News from the Annenberg School for Communication
February 22, 2011
Penn's Gutmann, Jamieson named to commission
Prof. Jackson, student Nunez in Penn video
Penn President Amy Gutmann, Annenberg’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson named to commission Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, have been named to a new national commission to bolster teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences. Details here …
Prof. Jackson, doctoral student Nunez in University of Pennsylvania video
John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D., the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, and doctoral student Rocio Nunez are featured in a University of Pennsylvania-produced video on the “Making History” campaign.
Faculty, Annenberg in the news
CGCS to assist in developing news media infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, was a guest on the NBC 10 discussion program “@ Issue” talking about the ongoing protests throughout the Middle East.
Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, discusses privacy in Multichannel Marketing.
Monroe Price, Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies, writes for The Huffington Post about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
John B. Jemmott, III, Ph.D., the Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication and Psychiatry, and colleagues published in Psychology and Health.
Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication, was a guest of the Sociological Imagination Series of the New School University recently on the subject of “Rethinking Media Events.” He was joined by former Visiting Scholars Guobin Yang, Paddy Scannell and Robin Wagner-Pacifici. Dr. Wagner-Pacifici served as moderator along with Jeff Goldfarb of the New School.
Teaching faculty member Al Felzenberg writes for the National Review Online about President’s Day and about Karl Rove and William McKinley.
Review of the HBO play “Thurgood,” sponsored in part by the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, published in Variety.
CGCS Visiting Scholar Manuel Puppis, Ph.D., tackles unexplored subject of regulatory communication.
Joel Penney published in Communication, Culture, and Critique.
Aymar Jean Christian published in Flow journal.
TODAY, February 22 at 6:45 p.m. – Prof. Elihu Katz to lecture at Penn Hillel.
TODAY, February 22 at 4:30 p.m. – Prof. Marwan Kraidy, colleagues, to discuss Middle East protests.
February 23 at noon – Comm 732, Rethinking Media Events, will be viewing portions of the operat “Nixon in China,” Room 223.
February 25 at noon – Colloquium by Richard Rogers, Room 500.
February 25 at 5:30 p.m. – Visiting Scholar John Ellis’ talk with filmmaker Roger Graef, Room 401 of Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3401 Chestnut Street.
March 21 at 7 p.m. – The 19th Annual Walter & Leonore Annenberg Distinguished Lecture in Communication. Lecture by Ernest Wilson, III, Ph.D., Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, Room 109.
March 30 at 5:30 p.m. – The Tenth Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice, Irvine Auditorium.
April 1 at noon - Noon time colloquium by Prof. Sharrona Pearl, Room 500.
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