Four Fairfield University communication professors will present their most recent research into such diverse topics as the Internet, advertising, Lyme Disease and roller derby at "Talk About Communication: Twenty-five Years of Communication at Fairfield University," a free lecture series held on campus. The public is welcome to the second session in the series, which will be held at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library.
The event will feature the following presentations:
Maggie Wells, Ph.D., associate professor of communication, "'It's just growing pains': Chronic Lyme Disease and the discourses of ignorance and invisibility"Colleen Arendt, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication, "A rink of one's own: Gender, sport, and the alter ego in contemporary women's roller derby"Mike Serazio, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication, "From journalism to advertising to politics: Making culture in the 21st century"Gisela Gil-Egui, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication, "Beyond availability and transparency: Applying theories of justice to the open access and open source movements on the Internet"The lecture series is funded by a grant from the Humanities Institute of Fairfield University's College of Arts and Sciences.
Media Contact: Meredith Guinness, (203) 254-4000, ext. 2950, mguinness@fairfield.edu
Posted on March 21, 2013
Vol. 45, No. 222
Recent studies by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life have found that a third of U.S. adults under the age of 30 claim no religious affiliation and that nearly a quarter of adults raised Catholic no longer identify themselves as such.
Dr. Beaudoin and Dr. Hornbeck will explore the contours of what they call "deconversion." They will also discuss the history of deconversion research, talk about the early findings to emerge from their current study of deconversion among local Roman Catholics, and address the implications of this work for the Catholic Church, Catholic theology, and society at large.
This report was written and revised by Fielding faculty and interim associate dean of HOD Dorothy Agger-Gupta and Niels Agger-Gupta (HOD '01), co-principal investigators for the pilot study, with important contributions from co-principal investigator Joy Richards, PhD (HOD '08), and co-investigators Carolyn Plummer (HOD student). Alumna Mary Ferguson Pare (HOD '97), who was recently awarded the most prestigious award Order of Canada, along with Petrina McGrath (HOD student) were also participants in the report. Several other HOD students and alumni contriubuted to the initial planning as well.
