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AGENDA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12
TIME EVENT
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
6:30 pm
Opening of Worldviews 2019 with screening of the new documentary film, “The Corporate Coup d’Etat”
MODERATOR: Rick Salutin, Novelist, playwright, journalist, and critic
David Altheide, Regents’ Professor Emeritus of the School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University
Maude Barlow, Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
John Ralston Saul, Writer, political philosopher, public intellectual
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13
TIME EVENT
Innis Town Hall
7:30 am Registration and Breakfast Breakfast is sponsored by MediaStyle
8:30 am Opening Remarks Conference Organizers
9 am —
10 am
Higher education and media in ‘illiberal democracies’: Which way forward? – Keynote session
MODERATOR: Sonya Fatah, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University School of Journalism
Amira Hass, Author and Ramallah-based Haaretz Newspaper correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector of Central European University, Budapest
Maria Ressa, CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler.com and former CNN bureau chief in Manilla, Philippines Matias Spektor, Associate
Matias Spektor, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Fundação Getulio Vargas’s School of International Relation, Brazil
Janice Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
CONCURRENT A Innis Town Hall
CONCURRENT B Innis College Residence Event Room
10:05 am —
11:05 am
The democratization of expertise: What does the future hold?
MODERATOR: Janice Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Max Boykoff, Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, author of The Death of Expertise
Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and Associate Professor, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University co-author of Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere
Understanding bias and changing perceptions: 18 questions
Pallak Arora, Program Director, Mosaic Institute
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13 CONTINUED
TIME EVENT
CONCURRENT A Innis Town Hall
CONCURRENT B Innis College Residence Event Room
11:20 am –
12:20 pm
The social, cultural and political underpinnings of the ‘post-truth’ world: Making Orwell fiction again
MODERATOR: Shanto Iyengar, Professor of political science, Stanford University
David Altheide, Regents’ Professor Emeritus of the School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, author of Terrorism and the Politics of Fear
Megan Boler, Professor and Chair, Social Justice Education, University of Toronto-OISE
Amira Hass, Author and Ramallah-based Haaretz Newspaper correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; author of Democracy and Truth
Promoting investigative journalism in and beyond the academy
MODERATOR: Karyn Pugliese, Executive Director of News and Current Affairs, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Ebyan Abdigir, journalist and producer
Alan Miller, CEO, News Literacy Project (Washington)
Patti Sonntag, Director, Institute for Investigative Journalism, Concordia University
12:30 pm –
2pm
Lunch – Food Trucks Brain dating Innis Town Hall Lobby Trophy – Courtyard. Trophy is a performance and art installation company. You’re invited to go to the tents to hear about moments of change in storyteller’s lives and contribute your own perspective on coloured acetate paper.
Lunch is sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13 CONTINUED
TIME EVENT
LUNCH AND LEARN CONCURRENT A
Innis Town Hall
LUNCH AND LEARN CONCURRENT B
Innis College Residence Event Room
1:20 pm –
2 pm
Podcasting for academics and journalists
MODERATOR: Maggie Reid, Chief Creative Officer and Executive Producer, King Squared Media Inc.
Nana aba Duncan, Host, CBC Fresh Air and Media Girlfriends podcast
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Professor and head of the Human Computer Interaction Group, TU Wien, Austria and host of podcast Changing Academic Life
Fatal attraction?: Media coverage of work, unions and labour relations: Current and future possibilities
MODERATOR: Tom Parkin, Journalist and Political Commentator
Nasr Ahmed, Associate Membership Program Coordinator, CWA Canada
JP Hornick, Coordinator of the School of Labour at George Brown College and Chair of the last Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology-Academic (CAAT-A) bargaining team
Ellen Ruppel Shell, Co-Director, Science Journalism Program, Boston University, author of The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change
Innis Town Hall
2:10 pm –
3:10 pm
Anti-social media? Keynote session
MODERATOR: Scott Jaschik, Editor, Inside Higher Ed
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia, author of Anti-Social Media
3:10 –
3:20pm
Coffee break Coffee break sponsored by Academica Group
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13 CONTINUED
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TIME EVENT
CONCURRENT A Innis Town Hall
CONCURRENT B Innis College Residence Event Room
3:20 pm —
4:20 pm
Truth, ‘post-truth’ and reconciliation in Canada and Australia: The responsibilities of media and higher education
MODERATOR: Adrianne Xavier, Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University
Shane Motlap, Analyst, Indigenous Policies and Programs, Charles Darwin University and Chair of the National Tertiary Education Union’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy Committee
Karyn Pugliese, Executive Director of News and Current Affairs, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Jennifer Wemigwans, Assistant Professor - Adult Education and Community Development program, University of Toronto, author of A Digital Bundle Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online
Metrics, analytics and the brave new world of news media
MODERATOR: Nicole Blanchett Neheli, Professor of journalism, Sheridan College
Admire Mare, Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Kevin Siu, Globe and Mail Managing Editor, Longform, Features, Opinion
Rodrigo Zamith, Assistant Professor Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13 CONTINUED
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TIME EVENT
CONCURRENT A Innis Town Hall
CONCURRENT B Innis College Residence Event Room
4:25 pm —
5:25 pm
Using social media in the 21st Century: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
MODERATOR: Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and Associate Professor, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University co-author of Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere
Sandra Quinn, Professor and Chair, University of Maryland School of Public Health, co-author of Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter bots and Russian trolls amplify the vaccine debate
Heidi J. S. Tworek, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia
Rodrigo Zamith, Assistant Professor Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst
Systemic uncertainty: Precarious work in media and higher education and prospects for the future
MODERATOR: Maggie Reid, Chief Creative Officer and Executive Producer, King Squared Media Inc.
Nicole Cohen, Assistant Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology, University of Toronto, author of Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age
Fay Faraday, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Nicole Blanchett Neheli, Professor of journalism, Sheridan College
Ellen Ruppel Shell, Co-Director, Science Journalism Program, Boston University, author of The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change
Innis Town Hall
5:30 pm —
6:30 pm
Current innovations: The Conversation, EvidenceNetwork.ca, Academic Minute, Expertise Finder
MODERATOR: Shannon Sampert, Associate Professor and Founding Director, Media Centre for Public Policy and Knowledge Mobilization, University of Winnipeg
Lynn Pasquerella, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities
Stavros Rougas, Co-founder of expertisefinder.com
Scott White, Editor, The Conversation Canada
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14
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TIME EVENT
Innis Town Hall
8 am Registration and Breakfast Breakfast sponsored by the National Bank of Canada
9 am —
10 am
Promoting media and higher education as a public good– Keynote session
INTERVIEWER: Rob Cribb, Investigative and Foreign Affairs Journalist, Toronto Star
Maria Ressa, CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler.com and former CNN bureau chief in Manilla, Philippines
Nermeen Shaikh, Co-Host and News Producer at Democracy Now!, author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power (Columbia University Press)
CONCURRENT A Innis Town Hall
CONCURRENT B Innis College Residence Event Room
10:10 am —
11:10 am
Truth, ‘post-truth’ and reconciliation in South Africa and the Middle East: The responsibilities of media and higher education
MODERATOR: Jesse Rosenfeld, Journalist and contributor to The Nation, The Daily Beast, Al-Jazeera, The Intercept
Amira Hass, Author and Ramallah-based Haaretz Newspaper correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Melissa Levin, Lecturer in African Studies and project co-ordinator of a Jackman Humanities Centre/Centre for Humanities Research collaboration, University of Toronto
Teboho Moja, Professor and Director, Higher Education Program, New York University
Innovations in journalism and news rooms
MODERATOR: Catherine Wallace, Assistant Managing Editor, Toronto Star
Natasha Grzincic, Senior Editor, Motherboard
Anita Li, Director of Communities, The Discourse, and Editor-in-Chief, The Other Wave
Jane Lytvynenko, Journalist, BuzzFeed Canada
David Skok, CEO and Editor-in-chief, The Logic
Catherine Wallace, Assistant Managing Editor, Toronto Star
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14 CONTINUED
TIME EVENT
CONCURRENT A Innis Town Hall
CONCURRENT B Innis College Residence Event Room
11:15 am —
12:15 pm
Now and in the future: Promoting greater diversity in media and higher education
MODERATOR: Anita Li, Director of Communities, The Discourse, and Editor-in-Chief, The Other Wave
Kathleen Cummins, Professor, Film, Television & Journalism, Sheridan College
Ruth María López, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Houston
Shree Paradkar, Race and Gender Columnist, Toronto Star
Maija Saari, Associate Dean, Film, Television & Journalism, Sheridan College
Vinita Srivastava, Culture, Arts, Critical Race Editor, The Conversation
Communicating during a crisis: the challenges for media and higher education
MODERATOR: Paul Axelrod, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education at York University
Rob Cribb, Investigative and Foreign Affairs Journalist, Toronto Star
David Estok, Vice President, Communications, University of Toronto
Erin A. Hennessy, Vice President, TVP Communications
Scott Jaschik, Editor, Inside Higher Ed (Washington)
Graeme Stewart, Director, Communications, Office of the President, York University
12:20 pm —
1:20 pm
Scientific research, ‘post-truth’ and fake news: What’s next?
MODERATOR: Ivan Semeniuk, Science Correspondent, Globe and Mail
Max Boykoff, Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Jane Lytvynenko, Journalist, BuzzFeed Canada
Sandra Quinn, Professor and Chair, University of Maryland School of Public Health, co-author of Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter bots and Russian trolls amplify the vaccine debate
Creative initiatives in promoting media literacy and critical thinking: current initiatives and future possibilities
MODERATOR: Philip Glennie, Director of Marketing & Communications, Academica Group
Ursula Gobel, Vice-President, Future Challenges, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Alan Miller, CEO, News Literacy Project (Washington)
Shannon Sampert, Associate Professor and Founding Director, Media Centre for Public Policy and Knowledge Mobilization, University of Winnipeg
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14 CONTINUED
TIME EVENT
1 pm —
2 pm
Lunch – in the Innis Hall cafeteria Lunch sponsored by The Toronto Star
CONCURRENT A Innis Town Hall
CONCURRENT B Innis College Residence Event Room
2:20 pm —
3:20 pm
Cognitive dissonance: The response of higher education and media to the clash of democratic and populist values
MODERATOR: Greg Kelly, Executive Producer, CBC Ideas
Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, author of The Death of Expertise
Lynn Pasquerella, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities
Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; author of Democracy and Truth
Nermeen Shaikh, Co-Host and News Producer at Democracy Now!, author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power (Columbia University Press)
Free speech, academic freedom, democratic values and minority rights around the globe: Prospects for enhancing understanding
Shannon Dea, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo
Brian Chama, Associate Professor, Communication and Cultural Studies, Sheridan College
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14 CONTINUED
TIME EVENT
CONCURRENT A Innis Town Hall
CONCURRENT B Innis College Residence Event Room
3:25 pm —
4:25 pm
Digital technology’s impact on how media and higher education communicate
MODERATOR: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Director of the journalism program, University of Toronto; formerly Vice President of News and Ombudsman, National Public Radio; and Managing Editor and Chief Journalist for CBC Radio
Megan Boler, Professor and Chair, Social Justice Education, University of Toronto-OISE
Cam Gordon, Head of Communications, Twitter Canada
Anatoliy Gruzd, Canada Research Chair, Social Media Data Stewardship, Director, Social Media Lab, Ryerson University
The future of higher education media
MODERATOR: Teboho Moja, Professor and Director, Higher Education Program, New York University
Léo Charbonneau, Editor, University Affairs
Paul Basken, North America Editor, Times Higher Education
Scott Jaschik, Editor, Inside Higher Ed (Washington)
Innis Town Hall
4:30 pm —
5 pm
Wrap up session
Glen A. Jones, Professor of Higher Education, Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Gyllian Phillips, President, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
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SPEAKERS
Name AffiliationNasr Ahmed AssociateMembershipProgram
Coordinator,CWACanada
Pallak Arora ProgramDirector,MosaicInstitute
Paul Basken NorthAmericaEditor, Times Higher Education
Nicole BlanchettProfessorofjournalism, Neheli SheridanCollege
Megan Boler ProfessorandChair,SocialJusticeEducation,Universityof Toronto-OISE
Max Boykoff Director,CenterforScienceandTechnologyPolicyResearch,AssociateProfessor,UniversityofColoradoBoulder
Brian Chama AssociateProfessor,CommunicationandCulturalStudies,SheridanCollege
Léo Editor,University Affairs Charbonneau
Nicole Cohen AssistantProfessor,InstituteofCommunication,Culture,Information,andTechnology,UniversityofToronto,authorofWriters’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age
Rob Cribb InvestigativeandForeignAffairsJournalist,Toronto Star
Kathleen Professor,Film,Television&Cummins Journalism,SheridanCollege
Shannon Dea AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofWaterloo
Nana aba CBCFreshAirandMedia Duncan Girlfriendspodcast
Name AffiliationJeffrey Dvorkin Directorofthejournalismprogram,
UniversityofToronto;formerlyVicePresidentofNewsandOmbudsman,NationalPublicRadio;andManagingEditorandChiefJournalistforCBCRadio
David Estok VicePresident,Communications,UniversityofToronto
Fay Faraday AssistantProfessor,OsgoodeHallLawSchool,YorkUniversity
Sonya Fatah AssistantProfessor,RyersonSchoolofJournalism
Geraldine ProfessorandheadoftheHuman Fitzpatrick ComputerInteractionGroup,TU
Wien,AustriaandhostofpodcastChangingAcademicLife
Philip Glennie DirectorofMarketing&Communications, AcademicaGroup
Ursula Gobel Vice-President,FutureChallenges,SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncil
Cam Gordon HeadofCommunications, TwitterCanada
Natasha SeniorEditor,Motherboard Grzincic
Anatoliy Gruzd CanadaResearchChair, SocialMediaDataStewardship,Director,SocialMediaLab, RyersonUniversity
Amira Hass AuthorandRamallah-basedHaaretz NewspapercorrespondentfortheOccupiedPalestinianTerritories
Erin A. VicePresident,TVP Hennessy Communications
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Name AffiliationJP Hornick CoordinatoroftheSchoolof
LabouratGeorgeBrownCollegeandChairofthelastCollegesofAppliedArts&Technology-Academic(CAAT-A) bargainingteam
Michael PresidentandRectorofCentral Ignatieff EuropeanUniversity,Budapest
Shanto Iyengar Professorofpoliticalscience,StanfordUniversity
Scott Jaschik Editor,Inside Higher Ed (Washington)
Glen A. Jones ProfessorofHigherEducation,DeanoftheOntarioInstituteforStudiesinEducation,University ofToronto
Melissa Levin LecturerinAfricanStudiesandprojectco-ordinatorofaJackmanHumanitiesCentre/CentreforHumanitiesResearchcollaboration,UniversityofToronto
Anita Li DirectorofCommunities, TheDiscourse,andEditor-in-Chief,TheOtherWave
Ruth María AssistantProfessor,Departmentof López EducationalLeadershipandPolicy
Studies,UniversityofHouston
Jane LytvynenkoJournalist,BuzzFeedCanada
Admire Mare SeniorLecturer,DepartmentofCommunication,NamibiaUniversityofScience andTechnology
Alan Miller CEO,NewsLiteracyProject(Washington)
Teboho Moja ProfessorandDirector, HigherEducationProgram, NewYorkUniversity
Shane Motlap Analyst,IndigenousPoliciesandPrograms,CharlesDarwinUniversityandChairoftheNationalTertiaryEducationUnion’sAboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderPolicyCommittee
Name AffiliationTom Nichols ProfessorofNationalSecurity
Affairs,USNavalWarCollege,authorofThe Death of Expertise
Taylor Owen BeaverbrookChairinMedia,EthicsandCommunicationsandAssociateProfessor,MaxBellSchoolofPublicPolicy, McGillUniversityco-authorofDemocracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere
Shree Paradkar RaceandGenderColumnist,Toronto Star
Tom Parkin JournalistandPoliticalCommentator
Lynn PresidentoftheAssociation Pasquerella ofAmericanColleges
andUniversities
Karyn Pugliese ExecutiveDirectorofNewsandCurrentAffairs,AboriginalPeoplesTelevisionNetwork(APTN)
Sandra Quinn ProfessorandChair,UniversityofMarylandSchoolofPublicHealth,co-authorofWeaponized Health Communication: Twitter bots and Russian trolls amplify the vaccine debate
Maggie Reid ChiefCreativeOfficerandExecutiveProducer,KingSquaredMediaInc.
Maria Ressa CEOandExecutiveEditorofRappler.comandformerCNNbureauchiefinManilla,Philippines
Jesse Journalistandcontributorto Rosenfeld The Nation, The Daily Beast,
Al-Jazeera, The Intercept
Sophia WalterH.AnnenbergProfessorof Rosenfeld History,UniversityofPennsylvania;
authorofDemocracy and Truth
Stavros Rougas Co-founderofexpertisefinder.com