[Reader-list] Crisis/Media workshop programme

[rachel]

Crisis/Media: The Uncertain States of Reportage
Sarai-Waag Workshop 
at Sarai-CSDS, Delhi
March 3-5, 2003

If you are unable to attend, but are interested in finding out what is going 
on, please check the following for daily reports:

http://waag.sarai.net/crisis/

Programme 
DAY 1 < 3rd March 2003 >


9:30    Welcome Address:
        Ravi S Vasudevan, Sarai-CSDS
        Introductory Remarks:
        Geert Lovink & Shuddhabrata Sengupta

9:45    Morning Plenary: 
        The Media Circus in the Build-up to the War on Iraq
        Danny Muller, Voices in the Wilderness/
        Iraq Peace Team, Chicago
        
10:30   Tea Break

11:00   Morning Session: 
        Reporting from Situations of Crisis

        Presenters: 
        
        Dangers and Challenges of Reporting from Kashmir
        Muzamil Jaleel, Indian Express, Srinagar
        
        Despatches from a Civil War: Covering Sri-Lankan Conflicts from the 		
	Inside
        Manoranjan Selliah, Independent Journalist & Human Rights Activist, 
	Colombo
        
        Reporting Crisis or Part of the Crisis? : Rastra Chetna and the Media:  
        Coverage of the North East
        A. Bimol Akoijam, Visiting Fellow, CSDS, Delh i

        Discussant: Abir Bazaz, Independent Filmmaker,Delhi/Srinagar

1:30    Lunch

2:30  Afternoon Plenary: 
        Media Representations and Memorialisations of the Kargil Conflict
        Subarno Chatterji, Delhi University

3:30    Afternoon Session: 
        Remembering Balkan Conflicts

        Presenters: 
        
        The Development of Independent Media during the Balkan Crisis: The 
Case of      
        Radio B92
        Adrienne van Heteren, Press Now, Glasnost Defense Foundation, Moscow
        
        Bitter Medicine
        Katarina Zivanovic, REX, Belgrade
        
        Translating War and Violence
        Kathy Young, Western Washington University
        
        Discussant: Geert Lovink
        
5:00    Tea Break:

5:30    Film Screening: 

        Before the Rain [Fiction, 1995, 113 min]
        Directed by: Milcho Manchevski
        Starring: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Gregoire Colin,
        Labina Mitevska         
	Cinematography: Darius Khondji and Manuel Terán

Shot in Macedonia and London, Before the Rain is a haunting study of war and 
its tragic consequences, especially when the fighting occurs between 
neighbours.     
        
	Introductory presentation: 'Taking Sides'
        Costas Constantinou, University of Keele

DAY 2 < 4th March 2003 >

9:45    Morning Plenary: 
        The Ethical Quandaries of Bearing Witness
        Ranjit Hoskote, Assistant Editor, The Hindu, Mumbai

10:30    Tea Break

11:00    Morning Session: 
        Gujarat: One Year After

        Presenters:     
        
        Gujarat and the Media: One Year After
        Siddharth Varadarajan, Deputy Chief Editor, National Bureau, Times of 
India,    
        Delhi
        
        Use, Misuse and Abuse of the Media: 
        The Gujarat Example
        Darshan Desai, Special Correspondent, Outlook, Ahmedabad
        
        The Gujarat Violence Shared Footage Project
        Gurpal Singh, Independent Filmmaker, Mumbai 
        
        The Legal Response to Gujarat: 
        Moving between the Universal and the Particular
        Arvind Narrain, Alternative Legal Forum, Bangalore

1:30    Lunch

2:30    Afternoon Session: Crises of Everyday Life

        Panel I <2:30 - 3:15>
        Presenters:
        
        Dispatches from South Africa: 
      Where are the Women in South Africa's Media?
      Crystal Orderson, Young Africa Television, Johannesburg, 
      
	Connecting 'Local' Voices
 	Marni Cordell, www.smallvoices.org, Melbourne
        
        Panel II <3:30 - 4:15>
        Presenters:
        
        Playing with the Media/Hiding from the Media: Media Tactics of the 		
	European No Border Network
        Paul Keller, Waag, Amsterdam, No Border Network 
        
        Improvisations after the Collapse: 
        Media Reprtage of Economic Crisis in Argentina
        Marilina Winik, Argentina Indymedia Centre, 
        Buenos Aires
        
4:15    Tea Break

        Panel III <4:45 - 5:30>
        Presenters:
        
        Identifying Crisis in North East India: 
        A Perspective on HIV/AIDS from Manipur
        Chitra Ahanthem, The Imphal Free Press, Imphal
        
        The Media in India & Sexuality Minorities
        Dipika Nath, PRISM, Delhi

6.00    Film Screening:

        Paradise on a River of Hell [Documentary, 2002, 30 min]
        Directed by: Meenu Gaur and Abir Bazaz     
        Produced by the Public Sevice Broadcasting Trust, 
        The screening will be introduced by the filmmakers

The violence Kashmir witnessed in the 1990s shattered human dignity and 
changed everyday life beyond recognition. Years of insurgency and 
counter-insurgency not only interrupted the continuity of Kashmiri lives but 
forced Kashmiris into roles in which they no longer recognise themselves. Not 
attempting to situate the 1990s in this or that event, person, space or time, 
the film's mappings of personal and collective memories bears witness to 
Kashmir's historical solitude. 



DAY 3 < 5th March 2003 >

9:45    Morning Plenary: 
        Newsas 'Collateral Damage'
        Arundhati Roy, Writer, Delhi

10:30   Tea Break

11:00   Morning Session 1: 
        The Encounter: Truth as a       Casualty

        Presenters:     
        
        An Encounter with the Official Secrets Act: 
        Notes from a Journalist's Professional Life
        Syed Iftikhar Gilani, Kashmir Times, Delhi
        
        The Willing Suspension of Disbelief: 
        Reporting Terrorism in the English Language Media
        Anjali Mody, The Hindu, Delhi
        
        Trial by Media: The Need for Forensic Examination of Electronic 	
	Evidence
        Arun Mehta, Telecommunications Engineer and Media Activist

        Discussant: Vijay Kumar Nagraj, Amnesty International, Delhi

12:30   Morning Session 2A: [Sarai Interface Zone]
        Freedom of Expression in the Hindi Public Domain
        Hindi Jankshetra mein Abhivyakti ki Azadi

        Presenter: 
        Na Likhne Ka Karan: The Odds Against Writing/Writing Against Odds       
        Rajendra Yadav, Editor: Hans, Delhi

        Discussant: Ravikant, Sarai-CSDS,
        Abhay Kumar Dube, Fellow, CSDS
        [This panel will be in Hindi]

        Morning Session 2B:  [Seminar Room]
        Round Table: What Next for Global Independent Media

        Participants:   
        Katarina Zivanovic, REX, Belgrade
        Adrienne van Heteren, Press Now, Glasnost Defense Foundation, Moscow
        Marni Cordell, www.smallvoices.org, Melbourne
        Marilina Winik, Argentina Indymedia Centre, Buenos Aires        
        Sanjay Bhangar, Indymedia Bombay

        Discussants: Geert Lovink, Rachel Magnusson

1:30    Lunch

2:30    Afternoon Session 1: Confrontations in Cyberspace

        Presenters:     

        Challenging the Far Right in Cyberspace
        Harsh Kapoor, South Asian Citizens' Web, 
                       http://www.mnet.fr/aiindex

        Emergence of AMAN:the Autonomus Media Network   
        Aditya Nagam, Fellow, CSDS, www.amanjunction.org

        Discussant: Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

3:45    Tea Break

4:15    Afternoon Session 2: Stories of Earth and Water: Reporting Ecological 
Crises

        Presenters:  

        Is the Environment a Media Issue whose Time has         passed?
        Darryl D'Monte, President, International Federation 
        of Environmental Journalists

        Putting Politics Back into the Picture: Witnessing Environmental 
Crises in 
the     Media
        Sanjay Kak, Independent Filmmaker, Delhi
        
        Beyond Reportage: Influencing Engagements and Strategies
        Ravi Agarwal, Toxics Link and Srishti, Delhi
        
        What the Media Doesn't Drink: Water in the  Mainstream Media
        Pradip Saha, Managing Editor, Down to Earth, Delhi

6: 15   Tea Break 

6:30    Film Screening: 
        
        Words on Water [Documentary, 2002, 85 min]
        Director : Sanjay Kak 
        Edited by : Sameera Jain and Reena Mohan
        Photography: Ranjan Palit and Sanjay Kak
        Location Sound : Samina Mishra
        Music : Rahul Ram, Amit Kilam, Asheem Chakravarty

Shot and edited over a period of three years, Words on Water is a film about 
sustained non-violent resistance by the activists of the Narmada Bachao 
Andolan against the building of the Sardar Sarovar Dam. In a world where the 
use of violence has become the arbiter of political debate, this film 
reflects on the joyous defiance, which empowers the people as they struggle 
for their rights, and yet saves them from the ultimate humiliation of 
violence.