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Dyson Professor Adam Klein discusses China’s use of information laundering with RealClear Defense.

‘Progression’ will always be relative and subjective based on one’s positionality,” said Dr. Melvin Williams said in an email. Williams is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University. “Hip-hop has traditionally been in conversation with queer and non-normative sexualities and included LGBTQ+ people in the shaping of its cultural signifiers behind the scenes as choreographers, songwriters, make-up artists, set designers, and other roles stereotypically attributed to queer culture.”

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, director of the Global Asia Institute at Pace University: The findings indicate a rich and lively religious life, both formal and informal, in today’s Chinese society. Even though Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism) remains a minority experience, its social and cultural influence is disproportionate to its small membership in the overall population. It is heartening to learn that at least before COVID, “the number of people with some connection to Christian faith is greater than zongjiao measures reveal.”

Pace University Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies Adam Klein pioneered the concept of information laundering.[9] Samantha Korta, a researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, expanded Klein’s model to encompass all counterfeit narratives, including disinformation (deliberately false information) and malinformation (true information deliberately contorted by context and presentation to be misleading).

For our second and final installment of our summer literature series, Summer School, in which we read a classic New York novel and invite you to read with us and participate on the radio, we spent the last 4 weeks reading Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, The Age of Innocence, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The book is set in 1870s New York City, which follows Newland Archer and his romantic adventures with two women. Sarah Blackwood, associate professor of English at Pace University, is with us to talk about the importance of the novel.

Dyson Professor Melvin Williams speaks about O’Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old professional dancer and choreographer that was killed while voguing to Beyoncé’s music.

The style of improvisational dance, which emerged from the Harlem ballroom scene of the late 20th century, remains a way for LGBTQ people to “vocalize creativity, pride and survival in a queerphobic society,” says Melvin Williams, a professor of communication studies at Pace University in New York.