Conference and Reception – Mark Your Calendar

December 12, 2006 - 9:42 AM by

For all who are in Israel and interested, there is a major media conference happening next week in which bloggers from the U.S. and Israel are centrally involved:

All of the details and schedule are here. If you look at the schedule, you’ll see that we are going to have some very honored guests from the blogosphere — some of Israel’s most spirited advocates. Pajamas Media and The Second Draft thought that in addition to attending the conference – or for those who can’t get away from work to attend – there should be an event to meet and greet them. So at the end of the conference day, on Sunday evening at 6:30 PM, there will be a cocktail reception for the visiting bloggers that will double as a meet-up for the Israeli blogosphere. Spread the word on your blogs and come — I look forward to meeting you guys.

Currently, this is the program:

The Media as Theater of War, the Blogosphere, and the Global Battle for Civil Society

December 17 – 18, 2006
Daniel Hotel, Herzliya

Sunday, December 17

Media as a Theater of War: Lessons of the Second Lebanese War

08:00 – 08:30 Registration

08:30 – 09:00 Opening Address:
Prof. Uzi Arad, Head and Founder, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC
Prof. Richard Landes, Head of the Media Working Group for the 7th Annual Herzliya Conference

09:00 – 10:30 Panel I: Coverage of the Lebanese War: Arab Media
Hayim Azses, Educational Director, Sephardic Educational Center
Michael Widlanski, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Itamar Marcus, Director, Palestinian Media Watch
Leah Soibel, Senior Researcher, The Israel Project

11:00 – 12:30 Panel II: Coverage of the Lebanese War: Western Media
Chair and Comment: Richard Landes
Nidra Poller, Paris Editor, Pajamas Media, “How do you say ‘Fauxtography’ in French?”
Tamar Sternthal, Israel Director, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
Lee Smith, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute
Professor Gerald Steinberg, Bar Ilan University, Editor, NGO Monitor
Stephen Farrell, Bureau Chief, The Times

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Screening of Icon of Hatred (Continuation of Pallywood and Al Durah, from Second Draft) 20 minutes

13:30 – 15:00 Panel III: Kfar Qana: Inflection Point?
Chair and Comment: Nachman Shai, Director, UJC Israel, Former IDF Spokesperson
Joe Hyams, Honest Reporting, “Qana in Context”
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaacov Amidror, Former Commander of the IDF’s National Defense College
Dr. Raanan Gissin, Strategic Consultant and former advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Jonathan Davis, IDF Spokesperson’s Unit (res.), VP for External Relations, IDC
Mark Regev, Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

15:15 – 16:45 Panel IV: The New Kid on the Block: Blogosphere and Mainstream Media in Lebanon
Chair and Comment: Allison Kaplan Sommer, Israelity, Middle East Editor, Pajamas Media
Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club, Australian Editor, Pajamas Media
Michael Totten, Middle East Journal
Martin Solomon, Solomonia
Judith Weiss, Kesher Talk

17:00 – 18:30 Panel V: Media Oxymoron: Open Reporting from Closed Societies
Khaled Abu-Toameh, Journalist, Jerusalem Post
Michael Widlanski, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Noah Pollak, Assistant Editor, Azure, Shalem Center
Stephanie Gutmann, The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy
Dr. Reuven Paz, Senior Fellow, GLORIA
Prof. Anna Geifman, Boston University

The Media as Theater of War, the Blogosphere, and the Global Battle for Civil Society

December 17 – 18, 2006
Daniel Hotel, Herzliya
Monday, December 18

Strategies for the 21st Century: Public Diplomacy as Self-Defense for Israel and Civil Society in the West and the World

08:30 – 09:00 Opening remarks
MK Amira Dotan, Member of Knesset, Chairperson, Hasbara Committee
Prof. Richard Landes

09:00 – 10:30 Panel I: What Challenges face Israeli Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century?
Chair and Comment: Yitzhak Sokoloff
Stephanie Gutmann, The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy
Itamar Marcus, Director, Palestinian Media Watch
Philippe Karsenty, Media-Ratings
Maj. Avital Leibovich, Head of the Foreign Press Division, IDF Spokesperson’s Unit
Amir Gissin, Director, Public Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mike Cohen, , Senior Analyst and Founder, Galilee Institute

11:00 – 12:30 Panel II: Paradigm Shifts: Radical Reorientations
Chair and Comment: Ron Schliefer
Dr. Joel Fishman, Project Director of Democracy in Israel, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Aryeh Green, Advisor to former Minister Natan Sharansky, The
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the Steering Committee, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Charles Jacobs, Founder, The David Project
Emmanuel Navon
Yitzhak Sokoloff, “Beyond Right and Left”

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Screening of Icon of Hatred (Continuation of Pallywood and Al Durah, from Second Draft)

13:30 – 15:00 Panel III: Cyberspace as a Media Revolution: Implications for Israeli Public Diplomacy
Chair and Comment: Yaakov Kirschen (The Drybones Blog)
Lisa Goldman, On the Face
Charles Chuman, Lebanese Political Journal
Michael Totten, Middle East Journal
Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club, Australian Editor, Pajamas Media
Benjamin Kerstein, Diary of an Anti-Chomskyite
Aussie Dave, Israellycool
Mary Madigan, Exit Zero

15:15 – 17:00 Panel IV: Where to Fight? Terrains of Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Dr. Mitchell Bard, Executive Director, American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Director, Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center
Candy Shinaar, Director, Council of Hasbara Volunteers (CoHaV)
Noah Bedein, Sderot Media Center, “Report from the Front between Civil Society and Terror”
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, “Speaking to the Arabs”
Irwin Mansdorff, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, “Reclaiming the Intellectual Initiative”

17:30 – 18:00 Closing Remarks Prof. Richard Landes

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One Comment on Conference and Reception – Mark Your Calendar

  1. Richard Landes on Tue, Dec 12th 2006 12:46 PM

    2. Thank you, Allison.
    Let me add my voice to yours. We see this as an important opportunity for the Israelis to become aware of the rich resources that the blogosphere offers. This conference is in English (with Hebrew simultaneous translation), but we welcome Hebrew and Arabic bloggers and hope that in the future we can do more.
    Richard Landes
    Second Draft
    Augean Stables

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