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The newsletter of the ialjs LITERARY JOURNALISM VOL 10. NO. 2 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES SPRING 2016 GETTING TO BRAZIL, Visit this website first and fill in ANNUAL MEETING your country and state: <https://brazil. IN PORTO ALEGRE AN OPERATOR’S visahq.com>. Follow the complicated The registration for our annual conference in May MANUAL instructions for filling out the application. can be completed using the form on <http://ialjs. org/conferences/> via PayPal with your credit Mysteries of visas explained. card. You may also register with the form on Page 5 inside. As in the past, there is a substantial By Norman Sims, discount for early registration. University of Masachusetts - Amherst (U.S.A.) have read the research papers and work-in-progress proposals for our FUTURE IALJS IALJS-11 conference in Porto Alegre, CONFERENCE SITES IBrazil. We’ll have a very meaty conference The following future IALJS convention venues are with lots of new perspectives, quality confirmed and/or planned: research presentations, and a keynote Start by gathering the following: IALJS-11: Pontifícia Universidade Católica address by Bill • Two photos of the right size for the visa. do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Dow. But first • Copy of your flight confirmations. Sul, Brazil 19-21 May 2016. we have to get • A scan of your signature as a jpg. IALJS-12: University of King’s College, Hali- to Brazil. • A scan as a PDF file of your passport fax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 18-20 May 2017. In all my page with the number, etc. IALJS-13: Austrian Academy of Sciences, international • A scan as a PDF of your driver’s license Vienna, Austria, 17-19 May 2018. traveling over (proof of address) IALJS-14: Brock University, St. Catharines, the past 20 ________________________ Ontario, Canada, 9-11 May 2019. years, I’ve never IALJS-15: University of Copenhagen, Den- needed a visa— mark, 20-22 May 2020 (pending). thanks largely For those to the Europe- of us who will need a visa an Union—or for Brazil, start a visa was INSIDE PRESIDENT’S stamped into planning earlier and follow every 3 IALJS-11 Poster: “The Porto Alegre Gaucho” my passport single instruction 4 Annual Conference Host Faculty on arrival, as LETTER in Cuba. After 5 Registration Form for IALJS-11 9/11, the U.S. ________________________ 6 IALJS-11 Conference Program instituted restrictions and later the Brazil- ians responded in kind. (If you have an EU • Scan and PDF of recent bank statements, 9 Registration Form for IALJS-11 passport, your experience may be different, showing that you have sufficient funds to 10 Interpretive Essay: Joan Didion but you probably should check.) Those of visit Brazil. The recommended minimum us in the U.S., Canada, and Australia need amount is $80 US a day. 15 CFP: Literary Jouranlism and War a visa before we get there. • Remember to fill out the online applica- 16 Interpretive Essay: “Based on a True Story” Our IALJS-11 host, Juan Domin- tion on Firefox or Google Chrome, not on gues, has experienced the same problem Safari or Windows. 19 Lit. Journalism & the Aesthetics of Experience while traveling in the opposite direction. The visa type is Tourist (Vitur). 25 CFP: Frontiers of Narrative Studies Journa “I also lived this experience in 2012 and in We recommend that you simply apply 26 Reflective Essay: Svetlana Alexievich 2015,” Juan wrote. “In South America, it for a tourist visa to visit the beautiful and is very difficult to obtain visas to Canada interesting country of Brazil. No need to 28 Handbook of Magazine Research and to the United States.” He faced similar mention attending the conference, but if 29 2016 IALJS Membership Form requirements including filling out forms you do mention it, be perfectly clear that and a personal interview. you’re not being paid. Let me give you a list of websites and things to do. Please follow this quickly. Continued on next page The newsletter of the ialjs PRESIDENT’S LETTER Continued from previous page A couple issues. You’ll need your hotel address and phone, and the abbrevi- ation for the province (which is RS). (The address of the conference hotel, the Sher- aton Porto Alegre Hotel, is R. Olávo Bar- reto Viana, 18 - Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre - RS, 90570-070, Brazil Phone:+55 51 2121-6000.) At the end, you can upload reduced files of the images they request, money order, and everything, or mail the for a while. He used to live in Porto Alle- documents within 30 days. Warning: There gre. Wonderful guy. Took 15 minutes. including your photo, a scan of your pass- are no expedited services for these visas, We returned in early January to port, your plane confirmations, and your and it has been reported that some Brazil- scanned signature. Maximum upload is 2MB, so reduce those files. ________________________ Pay attention to the required sizes for the photo and signature. You’re close. Perhaps now would At the be a good time for a glass of wine (vidro Consulate, everyone was do vinho). as fine and Print the form and write down your protocol number. You’ll need a U.S. friendly as I believe Brazil Post Office money order for $160 made out will be to CONSULATE GENERAL OF BRAZIL pick up our documents. (double check the website on that; you can If, by chance, you’re planning to have them fill in the name in person, but ________________________ visit Argentina, you probably won’t need don’t mail a blank money order). a visa but for U.S. citizens there’s a $160 Make an appointment within ian consulates are not currently accepting reciprocity fee. See this web site about 30 days at the consulate or embassy that mailed applications. Argentina: <http://www.migraciones. serves your area. Take your original doc- AT THE CONSULATE gov.ar/accesibleingles/>. This apparently uments, including application, itinerary, Diane and I were very nervous that we applies to residents of U.S., Canada, and bank statements, passport, Post Office had not completed some part of the Australia. application properly. It was a very serious Important: You have to do all this website. But when we got to the Consul- Literary Journalism stuff before leaving home. If you arrive in Spring 2016 Vol 10 No 2 ate, everything was as fine and friendly as Brazil without a visa, they will send you Editors: Bill Reynolds and David Abrahamson I believe Brazil will be. We were immedi- back. You cannot pay the reciprocity fee at ISSN 1941-1030 (print) ately directed to an available agent, who the border in Argentina. May the Force be ISSN 1941-1049 (on-line) looked at our documents, took the pass- with you. © 2016 The Newsletter of the International Association ports and applications and money orders See you in Brazil! t for Literary Journalism Studies. All rights reserved. and returned everything else. We chatted PAGE 2 LITERARY JOURNALISM/ SPRING 2016 The newsletter of the ialjs LITERARY JOURNALISM /SPRING 2016 PAGE 3 The newsletter of the ialjs THE FACULDADE DE COMUNICAÇÃO SOCIAL WILL HOST OUR CONFERENCE AT THE PUCRS IN BRAZIL IN MAY Famencos is waiting to welcome you to Porto Alegre. By Ali Pelczar, Northwestern University (U.S.A.) he IALJS conference this May at the Silva, has served since 2012 and was one of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do the founders of the course in Audiovisual Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Production. TAlegre, Brazil, will be hosted by the Facul- The Integrated Laboratories are dade de Comunicação Social. a distinct feature of the department. They Abbreviated Famecos, the Depart- were instituted in 1999 to facilitate collab- clients; in November 2014, Dell began a two- ment of Social Com- oration between professors and students. year partnership with PUCRS to analyze munication seeks to The practical experiences prepare students and improve Dell’s contact with consumers train professionals for the daily life of their fields and comple- via social media. The lab’s tracks are open for their fields by ment theory learned in the classroom. The to all students regardless of area of study. combining theory Experience Space lab, for example, pro- It consists of 15 teachers and 70 students. and practice. Fame- Journalism students produce work with the cos began in 1949 to ________________________ supervision of a professor in labs focused on offer professional web, print, magazine, radio, television and training for journal- The Integrated in-depth stories. The print journalism lab ists, making PUCRS Laboratories, a distinct publishes the monthly newspaper Hyper- the third university text, with a circulation of 5,000 copies, while in Brazil to offer a feature, facilitate the TV Foca lab produces a weekly news IALJS-11 journalism course. interaction between professors broadcast. Digital journalism has been a The first class grad- facet of the program since the advent of the uated in 1954. Un- and students internet. These labs bring the total number of HOST dergraduate degree students involved in experiential learning to offerings have since over 190, as well as 23 professors. expanded to also ________________________ The postgraduate programs include Public Relations, Advertising and promote research, with areas of concentra- Marketing, and Technology in Audiovisual vides opportunities to work with projects tion in cultural practices in the media and Production. A master’s program was added such as photojournalism, product devel- sociopolitical processes in media. Twenty in 1994 and a doctorate program in 1999. The opment, trend research and media event professors and over 100 students comprise director, Dr. João Guilherme Barone Reis e planning.
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