2nd German-Canadian Professionals Conference to feature Marshall McLuhan

This year, the 2nd German-Canadian Professionals Conference will be part of the McLuhan in Europe 2011 // Berlin Centennial Weekend May 27 – 29, 2011 initiative.

To an interested audience we offer a panorama inspired by the Canadian media critic Marshall McLuhan. It is entitled ’Global Village – Calamity or Chance?’ This overall theme is meant to cover contributions in three distinct fields of interest. The conference will assess the term ‘global village’ as

* 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.

In presenting our concept we would like to open our conference to everyone looking for an interdisciplinary discussion of topics that matter.

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 12p.m. on May 27. After registration and a light lunch presentations will begin around 1.30 p.m.

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

For the complete programme of the Berlin Centennial Weekend visit www.gcp-conference.de/.

We look forward to meeting you in Berlin!

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