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INVITE: Conference on Political Satire and Press Freedom in Latin America

Conferences, Speakers, Speeches

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:

 

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.

ACTION ITEM: Sexual Respect Initiative

Action Item, Community Citizenship, Healthcare Issues, Knight Bagehot, M.A. Program, M.S. Program, Part-time Students

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

  1. Visit http://courseworks.columbia.edu and log in with your UNI and password.
  1. Select My Projects on the left column.
  1. Select 2016-17 Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative.
  1. Follow the instructions for each option.
  1. Once complete, you will get a confirmation and evaluation email.

INVITATION: Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Presents: Raul Gallegos

Fellowship Programs, Invitation, Knight Bagehot, Speakers
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

Dual Degree, Information Session, M.A. Program, M.S. Program

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.columbia.edu/international-programs.  Then, please review the Sciences Po presentation, which provides details about the school, what makes a good candidate, when applications are due and other information.

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”

Columbia Events, Invitation, Networking, Other Schools
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

Invitation
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.eventbrite.com  The program will also be livestreamed and archived for those who cannot join on that day.
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 Affairscce2a09f-1e2a-4cb1-883b-62dafd50875a

Fall Prep Day is this Friday!

Adjuncts, Alumni, Faculty, Fun Stuff, M.A. Program, M.S. Program, Orientation, Part-time Students, PhD, Staff, Surviving the School, Tips
Hello All,
This Friday is Fall Prep Day!
All faculty, staff and students are invited!
Below is the schedule.  We look forward to seeing all of you at this official launch of the fall semester!

Friday, September 2, 2016 – Fall Prep Day

10:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m., Miller Theatre

Welcome from the Alumni Board

Karen Toulon, J’85, Chair of the J-School Alumni Board

 

“How to Survive – and Thrive – at the J-School” – All-Class Lecture

Prof. William Grueskin gives his annual presentation on what you need to know to get the most out of your year here — and out of your career as a journalist. (You won’t want to miss this one — it’s legendary!)

 

12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Furnald Lawn/Furnald Plaza

BBQ Picnic

Join faculty, students and staff for an old-fashioned picnic.

*You must attend the morning lecture to be admitted to the BBQ.

 

1:00 p.m. Lecture Hall, 3rd FL

Student Government & Affinity Group Briefing

Learn about how our student government and affinity groups operate and what you can do to get involved!

 

2-3:30 p.m. Rooms listed below

Affinity group first meetings

 

2 p.m.

African Students Association – Room 601C with Ajibola Taofee Amzat, J17 & Evelyn Corchado 

National Association of Hispanic Journalists – Room 607B with Prof. Elena Cabral

National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association – Brown Center with Spencer Macnaughton, J’15 & Prof. Mark Hansen

South Asian Journalists Association – Room 601B with Noreyana Fernando, J’16 & Anusha Shrivastava

 

2:30 p.m.

Asian American Journalists Association – Room 601C with Evelyn Corchado

Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association – Room 601B with Dean Melanie Huff

National Association of Black Journalists – with Carlett Spike, J’16

 

3 p.m.

Women in Media – Stabile Student Center with Rachel Lowry, J’16

OPTIONAL: Fun Activity!

Alumni, Columbia Events, Faculty, Fun Stuff, Knight Bagehot, M.A. Program, M.S. Program, Part-time Students, PhD

Dear Students,

As I mentioned this morning, Columbia is launching a new interactive portal for sharing Columbia stories [from students, faculty, alumni and staff] – everything from the personal & inspirational to fun memories to class work to research to how the Columbia experience impacted one’s career or the world!

The go-live date is in October, but they are gathering materials for the launch now!  And they would love to hear from you!  Share your first impressions! Tell us how you got here! What does coming here mean to you?

You can submit text, photos, video and audio!

More information and instructions here (you must click through via your LionMail account).

MAJOR MEMO: Journalism Library Basics

Getting Things Done, Newly-admitted students, Tips, Useful Websites

Journalism Library Basics

J-Library Website: library.columbia.edu/journalism

CLIO (Columbia’s discovery portal): clio.columbia.edu

Columbia Libraries: library.columbia.edu

 

Need help?

Journalism Library

  • Location: Journalism 204 (Stabile)
  • Hours:
    • – Thurs. 1pm-8pm; Fri. 1pm-6pm (until Labor Day)
    • – Thurs. 10am-8pm; Fri. 10am-6pm (after Labor Day)
    • See bit.ly/jlibraryhours for monthly schedule
  • Librarian Office Hours
    • and Fri. 1pm-5pm
  • Email: journalism@library.columbia.edu
  • Chat reference: ly/AskCUL
  • Phone: 212.854.0390

 

Journalism Research Guide (popular resources)

http://guides.library.columbia.edu/journalism

 

Beat Neighborhood Research Guide

http://guides.library.columbia.edu/journalism-nyc

 

Master’s Projects & Thesis Index:

bit.ly/jlibrarymasters

 

Links to read the New York Times:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/3327564

  • Factiva “News Page:” headlines, current issues
  • ProQuest Central: search for specific articles (1980-present)
  • Historical Newspapers: search for old articles (1857-2010)

 

Other Columbia Library Locations

http://library.columbia.edu/locations/libraries.html

ACTION ITEM: Get your CU ID

Checklists, FAQ, Getting Things Done, Newly-admitted students, Orientation

Dear New Students,

Get your Columbia University ID: CUIT has developed a secure web service for students to upload and submit a photo online for their first University ID card. Find out how to submit your photo.(link is external) If you submit your photo by May 15 for part­-time students and July 26 for full­-time students, you will receive your University ID card during your student orientation. For those who miss the deadline, you will have time during orientation to go to 204 Kent Hall to get your Columbia University ID card.

IMPORTANT: In order to get your Columbia University ID card or purchase a Journalism School Press Pass, you will need to take two high resolution digital passport-­style photos as soon as possible.

  • The photo should be a color JPEG file.
  • The background should be uniform and light­-colored.
  • You must be facing forward with your head and shoulders clearly visible.
  • No photos with sunglasses or hats.
  • The file cannot exceed 100K in size for the Columbia University ID card and must be 300 dpi for the Journalism School Press Pass.