Thursday, January 27^th - 7:00 p.m.

SIU Student Center, Ballroom B

Haiti After the Earthquake: Reconnection Through Reconstruction

Pulitzer journalists discuss events in Haiti since the last year’s devastating earthquake.  Kwame Dawes, an award-winning poet;  Kyn Tolson, Development Director of Haitian Ministries; Steve Sapienza, award-winning news and documentary producer; and John Sawyer, founding director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

*This program is co-sponsored with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the SIUC School of Journalism

Monday, February 14^{th -} 1:00 p.m.

Communications Building Room 1032

Global Markets in Local Color (World Heritage Yard Sales)

Assistant Professor Sarah Lewison, Department of Radio-Television, Collage of Mass Communication & Media Arts, SIUC

Tuesday, March 8^th, 2011 - 3:00-6:00 pm

Communications Building, Studio A

Gender Equity in Children’s Media

This event will include a presentation by David Kleeman, President of the American Center on Children and Media and executive board member of Prix Jeunnese International, organization devoted to quality media for children globally.  Dr. Dafna Lemish, Chair of the Department of Radio-Television, will present the research she has done with producers in 135 countries on gender and culture.   Also included will be excerpts of television for children from around the world that promote gender equity.  More information will be made available as details are finalized.

*This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Radio-Television, WSIU, and the Department of Women’s Studies.

Tuesday – Thursday, March 24th-26th - (Specifics TBD)

TV Serrana

Carlos Y. Rodriguez, Director at TV Serrana

This Spring 2011 Chiapas Media Project (CMP) is proud to be partnering with TV Serrana, to organize their first US tour. TV Serrana is the award winning community media project that trains youth from the Sierra Maestra in video production so they can tell the stories of their communities and culture. In the 17 years since its founding, TV Serrana has produced close to 500 documentaries that have won numerous national and international awards.

(Tentatively) Monday, May 2^nd   - Time TBA

Communication Building Room 1032

Foreign News on Television: A Multinational Perspective

Akiba Cohen (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1973), Professor of Communication at Tel Aviv University