Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please circulate to people who may be interested.
Enquiries regarding the symposium should be directed to Khalil Agha
(Symposium coordinator) on E-mail: [log in to unmask]


Regards

Dr Noureddine Miladi
Lecturer in Media Studies and Sociology
University of Northampton
Park Campus
Northampton, UK

Editor: Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journalissues.php?issn=17519411&v=1&i=1
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The Centre for Arab and Muslim Media Research (CAMMRO)is organising its
‘SECOND ANNUAL DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ARAB AND MUSLIM MEDIA RESEARCH’

In association with the Media & Communication Department
Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross,
London SE14 6NW, UK
Date: Saturday 16th February 2008
www.cammro.com

This Doctoral Forum brings together research students who are studying
Arab or Muslim media of all types, Middle Eastern culture and politics,
and Disaporic Arab and Muslim communities. This international event is for
academics, Ph.D. candidates and Master’s students to debate the growing
role of media and communication in social change in the Arab/Muslim
communities around the world.

Symposium organization:
Students, who will be expected to present papers based on or part of their
Ph.D. or M.A. dissertations, will be given the opportunity to relate their
important and relevant research to other students and to academics,
enabling them to form networks for future collaboration or material
resources. Panel presentations will be organized according to topic.
Established academics will be in attendance, which will provide further
feedback on students’ research. Exceptional papers may be published in
CAMMRO’s Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research.

Please find as follows the programme for the event:

P R O G R A M M E

TIME        SPEAKER        TOPIC
09:15 – 09:50        Registration + Teas and Coffees
09:50 – 10:00        Dr Gareth Stanton & Dr Noureddine Miladi
Introduction and
welcome

10:00 – 11:20

SESSION 1
Chair: Dr Gareth Stanton, Goldsmiths
- Tajudeen Adebayo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Arabic Broadcasting as a toll of national integration: Nigerian experience
- Dr. Jabbar Al-Obaidi, Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater,
Massachusetts.
Social roles of Arab satellite TV
- Hugh Ortega Breton, Roehampton University
The expression of British cultural paranoia through Arab & Muslim signifiers
- Khalid Hussaini, Moulay Ismail University, Meknès
Pan-Arab satellite TV and transnational public sphere

- 11:20 – 11:35        Coffee Break

11:35 – 12:55        SESSION 2
Chair: Dr Noha Mellor, University of East London
- Wolter Bramhorst,  Erasmus University in the Netherlands
- ‘Swords and beards’; the Arab world in American animated cartoons.
- Iveta Kourilova, Charles University in Prague
- Islam on the TV Screen
- Heba M I Metwally, American University in Cairo
- Stereotyping Single Women in the Egyptian Drama
- Mirjam Gollmitzer, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada
- ‘Deviance’ on television: The democratizing potential of the headscarf

12:55 – 13:30        Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:50        SESSION 3
Chair: Dr Noureddine Miladi, University of Northampton
- Jens Kutscher, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Online Fatwas and their meaning for the European Union
- Charis Boutieri, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
National Media and the story of multilingualism struggling to become
polyphonic: notes from Morocco.
- Chase Laurelle Knowles, University of California, Los Angeles
Faith Online: The vortex of spirituality and the transformation of
conflict in the Arab World
- J.R. Osborn, University of California, San Diego
- The Ottoman adoption of printing press and bureaucratic modernisation

14:50 – 15:05        Coffee Break

15:05 – 16:25        SESSION 4
Chair: Dr. Jabbar Al-Obaidi
- Tine Ustad Figenschou, University of Oslo, Norway
Al-Jazeera English as a global contra-flow
- Nina Bigalke, London School of Economics, UK
Al-Jazeera English & its positioning in International new environment
- Dr Kristiina Koivunen, Independent Scholar, Helsinki
Virtual Kurdistan : The role of satellite television and the Internet in
the reaction against an ethnocide
- Haneen Zoubi, I’ilam: Media Centre for Palestinians in Israel
Media Coverage of the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

16:25 – 16:35        Break

16:35 – 17:55        SESSION 5
Chair: tbc
- Camille Aubret, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Minority and national public opinion: L’Orient-le Jour, the case of a
Christian newspaper in Lebanon
- Raya Shokatfard, American University in Cairo
Perception of the Shia in Egypt and the role of the media
- Samuel O. Oduyela, National Association of Social Workers, Washington
Media bias and religion
- Dima Saber (University of Panthéon-Assas Paris 2) and Walid el-Houri
(University of Amsterdam)
Hizbollah’s filmed operations: from event to self-representation

17:55        Conclusion


Contact us:
For further information or to be sent a registration form please contact
Alyazia Alsuwaidi & Khalil Agha (Symposium coordinators)
on: E-mail: [log in to unmask], Tel: +44 (0) 7852 269 302
www.cammro.com

Thank you