Ned O'Gorman, University of Illinois

Ned O’Gorman

Professor of Rhetoric & Public Discourse

Department of Communication at the University of Illinois

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  • How Liberals Lost the Public

    My latest: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00335630.2024.2319119 Open Access, so feel free to download and distribute. Read.

  • Jared Leto wants you to know he lives in a former Air Force facility

    Of the many strange twists of the legacy of Lookout Mountain Laboratory is the history of the facility in which it was housed in Laurel Canyon. Auctioned off by the Department of Defense around 1970, it has gone through a series of private owners. Rumors abound, but it seems safe to say that it was Read.

  • Journal for the History of Rhetoric

    As 2020 starts, so does my editorship of the Journal for the History of Rhetoric, the journal of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, an academic association that has been pivotal in my intellectual life ever since in my graduate school days. I am quite excited to take on the leadership of the Read.

  • #ReadingHannahArendt

    I am teaching a graduate seminar on the works of Hannah Arendt this semester, and slowly compiling a list of Arendtianisms at. . . https://twitter.com/search?q=%23readinghannaharendt&src=recent_search_click Check it out! Read.

  • Podcasts Interviews on Lookout America!

    Kevin Hamilton and I have been busy doing podcast and radio interviews about our new book Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War. Here’s a spattering of interviews: An interview on the War College Podcast An interview on the New Books Network An interview on Overnight America on my Read.

  • Command, Control, and Communication

    In commemoration of the seventieth anniversaries of Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and in conjunction with the National Communication Association Conference, several colleagues and I are hosting a one-day academic conference at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, November 18, 2015. Information and schedule: http://cccnevada.net/2015/09/24/schedule/     Read.

  • Deep Media

    Kevin Hamilton and I presented a paper at the University of Durham’s Business of War Photography conference this past summer (2014) on the work of Harold Edgerton and his collaborators in  the development of both flash photography and atomic bomb firing during World War II. The abstract reads as follows: This paper considers the history of Read.

  • Cold War Camera

    Kevin Hamilton and I spent recently attended what, for me, is the most weighty academic conference I’ve had the privilege to attend. The Cold War Camera Conference was held in Guatemala the next-to-last week of February 2014. Convened by the University of Durham’s Andrea Noble,  the University of Toronto’s Thy Phu, and the Guatemalan photographer, Read.

  • INTERSECT Initiative

    For the next two years I will be working with a great group of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois on the “Learning to See Systems” initiative, sponsored by the Graduate College here under their INTERSECT program. Our goal is address in an interdisciplinary, collaborative manner the problem of “seeing” systems — Read.