Sunday Scholar Series
September 12, 2010
Following the performance (approximately 4 pm)

• A free one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on the themes and issues of the play

You do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. Just arrive and enter the theater after the performance ends.

The Sunday Scholars panel will be moderated by TimeLine Board member Peter Kuntz, executive director of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.

The discussion will feature:

Max Dawson
Max Dawson is an assistant professor in the department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. Previously he was an assistant professor in the department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. A graduate of Northwestern's Screen Cultures PhD. program, Dawson teaches courses on television, new media, digital culture, and video games. His research examines television's fraught relationship to new media technologies, exploring the ways in which innovations ranging from the remote control to the mobile phone have unsettled longstanding notions of television's uses and cultural meanings. He has published articles in the journals Technology and Culture, Convergence, and the Journal of Popular Film and Television, and has contributed chapters to the edited volumes American Thought and Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Columbia University Press, 2008) and Television as Digital Media (Duke University Press, 2010). His current projects include an article on the digital television transition of 2009; co-editing a special issue of the online journal Wi on mobile television; and a manuscript entitled TV Repair which traces the history of television's encounters with new media technologies.

Michael L. Mezey
Michael L. Mezey is Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and former Dean of DePaul’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Before coming to DePaul, he served on the faculties of the University of Virginia, the University of Hawaii, and Wesleyan University and he has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Chicago and Loyola University. He has written extensively on legislatures around the world, the United States Congress, and about the relationship between the Congress and the President in the United States. His books include Congress, the President, and Public Policy (Westview Press, 1989) and Representative Democracy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). He is currently at work on a book that examines the American presidency from a comparative perspective. At DePaul, Mezey teaches courses on the Congress, the Presidency, and comparative legislative behavior.