10:30-10:45 AM ET
Welcome
Robin A. Lenhardt, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
William M. Treanor, Executive Vice President; Dean of the Law Center; Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair and Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
Leonard M. Baynes, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
10:45-11:15 AM ET
Free Press: Media 2070
Alicia Bell, Co-Founder Media 2070, Director of the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund Borealis Philanthropy
Trevor Smith, Director of Narrative Change Liberation Ventures
Joe Torres, Senior Director of Strategy and Engagement, Free Press
11:30AM- 12:30 PM ET
Historical and Current Perspectives on Race, Racism and American Media
Moderator: Robin A. Lenhardt, Professor Georgetown Law Center
Panelists:
Mark Lloyd, Clinical Professor of Communication, U.S.C. Annen berg School of Communications and Journalism
Catherine J.K. Sandoval, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law
Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University
12:45-1:30PM ET
Moderator: Leonard M. Baynes, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
Colloquy
Black Media Pioneer: Cathy Hughes, Founder and Chairperson of Urban One, Inc. (formerly known as Radio One, Inc. the largest African American-owned and operated, media company in the nation)
1:45-3PM ET
Regulatory Responses and Challenges
Moderator: Anthony E. Varona
Dean-Designate, Seattle University School of Law; Dean Emeritus and Massey Chair, University of Miami School of Law
Panelists:
Mignon Clyburn, Former FCC Commissioner and now President of MLC Strategies, LLC
Ron Nell Andersen Jones, Lee E. Teitelbaum Professor of Law, The University of Utah College of Law and Affiliated Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project
David Honig, former President of the Multicultural Media Telecom Internet Council
Antoine Haywood, Ph.D. Candidate and Penn Presidential Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication
Lavonda Reed, Dean and Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
3:15-4:30 PM ET
Corporate, Business, and Economic Responses and Challenges
Moderator: Nora Benavidez (she/her)
Senior Counsel and Director, Digital Justice & Civil Rights, Free Press & Free Press Action Fund
Panelists:
James D. Nelson, Vinson & Elkins Professor and Associate Professor of Law and Business, University of Houston Law Center
Howard Shelanski, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
Cheryl L. Wade, Dean Harold F. McNiece Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law
Joel Waldfogel, Associate Dean of MBA Programs and Frederick R. Kappel Chair in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management
4:45- 6 PM ET
Reparations and Other Cor rective Actions
Moderator: Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law Center
Panelists:
Malkia Devich-Cyril, Senior Fellow and Founding Director MediaJustice
William A. Darity, Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University
A.Kirsten Mullen, Folklorist and the founder of Artefactual, an arts-consulting practice, and Carolina Circuit Writers, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas
Eric Miller, Professor of Law and Leo O'Brien Fellow, Loyola Marymount University, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Safiya U. Noble, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2).
6:15-6:30PM ET
Closing Speaker
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
U.S. Member of Congress
10:50am ET
Brief introductory remarks
11am ET
Panel 1
Moderator: Dave Fagundes, Baker Botts LLP Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
Authors:
Tiffany Penner, J.D. Candidate 2022, University of Houston Law Center, Advertising Equity
Cathy Sandoval, Associate Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, Carolyn Byerly, Professor and Chair Communication Culture, Howard University and Katherine McGraw Poor FCC Research Methodology Undermines Media Ownership Diversity
Christopher Terry, Assistant Professor of Media Law, University of Minnesota's Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, New Data Tells the Same Old Story: Minority Ownership and Underrepresentation
12pm ET
Panel 2
Moderator: Erin Carroll, Professor of Law, Legal Practice, Georgetown Law Center
Authors:
Cara Berg-Powers, Visiting Lecturer, Clark University, Media's Impact on Perception of Criminality in White Teachers of Their Students of Color
Reginald Oh, Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Spatial Erasure and Media Narratives about Race
Dre Cummings, Charles Baum Distinguished Professor of Law, William H. Bowen School Of Law and Caleb Conrad, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, 11th-West District of Arkansas, CNN for Black People
2pm ET
Panel 3
Moderator: Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law Center
Authors:
John Tehranian, Paul W. Wildman Chair and Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School,
The Phantom MENAce
Anjali Vats, Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, On the Ontological Antiblackness of "Copying" and "Fairness" Doctrine
Christian Sundquist, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law,
Covid-19 Media Coverage and the Rise of Racial Genetic Determinism
3pm ET
Panel 4
Moderator: Robin Lenhardt, Professor, Georgetown Law Center
Authors:
Susan Hanley Duncan, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Mississippi School of Law and Emelia O'Neil, Banking and Finance Major Class of 2023, University of Mississippi, Media Ownership Then and Now
ltay Ravid, Assistant Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law,
Covering Homicide Victims and the Double-Edged Sword of Colorblindness
Jennifer Safstrom, Counsel, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, Time to SLAPP Back
4pm ET
Panel 5
Moderator: Christina Koningisor, Associate Professor, The University of Utah College of Law
Authors:
Peter Huang, Professor and DeMuth Chair, University of Colorado Law School, How American Corporate Media Can Help to Challenge AAPI Hate
Erin Carroll, Professor of Law, Legal Practice, Georgetown Law, Obstruction of Journalism
John Browning, Partner, Spencer Fane LLP, Martyr on the Altar ofTruth
5pm ET
Brief concluding remarks
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