Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Communication and conflict: Deadline extended
to 31 May
Iniz > Communication and Conflict: Propaganda, Spin and Lobbying in the
> global age
>
> Propaganda, spin and lobbying are increasingly the topic of public
> and media debate. From the attempt to construct a ‘threat’ from
> Weapons of Mass Destruction, through the razzmatazz of political
> campaigning to the regular scandals about improper corporate
> influence on policy the relationship between communication,
> conflict and power is back on the academic research agenda.
>
> The Department of Geography and Sociology is pleased to announce an
> international conference on Communication and conflict, to be held
> in Glasgow on 7-9 September 2007.
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> Update - Abstract deadline extended to 31 May
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> New speakers confirmed as of 2 May 2007:
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> Prof. Stuart Ewen, (New York University, author of PR! A Social
> History of Spin )
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> Mark Curtis (author of Unpeople and Web of Deceit)
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> Prof. Keith Dixon (Universite Lumiere-Lyon, France, author of Les
> Evangelistes du Marche )
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> Dr. Des Spence (Glasgow GP, spokesperson for No Free Lunch the
> campaign against Pharma marketing tactics)
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> Eamonn O'Neill, (University of Strahclyde, Investigative Journalist )
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> Prof. David Henry,( Professor of clinical pharmacology , University
> of Newcastle, Australia co-convenor, inaugural disease mongering
> conference in Australia, 2006)
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> Dr. David Healy, (Director, North Wales Dept of psychological
> medicine at Cardiff University , author of Let Them Eat Prozac: the
> Unhealthy relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and
> depression)
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> Mike Hughes, (author of a history of the Economic League, Spies at
> Work )
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> Jeff Blankfort, (a radio producer with KPOO in San Francisco and a
> longtime commentator on the Israel Lobby)
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> Participation
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> This call is a preliminary invitation to submit abstracts, panels
> and workshop proposals. In addition we are inviting expression of
> interest for participation and support from academic institutions,
> policy makers, media institutions and civil society organizations.
> Organisation can sponsor a particular session or support a
> particular stream of papers.
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> The conference will be an international gathering of leading
> experts and researchers in the area of propaganda, spin, lobbying,
> media management and investigative journalism. It will also
> feature hand on sessions on how to investigate propaganda and
> lobbying activities, led by Spinwatch.
>
> Click here for information on
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> Costs and accommodation, stalls and helping out
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> Call for papers
>
> Speakers include
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> Invited (and in discussion about attendance. Last updated 2 May 2007)
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> John Pilger
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> John McArthur (Harpers Magazine and author of The Selling of Free
> Trade and Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War)
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> Craig Holman (Public Citizen, Washington DC),
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> Prof. Edward S. Herman, (co-author with Noam Chomsky of
> Manufacturing Consent)
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> Prof. Bernhard Walpen, (Luzern/Lucerne, editor of Neoliberal Hegemony)
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> Prof. Dieter Plehwe, (Berlin editor of Neoliberal Hegemony)
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> Phillip Knightly, (Investigative journalist and author of The First
> Casualty )
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> Confirmed (last updated 2 May 2007)
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> Previously confirmed speakers
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> Col Sam Gardner(US Airforce – Retd, author of Truth from these Podia )
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> Nancy Snow (University of California, author of Propaganda Inc. )
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> Mark Daly (BBC, who exposed racism in the police in The Secret
> Policeman )
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> Prof. William Carroll (University of Victoria, British Columbia,
> author of Forging a New Hegemony? The Role of. Transnational Policy
> Groups in the Network. and Discourses of Global Corporate
> Governance ).
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> Eveline Lubbers (Spinwatch, Editor of Battling Big Business )
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> Andy Rowell (Spinwatch, author of Green Backlash , Don't Worry it's
> Safe to Eat , and The Next Gulf? )
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> Prof. Gerry Sussman (University of Oregon, Portland, author of
> Global Electioneering ),
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> Olivier Hoedemann, (Corporate Europe Observatory , Amsterdam),
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> Prof. Alan Doig (Author of Sleaze ),
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> Muhammed Idrees Ahmad (Spinwatch, blogger at The Fanonite ),
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> Nick Jones (former BBC journalist, blogger at Spinwatch , whose
> most recent book is Trading Information ),
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> Greg Philo (Glasgow Media Group ),
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> Shelley Jofre (Reporter on BBC Panorama's, Secrets of the Drug
> Trials )
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> Dave Whyte (University of Stirling, author of Embedded Expertise
> and the New Terrorism ),
>
> Prof. Sharon Beder(author of Free-Market Missionaries, Earthscan,
> London, 2006; Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global
> Agenda, Earthscan, London, 2006.; Global Spin: The Corporate
> Assault on Environmentalism, Green Books, Devon, UK, 1997)
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> Diane Farsetta (PR Watch )
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> William Dinan (Spinwatch, author of Open Scotland? and editor of
> Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy )
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> David Miller
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> Department of Geography and Sociology
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> SpinWatch http://www.spinwatch.org >
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