Programme

6 March 2009

8.00  

Registration

9.00  

Herbert Matis, Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Welcome Address

9.15

Matthias Karmasin (Klagenfurt – Vienna, Austria): Introduction: Wars and Public Spheres

 

Opening Keynotes

Chair: Jürgen Wilke (Mainz, Germany)

9.45

Philip Seib (Los Angeles, CA, USA): Delivering War to the Public

10.15

Reinhard Stauber (Klagenfurt, Austria): War and the Public Sphere. European Examples from the Seven Years War to the First World War

10.45

Coffee Break

 

Session 1: Prevention and Awareness

Chair: Jürgen Wilke (Mainz, Germany)

11.00

Gabriele Melischek & Josef Seethaler (Vienna, Austria): Mediating Conflict: In-group and Out-group Perceptions in Foreign Affairs Coverage

 

Odette Arhip (Iasi, Romania): Borderline Experience - How People Negotiate Media Representation of National Borders and Identities

 

Sharon Lopata (Zurich, Switzerland): The Media’s Role in Post-Conflict Liberia

 

Khamis S. Mwinyimbegu (Brussels, Belgium): War, Media and Public Communication Campaigns on Sexual Violence against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Evaluation of Strategies used by Solidarité pour la Promotion Sociale et la Paix (SOPROP), in Goma, North Kivu Province

 

Discussion

12.45

Lunch at the “ef 16” restaurant, 1010 Wien, Fleischmarkt 16

 

Session 2: Between Reporting and Propaganda

Chair: Matthias Karmasin (Klagenfurt-Vienna, Austria)

 

Keynotes

14.00 

Daniel C. Hallin (San Diego, CA, USA): Between Reporting and Propaganda:  Power, Culture and War Reporting

14.30  

Robert M. Entman (Washington DC, USA): Surging Beyond Realism: How the US Media Promote War Again and Again

15.00

Coffee Break

15.15  

Jürgen Wilke (Mainz, Germany): Between Indifference and News Hunger: Media Effects and the Public Sphere in Nazi War-Time Germany

 

Clemens Schwender (Potsdam, Germany): Writing About the Press: German Feldpost Letters About the Use and Reception of Newspapers and Magazines During WWII

 

Romy Fröhlich (Munich, Germany): The Coverage of War, Security, and Defense Policy: Do Women matter? A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Broadsheets in Germany

 

Nel Ruigrok, Wouter van Atteveldt & Janet Takens (Amsterdam, Netherlands): What's New from the Middle East? Manual and Automatic Content Analysis of Foreign Coverage of the Israel/Palestine Conflict

 

Discussion

17:00

Coffee Break

17.15

Piers Robinson (Manchester, UK): Theorising Media, State and War: Lessons from the Case of British Media Coverage of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

 

Stephan Russ-Mohl (Lugano, Switzerland): The Economics of War Coverage. An Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage of the Iraq War

 

Dennis Lichtenstein & Cordula Nitsch (Augsburg, Germany): Framing the Caucasian War: A Content Analysis of Media Coverage in Europe and Russia

 

Roman Hummel (Salzburg, Austria): Limitations of Journalism in War Situations: A Case Study from Georgia, September 2008

 

Discussion

19.00

Bus transfer to the “Heuriger”

19.30

“Heuriger”: “Buschenschank Hengl-Haselbrunner”, 1190 Wien, Iglaseegasse 10

7 March 2009

 

Session 3: Mass-Mediated Concepts of War

Chair: Anton Pelinka (Budapest, Hungary – Vienna, Austria)

9.00  

Registration

 

Keynotes

9.30

Brigitte Nacos (New York, NY, USA): Mass-Mediated Debate on Torture in Post-9/11 America

10.00

Philip Hammond (London, UK): The Media and Humanitarian Intervention

10.30

Coffee Break

10.45

Diego Lazzarich (Naples, Italy): The Semantic Sliding of the Concept of War

 

Magnus-Sebastian Kutz (Hamburg, Germany): Media Management in „Just Wars“ from Kosovo to Iraq: A Comparison of the Organisation of Political Communication in the US and Germany

 

Athanassios N. Samaras (Athens, Greece): The Impact of the “War on Terrorism” on the Mediated Image of the USA

 

Discussion

12.00

Coffee Break

12.15  

Valérie Gorin (Geneve, Switzerland): An Iconography of Pity and a Rhetoric of Compassion: War and Humanitarian Crises in the Prism of American and French Newsmagazines (1967-1995)

 

Rui Novais: (Porto, Portugal/Liverpool, UK): A War in Between: The Kosovo Conflict and the Opposite Declarations of Independence

 

Chiara De Franco (London, UK): The Bosnia Syndrome and the Conflict in Kosovo

 

Discussion

13.30 

Closing Lunch