<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><img id="_x0000_i1030" src="file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Administrator.612E19CEC30749E\My%20Documents\13_9_29186498-51-4.jpg"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">New Media and Global Transformation</span></u></strong><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="title1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <strong><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">10:00-18:00, October 9, 2009</span></i></strong><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="title2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">JG104 Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University, NY</span></i></strong><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="texttext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">For more information please visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.columbianewmedia.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.columbianewmedia.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="texttext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="texttext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The conference</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>brings distinguished scholars and specialists from around the world to join us in addressing important and timely issues in the study of media and visual culture. This international conference is jointly sponsored by the Culture Forum of the Shanghai Jiefang News Group, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Law School of Columbia University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="texttext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="texttext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The conference</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is devoted to exploring the reciprocal relationship between media and society. We will reassess the profound social transformations in the contemporary world which we believe are inseparable from the revolution in media, visual culture, law and telecommunication. The panelists will address how media technologies have historically provided the means of cultural representation and social and political participation and how new media are constitutive of new personal, social, and political identities and allegiances. Scholars from diverse academic disciplines (literature, visual culture, history, communication, sociology, political science, architecture, etc) will engage in cross-disciplinary dialogues about issues of theory and methods, as well as substantive concerns.<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>