Monthly Archives: September 2016
INVITE: Conference on Political Satire and Press Freedom in Latin America
Conference on Political Satire and Press Freedom in Latin America at The Cooper Union on October 15
What: Press freedom in Latin America is constantly under threat. As a result of the attacks by some politicians and organized crime, the job of a social communicator is not only increasingly difficult to do, but in some cases it could mean a one-way ticket to death. A recent study by the American Organization Freedom House reports a drastic deterioration of the conditions of Latin American journalists.
“Bitter Laughter” a free, public conference about political satire and press freedom in Latin America will feature some of the region’s best political cartoonists as well as two keynote speakers to present the history of Latin American political satire and its current form. The conference will be in English and in Spanish, with English supertitles as needed.
Who: Cartoonists include:
- BonilAKA Xavier Bonilla (Ecuador)
- FeggoAKA Felipe Galindo (México)
- Juan Andrés Ravell(Venezuela) — founder and editor of El Chigüire Bipolar and Isla Presidencial
- Rayma Supriani(Venezuela)
- ChócoloAKA Harold Trujillo Torres (Colombia)
Keynote Speakers:
- Enrique del Risco(Cuba) — writer and academic from New York University from Cuba
- Elisa Tótaro (Venezuela) — director and co-founder of Equipo70, a political and Institutional communications firm
When: Saturday, October 15, 2pm – 6pm
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Audito
41 Cooper Square, NY, NY 10003
More: The conference, which is co-sponsored by ViceVersa Magazine, a weekly online publication showcasing the talent and achievements of Hispanics in the United States, and by the Dept. of Continuing Education and Public Programs of The Cooper Union, is free and open to the public. RSVPs are requested at http://bit.ly/2cumPcx.
Space to Connect, Reflect, and Heal
Over the past three weeks of this new academic year, we have been confronted with continued realities of inequity, injustice, and (personal and structural) violence that weigh heavy and impact many in our community. With the tragic shooting deaths of Keith Lamont Scott and Terence Crutcher, escalating hostility toward the Muslim community, recent violence in Chelsea and Minnesota, the cultural and environmental destruction of the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline, recent and continued acts of hate locally and globally, we have a pressing obligation as a community then to learn from and uplift each other.
Columbia University Multicultural Affairs — along with our colleagues in Undergraduate Student Life, CSA, CPS, and across campus — are here to provide personal and community support. In addition to on-going resources (see below), we want to provide additional spaces for reflection and healing in light of these most recent tragedies.
Open Space to Connect, Reflect, and Heal
Thursday, September 22
5pm – 7pm
Intercultural Resource Center (552 W 114th St)
From continuing racialized violence to growing hostility given the political climate, we acknowledge that there have been numerous ways our hearts and minds have been heavy with ongoing pain in our communities. The OMA offers this space for students who wish to come together for reflection and healing.
ACTION ITEM: Sexual Respect Initiative
Dear Students,
Today, as Columbia’s annual Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative begins, all new students (FT M.S., M.A., 1st year SEAS, 1st year PT, Knight Bagehots) are required (and all students are encouraged) to reflect on the link between sexual respect and membership in the Columbia community. Workshops, documentary filmscreenings and discussion, multiple online options, resources for healing and resilience, and independent projects are all ready for your engagement. *This is in addition to the pre-arrival tutorial and the orientation presentations.
How to Participate
Everyone is invited and strongly encouraged to choose as many options as you would like. If you are new toColumbia, or new to your school at Columbia, you must complete at least one option.
https://sexualrespect.columbia.edu/participate
Events Held at the Journalism School
Although you can choose any of the options above, you can also fulfill the requirement by attending one of three sessions to be held at the Journalism School just for Journalism students. The first is this Thursday, 9/22, at 6 p.m., in 601B – RSVP here.
https://sexualrespect.columbia.edu/sri-options-journalism
Sexual respect at Columbia is a commitment to acting with integrity and respect for others, and is a responsibility to do what we can, individually and collectively, to reinforce an ethic of care and mutual respect in our community, even amidst our differences. It is also the unequivocal refusal to tolerate sexual harassment, sexual assault and other forms of gender-based misconduct.
Here’s why you should care: Most basically, we are in a community together and the way we treat each other matters. But also, data coming directly from Columbia students via a major survey shows that many of you report being sexually harassed by your peers. Some have also reported nonconsensual sexual contact by another Columbiastudent, often (though not always) after having been drinking together.
Not surprisingly, this harassment and contact can interfere profoundly with academic success, student organizations and teams, and everyone’s well-being.
So, as we start this academic year, we can reshape our community and the ways we treat each other. The Sexual Respect Initiative, created for you by students along with faculty and administrators, gives you a ready path to gain skills and knowledge – and to contribute to making a difference.
But, you might say, I already treat my friends with respect – why should I do this too? The answer is in the title – it is the Sexual Respect AND Community Citizenship Initiative.
How many of us can say we don’t know anyone who has been harassed or subjected to dating violence or assault, or can say we don’t know anyone who may have crossed the line of harassment or other gender-based misconduct? And, importantly, how many of us feel equipped enough to step in or get help for a friend, even in our own community?
Simply put, the Sexual Respect Initiative is about understanding and responding to the links among us and doing what we can to create change, not just in this moment but throughout the year and beyond.
Participation by students new to Columbia or new to their department/school at Columbia is a required condition of continued enrollment. You must select at least one option before October 30.
Confirm Your Participation
- Visit http://courseworks.columbia.edu and log in with your UNI and password.
- Select My Projects on the left column.
- Select 2016-17 Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative.
- Follow the instructions for each option.
- Once complete, you will get a confirmation and evaluation email.
INVITATION: Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Presents: Raul Gallegos
KNIGHT-BAGEHOT FELLOWSHIP PRESENTS:
Raúl Gallegos: Crude Nation
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 – 6:30 PM
Stabile Center
Please join us as 2016-2017 Knight-Bagehot Fellows Stephen Kurczy and Silvana Ordoñez interview former Fellow Raúl Gallegos, ’81, on his new book, “Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela.”
Crude Nation tells the story of a country addicted to oil riches. The book explores the everyday economic reality that makes Venezuela – the nation with the world’s largest oil reserves – a ticking time bomb. It brings to life an upside down world where people buy and sell U.S. dollars in secret, and smuggle gasoline and food for a living. Drivers fill their gas tanks almost for free and used cars never lose their value over time. Venezuela’s consumers assume as much debt as they can handle and, paradoxically, spend their money on breast implants and flat screen TVs to safeguard their wealth. In Venezuela, only the ignorant save money; smart people max out their credit cards whenever possible.
To reserve your spot for this event, please go to:
Info Session: Sciences Po Dual Degree, Paris
Students,
Interested in studying in Paris next year and gaining experience at a French media outlet? You are invited to an information session at 4 pm on Friday September 23 in the Stabile Student Center, to learn more about our dual master’s degree program with L’Ecole de journalisme de Sciences Po in Paris.
Columbia Journalism School collaborates with Sciences Po in this unique program in which we exchange students who continue their studies in journalism and other subject in the partner schools. Read a summary of the program here: https://journalism.
Join Alice Antheaume, Executive Director, of the L’Ecole de Journalisme, who will explain details of the program, answer questions about applying, language requirements, the internships, financial aid and more. Dean Antheaume will lead a discussion with several of your fellow MS students who last year completed their studies at Sciences Po and can speak to their experiences at the university in Paris. Students in the program have interned during the year at outlets such as LeMonde, Agence France Presse, France24, and others.
INVITE: Bettman Lecture Series – “A Short Media History of Clouds”
Please join us for the first event in the 2016-2017 Bettman Lecture Series: “Materialities and Technologies,” hosted by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.
John Durham Peters
(University of Iowa)
“A Short Media History of Clouds”
6pm, Monday, September 19
Bettman Lecture Hall (Room 612), Schermerhorn Hall
The lecture is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by a reception in the Stronach Center on the 8th floor of Schermerhorn Hall.
John Durham Peters is the A. Craig Baird Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and will become Professor of English and Film & Media Studies at Yale in January 2017. Professor Peters studies media theory and history in diverse interdisciplinary contexts. His most recent book is The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (Chicago, 2015). He is currently working on a book project with the late Kenneth Cmiel titled Promiscuous Knowledge: The Information Age in Historical Perspective.
Inaugurated in 2004, the Bettman Lectures are an annual program of lectures in art history sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology. Endowed with a bequest from Linda Bettman, a former graduate student of the department, the lectures are named in her honor.
INVITE TO THE LATINO VOTE Conference
You are invited to participate in a conference on September 29 on The Battle for the Latino Vote. This half-day conference is the second of two organized by the Journalism School and Noticias Telemundo in a special effort to promote accurate, comprehensive coverage of the growing Latino in this presidential election, but also in races beyond fall. This conference will focus attention on the role of the youngest voters, how to best cover this population and issues relevant to them, and how to deliver news to them.
Sessions will include a conversation our Dean, Steve Coll, will lead with NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd; the perspectives from The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe; Adrian Carrasquillo of BuzzFeed; Monica Alba (fellow J-grad!) of NBC News; Mark Hugo Lopez of the Pew Hispanic Center and Telemundo’s national anchor José Díaz-Balart. We’ll leave plenty of time for Q&A so you’ll have chance to query speakers..
The conference: 8am-2pm, Thursday Sept. 29, Lecture Hall. Details & RSVP: https://latinovote2016.
We welcome your participation and hope to see you at the conference, but, attendence cannot interfere with your class schedules.
Ernest R. Sotomayor, Dean of Student Affairs