UM School of Communication

UM SoC Graduate Programs Virtual Info Session
2022-04-04 12:00 UTC
A virtual Information Session on University of Miami’s School of Communication Graduate Programs will be held on Monday, April 4 @ Noon.

Join us to learn more about our PhD, MFA, MA, MS, and Certificate programs.

Watching Movies with Dave Barry
2022-04-02 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author and humorist Dave Barry as he introduces Barry Levinson’s 1982 coming-of-age drama “Diner” and participates in a Q&A with the audience. The event is part of the Cosford Cinema’s monthly “Watching Movies With” series.

Canes Film Festival Script Deadline
2022-04-01 18:00 UTC
UM Canes Film Festival Deadline for Film Entry April 15th – 6PM ​
Films/videos submitted to screen at the Festival must have been completed for credit in an official CCA course during the period of Jan 1, 2021 – April 15, 2022
Please fill out the application form and provide a Vimeo/Youtube link to your film.

AdGroup Internship Fair
2022-04-01 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | THesis Hotel Miami, 1350 South Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146
Have talents and skills in advertising, marketing, social media, video production, graphic design, project management, public relations?
Then join us on April 1st, 2022 at THesis Hotel in Coral Gables where the best advertising agencies and creative shops in Miami will be scouting for upcoming talent.
Over 20 companies and advertising agencies will participate!

SoC Research Lecture Series: Dr. Martin Scott, How does media coverage influence humanitarian aid?
2022-03-30 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Zoom
Does media influence governments’ allocation of humanitarian aid – if so, how? This question has puzzled media and political communication scholars since the 1990s, with grand claims being made for the so-called ‘CNN Effect’, many of which were subsequently discredited. In this research lecture, Dr. Scott revisits these issues using rare in-depth interviews with 30 directors and senior policymakers in 16 of the world’s largest donor countries.
Dr. Scott is an Associate Professor in Media and International Development, at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He is currently researching media’s influence on humanitarian aid, international media freedom initiatives, international journalism and media capture.
The presentation will be about 45 minutes followed by 15 minutes of Q&A session. Anyone who is interested is welcome to join!
Meeting ID: 981 1367 2588
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Ribeiro Innovation Fund Speaker Series: Thomas Tucker, Associate Professor
2022-03-28 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Wolfson Building, 1021
Thomas Tucker received his BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he was a Joan Mitchell MFA grant recipient. He has been evolving complex drawings into animation/kinetic sculptural pieces using 3D software and sound design for over a decade.
Prof. Tucker maintains an international profile through his exhibition record and his collaborative research, which often takes him to Japan and the Middle East. Some of these projects include: dealing with body mechanics using motion capture, using technology to create a responsive virtual heritage environment in collaboration with art historians, using animation to describe internal organ movements in collaboration with bimolecular imaging specialists, helping city councilmen visualize new traffic simulations and designing serious games.

Those who are not available to attend in-person, the presentation will be streamed via Zoom as well.

Senior Portraits
2022-03-28 10:00 - 18:00 UTC | Whitten UC Lobby by the front desk
This is the FINAL chance for seniors to be featured in the Ibis Yearbook. Appointments can be made via ibisyearbook.com. There is a $25 sitting fee to be paid at the appointment. Please be sure to wear business casual attire.

SoC Research Day
2022-03-25 10:00 - 17:30 UTC | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Research Day is a showcase of current research that is being conducted by faculty across the School of Communication. Presentations, screenings, and demos feature work that has received internal funding support from SoC as well as work that has been awarded external funding from federal, state, and local sources, as well as private foundations. Research Day concludes with a reception that is open to all faculty and SoC graduate students.

An outdoor reception will be held from 4-5:30 on the terrace on the 3rd floor of CIB. All graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend.

Watching Movies With: Jacqueline Charles
2022-03-19 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join Miami Herald staff writer Jacqueline Charles and Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez for a screening and discussion of George Tillman Jr’s SOUL FOOD (1997).
JACQUELINE CHARLES has reported on Haiti and the English-speaking Caribbean for the Miami Herald for over a decade. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, she was awarded a 2018 Maria Moors Cabot Prize — the most prestigious award for coverage of the Americas.

Miami Film Festival: Short Documentary Screening and Awards
2022-03-09 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
MDC’s Miami Film Festival is proud to partner with the Cosford Cinema to present a program of 5 exemplary short documentaries, competing for the Short Documentary Film Award, Sponsored by the University of Miami School of Communication.

The Future of Media is Now – An Insider’s View with PBS President Paula Kerger
2022-03-09 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Zoom
Event co-hosted by School of Communication Dean, Karin G. Wilkins.
Paula A. Kerger is president and chief executive officer of PBS, the nation’s largest non-commercial media organization representing more than 330 member stations throughout the country. She is the longest-serving president and CEO in PBS history.
Over 15 years, Kerger has led the transformation of PBS from a broadcaster to a multiplatform digital media organization which delivers on public television’s essential mission of education, inspiration and service to the American public. Each year, 80% of U.S. television households watch PBS, and each month, Americans view nearly 375 million videos on PBS’s digital platforms. Programs on PBS are consistently recognized with the industry’s most prestigious honors, including Peabody, Emmy and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards.
Under Kerger’s leadership, PBS has deepened its impact, from providing universal access to early learning resources through the PBS KIDS broadcast and streaming channels, to empowering more than 3 million educators each month with digital resources through PBS LearningMedia. Kerger also serves as president of the PBS Foundation, which provides a significant source of revenue for projects that benefit the entire public television system.
Kerger is a frequent speaker on issues around media, culture, education and technology. She has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Chautauqua Institution, Detroit Economic Club, CODE Conference, SXSW, BANFF Media Conference and the Milken Institute Global Conference, among other high-profile events.
Kerger has been honored with the Giants of Broadcasting Award; the Advancing American Democracy Award from the Benjamin Harris Presidential Site; the Woman of Achievement Award from Women in Development, New York; the National Education Association Friend of Education Award; Promax/BDA, B&C and Multichannel News Brand Builder Award; and the Realscreen Hall of Fame Award. Since 2010, she has been regularly included in the Hollywood Reporter’s “Women in Entertainment Power 100,” and she is regularly featured in Washingtonian Magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Washington.”
Prior to joining PBS, Kerger served for more than a decade at the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the parent company of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 New York, where her ultimate position was executive vice president and chief operating officer. She also held roles at the Metropolitan Opera, International House and U.S. Committee for UNICEF.
Kerger received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Baltimore, where she serves on the Merrick School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council. She has received honorary doctorates from Washington University in St. Louis, Grand Valley State University, Allegheny College, Northeastern University, and she received the Chancellor’s Medallion from University of North Carolina Asheville. She currently serves as a DC Fellow at the Darden School, University of Virginia.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Women’s Forum. She serves as a board member for the Meredith Corporation and as director of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is the former chair of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.

iDebate Rwanda vs. UM Debate
2022-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Shoma Hall, CIB 3053, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
A Public Debate on the Motion, “This House would grant those diagnosed with terminal illnesses the right to access treatments that have not completed clinical testing.” Audience participation will be invited. Doors open at 7:30 pm

For more information, contact Professor Steinberg, dave@miami.edu

STRANGERS TO PEACE screening at Miami Film Festival
2022-03-06 16:15 - 18:15 (America/New_York) | TOWER 1, 1508 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Come to the screening of the documentary STRANGERS TO PEACE, directed and produced by UM alumni and a UM professor, this is the story of 3 former FARC soldiers and their reintegration back into Colombian society. Eligible for the Documentary Achievement Award.

MFA Documentary Info Session
2022-03-02 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
This is an online session for the new Documentary MFA program. See link to join.

Gaining Access in the Media Business
2022-02-28 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Zoom
On Monday, February 28, at 6:30 pm, Brian Norris, Senior Vice President, Direct to Scale & Commerce Partnerships, Ad Sales at NBCUniversal Media, will speak about gaining access in the media business, including diversity issues.

The Olympics, FIFA and Media Relations
2022-02-24 16:40 - 17:35 UTC | 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 2014 FIFA World Cup organizing committee. Between 2010 and 2014 he helped implement an international promotion strategy achieving records in volunteer enrollment, ticket sales and tournament awareness. This period forged his experience dealing with complex agendas and stakeholders as there was a permanent challenging environment between FIFA, the media and the governments in Brazil.
In France, he became Communications Director of the Paris bid committee to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. After another successful campaign ending in 2017, Saint-Clair became a consultant, creating Share4Sport. He has since been working with clients such as Le Coq Sportif, Val d’Oise and the International Olympic Committee, which he advises on communication and engagement strategies for candidate cities.
Saint-Clair is also a visiting lecturer for the Centre International d’Etude du Sport (CIES) since 2011. He is Italian-Brazilian, speaks five languages and is passionate about history and football.

Blackness and Anti-Blackness in American Public Life
2021-03-31 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | 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: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties to understand how racial feelings shape politics and how racial politics shape feelings.
Dr. Alfred L. Martin, Jr. extends his work in The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom to discuss the imagination and commodification of Black audiences and the ways that structures media production practices.
Dr. Anjali Vats engages discussions of Blackness and intellectual property from her new book The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of American to examine how American understandings of creatorship prevent Black people from owning and protecting their creative works.
Taken together, these books make timely and important interventions into contemporary national conversations and the authors are excited to engage in lively conversation.
This program is collaboratively hosted by The School of Communication, The Center for the Humanities, The Africana Studies Program, and the American Studies Program.

Q & A with the filmmaker of RADIUM GIRLS
2021-02-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 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 the horrors of radium poisoning to light and take down American Radium​, a​s she fights not only for her sister, but also for the rest of the women around her.
LYDIA DEAN PILCHER
Lydia Dean Pilcher is a two-time Emmy winner and Academy Award nominee who has produced over thirty-five films, including The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson), Jesus’ Son (Alison Maclean), and eleven films with director Mira Nair, including The Namesake, Vanity Fair, Amelia, Mississippi Masala. Most recently she produced Queen of Katwe (for The Walt Disney Company) and HBO Films’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne) and directed the WWII female spy thriller A Call to Spy (IFC Films).
Presented by the School of Communication. Co-Sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the Environment, Culture, & Media Program, and the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.
Event Details
What: Radium Girls post-screening ​Q & A
When: Thursday, February 25, 2021, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Where: Zoom
Who: Lydia Dean Pilcher, Co-Director/Co-Producer Radium Girls
Sign up at: https://bit.ly/3rHtZ0Y

This event is free and open to the UM community. If you would like to join us for this event, please register https://bit.ly/3rHtZ0Y. Feel free to invite those you think might be interested. If you have any questions, contact Joselyn Garcia at joselyn@miami.edu or at (305) 284-6902.
How to watch the films
Watch Radium Girls anytime between now and the Q & A event on February 25 at 7PM EST, at ScreeningRoom. You will receive an e-mail invitation to join a ScreeningRoom group. You can either click on the email invite or just go to ScreeningRoom directly and create a FREE ScreeningRoom account. It’s simple and takes less than a minute. (ScreeningRoom, has a very strict privacy policy, so there is no data mining or advertising ever!)
Please go here to sign up for ScreeningRoom: https://www.screeningroom.org/users/signup
We recommend creating your account now in order to begin accessing the films now. The films will be available until February 25th.
**It is important that you sign up to ScreeningRoom with the same email you signed up with on Eventbrite. This will be the email that is used to invite you to view the screening itself. When you sign up you will need to confirm your email. (If you don’t get a confirmation email, please check your junk mail or clutter folders). If you need help, please email: joselyn@miami.edu.
Once you have created an account and are logged in, you will be invited to join the group Radium Girls where the films will be available through February 25th.

Career Conversations with James Dorgan from The Walt Disney Company
2021-02-10 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Creativity immediately comes to mind when we think of the Walt Disney Company, but what about personality? Leadership plays an important role in the visionary media empire and it has been reflected in the growth of Disney+ and other Disney-affiliated streaming platforms at a global scale despite the pandemic.
So, do you have what it takes to become a leader at Disney?
Join us for a conversation with alumni, James Dorgan of the Walt Disney Company to get answers plus hear about his journey from the UM classroom to the Disney boardroom.

Black Women in Leadership: Digital Content & Social Media Marketing
2020-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Meet SoC alumni: Jamila Wright, the Urban Digital Marketing Manager at Atlantic Records and MacKenzie Green, the Social Media Director at BET+
This virtual talk show will be hosted by MBEI alumna, Janine Kenner who currently works for the Miami Heat.

Graduate Program Q&A
2020-11-11 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
GRADUATE PROGRAM Q&A
Join members from every department of the School of Communication to discuss & ask questions about our graduate programs/application processes.
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Wednesday, November 11
6PM-7PM (EST)
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Click here to register TODAY: https://bit.ly/2TNKIAG
