News from the Annenberg School for Communication
April 12, 2011
Faculty news, John Jackson, Marwan Kraidy, Sharrona Pearl
John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D., the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, wrote the column, “The Pedagogical is Political (and Personal),” for the current issue of the University of Pennsylvania Almanac. “When asking people to thematize ideas and actions that are often instinctual and unquestioned, or to explain the potential irrationalities and contradictions of their own beliefs, ethnographers open up the opportunity for people to think more rigorously and purposefully about how they have come to hold the beliefs they espouse, beliefs that they are sometimes willing to die for,” he writes.
Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, discussed the pervasiveness of all forms of media among Middle East audiences at a panel discussion in Qatar this week.
Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, will be among the panelists at the Philadelphia Science Festival panel “Seemed Right at the Time?! Scenes from Science Past,” April 28 at 5:30 p.m. at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia.
2011 Leonore Annenberg Scholarship recipients named.
Bella Mody’s book receives ICA award.
Lokman Tsui’s dissertation honored by ICA.
Mario Rodriguez speaks at Penn Women’s Conference event.
Hyun Suk Kim received the Penn Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Provost Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation for the project “Maternal Work and Risk Behavior of Adolescent: A Meditation Effect of Mother-Child Communication.” Minseop Kim from the School of Social Policy and Practice was the project leader.
Panel – life outside academia – April 14 at 5 p.m.
Colloquium by Sarah Banet-Weiser - April 15 at noon.
Colloquium by Sabine Niederer - April 18 at noon.
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