FALL SEMESTER ABROAD PROGRAM IN URBINO, ITALY
SOCIETY, COMMUNICATION & MARKETING IN
THE ITALIAN CONTEXT
Information Session:
Wednesday February 13, 2019
4:30-5:30pm
Bartley 1001
For students interested in earning communication and/or marketing credit while partnering with local organizations.
For more info,
Contact Dr. Amy Way
amy.way@villanova.edu
Africana Studies, the Waterhouse Family Institute, Falvey Memorial Library and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
presents
New Growth: The Art
and Texture of Black
Hair after Emancipation
Dr. Jasmine Cobb
Bacca Foundation Associate Professor
African & African American Studies and Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University
Monday, February 11th
4:30 pm
Falvey Library, Speaker’s Corner
The Communication Department Presents
Dr. Sharrell D. Luckett, University of Cincinnati
YoungGiftedandFat: Turning Critical Autoethnography into Performance
Wednesday, Feb 6th 5:00-6:00 pm
Garey Hall: Communication Department Studio
Communication Career Day
When:
February 16th, 2019
9:00AM - 1:30PM
Where: Garey Cafe
Villanova Center for Liberal Education Presents:
Shauna MacDonald, PhD.
Place, Memory, and Embodied Storytelling
Wednesday, January 31st, 2019
12:00pm - 1:30pm
St. Augustine Center: Room 300
Lunch will be provided
The Department of Communication
2018 Harron Family Endowed Chair in Communication
Annual Lecture
Heidi Campbell, Ph.D.
Title: Rethinking Religious Authority in Digital Culture: Digital Creatives as Religion's New Interpreters
Wednesday, Dec. 5
5:00 PM
Garey Hall, Rm 10A
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET
Join Us for a Special Presentation and Q&A
with Director Rich Moore!
Where: Mendall Hall 101
When: Thursday Nov 8th, 2:30PM
Flying Words Project - ASL Poetry Dynamic Duo!
Where: Communication Department Studio, Garey Hall
When: Friday October 26
ASL Poetry Workshop, 1:30-3:00 PM - please contact Dr. Heidi Rose, heidi.rose@villanova.edu to sign up
ASL Poetry Performance, 7:00 PM - Free and open to the public, ACS approved
Co-sponsors: GIS, Honors, Theatre, English
Newly declared Communication major?
Thinking of majoring in COM?
Come to the COM Major Info Session
Faculty and current majors will answer questions about how to maximize your opportunities in the major and make the most of advising.
When: Monday, Oct. 8, 5:00-6:00 PM. Snacks will be served!
Where: Garey Rm 10A (Aka the Garey Cafe)
Questions? Contact Dr. Rose, heidi.rose@villanova.edu
Artist: Dr. Jim Ferris, Professor, Ability Center Endowed Chair of Disability Studies, University of Toledo
Title: "Was Your Mama White? Excavating Hidden History" A Solo Performance
When: Monday, Oct. 1, 5:00 PM
Where: Communication Department Studio, Garey Hall
Description: What do you do when you learn you’re not who you think you are? And why does Uncle Joe want me to just shut up? This performance digs into one family’s past to challenge whiteness and the lattice of assumptions making up cultural identity. Learn a little more about who you are—and who you might be.
The Communication Department Presents:
Screening of the 2017-18 Social Justice Documentary Films
Sankofa and The Mayor of Graterford
When: Mon 9/24 - 7:00 PM
Where: Connelly Cinema
Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Honor Society, will be hosting a Call-Out Meeting on Wednesday, September 19th at 6:00 pm in Garey 101B. We will discuss the character of Lambda Pi Eta as a national organization; explain what kind of events we host, your benefits in becoming a member, and the membership requirements.
Two of the basic requirements necessary for induction include the following: completion of 12 credits of communication coursework by the end of the 2018 fall semester and a Communication GPA of a 3.25. If you are studying abroad but meet these requirements, you can still be inducted!
We hope to see you next Wednesday to meet the members of Lambda Pi Eta and to find out why it is such a great organization!
If you have any questions, or cannot make it to the meeting but would like to be on the email list of possible inductees, please email the president Maddie Suszka at msuszka@villanova.edu.
Tony Ponturo, Leadership Through Branding and Example
Wednesday, April 11, 5:00pm Communication Department Studio, Garey Hall
Tony Ponturo is a respected voice in sports media and marketing:
CEO Ponturo Management Group, LLC and Managing Partner in the Kirmser Ponturo Group, LLC, a company that produces and promotes projects at the crossroads of sports and entertainment.
Regular guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight, Fox Business, Bloomberg News, CNBC.
Annually ranked in the top 20 most powerful people in sports and ranked #14 among Businessweek's list of most prominent executives.
Two-time TONY AWARD winner with MEMPHIS and WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2010 and Sports Business Journals Hall of Fame, Champions, 2009.
Ed Mabrey presents: The Human Experience
The WFI & Department of Communication invite you to two incredible Poetry Events with Slam Poet Ed Mabrey!
The performance is Friday, April 13th at 5pm. A workshop titled “Using Your Art as Activism” will be held Saturday, April 14th 12:00-2:00pm
Come by the Communication Department Studio in Garey Hall for the experience!
Information on Ed Mabrey:
The only Four-Time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion
Three-Time Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam Champion
The most wins of any Slamming Poet
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism: Collaboration at the Crossroads of Gender, Race & Tech
Thursday, March 22, 4-6pm
Communication Dept. Studio, Garey Hall
Join us for a demo talk by Ashley Baccus-Clark, a Brooklyn-based Molecular & Cellular Biologist and multidisciplinary artist who uses new media and storytelling to explore themes of deep learning, cognition, memory, race, trauma, and systems of belief. She is the Director of Research at Hyphen-Labs, an international team of women of color creating at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through their NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism project, Hyphen-Labs strives to create meaningful and engaging ways to explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design, placing collective needs and experience at the center of evolving narratives.
Journalism on the Cutting Edge: New Tech Frontiers from the Washington Post
February 15th, 4-6pm
Seth Blanchard is a Senior Editorial Developer at the Washington Post working in the engineering and graphics departments. The goal of his work is to tell stories using emerging technology. In the past year he has used Photogrammetry and Augmented Reality to drive narratives by providing new and engaging visual perspectives for Post readers.
Sexual Assault in the Age of #metoo: Zohar Kfir and Testimony
February 1st 4-6pm
Testimony is an interactive documentary for virtual reality that shares the stories of five survivors of sexual assault and their journey to healing. As a platform Testimony allows the public to witness those who have been silenced and bring awareness to an epidemic that affects us all - our friends, our family, our children.
World Conflict Photography Exhibition
February 3-9 2018
North American Exhibition opening of WZFreelance World Conflict Photography. Experience the work of award winning journalists covering conflicts Worldwide. Join us at the Communication Studio in Garey Hall Villanova University.
Sponsored by the WFI, the Communication Department hosted the North American premiere of the World Conflict Photography Exhibition, created by the War Zone Freelance Project, Feb. 3-9
The Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society received a 2018 Presidential Citation from the National Communication Association in recognition of the WFI's commitment to facilitating NCA's vision of equity and inclusion.
Dr. Heidi Rose received the 2018 Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance from the National Communication Association.
Heidi M. Rose is the Chair of the Department of Communication at Villanova University. Dr. Rose has amassed many accomplishments in a twenty-plus year career as a Performance Studies scholar. Rose has consistently crafted performances aimed at illuminating how power impacts bodies, cultures, families, and theatre itself. At Villanova University, Rose’s impressive corpus of student-centered performances include pieces related to the AIDS crisis (i.e., Living with AIDS, 1994 – 2001), race relations (i.e., Dreaming the Beloved Community: Race, Relationships, and Reality, 1997 – 2002), and Villanova student experiences (i.e., Every Decision Counts, 2009 – 2013). Dr. Rose has published extensively, served as the editor of Text and Performance Quarterly, and received seven performance-related grants (among many other achievements). Rose’s most impressive work has come in the form of the Words and Music trilogy—a series of three auto/biographical plays (Mirror Image, Good Enough, and Twin) interrogating culture and family. In each, Dr. Rose animates family members through voice and body, demonstrating the possibilities of solo performance. Rose has performed from Words and Music at eight U.S. universities to date. As multiple eminent scholars attest, Heidi M. Rose’s body of work is distinguished in its excellent scripting, aesthetic quality, and focus on putting the performer’s body center stage. The breadth and quality of this work indeed situate Rose as an outstanding performer who will continue to carry the legacy of Leslie Irene Coger into the future.
Congratulations to senior Communication major Milan Genovese for receiving the Anne Sceia Klein Award for Professional Promise in Public Relations! The award honors a college junior or senior who is a member of a PRSSA chapter affiliated with Philadelphia PRSA and has demonstrated dedication to the field of public relations. Milan was honored at the 50th Annual PRSA Philadelphia Pepperpot Awards, where she was lauded for her two terms as Villanova’s PRSSA chapter president, five internship experiences, and commitment to academic excellence. Dr. Bill Cowen, director of Villanova’s Public Relations Program, supported Milan’s nomination, and was also in attendance to showcase items from the PRSA time capsule he curated while chairing the Philadelphia PRSA chapter awards in 1999. Great work Milan!
The Villanova Communication Alumni Network (VCAN) was proud to present its first professional development event of the season at Meredith Corporation in New York. We were so impressed by the engaging, dynamic panel discussion on Crisis Communication featuring our accomplished alumni in the field, and moderated by VCAN Founder, Dr. Bill Cowen.
Special thanks to our hosts at Meredith Corporation:
Special thanks to our panelists:
Heidi Rose, PhD, chair of the Communication Department, and Bill Cowen, EdD, assistant professor of Communications and coordinator of the Public Relations specialization, recently served as Communication expert judges for the Three Minute Thesis Competition at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium in June 2018. 3MT is a challenging contest where student researchers have up to three minutes, with just one accompanying visual, to convey clearly and creatively the relevance and uniqueness of their research project. This year's competition highlighted a diversity of projects and researchers from all over the globe.
Our annual CNN/Turner Broadcasting trek, co-sponsored by the Department of Communication and the Office of Undergraduate Students. Joe Dugan '87, Senior Vice President at Turner, sponsors the trip each year, and students have an opportunity to tour some studios and meet with VU alums who now work in various areas of the company, from production to marketing and client services.
Dr. Heidi Rose received the 2017 Creative Expression Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender for her solo performance, Twin.
Cameron Quevedo, visiting assistant professor, has been accepted into the 2017 Artist Academy (https://www.filmlinc.org/filmmaker-initiatives/artist-academy/), a yearly mentorship event sponsored by the New York Film Festival and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. His film, El tucán (The Toucan) has been selected to screen this month at the San Francisco Latino Film Festival, the 2017 Festival of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico City, and the DOQU Film Festival in Querétaro, Mexico. El tucan was also recently awarded “Best International Latino Documentary” at the 2017 Latino Film Market.
We are delighted to announce that Kelly J. Stoner ('08) and Elise Scioscia ('08, '10), graduates of the Communication program, were honored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with the 2017 Young Alumni Medallion Award on Oct 4, 2017. Kelly works as an Associate Conservation Scientist with the Wildlife Preservation Society, where she leads the bison program in its effort to restore wild, free-ranging bison to tribal lands in the American West. Elise is the Director of Public Policy for Women Against Abuse in Philadelphia. Congratulations on this well deserved honor!
The Chronicle of Higher Education
When Neo-Nazis and Antifascists Clash, This Professor Wants to Be in the Thick of It
Billie Murray, PhD
Philadelphia Inquirer
Defining who is ‘American’ by the language they speak
Susan Mackey-Kallis, PhD
The Christian Science Monitor
Race and the beauty counter: What a greater selection of hues says about culture
Shauna MacDonald, PhD
The San Francisco Chronicle
San Bruno explosion hangs over PG&E amid wildfire investigation
Derek Arnold, MA
Variety
Brian Williams Opens Up About Regaining Viewers’ Trust After Scandal
Leonard Shyles, PhD
Christian Science Monitor
Race and infuencing beauty market through purchases
Shauna MacDonald, PhD
Variety
Women anchors in post-O'Reilly Fox News
Shauna MacDonald, PhD
CNN
What's wrong with too many white men in one place?
Gordon Coonfield, PhD
The Academic Minute
Billie Murray, PhD
Inc.
Do this in your next job interview to sound more intelligent and project confidence
Susan-Mackey-Kallis, PhD
CLAS
William Cowen, EdD
Main Line News
Villanova students’ film shows stories behind the Special Olympics
Stephen McWilliams
TIME
How Donald Trump Changed the Way College Students Learn About Conspiracy Theories
Derek Arnold, MA
NBC10
Dr. Billie Murray Discusses Inauguration Day Protests
Billie Murray, PhD
CBS Philly
Can Trump walk back on some of divisive rhetoric spewed on the campaign trail?
Maurice Hall, PhD
CBS Philly
Anti-Trump protests break out while social justice academics in Philly
Bryan Crable, PhD
US News & World Report
Coping with Creepy Clown Scares and Other Threats
Derek Arnold, MA
New York Times
How to Get People to Evacuate? Try Fear
Derek Arnold, MA
The Christian Science Monitor
Can Facebook campaign push users to the polls?
Thomas Ksiazek, PhD
USA Today
Bryan Crable, PhD
The Christian Science Monitor
Will Twitter, Facebook bring new viewers by livestreaming debates?
Thomas Ksiazek, PhD
The New York Times
After Orlando Shooting, ‘False Flag’ and ‘Crisis Actor’ Conspiracy Theories Surface
Derek Arnold, MA
Voice of America
Professor Gordon Coonfield Discusses Symbolism of Black Lives Matter
Gordon Coonfield, PhD
WHYY
Villanova University Professor Discusses Protest Movements
Dr. Billie Murray
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