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Communication Senior BBQ
May 1 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

The Department of Communication's Senior BBQ will be held on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 (the last day of classes) from noon to 2:00 p.m. in the Machmer quad.  The event is open to all COMM graduating seniors, faculty, staff, and graduate students.  Please RSVP no later than Friday, April 19, to: Susan Dreyer, 405 Machmer Hall, 413-545-1311, dreyer@comm.umass.edu.

Public lecture, "Cybercrime from Below: Ghanaian Youth, Internet and the Occult in Times of Dramatic Social Changes"
Apr 26 2013 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm

A talk by Thomas Perrot, Ph.D. candidate at Paris 8 University (Cemti) and visiting researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Public lecture, "Queers and Class: Toward a Cultural Politics of Love and Solidarity"
Apr 18 2013 - 4:00pm

Hampshire College announces the Sixth Annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial  Lecture on Class and Culture:

"Queers and Class: Toward a Cultural Politics of Love and Solidarity"

Prof. Lisa Henderson
Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Thursday, April 18, 2013
4pm
Main Lecture Hall
Franklin Patterson Hall
Hampshire College

Public lecture, "African American Health Activism and the Long Civil Rights Era: The Case of the Black Panther Party"
Apr 11 2013 - 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Columbia University.   The lecture is titled: “African American Health Activism and the Long Civil Rights Era: The Case of the Black Panther Party.”

Thursday, April 11, 2013

4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Campus Center 904, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Screening, "Latinos Beyond Reel: Challenging a Media Stereotype"
Apr 9 2013 - 7:00pm

A screening of Latinos Beyond Reel: Challenging a Media Stereotype, a documentary from the Media Education Foundation, will take place on Tuesday, April 9 at 7 pm in Thomp

Colloquium Series, Speaker Josh Lauer
Apr 5 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:45pm

Speaker: Josh Lauer, Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire

Title: Consumer Credit Surveillance and the Financialization of identity in America.

 

This event will be held in Machmer Hall, E35.

Alumni Career Event
Apr 3 2013 - 4:00pm - 6:30pm

Department of Communication's Alumni Career Event

The Communication Department's annual alumni career event will take place from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Wed., April 3 in the Cape Cod Lounge in the Student Union.  Nine COMM alums at various stages of their careers will be returning to campus that day to meet with current COMM students and offer career advice and support.

Event, "Youth Voices in the Arab World: The Arts as an Agent for Social Change"
Apr 2 2013 - 5:30pm - 10:00pm

 

Tuesday, April 2, at 5:30-10 p.m., Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College

5:30-6:45 p.m.:

PANEL DISCUSSION on the role of the arts as an agent of social change in the Arab World.  Panelists include:

* Members of Teal-One97 Arab North Africa Music Project

* Amahl Bishara, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, on the media, the state, and human rights

* Jennifer Pruitt, Lecturer in Art at Smith College, on street art of the Egyptian revolution

7:00-8:30 p.m.:

Colloquium Series, Speaker Andrew Johnston
Mar 29 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:45pm

Speaker: Andrew Johnston, Department of English, Amherst College

Title: Return to Zero: Animation and the Experimental Synthesis of Movement

 

This event will be held in Machmer Hall, E35 on March 29, 2013.

Screening, "How Racism Harms White Americans"
Mar 28 2013 - 7:00pm

 

A screening of How Racism Harms White Americans, a documentary from the Media Education Foundation, will take place on Thursday, March 28 at 7 pm in Thompson 104.  A Q&A with John H. Bracey Jr., who is featured in the film and is Professor and Chair of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst, will immediately follow.  More information about the film is below.

How Racism Harms White Americans

With John H. Bracey Jr.