guide offers a step-by-step approach to mastering policy debate at the collegiate level, equipping debaters with the tools they need to excel in competition.
Making Decision Support Systems Intelligible: Explainability or Interpretability?
April 4
9am-5:30pm
CBIS Auditorium
Please join us for a lecture and panel discussion with media theorist Jussi Parikka (Aarhus University) in conversation with art historian/theorist Caroline A. Jones (MIT), architectural theorist/historian Theodora Vardouli (McGill University), architectural historian Michael Abrahamson (University of Utah), and architect Viola Ago (Toronto Metropolitan University). Please see the detailed schedule here.
March 12
2:00pm
Sage 4711
Celebrate the collaboration between the Rensselaer Orchestra and the Empire State Youth Orchestra as they perform side-by-side April 5th at 2pm in EMPAC Concert Hall. This spring program includes the breathtaking 'Elysium' by Samy Moussa, the famous 'Symphonie Fantastique' by Hector Berlioz, and the evocative Oboe Concerto by Thomas L. Read, featuring 2024 Rensselaer Concerto Competition winner Gianna Scire, '25 as soloist.
Merrill Whitburn, currently Professor Emeritus and formerly Louis Ellsworth Laflin Professor of English and, for 13 years, Chair of the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, has won the Everett Lee Hunt Award of the Eastern Communication Association for his book "America's Great Age of Rhetoric, 1770-1860: Advocacy, Conceptualization, Institutionalization" (2024). He will be presented the award at the annual ECA Convention in Buffalo on March 29. Hunt was a notable professor of rhetoric at Cornell University.