Emanuele Castano, associate professor of Psychology was featured on a panel “Media: A Catalyst for Change,” at the New York Public Library on June 11, as part of a three-evening symposium titled Islam in Europe¬–Insult: Fractured States? The symposium brought together prominent speakers from several disciplines to discuss Muslim communities' integration in European society; these scholars explored different perspectives on the relations between European cultures and Muslim communities.

Professor Castano joined such renowned figures as Shamil Idriss, H.M. Queen Noor, Mohamed El-Fatatry, and Andrea ter Avest Dahm in the Media panel, which investigated what role entertainment media can play in improving cross-cultural understanding, exploring popular media images/negative stereotypes of Muslim groups and their relation to the polarization between Muslim and Western societies.

Other notable figures who participated during the three-day sympoisum included Benjamin Barber, Krzysztof Czyzewski, Paul Berman, and Tahar Ben Jelloun.