Karen Tongson

Apr 26, 2024 | dailytrojan.com | Viet Thanh Nguyen |Karen Tongson |Kate Mcquarrie

A wave of campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza has swept across the United States, beginning at Vanderbilt and accelerating nationally with Columbia University. That wave hit USC on April 24, when students pitched tents at Alumni Park in the early morning hours, following the Columbia model, to “join the nation-wide call by students for their universities to disclose their finances and endowment, [and] to divest from israeli violence,” in the organizers’ words.

Jan 5, 2024 | chronicle.com | David Bell |Karen Tongson |Mark Greif |Michele Lamont |Michèle Lamont

Happy New Year, dear readers of The Review! As we do each year, we convened a group of our contributors — a dozen, this time around — and asked them which works of scholarship surprised, challenged, thrilled, or impressed them most in 2023. (In a few cases, these books were published in 2022, or even 2021 — but who are we to quibble?) The selections were typically eclectic, covering a range of subjects and locales, from punk clubs in Mexico to avant-garde film festivals in Uzbekistan.

Dec 17, 2023 | player.fm | Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh |Karen Tongson

I've been dreaming of this very journey for a few years. I turned 40 during COVID and was hit with speed bump after speed bump. Situations I have never anticipated experiencing and in some cases it will be my first time sharing it with you.

Dec 3, 2023 | player.fm | Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh |Karen Tongson

In a unique weekly podcast, Edith Bowman sits down with a variety of film directors, actors, producers and composers to talk about the music that inspired them and how they use music in their films, from their current release to key moments in their career. The music chosen by our guests is woven into the interview and used alongside clips from their films. https://twitter.com/soundtrackinguk https://www.facebook.com/Soundtrackingwithedithbowman/ https://play.spotify.com/user/soundtrackingwi ...

Dec 2, 2023 | podcasts.apple.com | Karen Tongson |Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh

In our penultimate episode, Wynter and Karen prepare for the end by reflecting on their favorite series finales including Mad Men, Six Feet Under, The Good Place and The Americans among others. Before they do, Karen insists on one more discussion about a pop culture controversy: Julianna Marguilles’ condescending comments told from her perspective “as someone who plays a lesbian journalist” on TV. Our team LOVES Squid Game: The Challenge, which is their new problematic fave.