UM School of Communication

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
