Registration for The Educating for Change
Media Literacy Conference
Is Closed
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Conference Details
All UMass Amherst, Dartmouth, Boston, Worcester, and Lowell students
are free to register and those from out of town will be provided a free hotel on Saturday night.
UMass Amherst students will be provided free transportation to and from the conference.
Please email Donald Dow at ddow@umassd.edu if you need a hotel or transportation.
Educating for Change! Media Literacy Conference
UMass Dartmouth
Sept 28th and 29th
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Caroline Heldman
Dr. Caroline Heldman is chair of the Politics Department at Occidental College. She is also a political commentator for MSNBC, Fox Business News, RT America, and Al Jazeera English.Dr. Heldman’s work has been featured in the top journals in her field, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, and Political Communications. She co-edited the popular book, Rethinking Madame President: Is the US Ready for a Woman in the White House? (2007). Dr. Heldman’s work has also been featured in popular publications, including the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Ms. Magazine, The Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast. She is a featured speaker in the documentary Miss Representation
Featuring a panel of representatives from the Women’s Media Center, SPARK, Free Press, FAAN Mail, Women in Media and News
Over sixteen workshops led by feminist media experts like Jamia Wilson (TED) , Amy Richards (Soapbox), Jennifer Baumgardner (Soapbox/The Feminist Press), Jennifer Pozner (Women in Media & News), Cristina Finch (Amnesty International USA), Dana Edell (SPARK), Debbie Hines (Huffington Post/Legal Speaks), Janet Freedman (Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center), Candace Clement & Misty Perez Truedson (Free Press), Cara Lisa Berg-Powers (Press Pass TV), Kristal Brent Zook (Hofstra University), Lovette Luvvie Ajayi (Absolutely Luvvie), and more.
Rates (includes dinner Saturday night):
UMass Students: FREE
Community College Students: $35
Non UMass Students: $75
UMass Faculty & Staff: $100
K-12 Educators: $150 (10 PDPs available)
General Public: $175
For more information contact Donald Dow at ddow@umassd.edu
The Center for Women Gender & Sexuality at UMass Dartmouth, supported by the Roy J. Zuckerberg Leadership Prize, has developed a pilot program with the documentary Miss Representation (missrepresentation.org). Over the past year, the CWGS has screened the film across the state at the UMass universities. Students, who attended these screenings, were invited to become trained facilitators of the film. These facilitators, after attending Educating for Change, will go into high schools and middle schools, across the state, to show the film and facilitate class discussions in an effort to increase the representation of women and girls in the media and to call out this lack of representation.
If you are interested in becoming a trained facilitator, please email us at ddow@umassd.edu or call 508.910.6567
***Special thanks to the Zuckerberg Grant and Miss Representation***
