2013 Worldviews Conference on "Global Trends in Media and Higher Education"
The "Worldviews 2013: Global Trends in Media and Higher Education" will take place in Toronto - June 19-21, 2013 on the University of Toronto campus.
Organized by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), the Washington-based Inside Higher Ed and the London-based University World News, Worldviews 2013 is a lively two-day conference, assembling a variety of thinkers, academics, editors, students, journalists, communications professionals from colleges and universities across the globe, all offering critical perspectives on higher education and the media and possible directions for the future.
The conference explores the impact of new and emerging forms of communication, the internationalization of higher education campuses in a time of explosive demand and how fundamental shifts in journalism are affecting higher education, to list only a few.
The themes of the 2013 Conference are:
- Newsflashes from the global campus: Reporting trends, interpretations and relationships
- Hooking up or a long-term relationship? Future depictions of the professoriate and of journalism
- Unlocking the tower: How trends in media, citizenry, and government are altering higher education
And of particular interest are some of the following sessions:
The age of austerity for higher education: public reaction and media depictions
- Student protests or civil society mobilization? Media depictions in Quebec, Chile, US, and UK
- The under-reported story: The role of university campuses in the Arab Spring
- Innovations bred by austerity: Crowd-sourcing in media and in higher education
- Playing favourites? Media's bent on the Social investment vs. Government austerity debate on the future of higher education.
Who owns the academy: academic freedom, public finances and national security
- Academic freedom and freedom of the press: Old tenets, new interpretations
- National security, social media and the publicity of academic findings
Confirmed speakers include:
Adrian Monck, Head of Communications and Media, World
Economic Forum
Sir John Daniel, former President of the Commonwealth of
Learning
Phillip Altbach, Director of the Centre of Higher Education,
Boston College
Teboho Moja, Clinical Professor of Higher Education, New York
University and former advisor to the South African Minister of Education
Nicole Blanchett Nehili, Professor in Journalism Broadcast
Program, Sheridan Institute of Technology
Gili Dori, professor of sociology and anthropology, Hebrew
University
Tony Burman, Ryerson University journalism professor and Al
Jazeera's former head of strategy in the Americas
Andrew Keen, author of "The Cult of the Amateur"
Lynn Pasquerella, President of Mount Holyoke College
Goolam Mohamedbhai, former Vice-Chancellor, University of
Mauritius
Pericles Lewis, President, Yale-National University of
Singapore College
Chad Gaffield, President, Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada
Shari Graydon, Founder, Informed Opinions
Mary Dwyer, Senior Editor, Maclean's
Simona Choise, Education Editor, Globe and Mail
Scott Jaschik, Editor of Inside Higher Ed; and
Karen MacGregor, Global Editor of University World News.
Mark Kingwell, Philosopher, University of Toronto
Frank Furedi, Author and Professor Emeritus, University of
Kent
Sheila Embleton, Distinguished Research Professor of
Linguistics, York University
Vinita Srivastava, Professor of Journalism, Ryerson
University, and former editor, New York Times Magazine
See the list of speakers confirmed to date on our website.
For more information or to register, please visit our website: http://worldviewsconference.com/.
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