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</font><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This workshop will offer:
guidance on professional skills and career opportunities both inside and
outside academia; insights and resources for scholars to become critics and
experts in media; and basic media and public relations training with a focus on
how to answer questions from reporters.</span><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Jennifer Polk</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> is </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">an
academic and career coach for graduate students and PhDs. She earned her PhD in
history from the University of Toronto in 2012 and is now a blog writer for academic
magazine </span></font><em><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">University Affairs</span></em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">, where her featured column </font></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">From PhD to Life</span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> offers regular professional
guidance to graduate students, PhDs, and academics. As a career coach, she has
been a keynote lecturer, guest speaker and panelist at various universities in
Canada and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">has been published in Vitae, Academic Matters, and The
Globe and Mail. </span></font><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">She has also been featured on SFU Graduate Studies </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">& Postdoctoral Fellows blog, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Maclean’s
</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-style:normal">magazine, </span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Upstart Business Journal</span></em></font><font color="#000000">, CUIT 89.5FM
Toronto, and History News Network.</font><font color="#000000"><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">See more: </font></span><a href="http://www.fromphdtolife.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">www.fromphdtolife.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">. <span> </span></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Carolyn Harris</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> is a royal historian and lecturer based in Toronto, Canada. Carolyn
completed her PhD in history at Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada in May,
2012 and teaches history at the University of Toronto, School of Continuing
Studies. She also provides royal commentary on the CTV news channel and CBC
radio. As an expert in the history of European monarchy, she has been
interviewed by numerous media outlets including the CTV News Channel, CNN, BBC
Radio 5, CBC syndicated radio, Radio Canada International, TVO’s “The Agenda,”
The Toronto Star, the National Post and the Globe and Mail. </span></font><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Her
writings concerning the historical context of issues facing </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">the British and Canadian monarchies today has appeared in the BBC News
Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Military History Monthly, Globe and Mail,
Ottawa Citizen, Bloomberg News, Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig-Standard. </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Her forthcoming book “Magna Carta and Its Gifts to
Canada” will be published in 2015 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">by Dundurn
Press. </font><font color="#000000">See more: </font></span><a href="http://www.royalhistorian.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">http://www.royalhistorian.com/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:windowtext;font-size:10pt">Samita
Nandy</span></b><span style="color:windowtext;font-size:10pt"> is the
director of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) and writes as a
cultural critic on fame. She earned her PhD in media and celebrity culture from
the Department of Media and Information at Curtin University, Australia in 2012
and is a certified broadcast journalist. Her international media relations and
work led her to be featured CBC News, CTV's Breaking News CP 24, The Globe and
Mail, <i>Daytime </i>and <i>First Local</i> on Rogers Television, OMNI
TV, Canadian Journalism Foundation, Urban Television, Eternity Watch magazine,
ANOKHI Media, ATN Television Network, CINA 1650 AM; Starbuzz Weekly, and
Mississauga News among many more. She has been published by Nova Science
Publishers and Inter-Disciplinary Press. Her forthcoming book <i>Fame in Hollywood North </i>will be
published in 2015 by WaterHill Publishers. See more: </span><a href="http://www.cmc-centre.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;font-size:10pt">www.cmc-centre.com</span></a><span style="color:windowtext;font-size:10pt"> and </span><a href="http://www.samitanandy.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;font-size:10pt">www.samitanandy.com</span></a><span style="color:windowtext;font-size:10pt">.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Shannon Skinner</font></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> is the host and producer of television series, <i>Extraordinary Women TV</i></font><font color="#000000">, now in its third season on television. With
more than 20 years of experience in public relations, </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">she is regular contributor to Huffington Post and has appeared in LIFE
magazine, <i>Good Morning America</i></font><font color="#000000">, Rogers TV </font><i><font color="#000000">Daytime</font></i><font color="#000000">, </font><i><font color="#000000">Global TV,</font></i><font color="#000000">
</font></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Canadian Living</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">, <i>Notable.ca,</i></font><font color="#000000"> </font></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Good News Toronto</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">, <i>Liquid Lunch</i></font><font color="#000000">, among others. Shannon studied creative
writing at the University of Oxford and film studies at Ryerson University, and
received her B.A. at the University of Saskatchewan. She is an active member of
Women in Film and TV (WIFT) and the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Toronto.
She is also the recipient of the University of Saskatchewan, College of Arts
& Science’s </font></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Alumni of Influence Award 2014</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> Her show airs on
Rogers TV Toronto and syndicated world-wide online. See more: </font></span><a href="http://www.extraordinarywomentv.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">http://www.extraordinarywomentv.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> <span lang="EN-US">and </span></font></span><a href="http://shannonskinner.com/meet-shannon/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">http://shannonskinner.com/meet-shannon/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">This workshop is part of international conference </font></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><em>Bridging Gaps: Higher
Education, Media and Society </em></font><font color="#000000">(May 27-28, 2015) at Ryerson University in Canada.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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and submission guidelines: <u><a href="http://www.cmc-centre.com/conference2015">www.cmc-centre.com/conference2015</a>.</u></font></span></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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