On Saturday, April 4, at 10:00 a.m., award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, host of the daily, radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, will give the opening keynote address of the 9th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Graduate Conference. Following the address to be held in Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, Goodman will be signing her book Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times in Wollman Hall at 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor, where the rest of the conference will take place.

The conference is a venue for students from The New School and other programs and schools to present interdisciplinary, theoretical, and critical approaches to a broad range of topics in media studies. Since it was initially held in 2000, the Critical Themes Conference has grown into a leading forum for presentation of research papers by graduate students worldwide. It will conclude with a closing keynote address by Dominic Pettman, faculty Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts at 6:00 p.m., followed by a reception.

This free event is co-sponsored by The New School for Social Research Sociology Student Association and the Department of Media Studies and Film. For complete conference information, visit the critical themes website .