Great opportunities that involve free food

Hello, IICer's! Best of luck with finals week.

Just wanted to notify you of two delicious and fascinating opportunities coming up soon.

March's International Luncheon Featuring Greek Cuisine

Tuesday, 3/8 from Noon to 1

International House

Come enjoy Greek food at the International House on Tuesday for the monthly international meal. Sponsored by Sturm College of Law.

Kyrgyzstan Journalist Visit

Thursday, 3/10 at Noon

Mass Comm Building (I think the classroom next to the student lounge)

Professor Renee Botta encourages everyone to come to listen and ask questions to a special panel of visiting journalists from Kyrgyzstan! Curious what media is like there? Find out AND enjoy a delicious free lunch.

RSVP to Renee (rbotta at du dot edu.)

Enjyo!

"I'm not buying it."

Everyone --

Check out this amazing campaign being run by Traffick911.

Here is an excerpt:

"This coming Sunday, Arlington, Texas, will host the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers for Super Bowl XLV—and some 150,000 out-of-state visitors and nearly 500,000 fans from other Texas towns are expected to pour into the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area. Tragically, the city lucky enough to host the event will also witness an alarming spike in child sex trafficking over game week...

DFW-based Traffick911, the Rebecca Project and other advocacy groups are leading comprehensive efforts to protect children during Super Bowl week with their I’m Not Buying It campaign. Endorsed by well-known local stars including Dallas Cowboy Jay Ratliff, the campaign has organized an online petition to get the Super Bowl Host Committee and National Football League to sign-on to the effort to protect girls from being sex trafficked."

Sex trafficking is alive and well in America; it's good to see a powerful call to action taking advantage of the high-profile nature of the Super Bowl.

Religion and the Media Course

Hi everyone! Anyone out there doing a dual degree? Well, here’s some information about a special course you can take during winter break!

Religion and the Media

RLGS 3693 - 4 Credits


Course Dates: December 13 - 24


On Campus Dates: December 13 - 17*, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

Online Coursework: December 13 - 22


Instructor: Diana Carvalho


* This course requires research and select assignments to be completed online from December 13 - 22.

Description: This course explores the changing nature of religion and its connections to all forms of media with a focus on social media. Students will examine how religion (and religious identity) is changed by current social media trends and vice versa. Particular emphasis will be placed on the ways social media impacts interfaith dialogue, with beneficial and detrimental results.

Students will be asked to define and identify what it means to be "religious" in the context of social media (facebook, blogs, twitter, etc.). Religious institutions and various "physical" places of worship are compared with on-line religious communities (in "second-life" communities, for example).

Students are expected to visit one online religious community and engage in dialogue with that community, as well as visit a "physical" religious community and conduct interviews. Students will then post journals of their findings, discuss them on Blackboard and present to the class. A final paper and/or project will be submitted.

Contact: Diana Carvalho at dcarvalh@du.edu

FIRE: Live Broadcast from Barbados

Hi all! If you didn't hear, Professor Margaret Thompson is in Barbados right now covering an important meeting entitled "Strengthening Accountability and Changing Culture to End Violence Against Women in the Caribbean." It's part of the UN Secretary General's Campaign "UNITE to End Violence Against Women."

You can listen to the broadcast from the FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavor) website at: www.radiofeminista.net at the top right via RealMedia, iTunes, and others. Just click on the icon for the program of choice. Broadcasts will be today from 8:30-11:30, 12-1:30, and 2:30-5:30 and tomorrow from 9:30EST (remember, it's two hours earlier on Denver Mountain Time!)

Tune in and listen to something amazing!