News and Events

Jim Ferris, PhD The University of Toledo 2023-2024 Health Humanities Lecturer presents "Is Your Mama White?" What do you do when you learn you're not exactly who you think you are? And why does my uncle want me to just shut up about it? This performance digs into one family's past to explore the fabrication of race, the implications of disability, and the lattice of assumptions making up cultural identity. This event will be a reading of a script by Dr. Ferris followed by a discussion with the audience. lighten your workload. Thursday, September 28th, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm | LNCO 2910

Thursday, September 14, 2023 11:00 PM

In this workshop, Professor Sean Lawson will introduce some essential methods and digital tools for effectively managing time, attention, and research materials in graduate school and beyond. These will include tools and techniques for implementing methods such as PARA, time blocking, Kanban, zettelkasten, and more. If you find it difficult at times to keep your head above water in graduate school, you will come away with some new tools and methods that will help lighten your workload. September 14, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:30pm | LNCO 2910

Wednesday, September 06, 2023 11:41 PM

Call for Proposals for the Identity and Social Media Symposium: Bridging the Gaps between Computational Methods and Critical/Cultural Perspectives 28-29 September 2023 Salt Lake City, UT Submissions close 5 May 2023

Friday, May 05, 2023 02:34 PM

This day-long event will tackle the question: What needs to change so that newsrooms and their audiences become more diverse and aligned? Through a series of conversations between leading scholars and stakeholders, this event will offer a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities when it comes to journalism's troubled past and its hopefully brighter future. If you were unable to attend this event, you can view it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXBQ7v71X0Y

The Department of Communication and the Utah Refugee Workforce Services collectively explore the notion that storytelling necessitates both reflexive narrators and empathic audiences. With the refugee panelists, we aim at identifying actionable items for communicating refugee stories that we can apply in our classrooms, workplace, neighborhood, and beyond.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 12:08 AM

The Missing Cyber Thunder Run: CYBER OPERATIONS DURING THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR In this presentation, Dr. Brandon Valeriano will examine the evolving nature of Russia’s use of cyber operations and the digital domain to disrupt, spy upon, and degrade the adversary. Cyber operations remain a potent modern manifestation of political warfare expanding competition short of war. If you were unable to attend this event, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3LIWgwmH94

In this talk, Chris Ingraham shares his working thoughts about the ways modularity operates as a hierarchical structure valued for its presumed efficiency and support of theoretically endless growth. If you were unable to attend this event, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRxLpH1gRXg

In between mobility and containment is a juncture that is neither mobility nor containment that is neither mobility nor containment, neither possible nor impossible. I enter that juncture through frames of im/possibilities and im/mobilities as I build a theory of rhetorical race making at the U.S./Mexico border.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 06:21 PM

The Communication Institute, housed in the College of Humanities’ Department of Communication at the University of Utah, received a generous donation of $1 million – the largest in the history of the department – from alumna Edna Anderson-Taylor (class of 1959) and her husband, Jerry Taylor, to secure the institute’s long-term impact and success. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the institute will be renamed in tribute to her legacy.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 04:23 PM

In this presentation, journalist Sara Cincurova discusses her experience reporting from Ukraine during the first days of the Russian invasion in late February 2022. She is interviewed by journalist Nate Carlisle of FOX 13 News in Utah and takes questions from students and faculty. If you were unable to attend this event, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJStR1vc1Y

Join us for this talk with assistant professor of communication Ben Lyons April 7, 2022 at 2:00 - 3:30pm. If you were unable to attend this event, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTbJkyicEQY

In this talk, Ph.D. candidate in the Citizen AI Lab at Northeastern University Claudia Flores-Saviaga will first present their large-scale data analysis research on how a political troll community fabricates disinformation and engages people to participate with them. If you were unable to attend this event, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWBJHEDBQgc

Students from the John R. Park Debate Society will debate the topic: Resistance Journalism should be accepted as a journalistic norm. The debate will be followed by a panel discussion with experts in journalism, law, and disinformation.

Wednesday, March 02, 2022 06:37 PM

"Korean Food Television and Gastronationalism," presented by Dr. Jaehyeon Jeong of the University of Utah Asia Campus, grows out of a line of research that analyzes the conjuncture of food, television, and nation and explores the semantic and ideological roles of food television. He seeks to gain insight into how the state appropriates the banality of food to raise South Korea’s global image and how it utilizes domestic television to disseminate statist discourse of the nation. If you were unable to attend this event, you can view the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHkid0n1Dso

Thursday, February 03, 2022 07:00 AM