Symposium : The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict
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The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20037
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Sep 23
11:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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"Symposium: The New Media and the Palestine Question:
Blogging Out of Conflict"
Thursday 23 September 2010
11:00 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.
The Palestine Center
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Panel 1 – Changing the Public Discussion – 11am – 12:15
Participants: Jerome Slater, Adam Horowitz
Moderator: Will Youmans
Addressing: How has blogging/new media affected the public debate on Israel/Palestine? How has blogging/new media responded to the Main Stream Media and vice versa? What results has this interaction had on the public discussion of Israel/Palestine?
Lunch 12:15-1pm
Panel 2 – Changing the Policy Discussion – 1pm-2:15
Participants: MJ Rosenberg, Stephen Walt
Moderator: Yousef Munayyer
Addressing: Does blogging/new media matter to the policy making elite? What about Congress, lobby groups? How has the increase in participants in the discussion changed policy calculations if any? Does the openness created by blogging/new media, which was not present in the past, make elected officials think twice about their actions.
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Jerome Slater is professor (emeritus) of political science at SUNY/Buffalo, currently holding the position of University Research Scholar. He writes on U.S. foreign policy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for professional journals, general interest media, and on his own blog, jeromeslater.com. |
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Adam Horowitz is a writer and co-editor of the website Mondoweiss, a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective. Prior to Mondoweiss, Horowitz was Director of the Israel/Palestine Program for the American Friends Service Committee, where he gained extensive on-the-ground experience in Israel/Palestine. |
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M.J. Rosenberg is Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network. Previously, he worked on Capitol Hill for various Democratic members of the House and Senate for 15 years. He was also a Clinton political appointee at USAID. In the early 1980s, he was editor of AIPACs weekly newsletter Near East Report. From 1998-2009, he was director of policy at Israel Policy Forum. |
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Stephen M. Walt is the Robert
and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government, where he served as Academic Dean from 2002 to 2006. He
previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where
he was Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of
Social Sciences. He is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine,
co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, and co-chair of the
editorial board of the journal International Security. His
daily weblog can be found at
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com |
