J203, Media Writing

Thursday, May 8

The Ruhl Lecture. Thursday, May 8 in Gerlinger Alumi Lounge. By Jan Schaffer, a former business editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer who won a Pulitzer Prize as a reporter. She is executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism (www.J-Lab.org) at the University of Maryland College of Journalism and one of the nation's leading thinkers in the journalism reform movement. The school has posted the text of her remarks.

Other speeches and lectures

The following are alternatives if your shedule does not permit you to get to the Ruhl Lecture. Other lectures might work, too. I suspect there will be political campaign speeches later this week and early next week--one of these would work too, as long as it's a speech.

NOTE! If you know of a speech or lecture on campus around the same time, let Russial know.

Monday, May 12

Bill Clinton campaign appearance
8:15 p.m.,EMU Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.

Friday, May 9

Obama campaign appearance
7:45 p.m.,University of Oregon Memorial Quadrangle. The rally is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Gates open at 5:45 p.m., with a line for the event forming at the corner of University Street and East 13th Avenue at the Erb Memorial Union.

Tuesday, May 13

Kurt Raaflaub lecture
4 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room. "Thinking about Peace in the Ancient World: Why Greece?" Dr. Raaflaub is a professor of Classics at Brown University.

Tuesday, May 13

Mukoma Wa Ngugi lecture
Baobab Lecture at 4 p.m. in Pacific 30. "The Kenya Crisis and the Pitfalls of A Second-Hand Democracy". Ngugi is an accomplished journalist and poet and is currently a doctoral candidate in Post-Colonial Theory at the University of Wisconsin.

Tuesday, May 13

Kritikos Lecture
7:30 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall. "Did Somebody Say Censorship?" Music scholar Richard Taruskin will talk about censoring musical performances that contain anti-Semitic or other offensive sentiments during the 2008 Kritikos lectures in Eugene and Portland.

Monday, May 5

Michael Pavel lecture
7 p.m., 282 Lillis Hall. "A Place Where You can Hear All the Birds Sing: Inclusive Schooling in a Modern Society." Pavel is an Educational Leadership professor at Washington State University.

Tuesday, May 6

Jamed Loewen lecture
7:45 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall. "The most important period of American history that you have never heard of and why it's important." Loewen, who has written several books, is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught race relations at the University of Vermont and Tougaloo College in Mississippi. Loewen is currently a visiting professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of America.

Wednesday, May 7

Shannon Bell lecture
noon, 330 Hendricks Hall. "Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Women and the Fight for Justice in the Appalachian Coalfields." Bell is a graduate student in the Sociology Department.

Other syllabus information