Discerning Diverse Voices: Communication and Information Symposium on Diversity Thursday, March 31, 2011 205 Gorgas Library

Schedule of Sessions 8-8:30 a.m. Poster presenters: Influence of African Americans in American Politics: A Historical Perspective Timothy Martin, Graduate Student, Communication Studies Perceptions of Female Identity Based on Communication with Others: Single Women, Never Married, 35-45 Years Old, With No Children Leigh Ann Johnston, Doctoral Student, Communication and Information Sciences Project ALFA Empathy Laboratory: Experiential Learning About Physical Challenges Jackie Brodsky, Graduate Student, Library and Information Studies and Laurie Bonnici, School of Library and Information Studies 8:30 8:45 a.m. 8:45 9:45 a.m. Welcome: Dean Loy Singleton and Caryl Cooper PANEL SESSION: Blogging Feminism, Blogging Race: A Crunk Feminist Collective Roundtable Continental breakfast, registration and poster session

Moderator: Kristin Warner, Telecommunication and Film Panelists: Robin Boylorn, Communication Studies Brittney Cooper, Gender and Race Studies Rachel Raimist, Telecommunication and Film 9:45 10 a.m. 10 11 a.m. Break PAPER SESSION: Diversity and Access for All: An Industry Perspective

Moderator: Mary Meares, Communication Studies Computer Training for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Daniel Tackett and Rachel Renick, Graduate Students, Library and Information

Studies Equity of Diversity in LIS Curricula Muriel K. Wells, Communication and Information Sciences, and Laurie Bonnici, School of Library and Information Studies An Ecological Approach to Promoting Cultural Diversity John T. F. Burgess, Communication and Information Sciences 11 11:10 A.M. 11:10 12:10 p.m. Break PANEL SESSION: Issues Facing Black Women in Academia

Moderator: DoVeanna Fulton-Minor, Gender & Race Studies Panelists: Vickie Cox Edmondson, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Morehouse College Loucrecia Collins, Educational Leadership, University of Alabama at Birmingham Charnetta Gadling-Cole, Sociology and Social Work, University of Alabama at Birmingham 12:20 1:20 p.m. Lunch Enjoy a boxed lunch provided by the Communication and Diversity Forum. 1:20 1:30 p.m. 1:30 2:30 p.m. Break PAPER SESSION: Negotiating Identity Through Image and Rhetoric

Moderator: Broken Borders: Examining the Representation of Undocumented Latino Immigrant in Childrens Media Jamie Naidoo, School of Library and Information Studies Hillary Clinton and Shirley Chisholms Presidential Campaign Announcements Melanie Armistead, Communication and Information Sciences A Womans Word is a Woman Heard: Rebecca Stiles Taylor and the Chicago Defender Caryl Cooper, Advertising and Public Relations Double-Voiced Discourse and Identity: Memorial Architecture and the Japanese-

American WWII Incarceration Janis L. Edwards, Communication Studies 2:30 2:45 p.m. 2:45 3:40 p.m. Break PANEL SESSION: Fostering Dialogue: Building Diverse Coalitions Through Critical Public Memory

Moderator: Meredith M. Bagley, Communication Studies Panelists: Jessi Hitchins, Assistant Director of the University of Alabamas Womens Resource Center Jennifer Purvis, Race & Gender Studies and Director of Womens Studies Jennifer Shoaff, Race & Gender Studies Merinda Simmons, Religious Studies 3:40 4 p.m. 4 4:45 p.m. Break PANEL SESSION: The Complexities of Teaching to Transgress: Incorporating Race Where it Shouldnt Be

Moderator: Kristin Warner, Telecommunication and Film Panelists: Brittney Cooper, Gender & Race Studies Rachel Raimist, Telecommunication and Film 4:45 6:15 p.m. Reception and Closing Remarks Join everyone for a reception on the veranda of Phifer Hall. It will be a wonderful time to exchange ideas and prepare for the last session that celebrates J-Day for the Journalism Department. J-DAY PRESENTATION: Let No Victim Be Forgotten: Reporting the Cold Cases of the Civil Rights Era

6:45 7:30 p.m.

Moderator: Chris Roberts, Journalism Three feet-on-the-ground journalists, members of the Center for Investigative Reportings Civil Rights Cold Case Project, will discuss how their investigations have led to numerous convictions in decades-old killings during the Civil Rights era. Panelists: Jerry Mitchell of the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, winner of the MacArthur

genius award in 2009 for reporting that led to four convictions. Stanley Nelson of The Concordia (La.) Sentinel, whose recent work on a 1965 killing led to a grand jury meeting in February 2011. John Fleming of The Anniston Star, whose work led to a guilty plea by a thenstate trooper in Selma who killed a civil rights protester.