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ASJ Conference, 2011 - Arts and Social Justice: The Media Connection
- October 20, 2011 - October 23, 2011
- The University of Nicosia
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Nicosia, Cyprus
- Introduction
- The Department of Communications in conjunction with the Mass Media and Communications Institute at The University of Nicosia will be hosting The 2011 Arts and Social Justice Conference which will be held from 20-23 October 2011 at the University of Nicosia. The title of this year’s conference is Arts and Social Justice: The Media Connection. The ASJ is a well established international conference based on arts, expression and citizen activism and its various mediated forms of representation. ASJ has ties to the World Social Forum, also held annually at the same time as the Davos Economic Forum and conceived as one of its counterweights. In 2010, theASJ confrence was held in Durban, South Africa, with such luminaries as Albie Sachs and Rajmohan Ghandi among the plenary speakers and presentations from William Cleveland, Mike van Graan, and Angelina Kamba. At the 2011 conference, we expect about 200 - 300 delegates from all over the world – artists, academics, activists. Special emphasis will be put on the media and how they can and do influence societies at large to take on greater responsibilities in making this world a just place to live. There will be three strands: 1. Arts, Media and Advocacy 2. Media, Culture and Identity 3. Arts, Cultural Diversity and Conflict Resolution Especially the first strand will give the opportunity to analyze citizen media production and how, as in the recent cases of Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries, this has contributed to giving a forceful voice to formerly disenfranchised groups. At this point,conformed keynote speakers are Stephanos Stephanides and Neshe Yashin , others will follow.
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