Department of Communication

The Department of Communication will host the Seventh Annual Communication Student Showcase and Awards to celebrate the many forms of achievement and expression in the major. All are welcome to attend.

Join Communication alum and Vibrator Nation author Lynn Comella, Ph.D., ’04, as she draws from her recently published book about the history of feminist sex-toy stores to discuss the challenges that progressive retailers face as they attempt to balance profitability and social change in a rapidly expanding and increasingly competitive sexual marketplace.

Lisa Henderson, associate professor of Communication, will present.

Take a break from the cold, and attend the next Breadhouse.

Dr. Dorothy Roberts to present. The mapping of the human genome in 2003 confirmed that race is not written in our genes. As Dorothy Roberts explains, race is a social category that was invented to support an unjust political hierarchy. Yet we are witnessing the re-creation of race in biological terms using cutting-edge genomic science and biotechnologies, such as race-specific medicines and ancestry tests, that incorporate false assumptions of racial difference at the genetic level.

Dr. Ford presents: Color Talk in LouWEEZYana: Lil Wayne, Colorism, and Black Men’s Perspectives in New Orleans

Film Screening Flirting with Danger: Power and Choice in Heterosexual Relationships (featuring Comm Department's Lynn Phillips)

Richard R. John is a professor of history and communications at Columbia University, where he teaches courses in the history of communications, networks, and the history of capitalism.

Prof Lilie Chouliaraki lectures on the politics and ethics of refugee selfies and their circulation in social media and the news in the wake of the European ‘refugee crisis’. Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and author of The Ironic Spectator, winner of the ICA Outstanding Book Award in 2015. This event is part of the Mediating Care and Justice Seminar Series, awarded an SBS Conference Grant, and led by Jonathan Corpus Ong, Martha Fuentes-Bautista and Rodrigo Zamith.

The Comm Community Climate and Social Justice Committee presents a film screening, More than a Word. The film by John and Kenn Little, in partnership with Media Education Foundation, is about Native American-based sports mascots and the Washington Redskins.