Events for April 6, 2022 - April 22, 2022

Q & A with the filmmaker of RADIUM GIRLS

Zoom

Register to view RADIUM GIRLS between now and February 25 at https://bit.ly/3rHtZ0Y Then join us for February 25, 7:00 - 8:00pm for a Q & A with the filmmaker via Zoom. RADIUM GIRLS (2018, 103 minutes) A historical drama based on actual events, RADIUM GIRLS tells the story of two sisters employed at American Radium, a New Jersey factory where they paint glow-in-the-dark watch dials. When Josephine (Abby Quinn) mysteriously falls ill, older sister Bessie (Joey King) uncovers the unknown truth about radium: it's a deadly poison. Bessie becomes determined to bring [...]

Blackness and Anti-Blackness in American Public Life

Zoom

Join us Wednesday, March 31st 4:30pm-6pm EST With a welcome from School of Communication Dean Karin Wilkins, and opening remarks from Dr. Jafari Allen, director of the UM Africana Studies Program. Blackness has been (and continues to be) under attack globally, but particularly within our country. As universities grapple with some of the wider-ranging and material effects of racism, particularly anti-Blackness, three scholars engage questions about the relationship of racial identity to social movements, media production, and intellectual property. Dr. Lisa M. Corrigan draws from her most-recent book Black Feelings: [...]

The Olympics, FIFA and Media Relations

CIB 2055

Saint-Clair Milesi is a strategic communications consultant based in Paris since 2015. He graduated in journalism/PR from Arizona State and has an MBA in Sports Administration. As a journalist, he edited Rio de Janeiro’s leading online source of news O Globo, leaving to become a media advisor to the U.S. State Department in Brazil, in 2006. Later, in 2008, he joined the adventure to bring the Olympic Games for a first time to South America handling communication for Rio 2016 winning bid. Saint-Clair then became the Communications Director of the [...]