March 19, 2004

Fr. Carter Lecture Series presents three programs in 2004

Filmmaker Spike Lee to speak April 15

To commemorate the ninth year of the Father Carter Lecture Series, three lectures will be presented this year. These programs will examine dif-ferent aspects of the media.

Jennifer Pozner will discuss women in the media for the second lecture in the series on March 31, in Nunemaker Hall at 7 p.m. The public is invited to this event. Pozner is the founder and director of Women in Media & News (WIMN), a women's media monitoring, training, and advocacy organization. Pozner conducts media training across America, and has appeared on television on the Fox News Network, Comedy Central, and others. Her work has appeared in many newspapers and online.

Spike Lee, appearing on April 15, in Roussel Hall at 7 p.m., has established himself as one of Hollywood's most important and influential filmmakers during the last decade. Some of his most critically-acclaimed films are Malcolm X, Clockers and Do the Right Thing. Born in Atlanta and raised in Brooklyn, Lee attended Morehouse College. He received a master's degree in film production at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Lee's commercial work began in 1988 with his Nike Air Jordan campaign where he collaborated with basketball great Michael Jordan. He continues his commercial work today. In addition to making mass market films, he has been involved with documentaries and sports programs, receiving Emmy and Oscar nominations for the HBO documentary, 4 Little Girls, and received an Emmy Award for his HBO piece on Georgetown's John Thompson.

The Father Carter Lecture Series seeks to feature a speaker of national prominence whose humanity and character have enabled him or her to promote social justice in his or her life work. Past speakers have included Susan Sarandon, Sister Helen Prejean, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Beck Weathers, Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, Edward James Olmos, Erin Brockovich, and Peter Bergen, who was one of the few reporters who has interviewed Osama bin Laden face-to-face. Last year's speaker was Danny Glover, actor and political activist.

First in this year's series was a debate about music piracy featuring two internationally known speakers. Thomas Dolby Robertson, who first became known for his groundbreaking 1980s albums and music videos including "She Blinded Me With Science," discussed the music industry with John Perry Barlow, known as the lyricist for the Grateful Dead. Robertson is one of the first musicians to see how digital distribution of music could affect the musicians' economic and artistic futures. Barlow also is known as an expert on the digital economy. This discussion was held March 16.

This lecture series honors Loyola's longest-tenured president, the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., who served the university for 20 years.