Human Rights and Media
8 April / Session One:
Challenging the Traditional Model


10



 Introduction
Thomas Keenan, Bard College
Fernande Raine, Carr Center
10:30



 Amnesia and the Accountability Deficit
Samantha Power, Harvard University
11



 The Ironic Power of Human Rights Language Today
David Rieff, writer
11:30



 Discussion and Wrap-up
Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University
12:30

 Lunch
1:15

 Introductions
2



 Operating Outside the Beltway: Lessons from Brazil
Jim Cavallaro, Harvard University
2:30

 Branding Human Rights
Scott Greathead, World Monitors Inc.
3

 Discussion
4
 Closing comments
Thomas Keenan
22 April / Session Two:
Framing and its Dilemmas


10


 Opening comments
Thomas Keenan
10:30



 Atrocities as Human Rights Violations: Constructing and Knowing
Stanley Cohen, London School of Economics
11:45



 The Cutting Room

Moderator Thomas Keenan

> Ron Haviv, VII Photo Agency
> Scott Long, Human Rights Watch
> Kathy Ryan, The New York Times Magazine

Respondent Stanley Cohen
1

 Lunch
2:15

 Playing to Competing Constituencies
Bill Schulz, Amnesty International
3:30

 The Iraq Campaign

> Jane Arraf, CNN
> Sandra Hodgkinson, Deputy Director, Office of War Crimes Issues, Former Senior Adviser on Human Rights, CPA
> Kanan Makiya, Brandeis University
> Michael Massing, writer
> Elizabeth Rubin, The New York Times Magazine
4:30



 Closing comments
29 April / Session Three:
The Third Way


10



 Opening Comments
Thomas Keenan and Chris Csikszentmihalyi,
The Computing Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab
10:30



 Lessons from the PR Industry
Stuart Ewen, CUNY
11:15



 Moving Images and the Mainstream

> Ben Goldhirsch, Reason Pictures
> The Yes Men
> Nate Moore, Participant Productions
12

 Lunch and Break-out 1

1:30

 Tactical Activism: Critical Junctures and Utopian Visions

Conversations

> Sam Gregory, Witness
> Tad Hirsch, MIT Media Lab
> Laura Kurgan, Columbia University, L00K

> Sharon Hom,
Human Rights in China
> Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Facilitator Chris Csikszentmihalyi

3

 Break-out 2
4

 Debrief

4:45

 The Road Ahead and Closing

8

 The Yes Men screening and discussion at Harvard Film Archive