Upcoming Events

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.

United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival

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

The School of Communication is pleased to announce the second annual United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival. We seek short films that reflect on University of Miami’s rich Black History. We welcome short films on any aspect of Black History (including Black diasporic history) as well as films from any genre, including, but not limited to documentary, news, comedy, experimental, and drama. Thematically, we invite short films that reflect on Blackness, broadly construed. We are particularly interested in films that are based on contents in the [...]

United Black Students and UTrailblazers presents Canes Black History Film Festival

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

The School of Communication is pleased to announce the second annual United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival. Screening short films that reflect on University of Miami’s rich Black History, the festival is particularly focused on films that are based on contents in the UTrailblazers Experience, current events, and/or Black student experience(s) on a multicultural campus. The goal of the festival is to enhance and highlight the UTrailblazers Experience at the Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., Breezeway at the Cosford Cinema which honors the pioneers who paved the [...]