[Infowarrior] - Orwell Comes To America Conference

[Richard Forno]

http://www.thereyougoagain.org/conference.html

here You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America invites historians, linguists,
cognitive experts, journalists, government officials, and political
consultants to assess the current state of public discourse ‹ and
journalism¹s response to it ‹ one year before a hotly contested presidential
election. The panels explore the past, present, and future of deceptive
political speech, and assess what can be done to bring more realism and
honesty into the conduct of America¹s public affairs.
    

Location

New York Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street

Hosted by Live from the NYPL
www.nypl.org/live
    
    

Detailed Program

THE CONFERENCE CONSISTS OF THREE CONNECTED SESSIONS.
YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO RESERVE SEATING FOR ALL THREE. REGISTER HERE.
SESSIONS BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 10 A.M., 2 P.M., AND 4 P.M.

This program is subject to change. Please review prior to the conference.

10:00 A.M.

Welcome
Paul Holdengräber, Director, LIVE from the NYPL

Overview
András Szántó, Project Director

Introduction
Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia
Society; former dean, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

I. PROPAGANDA THEN AND NOW: WHAT ORWELL DID AND DIDN¹T KNOW

MODERATOR:
Orville Schell

PANELISTS:
Konstanty Gebert, Warsaw-based former Solidarity activist; columnist and
international reporter, Gazeta Wyborcza

Masha Gessen, Moscow-based author and journalist; contributor to The New
York Times, The New Republic, and US News & World Report

Jack Miles, senior fellow for religious affairs, Pacific Council on
International Policy; distinguished professor of English and religious
studies, UC Irvine

George Soros, chair of Soros Fund Management LLC; philanthropist and author

12:00 P.M.

Lunch Break

Welcome Remarks
Paul Leclerc, President of The New York Public Library

2:00 P.M.

Afternoon Overview
András Szántó

II. DECEIVING IMAGES: THE SCIENCE OF MANIPULATION

MODERATOR:
Nicholas Lemann, dean and Henry R. Luce Professor, The Journalism School,
Columbia University

PANELISTS:
George Lakoff, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Rockridge Institute and the
Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, UC
Berkeley

Frank Luntz, political pollster and consultant; author of Words That Work:
It¹s Not What You Say, It¹s What People Hear

Deborah Tannen, University Professor and professor of linguistics,
Georgetown University; author of fourteen books on language, communication,
and perception

Drew Westen, professor of psychology/psychiatry and behavioral sciences,
Emory University; author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in
Deciding the Fate of the Nation

3:30 P.M.

Coffee break

4:00 P.M.

Introduction
Joshua S. Fouts, Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg
School

III. SOLUTIONS: THE FUTURE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE

MODERATOR:
Ernest J. Wilson III, dean and Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication,
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California

PANELISTS:
Michael J. Copps, commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, broadcast journalist, former CNN bureau chief, and
chief national correspondent, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer

Josh Marshall, publisher of Talking Points Memo, TPMmuckraker, TPM Election
Central and TPMCafe

Alessandra Stanley, television critic and former Moscow-bureau co-chief, The
New York Times
    
    

In collaboration with graduate schools of journalism at Columbia University,
UC Berkeley, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of
Southern California

Presented by Live from the NYPL

With support from the Open Society Institute

The conference is accompanied by:

What Orwell Didn¹t Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics
Anthology published by Public Affairs (Nov. 2007)