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Several faculty and staff will participate in the American Journalism Historians Association’s annual conference Oct. 6-8 in Kansas City.

So far, School of Journalism participants are:

IUPUI journalism professor Jonas Bjork will present “Sicilian Hell-Raising: Portrayals of Italians in the Swedish-Language Press of Jamestown, N.Y., 1910-1940,” at the Research-in-Progress session.

Associate professor Mike Conway will moderate a session on “Visual Justice” and will serve as panelist on “Into the Archives: Exploration and Use of Some Select Resources.”

Doctoral candidate Bill Gillis will present “’The Voice of the No-Longer Silent Majority’: The St. Louis Citizens Informer Fights Liberalism, the News Media and ‘Forced Integration’ in Boston, 1971-1976,” in the Covering Race in the Latter 20th Century session.

Doctoral student Amy Ransford Purvis will present “Roy W. Howard and the Early American Newspaper Guild: One Publisher’s Approach to the Unionization of Journalists in the 1930s.”

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