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History of the Lecture
The George Gerbner Lecture in Communication was established in 1988, by University President Sheldon Hackney and Provost Michael Aiken, to honor Dr. Gerbner before his retirement in the spring of 1988. The annual public event features a lecture given by an Annenberg School alumnus.
The first Gerbner Lecture was given in April 1988, by Daniel Schiller, ASC M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UCLA.
Past Gerbner Lectures include:
2005 Dr. Eleanor Novek, ASC Ph.D. 1989
Associate Professor of Communiation, Mommouth University
“News from ‘the joint’: Reflections on conducting communication research in prison.
2004 Dr. Larry Gross
Professor and Director, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
“From Margins to the Mainstream [and Back?]”
2003 Donna B. Schwartz, ASC MA ’79, Ph.D. ‘83
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
"Look! Don’t look! Exposing the Contradictions of Sanctioned Sex”
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