News from the Annenberg School for Communication
March 29, 2011
Faculty news - Elihu Katz, Barbie Zelizer, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, John L. Jackson, Jr.
Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication, delivered the opening address of the International Symposium on Political Communication held at IE’s Segovia campus and organized by the World Association for Public Opinion Research.
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, was a guest on the National Public Radio program “Radio Times with Marty Moss Coane” today, March 29, talking about her book About to Die: How News Images Move the Public. You can hear the conversation here.
Annenberg’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.; John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D.; and Penn President Amy Gutmann participated in a March 26 – 27 National Constitution Center event, “Can We Talk?: A Conversation about Civility and Democracy.” The events were chronicled in a blog by Chris Satullo, executive director of news and civic dialogue for National Public Radio member station WHYY.
Annenberg’s Carlin Romano just completed serving as chair of the jury for the 2011 "J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award," jointly administered by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard and the Columbia University School of Journalism. The $30,000 prize goes to the author of a nonfiction book, already under contract with a publisher, that exhibits the literary excellence and concern for social justice exemplified by J. Anthony Lukas (1933-97), the Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times journalist and author. Lukas's most acclaimed book, Common Ground (1985), won five major national awards: the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Political Book of the Year Award. This year's J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award will be presented at a ceremony at Columbia University on May 3.
Deborah L. Linebarger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication; Research Staff Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Ph.D. (Gr ’10); and doctoral students Matthew Lapierre, Sarah Vaala, and Kara Garrity are presenting at the Society for Research in Child Development conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada this coming weekend. A summary of their work can be seen here.
Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication; and doctoral students Heidi Khaled, Tara Liss-Marino, and Alison Perelman presented their work at the Cultural Studies Association conference in Chicago, March 24 – 26. A summary of their work can be seen here.
Fellowships available for 2011 Annenberg-Oxford Summer Institute.
New undergraduate graduation award honors Phyllis C. Kaniss.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses civic engagement on Minnesota Public Radio.
Adjunct Alvin Felzenberg writes about President Obama’s March 28 speech to the nation in the National Review Online.
March 30 at noon – CECCR Speaker Series – Deborah Small, Ph.D.
March 30 - 5:30 p.m. - 10th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice (rescheduled from January) - Irvine Auditorium.
April 1 at noon - Colloquium by Prof. Sharrona Pearl - Room 500.
Aphra Kerr lecture – 6:15 p.m. on April 12.
Panel – life outside academia – April 14 at 5 p.m.
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