nechchai.bsky.social
@nechchai.bsky.social
Professor and Dir. Center of Media, Religion & Culture. CU Boulder. Co-Editor of Cultural Studies. What you call the margins is my center. Ode to the margins.
@CUBoulder faculty: apply to the Oped Project Workshop offered by @CUBoulderCMDI this fall. Applications close by Aug. 8. www.colorado.edu/cmdinow/2025...
From journals to the op-ed page: Getting the word out about your research
CMDI welcomes the OpEd Project to Boulder for a practical workshop on writing commentary and pitching editors.
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July 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If Democrats have any life still beating in them, this is the test to prove it.
Zohran Mamdani has waged a surprisingly strong campaign for mayor of New York City. Can the movement he created overcome Andrew Cuomo’s power?
What Zohran Mamdani Got Right About Running for Mayor
The thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist has created a movement. Can it overcome Andrew Cuomo’s power?
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June 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.” Dionne Brand. Nothing new in attacking Iran, decimating Gaza, or obliterating the Middle East. Power and violence pervade again and again.
June 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Are you a media-maker interested in joining a community of scholars and practitioners at the intersection of religion and media studies? Apply to this exciting residency on counter-media at our @CUBoulder_CMRC. Deadline is June 1st. www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/04...
Open Call: Counter-Media Residency
Are you a media-maker interested in joining a community of scholars and practitioners at the intersection of religion and media studies? CU Boulder's Center for
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May 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
GUEST COLUMN: Cuts to research funding harm all Coloradans denvergazette.com/opinion/colu...
GUEST COLUMN: Cuts to research funding harm all Coloradans
Make no mistake, reductions in federal research funding will harm Coloradans.
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March 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Ramadan Mubarak to all celebrating. Best wishes for more peace, unity and common sense in the world!
March 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My department @cumediastudies is hiring in two Assistant Teaching faculty positions. Please consider applying.
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Media Studies
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February 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The amazing @cfiesler and @LarsonWrites at the first session of @CUBoulderCMCI’s Rehearsals in Conversation talking about creative digital economies.
February 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
We need Arab intellectuals to show us not just what happened and who did what. We need a real force of ideas to point the way forward in this region beyond a politics of regime fall and retribution. What can we dream of after the dictator flees? We’ve been here before.
Non-Syrian 'analysts' keep explaining that Syrians do not have a national identity. Really? Here's Hama today with Janna - paradise, our nation is paradise, the song Abdelbasset Sarout used to sing in Homs as everyone sang and swayed along during the first months of the revolution.
December 15, 2024 at 3:34 PM
The deadline to apply for our open-rank position in Environmental Media Studies at @cumediastudies is approaching. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Professor in Environmental Media Studies
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December 6, 2024 at 6:24 PM
November 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM
An insightful reading of what happened with the elections. Definitely worth your time. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Exit Right - Dissent Magazine
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.
www.dissentmagazine.org
November 10, 2024 at 1:51 PM
We are excited to host the amazing
@NaomiAKlein at our Distinguished Speaker Series on Oct. 28. Please join us for this special event. Register at web.cvent.com/event/876b9c...
October 18, 2024 at 2:48 AM