The following was the schedule that took place on October 12, 2002.

REGISTRATION
9:00 am-9:30 am, Lobby of 65 Fifth Avenue

OPENING ADDRESS
9:30 am-10:00 am, Wolff Conference Room

Carol Wilder
Chair, Department of Communication; Associate Dean, The New School
(Ph.D., Rhetoric and Communication, Kent State University) She is a former Communication Studies Professor and Chair, San Francisco State University. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on communication theory, political communication and the media, and the rhetoric of the Vietnam/American war and is the recipient of the National Communication Association Book Award for Rigor & Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson.

CYBERSPACE
10:15 am-12:15 pm, Room 211

Vincent Carducci: Symptoms as Solution: Sherry Turkle's "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet"

Girija Kaimal: Sound Bytes from the Field: The Internet and Community Problem-Solving

Michael Arnold Mages: Mutual Assured Deconstruction: An Exploration of the Nature and Quality of Computer-Mediated Telepresence

Giovanna Pagano: The Enactive Mark of Virtual Reality

GLOBALIZATION
10:15 am-12:15 pm, Room 206

Vivek Rai: The Impact of Media Globalization on the Third World Rural Viewership

Tatiana Reis: Globalization Theories and the Role of the Internet in Political Struggle

IDENTITY/SEXUALITY
10:15 am-12:15 pm, Room 212

Alpa Patel: The Erotic in Bollywood Cinema: Soft-Core Fantasyland

Kelly R. Ryan: Click on Me: Identity as Commodity in the Digital Age

Charity Thomas: Postmodern Adolescence: Black Loving Relations in Contemporary American Films

PUBLIC SPHERE
10:15 am-12:15 pm, Room 215

Sean Jacobs: Mediating Manenberg in the Post-Apartheid Public Sphere

Hatice Naz Sarman: Mediated Spaces: An Inquiry into the Transformation of Public Space and its Effects on Public Debate and Participation

Joseph Varga: Rational Texts and Public Space: Reform Presentation in Progressive Era New York, 1905-1914

BREAK
12:15 pm-1:00 pm

MEDIA & CULTURE
1:00 pm-3:00 pm, Room 212

Donna Bulford: Digital Art and the Formation of Professional Standards

Gail Walker: Communication Within African American Community

OPEN FORUM
1:00 pm-3:00 pm, Room 206

Erik Gudris: The Idea of Copyright

Carlos Montemayor: Uncertainty in Times of Emergency

Valerie Small: The Clergy Speaks

Wendy Webb: Finding My Way to Trauma Cinema

POPULAR CULTURE
1:00 pm-3:00 pm, Room 211

Elizabeth LeDoux: The Experience of the New Dream Narrative in "Mulholland Drive"

Lorelei Narvaja: The Selling of Identity: Inherent Meaning in Music vs. Profit-Driven Constructs

Kimberly Steger: The Business of Stereotyping Black Music: The Stranglehold on Non-Traditional Black Artists in Pop Music

THEORY
1:00 pm-3:00 pm, Room 215

Alexei Angelides: On Facts and Myths

Jeremy Benjamin: Inhabiting Distribution/Consumption

Andy LaValle: Language and Death

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
3:15 pm-4:15 pm, Wolff Conference Room

Toby Miller
Professor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy, New York University

CLOSING RECEPTION
4:15 pm-5:15 pm, Lobby-Wolff Conference Room