Human Rights and Political Wrongs
Monday, March 29
THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC’S NEED TO KNOW
17:00 Opening – Greetings
17:30 Panel Discussion: The News About the News
What is the Media?
Todd Gitlin, Professor, Columbia University
Democracy and Free Speech
Russell Duncan, Professor, University of Copenhagen
18:30 Coffee Break
18:45 Film: “The Insider” (1997)
With Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. Directed by Michael Mann. Dynamic fact based story of a gutsy segment producer for TV’s 60 minutes (Pacino) who sniffs out a story in disaffected scientist Crowe, who’s just been fired by a major tobacco company.
Discussion will follow
TUESDAY, MARCH 30
THE MEDIA AT WAR
17:00 Lecture: Globalization, Democracy and the Media
Todd Gitlin, Professor, Columbia University
17:45 Lecture: The American Media from Vietnam to the Gulf War
Todd Gitlin, Professor, Columbia University
18:30 Coffee Break
19:00 Panel: Global Media Coverage of Wars
Propaganda in War and Peace
Russell Duncan, Professor, University of Copenhagen
Media and NGOs in Times of War
Christos Frangonikolopoulos, Lecturer, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
How News Agencies Cover Wars and the Case of the Greek Media
Nikos Voulelis, Editor, Athens News Agency
Wednesday, MARCH 31
WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN THE MEDIA
17:00 Lecture: Looking at Women in the American Media
Russell Duncan, Professor, University of Copenhagen
17:45 Lecture: Media Marilyn
Clara Junker, Professor, University of Southern Denmark
18:30 Coffee Break
19:00 Panel: Women and Minorities in the Media
Sex and Discrimination in the Media and Legal Framework in the EU
Anna Maria Konsta, Assistant Professor, American College of Thessaloniki
Depictions of Persons with Disabilities in the Media
Christina Papademetriou, Assistant Professor, American College of Thessaloniki
The Image of Immigrant Woman in the Greek TV
Tessa Doulkeri, Assistant Professor, The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thursday, APRIL 1
THE MEDIA AND POLITICS
17:00 Lecture: Greek Elections and the Media
Katerina Mistakidou, Lecturer, The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
17:45 Lecture: Presidential Campaign Debating and Advertising
Richard Katula, Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, Fulbright Scholar in Greece
18:30 Coffee Break
19:00 Panel: Media and Elections
U.S. Elections and the Electronic Media
David Wisner, Chair, History and International Relations Department, American College of Thessaloniki
The Debate over the Pre-election Debate in Greece
Klearhos Tsaousidis, Director, State Radio ERT-3
Media and elections in Fledgling Democracies
Nenad Sebek, Director, Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe
The Politics of Personality: The US Elections of 2000 and 2004
Russell Duncan, Professor, University of Copenhagen
Friday, APRIL 2
CULTURE, SPECTACLE AND ETHICS
17:00 Lecture: “What The World is Coming To!” The 1996 Summer Olympics
Russell Duncan, Professor, University of Copenhagen
17:45 Lecture: The Complexity of the Olympic Games
Dimitris Gargalianos, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Democritus University of Thrace
18:30 Coffee Break
19:00 Panel: Media, Ethics and Spectacle
Culture and Media Ethics in the EU
Elsa Deliyanni, Lecturer, The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Sin as Spectacle: The American South
Clara Junker, Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Ethics versus Spectacle: Comparisons between Europe and the United States
Sandra Kaiser, Public Affairs Counselor
Saturday, April 3
10:00 Exam
11:30 Film Showing
“Wag the Dog” (1997)
With Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, Directed by Barry Levinson.
A desperate White House team, eager to fend off impending negative publicity about the President, hires a political fixer (De Niro) who recruits a hotshot Hollywood producer (Hoffman) to stage a nonexistent war, simply to distract the public.
13:45 Certificate Award Ceremony
14:30 Reception
Closing Reception sponsored by:
SARANTITIS & PARTNERS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA
7th Annual
American Studies Seminar
The Media in National and Global ContextWith the support of the
Municipality of Thessaloniki
THESSALONIKI AMERICAN STUDIES SEMINAR
March 29 – April 3, 2004
Lecture Hall, Thessaloniki Municipal Library
27 Ethnikis Aminis street & Al. Svolou