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Florida International University hosted a panel discussion for journalists covering Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering (IPO) and its implications. FIU experts from a wide array of fields, including business, law, engineering and communication, discussed what to expect in the coming months as the world’s largest social media site goes public. Amongst those FIU experts was FIU Law Professor Hannibal Travis.

“The Facebook IPO provides our students with a great opportunity to discuss issues of growing importance, such as patents over popular new ways of communicating, and whether the government has a role in preserving competition and transparency in markets for communication and information,” said Professor Travis.

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Facebook goes public

A discussion about the future of the Internet giant — Live on the web

WHAT: Florida International University is hosting a panel discussion for journalists covering Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering (IPO) and its implications. FIU experts from a wide array of fields, including business, law, engineering and communication, will discuss what to expect in the coming months and what reporters should look out for as the world’s largest social media site goes public.

The discussion will be streamed live on Facebook and Ustream, where viewers are encouraged to post questions and comments.

After brief remarks from panelists, The Miami Herald Business Editor Jane Wooldridge will moderate a discussion about the future of a publicly-held Facebook and its impact on Wall Street, user privacy, software development, and social media networking and communications, among others.

The discussion is free and open to all journalists. To RSVP, please click here.

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Professor Hannibal Travis will deliver the 2012 Naby Assyrian Lecture, “Cultural and Symbolic Reparations for Past Historical Injustices: The Future Prospects of Restitution for the Ottoman Christian Genocide” on April19th at Harvard’s Science Center A.

“Cultural and symbolic reparations aim to reverse the last stage of genocide, which is the imposition of the national identity of the perpetrator group on the remnants of the victim group. New laws and policies in the Americas, Europe and Oceania attempt to remember and symbolically remedy past historical injustices against aboriginal peoples and national minorities. These reforms mirror the recommendations of the European Union with respect to the Ottoman Christian Genocide, namely recognition of what happened, unfettered access by historians to the archives, complete religious freedom, and respect for the traditional ownership of lands and cultural treasures.”

Download a PDF version of the event’s program»

Sponsors include Blackberry, Google, Intel, MercadoLibre, Microsoft, Nokia, and Yahoo! 

MIAMI (December 6, 2011) – Professor Hannibal Travis will address the Latin American Public Policy Forum on Internet, E-commerce and Mobile Technologies and will discuss safe harbors for Internet service providers against copyright infringement claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.  Also speaking at the forum were members of the in-house counsel departments for Latin America of Yahoo! and Google.

The event will take place on Tuesday, December 6 at the Four Season on Brickell Avenue in Miami, Florida.

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