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College co-hosts Latin America Conference
The College and UF’s Center for Latin American Studies host the 57th Annual Latin American Conference Thursday and Friday. The multidisciplinary event features American and Latin American scholars and leaders fusing their experience and research to create partnerships.
“Uniting for Solutions” provides faculty, students and other attendees insight into how and why government institutions, private enterprises, non-profit organizations and communities partner in Latin America.
They come together to “tackle problems facing communities,” said conference co-chair Juan-Carlos Molleda, a public relations associate professor at the college.
Molleda hopes the conference helps people realize isolated communities and organizations have no room in the increasingly “interdependent” world. During the seven sessions, attendees will view case studies and best practices presented by such organizations as the United Nations, the International Advertising Association, Latin American foundations and global public relations agencies.
The conference aims to show “how strategic communication facilitates the development of the partnerships,” Molleda said. It will be held at UF’s J. Wayne Reitz Union Auditorium. Participants can register for free online at http://www.latam.ufl.edu/News/conf08reg.stm. A Webcast of the event will be available on the college Web site, www.jou.ufl.edu.
The center works to increase knowledge about Latin America and the Caribbean and to boost the teaching and research on the region at UF. The college is a national leader in the professional education of future journalists and other communications practitioners. It has programs in advertising, print and broadcast journalism, public relations, and telecommunication production and operations, as well as graduate-level programs in science/health communication, documentary, media law, political communication and international communication.
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