Program Information
Last year, we explored the common instances, causes and consequences of misunderstandings and miscommunication in instructional and business contexts. This year, our topic, audience, is equally rich and broad. Our goal for May 1st is to stimulate a productive dialogue on the role the notion of audience plays (or should play) in our efforts to nurture among our students and employees greater sensitivity to convention, genre, style and context as well as to how cultural, generational and gender differences affect communication in both education and business.
This year’s Symposium will differ in format from the last few Symposia. In the morning portion of the program, participants will take part in a round-table discussion led by co-facilitators—a business executive and an educator—in which they will together explore a number of critical questions.
In the afternoon, participants will have a choice of one of several break-out sessions on a more specific sub-topic related to the concept of audience. These small discussion groups and workshops will focus on a range of topics including differing conceptions of audience based on generational differences, conceptions of audience in electronic communication, audience awareness, and the audience as determiner of content.
Speakers
Alexandra Logue, Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost, City University of New York.
Jeff Jarvis, blogger at Buzzmachine, Associate Professor and Director of the Interactive Journalism Program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, and author of What Would Google Do?
Jim Oswald, is an organizational strategist and facilitator with over 25 years of experience who works closely with Fortune 100-500 businesses from around the globe to improve organizational performance and effectiveness. He designs and facilitates strategy/long range planning workshops and leadership retreats and teambuilding and communication strengthening sessions for executive and leadership teams as well as designs and implements change management and strategic communication initiatives. As a graphic facilitator, he fuses facilitation and meeting management skills with large scale notetaking and pictograph creation to capture and map discussions and strategic conversations.
Peter Elbow, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author, Writing With Power, Writing Without Teachers, and Being a Writer.
William F. Baker, Lecturer, President Emeritus of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), former CEO of New York’s WNET-TV (Channel Thirteen), and co-author, with Michael O’Malley, of Leading with Kindness.
Program Schedule
The Program will begin at 9:00am with a welcoming address by Dr. Alexandra Logue and an opening keynote by Jeff Jarvis. The round-table discussion will begin at 10:00am. The afternoon workshops will begin at 2:30pm, following a lunchtime keynote by Professor Peter Elbow. After the program, please plan to join us for cocktails and dinner at the Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) where Dr. William Baker will deliver a closing keynote. You may, if you wish, invite a guest to the dinner, but please let us know in advance if you plan to do so as space is limited.
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Location
The symposium will take place on the 14th Floor Conference Center in Baruch’s Vertical Campus Building at 55 Lexington Ave. (enter at the corner of 24th St. and Lexington Ave. or at 25th St. between Lexington and 3rd Ave.). Cocktails, Dinner and the closing keynote will be at the Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South.)
Directions
To get here by subway, take the 6, N, or R trains to 23rd St. There is limited street parking available on the surrounding streets and a few lots on the side streets between 3rd and 2nd Aves. The closest parking lot is on 26th St. between 3rd and 2nd Avenues. Transportation to the dinner at the Players Club will be provided. However, if you prefer to walk, please join us for a walking tour of the historic Gramercy Park area, which will begin at the Vertical Campus and end at the Players Club, which is on the South side of Gramercy Park.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or are interested in bringing an additional guest, please contact us at (646) 312-2060 or by email at symposium at baruch.cuny.edu. For more information about The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute and Baruch College, please visit
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/blsci/ as well as our weblog at http://cac.ophony.org
