Reading the Mohammed Cartoons – seminar 12.4.

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Reading the Mohammed Cartoons – seminar 12.4.

An international seminar on the first results of the Free Speech as a News Item -project.



Thursday 12.4.2006 13–17

Päivälehti Museum (Ludviginkatu 2?4, Helsinki)



13.00 Opening Heleena Savela (Helsingin Sanomat Foundation)



I: Project overview

13.15 With apologies to Voltaire?: some key findings and questions

Professor Risto Kunelius (University of Tampere, Finland)

13.40 A view from Denmark: Free Speech and/as Political Spin

Professor Peter Hervik (University of Malmö, Sweden)

14.00 East, West and in Between: discourses and counter-discourses

Professor Elisabeth Eide (University College of Olso, Norway)

14.20 Comments

Dr. Sarmila Bose

(Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University, UK)

Professor Troels Mylenberg

(Director of Journalism programme, University of Southern

Denmark)



II Lessons of the Cartoon Controversy

15.00 Panel discussion (Chair: Risto Kunelius)

Participants

Professor Angela Phillips (Goldsmiths College, UK)

Professor Ibrahim Saleh (American University in Cairo, Egypt)

Professor. Amin Alhassan (York University, Canada)

Professoru Oliver Hahn (University of Dortmund, Germany)

Professor Hillel Nossek (College of Management Academic Studies Tel-Aviv, Israel)

Professor Stephanie Craft (University of Missouri, USA)



16.30 Conclusion & Refresments





Freedom of Speech as a News Item is an comparative research project focusing on international press reactions the controversy provoked by the cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in 2006. The project studied the wave of intensive commentary in the news media in 14 countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, UK, France, Germany, Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, China, Canada, and USA) looking particularly at how the news media itself in this debate defined and updated ?freedom of speech?, one of the most fundamental concepts of its own discourse of legitimation.



The seminar marks the end of the projects first phase. The first report of project, including national reports on all 14 participating countries, is published by lished in projekt verlag Bochum (Germany) in its series ?Working Papers in International Journalism" ("Arbeitshefte Internationaler Journalismus"), vol. 2007/1, edited/directed by Gerd G. Kopper, Erich Brost Institute for Journalism in Europe, Department of Journalism, University of Dortmund (Germany).