COMM 794S: Seminar – Communication for Development and Social Change:
Policies, Strategies and Exemplars
Instructor: Jan Servaes
COMM 694W: Seminar - Theory and Practice of Dialogue
Instructor: Leda Cooks
COMM 694W: Seminar - Theory and Practice of Dialogue
Instructor: Leda Cooks
Future Imperatives of Communication and Information
for Development and Social Change
Professor Roy Colle's lecure, Innovations in Development Communication: A View from the Field, reaches back in history to identify some of the early strands of development communication — and some of the struggles that confronted its acceptance in the field.
This lecture draws on some of Dr. Kraidy's books and research projects:
Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (2009, Cambridge University Press), which explores the elaboration of locally resonant forms of modernity through the contentious politics of reality television.
Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (2009, Cambridge University Press), which explores the elaboration of locally resonant forms of modernity through the contentious politics of reality television.
This interactive, theater based workshop, will provide participants with an opportunity to enhance their communication and active listening skills. Participants will learn and experience basic techniques of voice, gesture, body language, movement, improvisation, intentional presence and creative risk-taking as tools for engaging and retaining the interest of their audience.
The UMass Amherst campus is addressing sustainability across many fronts on campus and The Environmental Institute (TEI) is organizing or participating in many related events, including those listed below. Details and links will be posted on the TEI website http://www.umass.edu/tei/TEI/LectureSpring2010.html as they develop. Please contact TEI to get involved in any of these initiatives, to find out more, or to share other sustainability events planned around campus.
Daniel Hallin, Professor and Chair of Communication, University of California, San Diego will lecture on "Health and the Public Sphere: The Politicization of Health Reporting, 1960s-2000s" on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 from 12:00 to 1:30pm at UMass, Campus Center Room 803.
The Center for the Study of Communication (CSC), Department of Communication, and the SBS Center 'Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC)' cordially invite you to the seminar, "Journalism And/For Social Change" featuring Professor Barbie Zelizer
Last year the Rotary Club of Amherst donated over $24,000 to local non-profit organizations, international humanitarian projects, and college scholarships to graduating local high school students. Over 375 items with a total value of over $60,00 are up for bidding. Please tune in to the 2nd edition of the Amherst Rotary Auction or come and bid again this year on November 13 and 14 on Amherst Community Television (ACTV). Call (413) 256-0111 to bid live!
For more details, go to: www.amherstrotaryclub.org/auction
For more details, go to: www.amherstrotaryclub.org/auction
Prof. Timothy Kennedy, Chair of Communication at the University of Tampa, FL, will discuss the different roles a change agent or community organizer can play based on his past experiences and life story. Kennedy most recently published “Where the Rivers Meet the Sky: A Collaborative Approach to Participatory Development” (Southbound, 2009), and is the author of the 2006 book “Midnight Son: A Tribute to John Lee Hooker” (University of Tampa Press).