Join UNITY Roundtable and School of Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Jovan Johnson in a dialogue regarding media representation of identities and how those representations affect the way we view each other. The dialogue will take place in Meredith Hall, Room 106 today, April 18, from 8 to 9:15 p.m. Any questions, comments, or concerns … Continue reading “Identities 101: We Are Not What The Media Says We Are”
Join Drake University alumnus and director David Heineman for his documentary screening of Suffering in Silence, about campus sexual assault, today, April 11, 7–9 p.m. in Meredith Hall, Room 101. David will do a talk-back after the screening. It is free and open to the public. —Alysa Mozak, Coordinator for Sexual Violence Response and Healthy Relationship … Continue reading Documentary screening: Suffering in Silence
Are you going to a Spanish-speaking country this summer or next semester? Would you like to begin learning a few words in Spanish for an upcoming study abroad semester or travel seminar? Do you want or need to keep up your foreign language fluency? Drake’s Department of World Languages and Cultures wants to help. Spanish … Continue reading Spanish Language Conversation Table
Lee Jolliffe authors chapters on free speech SJMC’s Lee Jolliffe authored one chapter and is first author on another, in the newly issued book An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Mary M. Cronin, of New Mexico State University. In the lead chapter of the book, “A Press Ablaze: Violent … Continue reading SJMC news: Week of April 4
The fifth film in the Engaged Citizen Documentary Film Series, The Iron Ladies of Liberia, an examination of Liberia’s first female president’s attempts—with her largely female cabinet—to rebuild war-torn Liberia, is Wednesday, April 6 at 7 p.m. in Meredith 106. For more information, click here. —Art Sanders, Associate Provost
The third film in the Engaged Citizen Documentary Film Series, My Country, My Country, about Iranian attempts at democratic reform, is today, Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m. in Meredith 101. —Art Sanders, Associate Provost
The Engaged Citizen Documentary Film Series showing of Democracy on Deadline, a look at the role the press plays in making democracy work, will be shown at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Meredith Hall, Room 106. —Art Sanders, Associate Provost
Would you like to begin learning a few words in Spanish for an upcoming study abroad semester or travel seminar? Do you want or need to keep up your foreign language fluency? Drake University’s Department of World Languages and Cultures wants to help. Spanish Conversation Hours are scheduled for Mondays, 1–2 p.m., and Fridays, 2–3 … Continue reading Spanish language conversation hours
Hosted by the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies, Ibarra will showcase his documentary series “Run Carlos Run” on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. in Cowles Reading Room. The event is free and open to the public. “Run Carlos Run” follows Ibarra’s cross-country run from Brooklyn to California and the stories of the people he meets … Continue reading Visiting documentary filmmaker
The E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies is hosting a visiting professional, documentary filmmaker Carlos Ibarra, on Monday, Feb. 15 and Tuesday, Feb. 16. Ibarra will showcase several videos from his documentary series “Run Carlos Run” on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. in Cowles Reading Room. The event is free and open to the … Continue reading Filmmaker to present his work at Drake, Feb. 15 and 16