What Does America “Meme”: Students ‘School’ Their Professors

On April 6, the five finalists of the recent “What Does America ‘Meme’ Contest” will “school” professors and the audience about the power and importance of memes in American culture today.

This discussion features prize-winning student meme creators Gabrielle Mills, Alejandro Gili-Olivares, Francesco Amore, Julie Guevara, Veronica Lisboa in discussion with Professors Nicole Archer and Pablo Tinio.

In the participatory analytical space of this event, students will “deconstruct” their work and discuss how this recently established visual language has created new forms of dialogue while often subverting traditional means of communication. They, along with Montclair State University faculty and staff and the public, will collectively contextualize and reflect on the disruptive communicative force played by memes in the United States today.

The memes themselves (chosen by public vote) are featured in a Sprague Library Gallery along with student biographies and commentary:https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/student_meme_contest/

Event Details
Date: Wednesday, April 6th 2022
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Feliciano School of Business, Room 101.

Event will also be live streamed via Zoom. Register here: https://montclair.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuc–trT8iE9Bmy6vmIW2mHXagXPpYzexh
Parking is available in the Red Hawk Deck for a nominal fee.

For more information, contact Professors Elizabeth Emery and Christopher Kaczmarek.

This event is sponsored by the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Science