Join the College of Media and the Frank Center via Zoom for a conversation with Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee Chairman and current co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC, discussing Donald Trump’s campaign and trials, the future of the GOP, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson’s future, and more. The Q&A will be led by Colleen King, director of the […]
February 1, 2024 UPDATE: Watch a recording of the 2024 UIUC Student Film Festival, featuring 13 film selections created by students at the University of Illinois. Join us for a celebration of student filmmaking at the 15th annual UIUC Student Film Festival, featuring the work of students from across the University of Illinois campus. Programming will include roughly 2 […]
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Join the College of Media via Zoom for a Q&A with tech journalist Kara Swisher, host of the interview podcast On with Kara Swisher and cohost of the tech/business/politics podcast Pivot with NYU Marketing Professor Scott Galloway, both distributed by New York Magazine. Her third book, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, will be out in March […]
Brian Williams, former anchor of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, will be on campus for a conversation about the evolution of broadcast news in America. A 40-year veteran of television news, Williams has received a dozen Emmy Awards, 11 Edward R. Murrow Awards, the duPont-Columbia Award, the Walter Cronkite Award […]
The Roger Ebert Lecture, “Provenance, Fakes, and Feuds: Building Expertise around Transnational Genre in 1960s Iran,” will be presented by Kaveh Askari, an associate professor and director of film studies at Michigan State University. Kaveh Askari’s research and teaching focus on cinema and media history in a global context. Special areas of interest include art cinema, media […]
A screening of Fariyad-e Nim-e Shab / Cry of Midnight will be held on Thursday, Oct. 26. The 1961 film was directed by Samuel Khachikian, who was described as the “Iranian Hitchcock,” and was known for his strong female characters and the use of crime cinema motifs. In this film, a young man becomes entangled with a criminal […]
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Lecturer of Journalism Education Course Specialties Background Nancy Averett spent 10 years as a newspaper reporter in Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania covering a range of beats: education, the courts and local government. In 2003, she moved with her family to Ohio and spent two years as an adjunct journalism professor at Miami University of […]