Public Programs: January
October |November | December
How
to Be a Smart Media Consumer
Wednesday, January 12, 6:00 pm
Chair: Alan Gitelson, Loyola
University of Chicago
Panel: Laura S. Washington, DePaul University and the Chicago
Sun-Times; Steve
Edwards, Chicago Public Radio’s “Eight Forty-Eight”; Michael Miner, the
Chicago Reader;
and Dan Sinker, Punk Planet and the Independent Press
Association.
A panel of
journalists and critics will provide a brief overview of the current
media landscape,
including assessments of reporting on politics and cultures. They will
address the consolidation of media ownership, the sensationalizing of
news, the possible impact of broadband technology, and dwindling local
news and cultural content in print and broadcast media.
Admission is free. No reservations are required
Free Speech: The Wobblies' Challenge
Saturday, January 15, 10:00 am
Speakers: Paul Buhle, Brown
University, and Mike Alewitz, Central Connecticut State University
The
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies," was founded in
Chicago on January
2, 1905. In his illustrated lecture, Paul Buhle, co-editor of The IWW:
A Graphic History (forthcoming 2005), will discuss why the IWW has
retained an aura of rebellion and of free expression like no other
American movement, labor or political, and what the IWW means to free
speech activists in 2005. Muralist Mike Alewitz, one of the
contributing artists, will show images from the forthcoming comic book.
Admission is free. No reservations are required
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