News from the Annenberg School for Communication
November 20, 2013
In this issue:
Faculty in the news - The Kennedy Assassination
Annenberg news - Profs. Zelizer and Cappella; FlackCheck on Lincoln's electability
Student news - Ristovska, Gilewicz
Faculty in the news – The Kennedy Assassination
Prof. Barbie Zelizer explained the significance of the Kennedy Assassination playing out on television in an interview with the Peabody Awards and with The Philadelphia Inquirer. Also, adjunct instructor Al Felzenberg, a Presidential historian, also talked to the Inquirer about some of the better JFK books.
This Friday, Nov. 22, Dr. Felzenberg will be part of a public conversation on the JFK assassination anniversary, sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
Prof. Joseph Cappella lectures at Northwestern, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University.
Prof. Barbie Zelizer contributed the piece “War and Conflict Through Magnum’s Eyes” in Steven Hoelscher (ed.) The Magnum Photo Collection: A Visual Archive of the Modern World (University of Texas Press).
Additionally, Prof. Zelizer will be a speaker this week in Lyon, France as part of the Villa Gillet “festival of ideas,” a month-long festival of talks on provocative subjects. She will take part in a discussion on Pictures as Proof/Truth in Pictures.
Prof. Marwan M. Kraidy to deliver lecture at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands
Timing it with the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, FlackCheck.org raises the question of whether Abraham Lincoln could be elected today, given the nature of political attack advertising, in a series of send up commercials.
Donatella Della Ratta joins Annenberg as the first PARGC Post-doctoral fellow.
Carlin Romano led National Conversation on The Effects and Benefits of Technological Innovation on Scholarly Publishing
Sandra Ristovska to participate in a Central European University panel discussion on JFK.
Nicholas Gilewicz to deliver talk at the French communication and journalism school CELSA Paris-Sorbonne University.
November 22 - Evaluation Cultures: Sense-making in complex times, with Penny Hawkins, DFID. Room 500 at noon.
November 22 – Annenberg School East/West Reception at the National Communication Association annual conference – 7 p.m. at the Marriott Wardman Park (Marriott Salon 2), Washington, D.C.
November 25 – Dangerous Speech and New Methods of Prevention, with Susan Benesch. 1 p.m. in Room 300.
December 6 – Scholars Symposium – Context Collapse: Reassembling the Spatial. All day.
December 9 - Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood, with Steven Livingston, The George Washington University. 1 p.m. in Room 500.
December 11 - When Expectations for Results Comes Too early: Innovative Measures and Methods, with Julia Coffman, Center for Evaluation Innovation. Noon in Room 500.
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