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[ecrea] International Conference: 'Theories of International and Intercultural Communication'

Fri Aug 21 19:11:14 GMT 2009



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"Theories of International and Intercultural Communication"
International Conference - October 29-31, 2009 - University of Mannheim, Germany

The conference schedule has now been finalized! Please see http://niik2009.uni-mannheim.de/schedule or scroll below. For further conference details and registration, please visit http://niik2009.uni-mannheim.de/english. Registration will soon close.


Conference Schedule:

+++ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009 +++

From 10 AM:
Check-in for PhD workshop and main conference

From 11.30 AM:
Optional lunch at 'Mensa am Schloss' cafeteria

1.30 PM:
Opening of PhD workshop
(Hartmut Wessler, University of Mannheim, Germany)

1.45 PM:
Panel I of PhD workshop

Hanna Domeyer, Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg, Germany:
"Transcultural media repertoires and community perceptions in Europe"

Altug Akin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain:
"Studying an international space of communication: the Eurovision Song Contest"

3.15 PM:
Coffee break

3.30 PM:
Panel II of PhD workshop

Anika Struppert, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia:
"Promoting intercultural competence through computer games and simulations"

Sigrid KannengieÃ?er, University of Hamburg, Germany:
"Globalization - media - gender: transcultural gender construction through global networking in local media work"

5 PM:
Coffee break

5.30 PM:
Live video lecture
(Monroe Price, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

6.30 PM:
Optional dinner

7.30 PM:
Opening of main conference
(Hartmut Wessler, University of Mannheim, Germany)

8 PM:
Keynote address I

Oliver Boydâ??Barrett, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA:
"International communication in an unequal world: New directions for theory and research"

9 PM:
Welcome reception

+++ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009 +++

9 AM:
Keynote address II

Eytan Gilboa, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
"New landscapes and actors in international communication: Effects and consequences"

10 AM:
Coffee break

10.15 AM:
Panel I: Actors and images in international communication

Carola Richter, University of Erfurt, Germany:
"Apart from the center: A readjustment of the field 'Media and Democratisation'"

Beata Ociepka, University of Wroclaw, Poland:
"Public diplomacy as a tool of international policy and an approach in theory of international communication in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe"

Susan Schenk, Dresden University of Technology, Germany:
"Comparing the coverage of Islam in Al-Jazeera International, CNN International and BBC World: Themes and stereotypes of international news channels"

12 PM:
Lunch

1.30 PM:
Keynote address III

Daya K. Thussu, Westminster University, London, UK:
"Media and communication in a multipolar world: implications for theory-building"

2.30 PM:
Coffee break

2.45 PM:
Panel II: Worldwide perspectives

Mikkel Fugl Eskjaer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark:
"Regional media systems and international communication"

Barbara ThomaÃ?, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany:
"Diversity as an ethical norm of intercultural communication"

Christine Horz, University of Erfurt, Germany:
"Partizipationstheoretische Medienmodelle und interkulturelle Kommunikation"

4.15 PM:
Coffee break

4.45 PM:
German-language keynote talk

Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, University of Leipzig, Germany:
"Theorieentwicklung der Kommunikationswissenschaft im internationalen Vergleich: Zur Systematik transnationaler Entwicklungen am Beispiel des Forschungsfeldes Interkulturelle Kommunikation"

5.15 PM:
German-language panel discussion
"Die Zukunft der internationalen und interkulturellen Kommunikationsforschung"

Uwe Hasebrink, Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg, Germany
Martin Löffelholz, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Barbara Pfetsch, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Leo Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
N.N.

Chair: Hartmut Wessler, University of Mannheim, Germany

6.30 PM:
Coffee break

6.45 - 7.45 PM:
General meeting of Network Intercultural und International Communication, in German language

Chairs: Martin Löffelholz, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany & Hartmut Wessler, University of Mannheim, Germany

8 PM:
Dinner

+++ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009 +++

9 AM:
Panel III: Comparative approaches

Heiner Meulemann, University of Cologne, Germany:
"Information and entertainment in mass media systems: Preferences and uses of television and newspapers in cross-national perspective"

Sven Engesser & Annika Franzetti, LMU Munich, Germany:
"The spatial dimension of media systems: Conceptualizing centrality for international comparative research"

Frank Harbers & Bas den Herder, University of Groningen, The Netherlands:
"Newspaper history in France, England and the Netherlands: Comparing forms and styles of different media systems"

10.30 AM:
Coffee break

11 AM:
Panel IV: Cultural perspectives I

Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Germany:
"Transcultural communication and de-territorial communities"

Elfriede Fürsich, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA:
"The world beyond international news: Analyzing the global sensibility of popular journalism"

Lothar Mikos, Film and Television Academy  "Konrad Wolf", Potsdam, Germany:
"Global 'Ugly Betty': International format trade, cultural proximity and hybridity"

12.30 PM:
Lunch

1.30 PM:
Panel V: Cultural perspectives II

Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA:
"Double vision: Televised texts in cross-cultural and international perspective"

Matthias Karmasin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria:
"'Cultural Theory' as a model of transcultural communication?"

14.30 Uhr / 2.30 PM:
Closing remarks and farewell
(Hartmut Wessler, University of Mannheim)

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