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Friday, April 7, 2006
Dodd Center, Storrs Campus
9:00 – 5:00
Each year the University of Connecticut’s
Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies hosts an annual
event designed to support the various aspects
of its mission statement. This year’s 2006 symposium focuses
on “Latino
Strategies: Media and the Public Good.”
Over the decades, scholars
and professionals have launched successful projects that have challenged
mainstream assumptions about Latino audiences
and
consumers, Latino content in broadcast and print news, entertainment
programming and documentaries.
These efforts have advanced knowledge about Latinos in the academic
and public realms. This symposium brings together experts from across
the
nation who work
in mass communication/journalism research and Latino/Chicano studies,
as well highlights award-winning media professionals to address questions
such as: What
are we all doing to improve the media? What are Latinos doing to
improve the media? How are these strategic improvements good for
U.S. Latinos
as
well as
the general public?
The 2007 Symposium is sponsored by:
- Babbalu.com
- CALAHE - The Connecticut Association of
Latinos in Higher Education
- Communication Sciences Department
- Hispanic Professionals
Network
- Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
- Minorities
and Communication Division (MAC), Assn. for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication
- Office of the Vice Provost of Multicultural
and International Affairs
- Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural
Center
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30 Opening
Dr. Diana Rios,
Inst. of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies &
Communication Sciences
Welcome
Dr. Ronald L. Taylor, Vice Provost
Office of Multicultural and International Affairs
Introductions
Dr. Jaime Gomez, Eastern Connecticut State
Univ.,
Chair, Communication Department
9:50 - Presentations
“Demographics & Latino
USA” Gil Gardenas
“Ideological Wars" Bessy Reyna
“Who is covering us: Puerto Ricans in Orlando, FL” MC
Santana
Questions
and Answers
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break 1:15
Introductions
Dr. Jaime Gomez, Eastern Connecticut State Univ.,
Chair, Communication Department
1:25 Presentations
"Drafting
a Blueprint for a Far-Reaching Latino Communication
Research Agenda” Federico Subervi
“Responsibility of Latino TV Producers in the Mainstream Media” Frank
Borres
“Latina Satire and Media” Cristina
Ibarra
“The Future of News and Broadcast Education” Rosa
Morales
“A New Latino Media Coalition” Jaime
Gomez
Questions and Answers
4:15 Closing
Dr. Diana Rios
FRANK BORRES is an Emmy award
winning television producer and 18-time Emmy nominee. Frank is
the President of American
View Productions, a Connecticut based television
production company. Frank has won awards
for
numerous productions including The National La Raza Bravo Award Nomination
(Latino
Oscars now called Alma
Awards)
for Puerto Rican Passages, a documentary
narrated by Jose
Feliciano and he has produced the Grammy winning production
called Celia Cruz and Friends, a PBS national
concert with Tito Puente and Celia
Cruz. He is also the winner of the National Cine Golden Eagle,
Telly, Regional Latino
Coalition for
Fair Media
Best
Tri-State Film Director, and Connecticut
Vision Awards.
His
programs have
previewed at
the San Juan Film Festival, San Francisco
Festival Cinema Latino,
and at New York's New School Film Festival. Along
with these film accomplishments, Frank's
broadcast journalism has been recognized
with awards including those of
the Associated Press, the Society of Professional
Journalists, United Press
International, the
National Cable Television Association,
Women in Communications,
and the
Schwartz Prize - Best local humanities
Project in USA. Frank was a member of the Governor's
Film Commission and the National Association
of Television Arts and Sciences. Frank has produced more than 2,000
news segments, news magazine segments, documentaries, half-hour
variety segments,
talk
format shows, live productions
and specials.
GILBERTO CARDENAS, Asst. Provost
and Director of the Institute of Latino
Studies and
Professor of
Sociology
at the University
of Notre
Dame,
has worked in the
area of immigration for thirty years
and has gained international recognition
as a scholar
in
Mexican immigration.
Three times
named by Hispanic
Business Magazine as one of the 100 most
influential Latinos in the United States,
Dr. Cárdenas
has authored or edited numerous books,
articles, monographs, and reports on
topics covering several fields of specialization,
including international migration,
economy and society, and race and ethnic
relations. These works include his
coauthorship of Los Mojados: The Wetback
Story (with Julián Samora and
Jorge Bustamante) and, most recently,
coeditorship of Health and Social Services
Among International
Labor Migrants: A Comparative Perspective,
which was published in 1998 by the
University of Texas Press and CMAS
(Center for Mexican-American Studies)
Books
as part of its "Border Series." Cardenas
was previously a member of the Sociology
Department at the University of Texas
at Austin from 1975
until
1999. He has also served as the Executive
Director for the Inter-University Program
for Latino Research (IUPLR) since 1995.
As
a photographer, Cárdenas has
published his work in journals, textbooks,
and brochures. He also established
and owned Galeria Sin Fronteres, Inc.
in Austin, Texas, a commercial gallery
exhibiting the works of Chicano/Latino
artists. In
1994 he founded and served as executive
producer of "Latino USA," a
half-hour weekly radio program produced
at the University of Texas at Austin
and distributed nationally by National
Public Radio.
In addition to his professional
activities, Dr. Cardenas has provided
testimony
before the US
Congress and
State legislative bodies and
has served as an
expert witness in several critical
or landmark cases including, Plyler
v. Doe
(1980).
He has also worked with AVANCE, Inc.,
on a national demonstration project
serving 120
poor families
in San Antonio, and
on the
evaluation of
AVANCE’s
expansion initiatives.
A member of
the original Task Force that produced
Willful Neglect, Cárdenas
served on the Smithsonian Institution’s
Oversight Committee for Latino Issues.
In 1997 he completed tenure as First
Vice President of the Board of the
Mexican-American Legal Defense and
Education Fund (MALDEF), and he currently
serves on the Board. Cárdenas
was also one of six people appointed
to the advisory committee of the Gates
Millennium Scholars Program, a $1-billion
minority scholarship initiative established
by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
and he has been appointed to President
Bush's Hispanic Advisory Council.
JAIME
GOMEZ, Chair of the Communication
Department and Associate Professor
and Coordinator of
the video production
track at
Eastern Connecticut
State University,
received his doctoral degree in Communication
from the University of Utah, and MA
and BA in Broadcast
Electronic
and Communication
Arts
from San Francisco
State
University. He has taught Television
Production, Media Aesthetics and Educational
Television
(Media and Community
Service)
at San Francisco State University,
University of Utah, and ECSU in United
States. He has also taught at
Universidad del Norte
and Universidad del Atlantico in Colombia
He has international television production
experience
in South America,
Europe and the Middle East
and is author of Distance
Education: The Challenges of Technology
and Communication (2000 Universidad
del Atlantico
in Columbia).
He
is recipient of
the Simon Bolivar
Award, the highest
recognition in Colombia’s television,
for Best Documentary 1991. Professor
Gomez designed the Virtual Campus System
of the Contraloria General de Colombia
(Colombian General Accounting Office)
under a consulting contract with the
Interamerican Development Bank. He
is coauthor of Introduction to Video
Production: Studio,
Field and Beyond, a video production
textbook published by Allyn and Bacon
in October 2005. CRISTINA
IBARRA is
a Chicana filmmaker with roots along
the US/Mexico border
working in the realms
of fiction,
non-fiction
and satire.
She has been
making short films for the past six
years. Her award-winning directorial
debut,
Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela
is currently
airing on Public Television (PBS) nationwide
in the
new series, ColorVision.
Her other short
works have been showing
in galleries, museums, schools and
film festivals
across the U.S. including the Guggenheim
Museum, Brown Uni76versity,
and
NALAC.
She recently co-produced a three-channel
video exhibit, Home, for the Heard
Museum of Native
American culture
alongside White Mountain
Apache
producer,
Dustinn
Craig. It explores contemporary notions
of home in five native
reservations of the Southwest. They
also produced a short for the PBS series,
American Experience. She is a founding
member of fulana, an award-winning
interdisciplinary
Latina
collaborative, where she directed three
satirical
shorts Amnezac, Lupe & JuanDi
From the Block and Latino Plastic Cover.
She
is now producing, with John Valadez,
an hour-long documentary, The Last
Conquistador, for Public
Television. It follows
the construction of the world's largest
bronze equestrian to a Spanish colonizer
despite
Native
American and Chicano efforts to destroy
the art project. The
people of El
Paso, descendents
of both
Spanish and Native ancestors, are literally
caught in the middle. Support for this
program comes from the Sundance Documentary
Fund,
PBS, National Endowment for the Arts
and National
Endowment for
the Humanities among
others.
Her new screenplay, Love & Monster
Trucks, had a staged reading at the
Latino Producers' Academy and UCLA's
Professional Screenwriting Program.
It is a fictional
narrative about two high school friends
cruising the intricate social landscape
that shapes the U.S.-Mexico border
in a narrative blending art, drama
and fantasy.
Creative Capital, Latino
Public Broadcasting, Paul Robeson Fund, Astrea Lesbian Action
Fund and New
York State Council
for the
Arts have all
funded her work.
She has been awarded a number of
fellowships including one from the Rockefeller,
CPB/PBS Producer's Academy
and New
York Foundation
for
the Arts.
ROSA ERENDIRA MORALES is
a faculty member and Director of the Hispanics
and Minorities
in
Journalism Programs
at Michigan
State University.
She also
coordinates the “Creating
the Next Generation of Minority
Journalists”,
an initiative with the Lansing
School District, funded by the
Gannett Foundation.
At MSU she teaches
print and
broadcast news writing. Her eclectic
career includes over 25 years in
California and Michigan as print
and broadcast
journalist, documentary producer,
as well as corporate P.R. and community
journalism. She also has conducted
training sessions for radio and
TV reporters in the U. S. and Ecuador.
The Emmy-awarding
winning
Morales is a founding member of
the
National Association of Hispanic
Journalists
(NAHJ). The first Hispanic to graduate
from the MSU School of Journalism
in 1971, she was named Outstanding
Alumnus
of the College of Communication
Arts and Sciences
in 1982. BESSY
REYNA has been a
monthly opinion columnist for The
Hartford
Courant
since 2000. Her
columns have been
reprinted
in newspapers
throughout
the country
and translated and published in
newspapers in Texas, California,
Puerto Rico
and Brazil. She writes an arts
and culture
page for the Hispanic newspaper
Identidad Latina
and has
been
a contributor
to "Northeast," the Sunday
Magazine of The Hartford Courant.
Ms
Reyna is also an award-winning
poet. Her latest book, The Battlefield
of
Your Body,
a bilingual
poetry collection,
was
released in June,
2005 by the
Hill-Stead
Museum. Her first poetry collection
in English is She Remembers, published
in
1997 by Andrew
Mountain Press.
Ms. Reyna's
Spanish language writing,
published in Latin America, includes
a poetry chapbook, Terrarium, and
a collection of short stories,
Ab Ovo.
Reyna's poems
and
stories are found in U.S. and Latin
American literary magazines including
the
award-winning "Connecticut
Review" and
in numerous anthologies including
El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and
Latina
Poetry, In Other Words: Literature
by Latinas of the United States,
The Arc of Love:
Lesbian Poems, and The Wild Good.
Ms.
Reyna's awards include First Prize
in the Joseph E. Brodine
Poetry Competition
and artist
award
grants from
the Connecticut
Commission
on the Arts and the Greater
Hartford Arts Council. In 2001
she was named
Latina Citizen of the Year by the
State of Connecticut Latino and
Puerto Rican Affairs Commission.
Each
summer she conducts radio interviews with the poets appearing
at the nationally
renowned
Sunken
Garden Poetry
Festival in
Farmington, CT. She
has judged the
national poetry competition sponsored
by the Astraea Foundation and
the poetry section of the annual Connecticut
Book Award. Ms. Reyna has performed
in solo and group poetry readings
and has
presented
writing workshops in high schools,
colleges, libraries,
arts organizations
and at conferences
throughout New
England.
Born in Cuba and raised
in Panama, Reyna is a graduate of Mt Holyoke
College and
earned her
MA and Law
degrees from
the
University of
Connecticut.
MARIA
C. “MC” SANTANA is
an associate professor of journalism
at the University of Central
Florida where she has taught
Diversity and
Community, Visual Communication,
Photojournalism and Desktop
Publishing. She also teaches
International Communication
and Visual
Communication Theory at the
graduate level. Her research
in journalism and diversity issues has been
published
in Journalism
Educator and
Newspaper Research
Journal. She
is an active member of the
National Association of Hispanic
Journalists, International
Communication Association,
the American Association
of University Women and the National
Museum
of Women in Arts.
She is the
former head of the Minorities and Communication
Division of the
Association for
Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication
(AEJMC).
Also for AEJMC she
is a current member of
the Task Force on Diversity.
She
is the
former National
Chair
for Student
Chapters with
the National
Press Photographers
Association
and has served as women's
representative for Region
6 for the same organization.
Santana
received her Ph.D. in 1994 from Temple University. She holds
an M.A.
in Radio/ TV
and Mass Communication
from Temple
University and a B.A.
in news
editorial from the University
of Puerto Rico. Santana
holds fellowships
from
Poynter Institute,
International
Radio
and Television Society,
National Association
of Hispanic Journalists,
two grants from the U.S.
Department
of Education,
and two grants from the
government of
Quebec, Canada.
FEDERICO
SUBERVI (Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
is
a professor of the
School of
Journalism
and Mass Communication
at Texas
State University in
San Marcos.
He lives in Austin,
Texas, where he serves as Chair
of the
Board of Directors
of Latinitas, Inc.,
and organization and Web-based
magazine for
Latina adolescents
and teens (http://www.latinitasmagazine.org),
and
also directs
the Latinos and Media
Project (http://www.latinosandmedia.org),
an organization
dedicated
to the gathering and
dissemination of research
and resources
pertaining to Latinos
and the media.
Since
the early 1980s, Dr. Subervi has been
conducting research,
publishing and teaching
on a broad
range of issues related
to the mass media
and Latinos in
the United States.
His research
on other
diversity issues
and the media includes
assessments of
the images of Black
in Brazilian
television advertisements,
and the media system
of
Puerto Rico,
his country of origin.
Dr.
Subervi has held academic appointments
at the University
of California-Santa
Barbara, and
the
University of
Texas at Austin
(where he was also the Graduate
Advisor
for
the Department
of Radio-TV-Film).
He has been
UNESCO professor
at the Universidade
Metodista de São
Paulo, and visiting
professor at the
Universidad Diego
Portales in Santiago,
Chile, and the
University of Amsterdam.
He serves on the
editorial boards
for Journalism & Mass
Communication Quarterly,
Journalism & Communication
Monographs, The
Howard Journal
of Communications,
and Critical Studies
in Mass Communication.
In
addition to
his academic work,
Dr.
Subervi is
a member of the
Board of
Directors of
the Hispanic
Scholarship
Consortium, and
a member of
the Advisory
Board
for Scholastic
Entertainment's
animated series
The Misadventures
of
Maya and Miguel.
He has volunteered
extensively for
the Ford Foundation
Fellowship Program
administered
by the National
Research Council,
and been advisor
or
consultant to the
National Association
of Hispanic
Journalists, the
Radio and Television
News Directors
Foundation, the
Corporation for
Public
Broadcasting, The
Preview
Forum,
The Round Table
Group, Spanish
Broadcasting
System, the
and Mothers Against
Drunk Driving,
Nickelodeon (for
Dora the Explorer),
and Fox Family
Worldwide (for
the Boyz & Girlz
Channels).
Dr.
Subervi has been
interviewed
and quoted
for stories
in The New York
Times, The
Los Angeles
Times, The
Boston Globe,
The
San Francisco
Chronicle,
the
British Broadcasting
Corporation, AP
Wire Services,
Hispanic
Business, Hispanic
Magazine,
El Nuevo Día
(Puerto Rico),
Al Día (Dallas),
Univisión.com,
Latino USA, and
Folha de São
Paulo, among others. |
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