8-8:30am - Coffee
8:30-10
Dallas
Smythe Award
Room: Sanctuary
Vincent Mosco to receive the award and give the keynote address: Empire at
Ground Zero
Manju Pendakur and Janet Wasko to introduce
10:30-12:00 (Saturday)
Panel Discussion 4
A. Media Activism
and the Independent Media Center: An Update from the Frontlines
Room: Lenin
Moderator: Sascha Meinrath, Champaign
Sascha Meinrath and Victor Pickard, IMC, Champaign,
Andy Jones, IMC, St. Louis
Kristen Kordecki, Big Muddy Media, Carbondale
B. Political Economy
and Media Ownership
Room: Rosa Luxemburg
Moderator: Ronald V. Bettig
Ronald V. Bettig, Penn State: Napster’s Back: The Incorporation of Digital
Music
Jennifer M. Proffitt, Pennsylvania State University: Rupert Murdoch’s
Challenge to Democracy: Concentration and the Marginalization of Dissent.
Chris Demaske, University of Washington, Tacoma: Covering Iraq: The Free Speech/Free
Press Paradox.
Venkata Ratnadeep Suri & Siddhartha Raja, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
The Media Ownership Debate: Common Themes and Arguments.
C. Labor in the Academy
Room: Sanctuary
Moderator: Max Aud, Federal Mediator
Mike Budd, Florida Atlantic University: Academic Labor
John Magney, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale: Academic Unions and
Academic Freedom: A Look at the Record.
Ashley Fogle, University of Oregon: Laboring to Learn: The Graduate Employee
Union Movement as Resistance to the Corporate University
D. Art and Activism
Room: Marx
Moderator: Jan Roddy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Anthony J. Lenzo, Purdue U: Voicing Iraq: A Video Snapshot of Peace Activism
John Stiver, Citizen 360 and Tim Munson, Sugai Munson Communications: Designing
Strong Democracy: Toward an Aesthetic of Eco-cognitive Mapping
Darell Varga, Brock University, Ontario: Culture and Resistance in Northern
Video
E. Racism and the Human Rights Discourse: In War and “Peace”
Room: Emma Goldman
Moderator: Emmanuel C. Alozie, Governors State University, Illinois.
Kumarini Silva, University of Oregon: Of Warriors and Victims: Women and War
in Sri Lanka
Pi-Chun Chang, SUNY, Buffalo: Cultural Resistance and Economic Intervention:
An Examination on the Characteristics of Globalization and Human Rights Discourses
Dimple Mohanty, SIUE: Human Rights and the U.S. Media—The Case of Popular
News Magazines
Karie Hollerbach, Southeast Missouri State University: Segmentation Sells,
But What Is It Really Saying? A Critical Look at Television Advertising for
the General and African American Audiences
Lunch Break: 12-1:15
1:30-3:00 (Saturday)
Panel session 5
A. The Academy under
Attack
Room: Marx
Moderator: Gary Kolb, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Patricia Berg, University of Wisconsin-River Falls: College Republicans on
the Offensive
Cissy Lacks, Independent: Teachers Afraid to Teach: Censorship, Education and
the Courts
Kathe Lemon, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada: Media Filters in the Canadian
Student Newspaper
Lee Artz, Purdue University, Calumet: The Intellectual Under the Axis of Empire
B. Digital Media
in the Shadows of Capitalism
Room: Sanctuary
Moderator: Dan Schiller, U. of I. Urbana-Champaign
Dan Schiller, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Digital Capitalism
2004: Retrospect and Prospect
Deborah Tudor, DePaul University: Digital Media: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Djung Yune Tchoi, Penn State University: Bring Digital Citizenship Back From
Hollywood Majors: Copyright Myths in The Motion Picture Association of America’s
Anti-Piracy Campaign
C. Media and the
Iraq War
Room: Rosa Luxemburg
Moderator: Tom Johnson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Michael Fahey, U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: Newspaper Coverage in Three Countries
During the Build-up to the War on Iraq
Margaretha Geertsema, U. of Texas at Austin: The Story of Jessica Lynch and
Shoshana Johnson: Media spectacle and the Formation of a Black Counter-public
James Compton, U of Western Ontario: Shocked and Awed: The Convergence of Military
and Media Discourse
Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte, University of Texas: Ominous Parallels: Press Patterns
in U.S. Coverage of Central America in the 1980s and the Middle East 2001-03.
D. Childhood under
Late Twentieth-century Capitalism
Room: Emma Goldman
Moderator: Kate Kane
Randy Nichols, University of Oregon: What Hath Wright Wrought: A Political
Economic Context for the SimBrand
Lora Taub-Pervizpour, Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA): Globalizing Children’s
Play: Global Popular Culture in Local Contexts
Jeanne Lynn Hall, Penn State U.: Students for Sale: Media Coverage of Exclusive
Agreements between Soda Manufacturers and Public Schools
E. Roundtable: Global
Hollywood
Room: Lenin
Toby Miller, New York University
Ting Wang, Northwestern University
Jyotsna Kapur, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Rick Maxwell, Queens College-City University of New York
Manjunath Pendakur, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Janet Wasko, University of Oregon
Frederick Wasser, Brooklyn College-City University of New York
Amy Beer.
PANEL 6: 3:15-4:45 (Saturday)
A. Fascist Aesthetics, Resistant Practices
Room: Marx
Moderator: Jeffrey Skoller, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago.
Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe, University of Texas at Austin: Necropolitics and the
Counter-Public Sphere.
David Sholle, Miami University: The Beautiful War: The Fascist Aesthetics of
Global Anti-Terrorism
Deborah L. Jaramillo, University of Texas, Austin: It's like High Noon meets
True Lies...with a heart: Making Iraq High Concept
B. New scholarship
Roundtable #2: Issues in International Media
Room: Rosa Luxemburg
Discussants: Janet Wasko, University of Oregon and Toby Miller, New York University
Jingbong Choi, University of Minnesota: South Korean Press’s Construction
of North Korea as part of the “Axis of Evil
Siobhan McCollum, Buffalo State: Differences Between U.S. and Canadian Reporting
Ooi, Ying Nee: The U.S. Press in Comparison with the Malaysian Press
Elza Ibroscheva, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: Russia’s
Media: Transformed, Reformed or Simply Made Over.
Maria Raicheva-Stover, Washburn University: The Image of a Media Emperor: An
Examination of Rupert Murdoch's Character and Power.
C. Integration of
the Local into Global Capital
Room: Emma Goldman
Moderator: Manju Pendakur, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Yuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University, B.C., Canada: China in the Empire: The
Communication and Cultural Dimension
Bingchun Meng, Penn State University: Hero to Whom? A Case of Global-Local
Alliance in the Chinese Film Industry
D. Without an End:
Film and Video in Political Organizing
Room: Sanctuary
Moderator: Judy Hoffman, Board of Directors, Kartemquin Films; University of
Chicago
Chris Bravo, filmmaker, educator, Discount Cinema and Indymedia, Chicago
Alex Halkin, Chicago: The Chiapas Media Project.
Deb Ellis, Co-Producer/Director "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral,” Middlebury
College.
E. Discussion
with Tim Walker from The Adbusters.
Moderated by John Downing, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale.
Room: Lenin
7
pm
UDC Dinner and Dance
Best Western Inn at the Park
