Saturday, June 30, 2007

J. B. Conant Group Workshop: RCC, June 29th, 2007

"The Challenges of the Digital Change and the Public Interest. Free Speech and Free Markets. First Amendment Opportunism?"

Speakers: Patrick C. Hogan, David G. Gil, Nolan Bowie, Alvaro Pérez-Ugena

. Mod. Rafael Rodríguez Prieto

Workshop: First part
Second part
Third part
Fourth part

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Audiovisual Councils in Spain

CAAConsejo Audiovisual de Andalucía
www.consejoaudiovisualdeandalucia.es

CoAN
Consejo Audiovisual de Navarra
www.consejoaudiovisualdenavarra.es

CAC
Consejo Audiovisual de Cataluña
www.cac.cat

Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio
www.mityc.es/mediosaudiovisuales

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Spanish Law 1. Mass media
Spanish Law 2. Freedom of speech
Spanish Law 3. Rights of minors

Visits:

July 12. Brad S. Epps. Romance Languages & Literature. Harvard University.

July 12. Michael Selig. Visual & Media Arts. Emerson College.

July 11. Jonathan Zittrain. The Bekman Center for Internet & Society. HLS.

July 11. Stacey Dogan. Notheastern University School of Law.

July 10. James Der Derian. Global Media Project. Brown University.

June 19. Bob Giles Curator. Nieman Foundation. Harvard University.

June 18. Merilee S. Grindle. Director, Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

June 18. David Kennedy. Director, European Law Research Center. Harvard University.

June 18. Terry Fisher. Director. Berkman Center at HLS.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Meeting with Cambridge Activists

Politics and Public Interest I

Politics and Public Interest II

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Alvaro Pérez-Ugena's lecture, RCC, June 11th, 2007

Childhood and Media Responsibility (Complete)

Friday, June 15, 2007

Alvaro Pérez-Ugena's lecture, RCC, June 11th, 2007

Politics and Media special event, June 13, 2007

RCC, Friday June 15th, 2007

Meeting of the J.B. Conant Group at 3:30 pm

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Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University

James B. Conant Winter 2008 Film Series

Place: Real Colegio Complutense at 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge (www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.edu).

Time: 7 PM

Date: Four Wednesdays

February 20: Caminantes (Walkers) 2001.

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa. This documentary begins in early 2001 as Mexican Zapatistas began a march to Mexico City to support the San Andres Accord and to protest the oppression of Mexico's rural indigenous population. In Spanish with English subtitles.

February 27: So Goes the Nation 2006.

Director (s): Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern

A documentary covering the 2004 election, and particularly focusing on the swing state Ohio, is probably something close to essential viewing for those who want to see the inner-workings of election-year politics on both sides and to see what makes both sides work and not work, sometimes at the same time or not at all.

March 5: An Unreasonable Man 2007.

Directors: Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan.

Unreasonable Man" traces the life and career of Ralph Nader, one of the most unique, important, and controversial political figures of the past half century.

March 12: Invisibles 2007.

Directors: Isabel Coixet, Fernando Léon de Aranoa, Mariano Barroso, Javier Corcuera, Wim Wenders. A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them. In Spanish with English subtitles.

November /December 07:

Special Event.

Book Presentation & Reading.

Rose Moss, In Court

Thursday, December 13 at 5.30 pm.

FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, IN ENGLISH.

How magisterially she goes to work. She manages to be lively, too--plastic, moving, and a virtuoso." Andre Brink author of A Dry White Season

Location: RCC Conference Room 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge , MA (corner of Harvard Street ).

Rose Moss is the author of two-novels, the Family Reunion and the Terrorist. Among her more than forty short stories, one won a Quill Prize from the Massachusetts Review and another won a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Her stories have also been cited in Best American Short Stories, nominated for Pushcart prizes, and widely anthologized. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Atlantic Monthly, among other journals and publications. She lives in Cambridge and teaches at Harvard Law School, the Real Colegio Complutense and in the Nieman Program at Harvard.

Forthcoming: J.B Conant Movies Series.
JB Conant Forum.

Iraq for Sale.

The Tiger and The Snow

July

Wednesday, July 18 & Thursday, July 19 (9.00-13.00) Preliminary Meeting. First J. B. Conant Conference Media and Public Interest, December 6-7, 2007

Friday, July 20 (3 PM) Movie: Citizen Kane. Dir: O. Wells. (5PM) Lecture:.Rafael Rodríguez Prieto. Media consolidation and Public Interest. Rethinking BM’s (Berlusconi & Murdoch) Doctrine.

Monday, July 23 (4-5 PM) Lecture: Alberto González Pascual: New Media, Emotional Connections and The Culture of The Public Service Broadcasting.

Monday, July 23, 5PM: Documentary Forget Baghdad. Dir. Samir.

Tuesday July 24, 3:30PM Round Table: Challenges of Hispanic Media in the USA.

Wednesday, July 25 (4-5 PM) Lecture: Manuel Núñez Encabo: Media Ethics and Media Regulation (The self-regulation Challenge) in the European Union.

Thursday, July 26, 5PM: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism. Dir. R. Greenwald.

MEMBERS

Alberto González Pascual Innovation & Development Manager. Sogecable Broadcasting Ltd & Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Alvaro Pérez Ugena Associate Professor. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid.
Frederick Schauer. Frank Stanton Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
José María Seco Martínez. Associate Professor. Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla.
Manuel Núñez Encabo. Professor Jean Monet. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
María Pérez-Ugena. Associate Professor. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid.
Nolan Bowie. Senior Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Rafael Rodríguez Prieto. Associate Professor. Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla