Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The First International RCC J. B. Conant Conference “Media, Democracy and Public Interest” at the Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University on December 8 & 9, 2007.

Does media ownership affect democracy?

Participants: Nolan Bowie (RCC JB Conant Group & KSG, Harvard University), Vincent Mosco (Queens’s University, Canada), Rose Moss (Nieman Foundation & Harvard Law School), Pippa Norris (KSG, Harvard University), Dennis Mazzocco (Hofstra University), Alberto González Pascual (Introduction. RCC JB Conant Group, Manager of I+D Projects. Sogecable Broadcasting Corporation & Complutense University of Madrid), David G. Gil (The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University), Marvin Ammori (Free Press), Joseph Tovares (WGBH Boston), Rafael Rodríguez Prieto (RCC J.B. Conant Group, Visiting Scholar KSG, Harvard University & Pablo de Olavide University of Seville) Álvaro Pérez-Ugena (RCC JB Conant Group & King Juan Carlos University) & Jerry Villacres (El Planeta).

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Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University

James B. Conant Winter 2008 Film Series

Place: Real Colegio Complutense at 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge (www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.edu).

Time: 7 PM

Date: Four Wednesdays

February 20: Caminantes (Walkers) 2001.

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa. This documentary begins in early 2001 as Mexican Zapatistas began a march to Mexico City to support the San Andres Accord and to protest the oppression of Mexico's rural indigenous population. In Spanish with English subtitles.

February 27: So Goes the Nation 2006.

Director (s): Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern

A documentary covering the 2004 election, and particularly focusing on the swing state Ohio, is probably something close to essential viewing for those who want to see the inner-workings of election-year politics on both sides and to see what makes both sides work and not work, sometimes at the same time or not at all.

March 5: An Unreasonable Man 2007.

Directors: Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan.

Unreasonable Man" traces the life and career of Ralph Nader, one of the most unique, important, and controversial political figures of the past half century.

March 12: Invisibles 2007.

Directors: Isabel Coixet, Fernando Léon de Aranoa, Mariano Barroso, Javier Corcuera, Wim Wenders. A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them. In Spanish with English subtitles.

November /December 07:

Special Event.

Book Presentation & Reading.

Rose Moss, In Court

Thursday, December 13 at 5.30 pm.

FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, IN ENGLISH.

How magisterially she goes to work. She manages to be lively, too--plastic, moving, and a virtuoso." Andre Brink author of A Dry White Season

Location: RCC Conference Room 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge , MA (corner of Harvard Street ).

Rose Moss is the author of two-novels, the Family Reunion and the Terrorist. Among her more than forty short stories, one won a Quill Prize from the Massachusetts Review and another won a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Her stories have also been cited in Best American Short Stories, nominated for Pushcart prizes, and widely anthologized. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Atlantic Monthly, among other journals and publications. She lives in Cambridge and teaches at Harvard Law School, the Real Colegio Complutense and in the Nieman Program at Harvard.

Forthcoming: J.B Conant Movies Series.
JB Conant Forum.

Iraq for Sale.

The Tiger and The Snow

July

Wednesday, July 18 & Thursday, July 19 (9.00-13.00) Preliminary Meeting. First J. B. Conant Conference Media and Public Interest, December 6-7, 2007

Friday, July 20 (3 PM) Movie: Citizen Kane. Dir: O. Wells. (5PM) Lecture:.Rafael Rodríguez Prieto. Media consolidation and Public Interest. Rethinking BM’s (Berlusconi & Murdoch) Doctrine.

Monday, July 23 (4-5 PM) Lecture: Alberto González Pascual: New Media, Emotional Connections and The Culture of The Public Service Broadcasting.

Monday, July 23, 5PM: Documentary Forget Baghdad. Dir. Samir.

Tuesday July 24, 3:30PM Round Table: Challenges of Hispanic Media in the USA.

Wednesday, July 25 (4-5 PM) Lecture: Manuel Núñez Encabo: Media Ethics and Media Regulation (The self-regulation Challenge) in the European Union.

Thursday, July 26, 5PM: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism. Dir. R. Greenwald.

MEMBERS

Alberto González Pascual Innovation & Development Manager. Sogecable Broadcasting Ltd & Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Alvaro Pérez Ugena Associate Professor. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid.
Frederick Schauer. Frank Stanton Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
José María Seco Martínez. Associate Professor. Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla.
Manuel Núñez Encabo. Professor Jean Monet. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
María Pérez-Ugena. Associate Professor. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid.
Nolan Bowie. Senior Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Rafael Rodríguez Prieto. Associate Professor. Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla