A cultural history scholar will discuss how feelings toward American culture changed in several European countries in the 1970s with the advent of Sesame Street on children’s television. Helle Strandgaard Jensen, an assistant professor of contemporary cultural history at Aarhus University in Denmark, will present “Capitalist Kermit and his Chubby Cousin: Sesame Street and the 1970s Transatlantic Battle for Children’s TV." The lecture is presented by the Department of History, the University Libraries, and the College of Communications Pockrass Lectureship at Penn State.

Free public event, a screening and panel discussion moderated by Matt Jordan as part of yearlong Talking Together About Guns initiative. The film documents the journey of an evangelical minister trying to find the moral strength to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. Session to be broadcast on WPSU-TV at 8 p.m. Thursday, Apri 13.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, will present a free public lecture titled "Big Science, Politics and the Press." A Los Angeles Times business columnist, Hiltzik is the author of "Big Science -- Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex." His presentation and campus visit is sponsored by the Norman Eberly Professsorship.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.