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  • Dr. Benjamin Jung
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    2nd German-Canadian Professionals Conference: „Global Village – Calamity or Chance?“ (27.5.2011, 12pm, Berlin)
    The Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft (DKG, German-Canadian Association, http://www.dkg-online.de/) invites you to attend the 2nd German-Canadian Professionals Conference, which is being held at the Embassy of Canada in Berlin on May 27, 2011.

    The conference will discuss the term ‘global village’, inspired by the Canadian media critic Marshall McLuhan, in three distinct fields of interest:

    • synonym for economic globalisation,
    • prophecy regarding the emergence of a world wide web, and
    • context for the development of contemporary cinema in a digitalised world.

    Our keynote speakers are Brian Lee Crowley, founding Director, Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) in Ottawa, Linus Neumann, contributor to the German blog netzpolitik.org and member of the recently founded NGO ‘Digitale Gesellschaft’, and Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the ifs international film school, Cologne, and Director of the Cologne Game Lab at the Cologne University of Applied Science. Discussion around the keynotes will be moderated by Ariane de Hoog, Deutsche Welle.

    There will be a panel discussion – moderated by the McLuhan expert Derrick de Kerckhove – involving Klaus Haasis, CEO of MFG Public Innovation Agency for ICT, Creative Industries, Media and Film, Stuttgart, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, UWO, London, ON, and Mass Abedi, CEO, Abco Film Corp., Vancouver and Hamburg.

    The 2nd GCPC starts at 12pm on May 27. After registration and a light lunch presentations will begin around 1.30 p.m. For the complete programme visit http://www.gcp-conference.de/

    Participation is free. For reasons of security pre-conference registration is required. Please confirm your binding registration via gcpc@dkg-online.de indicating which parts of the May 27 events you will attend.

    • 2nd GCPC including lunch
    • 2nd GCPC excluding lunch
    • Official opening keynote lecture of the /RE-TOUCHING McLUHAN – The Medium is the Massage/ Conference & evening reception

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    This post was modified on 17 May 2011 at 08:48 am.
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