Prof. Isabel Pinedo’s podcast “Talking Television in a Time of Crisis,” episode 12 on Aesthetics is now available. The panelists are all TV scholars (Jason Mittell, Elana Levine, Yael Levy, and Josie Torres Barth). The episode is a conversation about: What is the relationship between art and commerce, aesthetics and politics, in television? How is television transforming aesthetically, and what new developments in TV form and style have emerged in this time of crisis? How have new forms of television changed our relationship to TV during these challenging times? 

IMA alum David Pavlosky is featured on CUNY TV. The show is about comedy, comedians,  and the making of David’s documentary Stand Up, Stand Out. Check out the interview here: https://tv.cuny.edu/show/ShadesofUS

The Pulitzer Center has selected Hunter College senior Kalli Sringas for its 2021 Student Reporting Fellowship.

Sringas plans to use the $3,000 grant to travel to Greece to report on an ancient seagrass that may be able to solve modern day environmental problems. 

The underwater grass, called Posidonia Oceanica, can live for more than 100,000 years and is one of the oldest living organisms on Earth. Recent studies show that it can filter polluting chemicals, oxygenate the sea water and even remove plastics materials floating in the ocean. Sringas will be interviewing scientists who are working on replanting and replenishing Posidonia in the Mediterranean Sea, where it is rapidly disappearing due to higher water temperatures and pollution.