Day 1 - Monday 24th November
	Day 2 - Tuesday 25th November
	Day 3 - Wednesday 26th November
	Day 4 - Thursday 27th November

MEDIA DAY
Created in Partnership with The PressWise Trust, UK
www.presswise.org.uk

8.45-9.30am
Registration and Coffee

9.30am
MORNING PRESENTATIONS:
"Following whose agenda: Setting the pace or following the pack?" The role of mass media in political and social attitudes towards refugees and asylum-seekers

Chair: Gary Younge, New York columnist, The Guardian

Asmet Elezovski, RNC – Roma Media, Macedonia
Simon Talylor, Head of Press and Public Affairs, UNHCR
Rahimullah Yousufzai, Journalist and BBC World Service contributor from Peshawar, Pakistan
Stephen Jukes, Former Global Head of News, Reuters news agency
John Torode, Freelance political commentator on numerous UK national publications

11.00am
Coffee Break

11.30am
SCREENING OF 15 MINUTE FILM
'On the receiving end: exiled journalists speak out'
Panel Discussion from exiled journalists

Chair: Mike Jempson, Director, The PressWise Trust

Panel:
MIDDLE EAST
Ghias Aljundi (Syria)
EUROPE
Nick Medic (Serbia)
ASIA
Pearl Thevanayagam (Sri Lanka)
AFRICA
Max Kpakio (Liberia)
Miwanda Bagenda (Uganda)
Sandra Nyanta (Zimbabwe)

12.45-2.00pm
Lunch at Marriott Hotel

2.00pm - 3.30pm
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS - INITIATIVES FOR CHANGE

A. Asylum and Media Literacy
Created in partnership with Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
www.cf.ac.uk

1. Prof. Terry Threadgold and Dr. John Jewell - The Writing Wales Differently Project: lessons about media literacy and asylum
Comment: Martin Mondeh, research assistant on the project

2. Dr, Gill Branston - Reflecting on Media Literacy: working with asylum seekers
Comment: Kebebush Mulugeta and Debeber Legesse, Members of the Cardiff Academic Asylum Seekers Group

B. Gender, Asylum and the Media
Created in partnership with Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
www.cf.ac.uk

Vanessa Bucolli, Co-ordinator, Refugee media Group
Zrinka Bralo, journalistic choices in asylum coverage questions panel of refugees led by exiled journalist from Zimbabwe, now living in Cardiff
Selina Mayo, looking at the issues of being an asylum seeker that the media leave out

C. Popular Culture - How are asylum seekers and refugees portrayed in film and TV?
Chair: Don Flynn, Joint Council for Welfare of Immigrants

Dr Terence Wright, Reader in Critical, Historical & Theoretical Studies in Visual Art, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster
Tony Saint, Author of Refusal Shoes

D. Initiatives for change
Nikola Medic, RAM Project (UK)
Milica Pesic, Media Diversity Institute (Balkans/Caucasus)
Ulka Holago, Quick Response (Swedish Red Cross)
Josef el Mahdi, Quick Response (Swedish Red Cross)
Faqir Mayvand, Refugee TV
Jesus Panadero-Huerta, Refugee TV
Abebe Wendwosen, Refugee TV

E. Young Voices
There must be an easier way': children using video to represent their migration experiences

Chair: Rasa Sekulovic, Save the Children, Serbia

Liesbeth de Block, Institute of Education in the Centre for the Study of Children

Simon Aeppli, Media Educator, WAC Performing Arts and Media College
Maria Leonida, Documentary Director, Greece
Nadina Christopoulou, Researcher, CHICAM (Greek Refugee Council, Institute of Education)

F. Inside Out
A powerful and challenging piece of theatre that follows the story of two young asylum seekers, Maria and Joaquim, as they try to make a life for themselves in London.

Stella Barnes, GYPT – Development Worker
Alison Hale, GYPT – Theatre in Education Actor
John Morales, GYPT – Theatre in Education Actor
Adam Annand, GYPT – Theatre in Education Actor
Patrick Nelson, GYPT – Production Manager
John Wood, Writer and Director, Inside Out

3.30–4.00pm
Break

4.00pm
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Where do we go from here: Messages for the media

Chair: Richard Tait, Professor of Journalism, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Former head of news ITN

Bernard Margueritte, Poland Correspondent, Le Monde, President International Communications Forum
Kirsten Tait, Director, Information Centre on Asylum and Refugees (ICAR, Kings College, London)
Jeremy Dear, General Secretary, National Union of Journalists, UK and Ireland
Ed Klute, European Monitoring project/Online – More Colour in the Media (Holland)

EVENING PROGRAMME
The Media Day will conclude with a thought-provoking programme of films at the Chapter Arts Centre made by and about displaced peoples including Q&A sessions with filmmakers, directors and actors. This will offer the opportunity to further explore the impact of the moving image challenging the perceptions and stereotypes of displaced peoples.