Kathleen Hall Jamieson will visit Nebraska Wesleyan University to present the Lambda Pi Eta Honorary Lecture. Her lecture is titled, “Communicating Science in a Polarized Political Environment.”
The lecture will be held on Wednesday, March 12 at 3 p.m. in Olin B Lecture Hall, located one block east of 50th Street and St. Paul Ave.
Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her expertise is in political communication, rhetorical theory, criticism, campaign communication and discourse of the presidency.
She has authored and co-authored 15 books including “Presidents Creating the Presidency,” “Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment,” and “unspun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation.” Her latest book is titled, “The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages Shaped the 2008 Election.”
The Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honorary and Wesleyan Communication Association sponsors this annual lecture, which brings to campus experts in the communication field.
The lecture is free and open to the public.