Resurfacing Ghosts: Journalism, LGBTQIA+ Histories, and a Future of Care

Wolfson Building, 1021

Dr. Patrick Johnson, Marquette University, examines how journalism has historically marginalized LGBTQIA+ communities, leaving gaps that still echo in how we understand the past and present. Drawing on research and teaching, this talk invites us to reckon with what has been lost and explore how to bring these specters into the light to find a more inclusive and equitable future for storytelling, especially for those in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Navigating Control: Media Systems and Digital Landscape in Central Asia

Wolfson Building, 1021

The Global Engagement Taskforce (GET) of the School of Communication has planned a series of talks and events to support the school’s internationalization efforts. The core idea is to have a diversity of speakers/events to represent the various faculty and student interests in practice and critical research. These interests span from technological insights and aesthetic initiatives to journalistic and promotional work.

Radical Listening & Racial Exhaustion for Journalists

Bill Cosford Cinema 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, United States

Dr. Ralina Joseph, presidential term professor of communication and the founding director of the Center for Communication, Difference & Equity at the University of Washington, will discuss her ground-breaking research on radical listening to journalists’ work.  This talk focuses on radical listening, a critical communication of race skill and strategy that holds personal stories of racialized power differentials alongside narratives of histories, structures, and institutions. Radical listening is a key skill for journalists who seek to report deeply on communities of which they may or may not be a part [...]