Guest Lecture on Johnny Depp – SB 168 T 30 Jan at 7 PM

The following event is free and open to the general public.  Students enrolled in COM 507 Intro to Semiotics first will meet in KT 245 at 6 PM and have a chance to talk with the speaker, and then attend the lecture.

DEEP DEPP:
Travails of Celebrity in a Global Era
Tuesday, 30 Jan. at 7 p.m.
Science Building Room 168

Film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Johnny
Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture.  The actor’s
image is studied in terms of its many strange nuances: Depp’s ethnicity,
his smoking, his tranquility, his unceasing motion, his links to the Gothic,
the Beats, Simone de Beauvoir, the history of rationality, Impressionist
painting, and other ambiguities.  Both deeply intriguing and perpetually
elusive, Depp is revealed as the central screen performer of the
contemporary age, the symbol of performance itself.

Murray Pomerance, a professor in the department of
sociology at Ryerson University, is the author of An Eye for Hitchcock,
Magia D’Amore, Johnny Depp Starts Here, and winner of an O. Henry short story award.

Generously supported by The Department of Communication and The Chapman Fund

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Writing Center Assistance

The IPFW Writing Center, located in KT G19, is open Monday-Friday, as well as Sunday. It offers all writers free one-on-one help in writing papers for any class. Students may come at any stage of the writing process. Appointments are required; to sign up for a consultation, sign up via Tutor Trac at http://www.ipfw.edu/casa/wc/default.htm. You should bring your syllabus and assignment to your consultation. The Writing Center also offers online consulting, free handouts, and workshops on a variety of topics. If you have questions about the Writing Center’s services or want to see if there are openings for same day appointments, call 481-5740.

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Writing Center Positions Available

The following message is from the Writing Center:

We are keenly interested in hiring students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, and we are striving to increase the general diversity of our staff. Any referrals you could provide would be deeply appreciated. To work in the Writing Center, students need to have completed successfully two writing or writing-intensive courses, and in Fall 2007 they will be required to take English w397/c507, Writing Center Theory and Practice.

I am happy to provide recommendations. Attached is a .

For more information about the position, please contact:

Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Writing Center Director
Department of English and Linguistics
Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
(260) 481-6770 (Classroom Medical 117)
(260) 481-0124 (Writing Center)
webbs@ipfw.edu

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Now Accepting Applications for Jack G. Shaheen 2007 Mass Communications

Washington, DC | Decmber 7, 2006 | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC) is now accepting applications for the 2007 Jack G. Shaheen Mass
Communications Scholarship. Jack G. Shaheen, PhD, is the world’s foremost
authority on media images of Arab and the author of Reel Bad Arabs, Arab and
Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture, Nuclear War Films, and The TV
Arab. He established this scholarship through ADC to recognize Arab-American
students who excel in media studies. The deadline for applications is April 16,
2007, and recipients of the scholarship will be announced and presented at ADC’s
Annual Convention

JACK G. SHAHEEN MASS COMMUNICATIONS SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION INFORMATION

PURPOSE:
To recognize Arab-American students who excel in Media Studies.

AWARD AMOUNT:
$1000

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
Juniors, Seniors, or Graduate Students

Must be attending college in the 2007-08 academic year.

Must be majoring in Mass Communications, Journalism, Radio, Television, and/or
Film

Must have at least a 3.0 GPA and be a U.S. citizen of Arab heritage

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS–DEADLINE: APRIL 16, 2007:
Applicants should send the following to the ADC Research Institute:

A one-page statement stating that you are a US citizen, explaining your goals
and why you merit the scholarship

Copies of articles, videos, films, etc.

Official academic transcripts including your GPA

Two letters of recommendation from Mass Communications professors

Permanent home address, phone number, email address; also address, phone number,
and email address during the school year

Awards will be announced and presented during ADC’s Annual Convention in
Washington, DC.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO:
Attn: Nawar Shora
ADC Research Institute (ADCRI)| 1732 Wisconsin Ave, NW | Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-244-2990 | Fax: 202-244-7968

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