News from the Annenberg School for Communication
April 16, 2013
In this issue:
Carlin Romano named Guggenheim Fellow
Faculty talks - Zelizer, Kraidy, Yang
Carlin Romano named Guggenheim Fellow
Congratulations to Annenberg’s Carlin Romano, who has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 2013-14, making him the fourth member of the Annenberg family (along with Larry Gross, Marwan Kraidy, and Barbie Zelizer) to win this honor.
Faculty talks – Zelizer, Kraidy, Yang
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, will deliver a keynote at a conference to note the 5th anniversary of the journal Media, War and Conflict. Her talk, “Media, War, and Conflict: What Expectation Does It Raise and Where Does it Fail to Deliver?” will be delivered on Friday, April 19 at the Royal Holloway College in London, U.K.
Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, will deliver the keynote address this week for the Symposium on Globalization and Risk at the University of South Florida. The title of his talk is “Plato’s Digital Cave: The Arab Uprisings as Battles of Representation.” Additionally, Dr. Kraidy will deliver a postdoctoral colloquium at USF titled “Digital Dissent: Revolutionary Humor Between Old and New Media.”
Guobin Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, delivered the talk, “Internet Activism in China after the Arab Spring” on Monday, April 15 at Fairfield University. The lecture was sponsored by Fairfield University’s International Studies Program, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Department of Communication. This Thursday, April 17, Prof. Yang will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Humanities Department where he will deliver the talk “China’s civic culture and new media.”
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, is a member of the committee putting together the Centennial Celebration of Women’s Voting Rights in the year 2020.
A new series of videos from FlackCheck.org focusing on detecting patterns of deception in current events is currently on display on the lobby television at Annenberg. You also can see this series of creative videos on FlackCheck’s YouTube channel.
Daily Mail (U.K.)
National Journal
Denver
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April 18 – Promoting healthy lifestyles and academic achievement in Philly – 4:30 p.m., Room 500.
April 19 – Panel Discussion: Democracy or Dystopia – 5 p.m. in Room 109.
April 22 – Book discussion by alumnus Mike Serazio (Gr ’10) – 5:30 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore.
April 24 – Remembering MLK’s letter from a Birmingham jail – 6 p.m., Room 110.
May 1 - Evaluating Democracy Assistance Grant making – noon to 1 p.m. in Room 500.
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