NYSCA 2010 Conference, October 22-24

Come listen to—and talk with—world class speakers.

Our Friday night speaker, Renee Hobbs, is a Professor and founder of the Media Education Lab at Temple University. Her recent works include a white paper, Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, written for the Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute and a book, Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning. She helped create the Partnership for Media Education, which evolved into the National Association for Media Literacy Education and is a past president of this organization


On Saturday afternoon, Aashish Kumar will screen and discuss his documentary following the lives of ‘reverse migrants’ – Indian hi-tech workers who moved back to India from the US – and exploring how globalization transforms our sense of place and home.  A Fulbright scholar and member of the US National Fulbright  Screening Committee, Aashish teaches documentary and advocacy video at Hofstra University.  Among the awards for his films are the Best of Festival and Award of Excellence from the Festival of Media Arts, Broadcast Education Association.

Our evening Saturday speaker, Carole Blair, is a Professor of Communication Studies and Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2009, she was elected as a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, NCA’s highest research distinction. She has been the recipient of many awards including the Francine Merritt Award for Contribution to the Lives of Women in Communication. Her research attends to rhetoric’s crucial role in understanding visual and material phenomena.

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For more information, please contact: Mary Ann Allison, conference chair, mary-ann.allison@hofstra.edu.