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Program     9:30 Welcome Remarks   Gerardo della Paolera (President of The American University of Paris)     9:40 Morning Session: The UNESCO Convention and its Consequences     Introductory Remarks: Yudhishthir Raj Isar (AUP)   Testimonies from actors in the negotiation of the Convention:   Sydney Bartley (Director of Culture, Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Jamaica)   Véronique Guèvremont (Université Paris1-Panthéon-Sorbonne): a jurist’s perspective   Discussion     11:00 Break     11:15 Overarching issues   Ted Madger (NYU): The Claims of Culture and the Regimes of World Communication   Guiomar Alonso (UNESCO) [TO BE CONFIRMED]: UNESCO’s recent report entitled International Flows of Selected Cultural Goods and Services 1994-2003   Discussant: Diana Crane, Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania   Discussion     13:00 Lunch     14:30 Early Afternoon Session: Cultural Difference in the Public Sphere   Chair: Yudhishthir Raj Isar (AUP)     15:30 Pap Ndîaye (EHESS): Cultural Diversity in France (Title to be Announced)   Discussant: Francoise Verges (Goldsmiths, University of London)   Jonathan Zimmerman (NYU): Cultural Diversity in America: Two Cheers, and a Note of Caution   Discussant: Andrew Diamond, Université de Lille 3   Discussion     17:00 Break     17:15 Late Afternoon Session: Mediation and Cultural Diversity   Chair, Ted Magder (NYU)   Adrienne Russell & Jayson Harsin (AUP): New Media Technologies and Global Public Address: the video ‘The French Democracy’   Helga Tawil Souri (NYU): A Prison Called Palestine: Thoughts on Conflict and Cultural Traces   Discussion     19:00 Closing Cocktail           Speakers     Yudhishthir Raj Isar, a former senior official at UNESCO, is Jean Monnet Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at AUP and President of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage.   Sydney Bartley played an active role in the drafting of the UNESCO Convention as Director of the Ministry of Culture in Jamaica.   Véronique Guèvremont, a jurist, is a researcher at the Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne and contributed to the Convention negotiations.   Ted Madger is chair of and associate professor in the Department of Culture and Communication and co-director of the Council on Media and Culture at NYU.   Guiomar Alonso is a staff member of UNESCO’s Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural Dialogue and has specialized in international flows of the trade in cultural goods and services.   Diana Crane, a sociologist of culture, art and globalization, is Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania.   Pap Ndiaye is a researcher at the Ecole des hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.   Jonathan Zimmerman is professor of education and history in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at NYU.   Jayson Harsin and Adrienne Russell are assistant professors in the Department of International Communications at AUP.   Hega Tawil Souri is an assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Communications at NYU.   Francoise Verges is a reader in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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March 4, 2005     9h30 Opening Session Celeste Schenck, Vice President for Academic and Grant Planning Waddick Doyle, Chair, Department of International Communications       9h45 Mediating Belief Chair: Yudhishthir Raj Isar International Communications, The American University of Paris   John Downing Southern Illinois University Altermondialisme or otherworldliness? Contemporary social justice movements and their Media Waddick Doyle The American University of Paris Naturalisation to Supernaturalisation: Believing in Media Worlds Across the World Bernard Lamizet Institut d’Études Politiques de Lyon Croyance et Médiation       11h15 Arab Television Chair: Justin McGuinness International Communications, The American University of Paris   Matt Carlson University of Pennsylvania Transnational Journalism and Cultural Norms: How The New York Times talks about Al Jazeera Marwan Kraidy American University, Washington, D.C. ‘Star Academy’ And the Dynamic of Contention. Arab Reality Television v/s Arab Reality Ramez Maluf Lebanese American University Who is Having to Adjust? Islam on Arab Television       2h00 Alternative Realities Chair: Eric Maigret Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle   Nick Couldry London School of Economics and Political Science Media and the Ethics of ‘Reality’ Construction Eric Macé Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle Les médias, usines à mythes Susan Ossman Rice University, TX Believe it or Not: Does it make a Difference? Johanna Sumiala-Seppänen University of Jyväskylä Finland – (Presenting) & Matteo Stocchetti Arcadia International Research Institute, Arcadia Polytechnic Finland The Father of the Nation or Arch-terrorist? The ambiguity of the sacred in the visual narrative of the Death of Yasser Arafat       4h15 Rhetoric and Fiction in Circulation Chair: Nilüfer Göle Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)   Dilip Gaonkar Northwestern University Which Media? Whose Belief?: Notes on the Cultures of Circulation Jayson Harsin The American University of Paris Rhetoric and the Rumor Bomb: Media, Rhetoric, and Belief in current American conjuncture François Jost Sorbonne Nouvelle, Directeur du CIESME Abolir la croyance pour faire place au savoir…Les chaînes à l’heure de la télé-réalité       March 5, 2005     10h00 Media and Religion Chair: Adrienne Russell International Communications, The American University of Paris   Cora Bender J. W. Goethe University, Germany Native American Media and Religion: Cultural Knowledge in Situations of Crises Mary Griffiths (Presenting) & Ann Harding University of Waikato, NZ Re-forming Christians Online: Models of Authority and Participation Alexander Darius Ornella Graz University, Austria The Rise of the Religious in Media Society Yam Chi-Keung University of Edinburgh Constructing a Public Perception of Christianity in a Chinese Society through Popular Media       10h00 Theory Chair: Jayson Harsin International Communications, The American University of Paris   Pascal Froissart Université de Paris 8 et Labo ‘Communication et Politique’ (CNRS) For a critical theory of rumors Brian Goss Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus Media and Belief: Toward an Althusserian Approach René-Jean Ravault Université de Québec If We Cannot Trust the Expression of Our Own Mind…Whose Utterances Could Be Trusted on Earth Oliver Zoellner Research Worldwide, Germany Belief, media, reality       1h15 Image, Belief and Nation Chair: Susan Ossman Rice University TX   Paul Falzone University of Pennsylvania Paid Killers, Volunteer Martyrs: Media, Belief and the Nontraditional Death Energy of the Nation John Ferré University of Louisville, KY Popular Books about Pet Heaven Justin McGuinness The American University of Paris Still Commanding Belief? Images of Royalty in Contemporary Morocco Guy Marchessault Université Saint Paul Ottawa Media and the Pope: in Struggle or in Connivance?       1h15 Representations and Belief Chair: Julie Thomas International Communications, The American University of Paris   Neil Bather University of Kaikato, NZ Evil as celebrity: the representation of evil as spectacle in Hollywood cinema Jin Qiu Hong Kong Baptist University Being ‘Others’: Alienation and Distortion of Peasant in Chinese Mass Media Colum Kenny Dublin City University Visible Targets and Invisible People: A Case Study in Branding, Identity and Radio       3h30 Reality TV Chair: Nick Couldry Senior lecturer in Media and Communications, Director, MSc Culture and Society London School of Economics and Political Science   Lina Khatib Royal Holloway, University of London Media and Belief in pan-Arab Nationalism in the Age of Reality TV Nicolas Lavergne LAIOS/EHESS Lyon L’événement -Loft Story- Sens de la méditation contemporaine, recompositions culturelles des mythes actuels, nouvelle politique du réel Yves Laberge Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Rendre crédible la téléréalité : pour une éthique du citoyen-téléspectateur       3h30 Asian Realities Chair: Tanya Elder Assistant Professor of Communications The American University of Paris   Sheldon Harsel RMIT University, Melbourne & Yoshimi Matsuda Australian Catholic University, Melbourne Political Belief and Media Use in Confucian and Judeo-Christian Cultures Charu Uppal Penn State University Missing and Mistrusted: Is there a link between the decline of positive representations of Muslims in Indian movies and the rise in violence against Muslims? Xu Xiaoge Nanyang Technical University of Singapore Media, cultures and beliefs in Asia: An explorative study       5h30 Closing remarks

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June 7, 2004:  17:00 - 20:00     17:00 - 17:30     Opening Session at the Institut du Monde Arabe (1 rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard, Place Mohammed-V, 75005 Paris)      Greetings from the Conference Sponsors   Nasser El Ansary (Directeur général de l'Institut du Monde Arabe à Paris)   Celeste Schenck (Vice-President for Academic and Grant Planning, The American University of Paris)   Jo Ellen Parker (Executive Director, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education)       17:30 - 18:10         New Media and New Teaching Explained and Illustrated   "Overview of IT Development in the Region." Michael Toler, Editor of the Arab Culture & Civilization site.   "The Use of New Media in Teaching about the Middle East." Douglas Davis, Director of the NITLE Al-Musharaka Collaborative.       18:30 - 19:10         "The Satellite Revolution: Phase Two", Naomi Sakr       19:10 - 19:50         "Competing Media Visions of the Middle East: CNN vs. Al Jazeera -- A Personal Footnote?", Fawaz Gerges           June 9, 2004:  14:00 - 17:30 pm     14:00 - 16:00     Closing Session at The American University of Paris      Conference overview followed by a Roundtable Discussion: Invited participants including Professors Habibi, McGuinness, Roda and Schenck from AUP, will conduct a round-table discussion of the goals and achievements of the seminar, followed by open discussion with the audience on the implications of New Media in the region and on study thereof.

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