MAYDAY! ConferenceWar on the Press: At Home and Abroad
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Journalism and the media may influence positive political and social change or fuel violence and conflict. Journalists and the free press are under attack across the globe, yet they are one of the strongest guardians sustaining peace and human rights in our world. Media can promote peace by presenting issues fairly, offering alternative perspectives and sources of information, countering hate media, and purposefully pursuing peaceful resolution of conflict.
View articles about attacks on journalists and journalism and peacebuilding.
| Time | Event |
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10 a.m. |
Welcoming Ceremony & Interview with Thomas Friedman Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won both the National Book and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1989. The Lexus and the Olive Tree, winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best non-fiction book on foreign policy. Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, issued in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, received the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. In addition is wrote Hot, Flat, and Crowded, That Used to Be Us: How American Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, and Thank you For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations 2.0.Thomas L. Friedman, an internationally known author and journalist, has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times. His foreign affairs column in The New York Times reports on US domestic politics and foreign policy, Middle East conflicts, international economics, environment, biodiversity, and energy.
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11:45 a.m. |
Meet and Greet Lunch with Thomas Friedman Featured additional time for audience questions and answers and a book signing. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library-Gustavus Library Associates |
| 12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. |  Page One: Inside the New York TimesFilm Screening The film goes behind the scenes of the newsroom and the inner workings of the media desk as it chronicles the transformation of the media industry. The movie is 90 minutes and is rated R with profanity. Watch the trailer. C. Charles Jackson Campus Center, Three Crowns Banquet Room |
| 2:30-3:30 p.m. |
Journalism and Peacebuilding Forum |
Professor Jane Kirtley is the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, and directs The Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. Kirtley has written friend-of-the-court briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as two books, many book chapters, and articles for scholarly journals and for the popular and professional press, including The New York Times, The Conversation, and the Guardian (UK). Kirtley served as executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for 14 years. For more information, contact the Office of Marketing and Communication at Gustavus (call 507-933-7520 or e-mail marketing@gustavus.edu).
The annual MAYDAY! Peace Conference was established at Gustavus Adolphus College in 1981 with funding by the late Florence and Raymond Sponberg. It was established to inspire attendees to work for justice and peace throughout the world.
Class Schedule Modification
| Normal Start Time | Adjusted Start Time |
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| 10:30-11:20 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. |
| 11:30 a.m -12:20 p.m. | 12:10-12:40 p.m. |
| 12:30-1:20 p.m. | 12:50-1:20 p.m. |
The class schedule will be modified to allow for all students and faculty to attend the morning session. Classes that start at 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. will meet at the regularly scheduled times. Classes that start at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on that day will be shortened to thirty minutes each with ten minutes between classes. Normal scheduling will resume at 1:30 p.m.