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In this Issue
Upcoming Events
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Feb 3--Film/Video professors present recent work.
Feb 27--Photography Professor Stafford Smith at GRAM
March 17--Visiting Scholar Lance Strate
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Winter 2009
Events
February 3 —At 7pm in LSH 174, visiting professors in film/video Margo Greenlaw, Jennifer Proctor, and Eric Yang will present recent work dealing with the past, present, and passage of time. Greenlaw will screen her documentary about Tennessee's forensic anthropology facility known as "The Body Farm"; Proctor will present "Testing the Undertow," an experimental documentary about class, memory, family pride, and the landscape in Northern California; and Eric Yang will present his student Academy Award-winning short narrative "The State of Sunshine," about a brother and sister living in Florida as illegal immigrants from China, and the sacrifices and hope they face while trying to escape a life of prostitution and broken family dreams. http://gvsu.edu/filmvideo
February 27--Stafford Smith (Photography) will be giving a lecture on André Kertész at the Grand Rapids Art Museum at 7pm. It is open to the public.
March 17--"Eight Bits About Digital Communication," a free public lecture by noted New York scholar Lance Strate. 7 p.m. At Grand Valley’s Allendale campus (specific room to be announced; for more information contact Professor Corey Anton.)
The presentation includes a survey of the electronic environment that includes: Binary code's cutting bias towards counting by eights, and electricity as the foundation of digital culture. Our era as the Eighth Digital Age in the history of our species, and the parallel between the prehistoric stone tool kit and the basic computer functions that allow us to edit our reality.
Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association, an organization for which he was the founding president. He is the author of Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study, and co-editor of several anthologies, including Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment, and The Legacy of McLuhan. He blogs about media ecology and related subjects and also has a poetry blog on MySpace
Faculty News
School of Communications Faculty Focus on Teaching
On December 3, 2008, approximately 45 adjuncts, affiliates, visitors and regular faculty members who teach in the School of Communication filled a room in the Kirkhof Center for an end-of-semester meeting devoted to teaching. Those gathered teach in one or more of eight different major areas of study in the school and represent an impressive range of professional and educational backgrounds and experiences. Energized by light refreshments and the prospect of winning a “door prize” book by Parker Palmer or other teaching sage, the participants shared a lively and productive exchange. which brought the semester to a positive close. (Caption: Samantha Andrus-Henry receives a copy of "A Courage to Teach" from Roger Ellis. Photo by Stafford Smith).
Other Faculty News
Frank Blossom (Advertising/Public Relations) will serve as a judge in the Indiana Addy Competition January 29 and 30th.
Kelly Campbell (Advertising/Public Relations) received an award from the GVSU Panhellenic Council for faculty excellence.
Deanna Morse’s (Film/Video Production) film “Forced Perspective: Odessa,” won three festival awards and been selected for screening at ten other festivals. The film centers on the Odessa steps (featured in Eisenstein’s 1925 film Battleship Potemkin) and considers how media experiences affect real life experiences. More details: www.deannamorse.com
Danielle Wiese (Communication Studies) has been selected as a recipient of the 2008 Michigan Campus Compact Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Awards. This is the highest annual award that the Michigan Campus Compact bestows on faculty and staff in the state of Michigan. Professor Wiese was designated by faculty peers as the person on the GVSU campus who made the most outstanding contributions in the area of community service-learning during the past year. The award will be presented at the 13th Annual Institute: Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, which will take place February 12-13, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Recent and Upcoming Publications and Presentations
Corey Anton (Communication Studies) will be giving the Keynote Address in Madison at the UW System's conference, "Reading Between the Lives: Enhancing Students' Engagement with Reading." It is a one-day conference on best practices in reading to be held on Thursday, March 5, 2009, at The Pyle Center in Madison. More information is available online.
Corey Anton’s (Communication Studies) article “The Thing Is Not Itself: Artefactual Metonymy and the World of Antiques,” was published in ETC: A Review of General Semantics, etcetera, 64, (4), 365-371.
Kelly Campbell (Advertising/Public Relations) gave a presentation January 16 on Internal Communications for the American Lung Association of the Midwestern Region.
Deanna Morse (Film/Video Production) was a guest in November at the 1st Annual Cybersousa International Animation Conference in Xiamen, China, where she presented a oneperson show of her film and video work “Deanna Morse: Move Click Move.” She also presented a paper “Animation Education in the USA.”
Tim Penning’s (Advertising/Public Relations) article, “First impressions: US media portrayals of public relations in the 1920s,” was published in the fall 2008 special PR history edition of the Journal of Communication Management. The article can be found in the journal's online site.
Jennifer Proctor's (Film and Video Production) recent film "Testing the Undertow" has been accepted to the Florida Experimental Film Festival, February 20-26, in Gainesville, FL. More information online.
Peter Zhang (Communication Studies) presented two papers at the National Communication Association annual conference in November: “Performing Cultural Entrepreneurship in Developing China: An Affirmative Critique of Two Waxworks Projects”, and “‘Super Voice Girls’ as a Site for Gender Transgression and Containment.”
Student News
The 2008 Summer Film Project feature-length film “To Live and Die in Dixie” is still available on DVD on the film's website: http://www.toliveanddieindixie.com/
Alumni News
Mike Rios (Advertising/PR, 2005 ) is Creative Director on Coca-Cola at his agency, Phibious, in Phnom Penn, Cambodia.
Got News?
We'd like to hear from GVSU School of Communications students and alumni for future issues of dotCOM. If you have an update about a job change, accomplishment or other news, please let us know. You can email information—including the year you graduated and your major--to Professor Tim Penning (Advertising/Public Relations), editor of dotCOM, at penningt@gvsu.edu
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