News from the Annenberg School for Communication
February 23, 2010
Prof. Zelizer to speak at UMass Amherst
Prof. Mutz to participate in Princeton U. panel on political deliberation
Prof. Jackson spoke at LaSalle University event
Prof. Jamieson on frustration with partisan politics
Applications now accepted for Oxford Summer Institute
Scholars Program lecture today
Prof. Zelizer to speak at UMass Amherst
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, will give the talk “Journalism and/for Social Change” on Friday, February 26 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Prof. Mutz to participate in Princeton U. panel on political deliberation
Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D., the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at Annenberg, will participate in a public roundtable discussion on democratic deliberation at Princeton University, Thursday, February 25.
Prof. Jackson spoke at LaSalle U. event
John L. Jackson, Jr. Ph.D., the Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology at Annenberg, gave a talk entitled, “Post-Racial or Post-Racism? A Conversation on Race” at LaSalle University last Thursday, February 18.
Prof. Jamieson on voter frustration with partisan politics
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Annenberg, was interviewed for a February 23 broadcast of The Takeaway’s “Frustration Nation” series, examining media’s role in America’s political divide.
Applications now accepted for Oxford 2010
The Annenberg Center for Global Communication Studies and the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University are currently accepting applications for the 12th annual Media Policy Summer School, to be held from July 5 – 16 at the University of Oxford. This year there will be a significant focus on media regulation and strategic communication in crisis environments from Sudan to Somalia, to Iraq. Applications for the 2010 program will be accepted on a rolling basis and must be received via email.
Scholars Program lecture today
Today beginning at 6 p.m. - Scholars Lecture by Graeme Turner, "Convergence and Divergence: The International Experience of Television in the Digital Age”
Wednesday, February 24 – CEECR Speaker Series, Dr. James Dillard.
Friday, February 26 – Noontime Colloquium, Professor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania – “Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks.”
Monday, March 1 - Annual Annenberg Fontaine Lecture by Charlton McIlwain, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU.
April 9 at 3 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore – Alumna Idil Cakim (ASC ’98) will discuss her book Implementing Word of Mouth Marketing: Online Strategies to Identify Influencers, Craft Stories, and Draw Customers (Wiley, 2010).
April 20 at 6 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore – Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, will discuss her new book, About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010 Harvard).
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