[Commlist] 1-day Conference on Media Policy in South Asia (IAMCR Side-Event)

INSTITUTIONS, INTERVENTIONS, TRANSGRESSIONS: GLOCAL MEDIA POLICIES AND 
PRAXIS FROM SOUTH ASIA
An IAMCR 2021 Side event
Sponsored by the Global Media Policy Working Group
Saturday, July 10, 2021 --- 10h30 to 17h00 Indian Standard Time  (05h00 
to 11h30 UTC)

This side event organised by the Global Media Policy Working Group 
presents a day-long engagement on media policies and practices from the 
South Asian region. The region itself has been under-studied in media 
policy research, and is underrepresented in studies on the interfacing 
of the global with the local. This side event seeks to not only 
contextualize recent work on media policies from the region within 
larger historical debates on media ownership and communication flows, 
but also seeks to open up possible conversations on research in global 
media policies from the South(s) and their amenability for comparative 
purposes.

Conveners:
    - Dr. Preeti Raghunath, Co-Vice Chair, Global Media Policy Working 
Group
    - Susan Koshy, PhD Candidate, Hong Kong Baptist University

Further information: https://iamcr.org/nairobi2021/GMP-side-event 
<https://iamcr.org/nairobi2021/GMP-side-event>
Registration: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/up0lfumprD0jGtAoWK0w7Y7W3I_65bda3J4w 
<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/up0lfumprD0jGtAoWK0w7Y7W3I_65bda3J4w>

Programme (all times are in Indian Standard Time | UTC +5:30):

OPENING SESSION (10.30 am to 10.45 am Indian Standard Time (IST))

SESSION 1: An Invitation to Understand Media Policies in South Asia 
(10.45 am to 11.15 am IST)
This (recorded) session will feature Dr. Paula Chakravartty (NYU, US) in 
a keynote dialogue.

SESSION 2: (Geo) Politics and Power in South Asia (11.15 am to 12.45 pm IST)
Chair: Dr. Claudia Padovani, Co-Chair, Global Media Policy Working Group
Anis Rahman (Bangladesh) --- South Asian Media in Flux: Power, Politics, 
and Policies
Murali Shanmugavelan (South Asia) --- Casting Off Caste-Hate Speech: An 
Appraisal for Digital Media Policies
Varun Ramdas (India)- An Analysis of State Media Policy from a 
Geo-political perspective

SESSION 3: Policy and Practice (1 pm to 3 pm IST)
Chair: Dr. Veronique Wavre, Co-Vice Chair, Global Media Policy Working Group
Vibodh Parthasarathi (India) --- Institutions Constraints and Accordant 
Interests
Harsha Man Maharjan (Nepal) --- "No Policy without Us": Dominant 
Stakeholders and Making of Media Policy Drafts in Nepal
Sachini Perera (Sri Lanka) --- South-based feminist visions for digital 
media policy
Muhammad Shajjad Ahsan (Bangladesh) --- Selecting Technology for Digital 
Television Switchover in Bangladesh

SESSION 4: Transgressions, Censorship and Surveillance (3.15 pm to 4.45 
pm IST)
Chair: Dr. Arne Hintz, Co-Chair, Global Media Policy Working Group
Azmat Rasul (Pakistan) --- “The politics of entertainment regulation: 
Evaluating the policy and regulatory role of government in Pakistan”
Syed Irfan Ashraf, Azmat Khan (Pakistan-Afghanistan) --- Digital 
black-hole: Pakistan’s State undeclared Internet policy in the Pashtun 
periphery
Lisa Brooten (Myanmar) --- Populism, power plays and a pandemic: media 
policy and practice in Myanmar

CLOSING SESSION (4.45 pm to 5.00 pm IST)

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