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A Ford Hall Forum Event on Tuesday March 5th, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., Old South Meeting House:

For the past 28 years, the Ford Hall Forum’s Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award has honored individuals or organizations that demonstrate extraordinary commitment to promoting and facilitating the thoughtful exercise of our right to freedom of expression. This year, the Forum will honor Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent forNewsHour. She joins us tonight to receive the award and share her thoughts on her life, her work, and what freedom of speech means today.

 

Prior to the Award Ceremony and discussion, we hope you will join us for a reception at 5:00 p.m. at the offices of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky, and Tye LLP on the 22nd Floor of 100 Cambridge Street. Wine and appetizers will be served.  

Tickets to the reception can be reserved here.

 

All events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  No registration is necessary. Visit our website for archives, video, directions, and information.    Plus… Ford Hall Forum on Facebook.

Saturday, February 28th, 12:00 noon Boston Athenæum, 10½ Beacon Street

Director Michael Ritchie and executive producer/star Robert Redford explore the machinations and manipulations of media-age political campaigns in this cynical political drama. With an Oscar-winning screenplay and appearances by real-life reporters and politicians, The Candidate takes a biting look at the nature of politics.

The film will be introduced by Boston Athenæum member and Emerson College screenwriting professor DIANE LAKE. Lake had a previous career as a political consultant in Iowa and has been a working screenwriter since 1993, writing screenplays for Columbia, Disney, Miramax, and Paramount. 

Reservations will be accepted starting January 29 at 617-720-7600.

Suffolk Alum, Jonathan Mendez arrived on campus this Valentine’s Day weekend to sell items from his clothing line, “It Says Love”.  Mendez was featured in a college news story this past year.  Take a look at these photos of him on campus, and enjoy the article written in June, here!

7/25/2008

Mendez hopes to some day see his shirts sold in shops and boutiques, but is adamant that the intent of his design remains true: With love, all things are possible.

In 2006, when Jonathan Mendez, a Quincy resident and recent Suffolk graduate, received a sketch of his childhood home from his sister, Olivia Chamberland, he didn’t think that the kind gesture would lead anywhere in particular. But with a solid education and a positive message, the siblings have developed a fledgling apparel company that they hope to expand into a thriving business.

The siblings used the sketch as inspiration. The feeling of love the two shared for one another and for the home in which they grew up propelled them. “Love has no boundaries, no borders, no restrictions,” Mendez says. “It is a universal language expressed in every vernacular. Love breaks the barriers of our lives. Continue Reading »

Tuesday, February 24th, 1:00 p.m. in Munce Conference Room:

Peter Perdue has a Ph.D. (1981) from Harvard University in the field of History and East Asian Languages. He is the author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987) and China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005). He has also written on grain markets in China, agricultural development, and environmental history.

His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history, history of frontiers, and world history. He is a recipient of the 1988 Edgerton Award and the James A. Levitan Prize at MIT. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.  He is currently Professor of History at Yale University.

This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.

Panel Discussion Thursday, February 26th, 6:00 p.m.Boston Athenæum, 10½ Beacon Street

Does the Internet help make citizens more engaged in the democratic process? How do online social presence, community formation, and party identification on social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and Digg affect the political process? Have online media sites like The Huffington Post, Politico, or The Drudge Report changed political coverage? What impact has online messaging, advertising or public relations had on the 2008 elections? 

GLORIA BOONE is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University. She teaches classes in advertising, new media, Web design, and rhetoric. She consults with businesses and health care organizations on advertising, usability, communication, and integrated marketing communication. 

LINDA GALLANT is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Emerson College. Her teaching and research interests include the application of research methods to social computing and the maximization of information and communication technology (ICT) to advance human communication in multiple contexts – healthcare, politics, and the workplace. 

NINA B. HUNTEMANN is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University. Her research interests include communication policy and history, political economy of communication, new media technologies, game studies, critical cultural studies, feminist media studies, and media literacy. 

A reception will follow this panel discussion. Reservations will be accepted starting February 12 at 617-720-7600

Listen to David Reeder’s Introduction to Citizen Kane:

David Reeder’s introduction to Citizen Kane

Listen to Post-film Question and Answer Section:

Citizen Kane: Post-film Questions and Answers

Performed both at the C. Walsh Theatre at Suffolk University and at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Daughter of Venus shows us a family in pain, a mother too fragile to carry the weight of her husband’s desires, and a father and daughter emotionally distant to the point of despair. Sometimes the choices we make (or don’t make) have vast repercussions on our world and the people we love. Daughter of Venus is a co-production with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.  Following the Saturday evening performance on January 24, there was be a “Ground Floor” talk-back with Howard Zinn andBoston Globe columnist and author James Carroll.

Wednesday, February 18, 6:00 p.m. Suffolk University, Donahue 311 at 41 Temple Street, Third Floor

Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is based on the Algerian struggle for independence from French colonial rule. In particular it follows one fighter, Ali La Pointe, of the National Liberation Front (FLN) who turns from being a criminal to leader of the FLN. The film won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966. 

The film will be introduced by MONIKA REASCH, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University. She teaches both video production and film studies, including a course in World Cinema. She is a native of Germany and holds degrees from four different countries. 

Reservations will be accepted starting February 4 at 617-720-7600.

Saturday, February 14th, 12:00 noon Boston Athenæum, 10½ Beacon Street

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is an Oscar-winning biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane (in essence, a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst), who becomes one of America’s most influential men.

The film will be introduced by DAVID REEDER, visiting assistant professor in the Communications and Journalism Department at Suffolk University. Reeder earned his B.F.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1985 specializing in photography and sculpture and worked as a camera assistant for 20 years perfecting his craft as a filmmaker. His credits include Driving Miss Daisy, Fried Green Tomatoes, Ace Ventura 2, RoboCop3, and the NBC television series “In the Heat of the Night.”