On Words and Deeds: A conference in honor of Prof. Tamar Katriel, January 3rd, 2017

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    (see full program in Hebrew)

    The conference will be held in the Rabin Observatory, University of Haifa

    10:00-10:15 Greetings

    10:30-12:30 Session on the book Tamar Katriel recently co-edited with Anna Reading, Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times.

    12:30-12:45 Break

    12:45-1:45 Guest Lecture (in English)

    Moderator: Oren Livio, Department of Communication, University of Haifa

    • Karen Tracy, Chair, Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder: Reasonable hostility: Its origin and evolution as a norm of conduct

    Abstract: “Reasonable hostility” was initially formulated as a defensible communication conduct ideal for citizens’ participation in education governance meetings in the United States. It involves emotionally-marked expression of outrage about a wrong accompanied by small other-directed tokens of politeness.  Following an explication of the ideal’s distinctive features, I provide an example of what it looked and sounded like in school board meetings in local communities.  I then argue how reasonable hostility could be applicable as an ideal for other public situations.   

    1:45-2:45 Lunch

    14:45-15:45 Former students of Tamar Katriel on Media Discourse (in English)

    Moderator: Rivka Ribak, Department of Communication, University of Haifa

    • Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Journalistic transformation: How source texts are turned into news stories
    • Tal Morse, Department of Photographic Communication, Hadassah Academic College: What is "Like"? Negotiating non-verbal rituals in visual interpersonal communication
    • Gonen Dori-Hacohen, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: A missing description of a term for participation in the Israeli public sphere

    3:45-4:30 Former students of Tamar Katriel on Childhood in consumer culture

    4:30-5:00 Concluding words by Tamar Katriel; Moderator: Gabriel Weimann, Department of Communication, University of Haifa.