Barbie Zelizer
Keynote: Monday, April 30, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer has authored or edited seven books, including the award-winning Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye (Chicago, 1998), Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory (Chicago, 1992) and Journalism After September 11 (with Stuart Allan, Routledge, 2002). In 2004, she published Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy (Sage) and Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (with Stuart Allan, Routledge). A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Freedom Forum Center Research Fellowship, and a Fellowship from Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Zelizer is also a media critic, whose work has appeared in The Nation, the Jim Lehrer News Hour, Newsday, and Radio National of Australia. Coeditor of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, she is presently working on a book on about-to-die photographs and journalism.
Keynote speaker: Monday, April 30 at 1:30 p.m.
"What Does Genocide Look Like, and How Do We Know It When We See It?"This presentation will trace some of the patterns by which we have come to recognize the visual representation of genocide in the news and addresses the ways in which varying events involving violence and mass destruction have come to stand in, often erroneously, for genocide. The presentation raises the question of whether or not we have developed the fullest repertoire possible for seeing genocide and queries the degree to which what we see often falls short of understanding the phenomenon more fully.
