Covering Lebanon: Representations of the 2006 War
A one-day conference.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
9:00-9:15 AM Opening Remarks
9:15-11:00 AM Historical and Social Background of the War
Nubar Hovsepian, Chapman University
Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Sondra Hale, UCLA
11:00-11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15-1:00PM The War and International Law
Richard Falk, UC Santa Barbara
Karim Makdisi, American University of Beirut
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 PM Narrating the War
Stephen Sheehi, University of South Carolina
As'ad AbuKhalil, CSU-Stanislaus
3:30-4:00 PM Tea Break
4:00-6:00 PM Roundtable: Media Coverage of the War
Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Marjorie Miller, Los Angeles Times
Josh Rushing, Al Jazeera English
As'ad AbuKhalil, CSU-Stanislaus
Ian Masters, KPFK
Cost: Free
Special Instructions
This event is free and open to the public, however to reserve a space, please RSVP to cltgrad.ucla.edu@gmail.com
For more information please contact
Comparative Literature Graduate Student Group clgrad.ucla@gmail.com
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, The Levantine Cultural Center
