Mediacentar Sarajevo announces
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Research training course in Sarajevo 17 and 18 September 2008: MEDIA AND CONFLICT
Deadline for applications: July 7, 2008
The research training course is aimed at doctoral and MA students from different disciplines - political science, sociology, media studies, historians, social anthropologists, etc. - doing relevant research on media and conflict. Twenty five students from the former Yugoslavia countries are expected to participate on the basis of open competition. Students from outside of the region can also apply but
only a limited number of them can participate in the teaching seminar. The course consists of lectures, workshops with presentations of participants' papers and roundtable discussions.
The scientific content of the course:
The focus of the course will be on the understanding of the ways in which news media do and do not become active participants in conflict situations.
Furthermore, it will give better understanding of relations between news coverage of conflicts and of how this coverage relates to the understanding, beliefs and attitudes of the audience.
Also, the course will discuss the main patterns of media reporting on conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.
The course is aimed at giving participants a better understanding of the processes that have been taking place in the region and giving deeper insights of relations between media and different conflict situations.
Lecturers and topics at the training course:
Greg Philo, Professor of Communications at University of Glasgow and Research Director of Glasgow Media Group. His publications include Market Killing (2001 with David Miller), Bad News from Israel (2004 with Mike Berry), Israel and Palestine-Competing Histories (2006 with Mike Berry). He has been the head of the famous Glasgow Media Group for over 25 years and published numerous of publications. Link to
website with details on recent research and publications: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/ sociology/ staff/gregphilo/ .
Prof. dr. Philo will contribute to the seminar with a lecture and discussion on: Public understanding of International Conflicts.
Jean Seaton, Professor of Communications and Media History, University of Westminster, UK. Her publications include Politics and the Media (1998), The Media of Conflict, (1998 with Tim Allen), and Power Without Responsibility: the Press and Broadcasting in Britain (2003 with James Curran). Link to website with details on recent research and publications: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page- 1612
Sabina Mihelj, Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. She holds a PhD from Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities. Her research interests include issues of identity and communication, with particular reference to nationalism and religion in multinational settings and border regions. Link to
personal website with details on recent research and publications:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ ss/depstaff/ staff/mihelj. html
Dr. Mihelj will contribute to the seminar with a lecture and discussion on: Nationalism, media and conflict.
Elissa Helms is Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, CEU. Her research and academic teaching focus on gender, nationalism and ethnicity; gender in Muslim societies; NGOs and social/political activism; gender and ethnic violence; ethnography of post-conflict and post-socialist societies (Central / Eastern Europe,
former Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosniacs). Link to personal website with details on recent research and publications: http://www.gend.ceu.hu/elissa_ helms.php
Dr. Helms will contribute to the seminar with a lecture and discussion on: Gender, media and conflict.
David Loyn has been a foreign correspondent for more than 25 years, mostly with the BBC. He has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans and won major awards for both TV and radio reporting including 'Journalist of the Year' in the Royal Television Society Awards in 1999. He has traveled extensively in Afghanistan for the past 15 years and was the only foreign reporter to enter Kabul when Taliban took it in 1996. His first book FRONTLINE was short listed for the Orwell Prize in 2006. His second book BUTCHER AND BOLT will be published in hardback in autumn 2008. Link to personal website with details on Loyn's work:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch /ifs/hi/newsid_ 3660000/newsid_ 3660200/3660257. stm
David Loyn will contribute to the seminar with a lecture and discussion on: Peace and War Journalism.
Konstanty Gebert, also known as Dawid Warszawski, columnist and international reporter for Gazeta Wyborcza from Warshaw. He is a frequent contributor to other Polish and international media, including the BBC. In 1992-95 he covered the Bosnian war for Gazeta. Author of eight books, i.a. on the round table negotiations of 1989,
and on the Yugoslav wars. His latest books include the first ever set of commentaries on the Torah in Polish, a history of Israel's wars since 1967, and a panorama of the European 20th century.
Konstanty Gebert will contribute to the seminar with a lecture titled: Telling Slavonia, Slovenia and Slovakia apart: How do you do it when you are a foreign correspondent, and how do you explain to your readers that it matters.
Application procedure:
. Applicants should be doctoral or MA students and holders from different disciplines - political science, sociology, media studies, historians, social anthropologists, etc. doing relevant research on media and conflict.
. Applicants should be citizens of one of the following countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo.
. Students from outside of the region can also apply but they are expected to cover their traveling costs. They are also obliged to pay fees of 200 EUR for meal costs, accommodation and working materials.
. Participants should have a working knowledge of English language since all the teaching will be in English.
. Applications with a letter of motivation, together with a short Curriculum Vitae and an abstract of research that will be presented at the seminar, should be sent to Amer Dzihana at: amer@media.ba by 20 June 2008.
. All documents and papers should be sent in English language.
The organizers will select candidates based on scientific and regional criteria.
. Applicants will be informed about the selection by 15 July 2008.
Training Course Requirements:
. Participants are expected to write a paper about Media and Conflict (2000-3000 words) and present it at the seminar.
. The paper should be sent by 20 August 2008 by email to Amer Dzihana, amer@media.ba
Other information:
. The organizers will take care of travel expenses, accommodation and meals during the course period for the invited participants arriving from EX-YU countries.
. The arrival date is Tuesday, September 16 and departure date Friday, September 19, 2008.
. Detailed information about travel and accommodation will be announced later.
The course will be organized in the framework of the project 'Spinning' out of control: Rhetoric and violent conflict. Representations of 'self' - 'other' in the Yugoslav successor states which is funded by The Research Council of Norway. Project is implemented by The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (University of Oslo), Mediacentar Sarajevo and The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (University of Belgrade).
For more information, please contact: Amer Dzihana, Mediacentar Sarajevo, amer@media.ba
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