Programme

FINAL PROGRAMME

Violence and Network Society
School Shootings and Social Violence in Contemporary Public Life

Helsinki University 6-7th November 2009, Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33

Friday, November 6th

08.00-09.00 Registration
09.00-09.15 Opening/ Welcome: Head of Department of Communication, University of Helsinki Professor Esa Väliverronen & Vice Rector Matti J. Tikkanen, University of Helsinki

PLENARY I
Chair: Professor Ullamaija Kivikuru Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki
09.15-10.00 Keynote: Professor Douglas Kellner, UCLA, Los Angeles “School Shootings, Domestic Terrorism, and Media Spectacle: Critical Perspectives”
10.00-10.30 Commentator: Professor Terhi Rantanen, LSE, London

10.45-12.00 Parallel sessions I
12.15-13.30 Parallel sessions II
13.30-14.30 Lunch

PLENARY II
Chair: Professor Leif Åberg Department of Comminication, University of Helsinki
14.30-15.15 Keynote: Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney “Anomie, Altruism and the Spectacle of Violence”
15.15-15.45 Commentator: Professor Saku Mantere, Hanken, School of Economics, Helsinki

15.45-16.15 Coffee
16.15-16.45 Monologue/ Performance: Steve Pratt “About the Making of the Dangerous Individual”
18.00 Reception of the Permanent Secretary of the Interior Ritva Viljanen (Ministry of the Interior) at the Government Banquet Hall (Smolna)

Saturday, November 7th

PLENARY III
Chair: University Lecturer Johanna Sumiala Department of Communication, University of Helsinki
09.00-09.45 Keynote: Professor Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School of Communication, Pennsylvania “When Facing Death Stands in for Death: How News Images Engage the Public”
09.45-10.15 Commentator: Associate Professor Kari Andén-Papadopoulos, Stockholm University

10.30-12.00 Parallel sessions
12.00-13.00 Lunch

PLENARY IV
Chair: University Lecturer Salli Hakala Department of Communication, University of Helsinki
13.00-15.00 Panel: Politics of Communicating Violence and Suffering
Speakers:
Researcher Anna  Roosvall (Sweden, Örebro University)
Film director Ilmar Raag (Estonia, Tallinn)
Author/ journalist Dave Cullen (USA, Denver)
Associate Professor Glenn W. Muschert (USA, Miami University)
Chair: University Lecturer Johanna Sumiala (Finland, University of Helsinki)

16.00- Movie Klass (The Class) by Ilmar Raag, movie theatre Orion

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