Photo: Gene Policinski, founding editor of USA Today, and COO of Freedom Forum Institute and the First Amendment Center is coming to Augusta University by invitation of the Communication Department to speak about “Twenty-first-Century Threats to the First Amendment: Bodies, Bytes and Well-Meaning People.”
Future of the First Amendment Symposium
Events Schedule:
Free Expression in Georgia
David E. Hudson answers questions about freedom of press. Wednesday, March 13, noon, TVC Lab
“Twenty-first-Century Threats to the First Amendment: Bodies, Bytes and Well-Meaning
People”
Gene Policinski keynote address. Wednesday, March 13, 7 p.m., JSAC Ballroom
Free Theatre/ Free Faith/ Free Food
Freedom of religion discussion as well as free theatre performance and food. Thursday, March 14, noon, JSAC Coffeehouse
Journalists in Jeopardy: Censorship, Intimidation and Violence on the Job
Panel discussion by industry experts. Thursday, March 14, 7 p.m., JSAC Ballroom
Mad As Heck: Screening of the film “Network”
Hosted by associate professor Matthew Buzzell. Friday, March 15, noon, TVC Lab
Read more about it in the Future of the First Amendment Press Release. The Future of the First Amendment Symposium is hosted by Augusta University’s Department of Communication in the Pamplin College, The Bell Ringer, The Phoenix and the AU Student Chapter of SPJ.
After showing three retrospective films by Whit Stillman on January 17, on January
26 Professor Matthew Buzzell from the Communication Department welcomed screenwriter
and director Whit Stillman himself to Augusta University. After showing his recent
Jane Austen adaptation "Love & Friendship," starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny,
Stillman sat down with Buzzell to discuss the writing and directing process and answer
questions from the audience, followed by a book signing in the JSAC.
Read more about the event in the AU Bellringer and in an article by the Criterion Collection.
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