Event Archive
Mar 31, 2017
TST VI: Toss It, Shred It, Trash It!
Time: All Day
Location: College Buildings, Offices
Faculty/staff sustainability event to reduce clutter in physical spaces and online. All faculty/staff are encouraged to participate. The day includes a dress-down option for jeans with pizza for lunch. Event sponsored by the Communications Records Management Team.

Mar 31, 2017
"Geeks, Dragon Ladies, and Perpetual Foreigners"
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Carnegie Cinema
Alumna Srivi Ramasubramanian (PhD '04), the associate dean for climate and inclusion in the College of Liberal Arts and an associate professor of communication at Texas A&M, will present a free public lecture titled "Geeks, Dragon Ladies, and Perpetual Foreigners: Countering Stereotypes of Asian-Americans in the Media and Beyond." Ramasubramanian's research examines how stereotypes and counter-stereotypes in popular culture shape everyday attitudes about race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
Mar 28, 2017
Film Screening "3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets"
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Freeman Auditorium, HUB-Robeson Center
As part of the yearlong Talking Together About Guns initiative, free public screening of 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets" focusing on a Nov. 23, 2012, incident in Jacksonville, Fla.

Mar 23, 2017
"FCC Compliance in Public Relations"
Lecture Series: Ben Bronstein Lecture in Ethics and Public Relations
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
Featured guest Alan Marcus ('93 Bus), senior vice president of SHIFT Communications, presents "FCC Compliance in Public Relations: How to Strike the Right Balance; Implications; Dos and Dont's" during the Bronstein Lecture in Ethics and Public Relations. The session is free and open to the public.
Mar 21, 2017
Lunch and Lit: March Madness
Time: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location: Schlow Centre Region Library
Join veteran journalist Brian Toolan and John Affleck, the Knight Chair in Journalism and Sociiety and director of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, in a celebration of "March Madness." Toolan and Affleck will discuss the politics, press and promotion involved in NCAA men's basketball tournament and college sports. Toolan's book, "Snubbed: A Basketball Season of Triumph, Crisis and Despair," is a dramatic story of the 2015-16 St. Bonaventure University basketball team. Toolan served as the national editor for The Associated Press, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor-in-chief of the Hartford Courant and business editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mar 21, 2017
Film Screening "778 Bullets"
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Flex Auditorium, HUB-Robeson Center
As part of the yearlong Talking Together About Guns initiative, free public screening of "778 Bullets" with filmmaker Angela Aguayo. Using archival material, newspaper accounts, witness testimony and experts in the field, “778 Bullets” presents a little-known history of resistance and resilience in the human struggle for self-determination. In November 1970, university, state and local police shot 778 bullets into an off-campus rental house in Carbondale, Illinois. The residence was rented to a handful of university students; some were assumed to be associated with the local Black Panther Party. Unlike other police raids of known Black Panther residences across the country, the Carbondale Panthers shot back.
Feb 28, 2017
Scholars Roundtable
Time: 4:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: 101 Carnegie Building

Feb 24, 2017
"Plan for Paradise"
Chenits Pettigrew
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Carnegie Cinema
Free public lecture -- titled "Plan for Paradise" -- and event featuring alumnus Chenits Pettigrew ('01) as part of Black History Month activities in the College of Communications.
Feb 21, 2017
Lions in the City: Big Ten in the Big Apple
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Bounce Sporting Club, 55 W. 21st St.
The Penn State College of Communications Advertising/Public Relations Network Board is sponsoring a networking happy hours -- “Lions In The City: Big Ten in the Big Apple -- at Bounce Sporting Club for College of Comm alumni, as well as Penn Staters working in advertising, PR, marketing and associated communications fields in the New York metro area. More info: {page_10473}
Feb 16, 2017
"Peace Officer" Screening, Discussion
Time: 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Location: WPSU Studios, Innovation Park
A free public screening of the documentary "Peace Officer" followed by a town hall-style about gun violence. The event is part of the Talking Together About Guns initiative, whose sponsors include the College of Communications, the College of the Liberal Arts Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, and The Rock Ethics Institute. For more information and to reserve a seat, visit http://wpsu.psu.edu/peaceofficer/