Aladdin Project International Summer University for International
Leadership-2015 will take place in
Cappadocia, Sinasos Gül Konakları (Ürgüp-Mustafapaşa) from July 19 to August 1,
2015 by İstanbul Bahçeşehir University (BAU). The
program will be on the theme “The Power of Images: Truth, Manipulation and
Intolerance” with a series of lectures by eminent scholars in the field. Through team
projects and group discussions groups, the program will enable students to
openly debate different world views around a specific theme and to find common
paths that lead to mutual understanding and tolerance.
Participant universities of Aladdin
Project-International Summer University for International Leadership 2015:
Ain Shams University (Egypt), Al Mesbar Studies and Research Center (United Arab Emirates), Al-Quds University (Palestine), American University of Iraq (Iraq), Bahçeşehir University (Turkey),
Boğaziçi University (Turkey),
Columbia University (USA), Florida
International University (USA), Freie
Universitat Berlin (Germany),
Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies (Switzerland),
Harvard University (USA), Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (Israel),
Institut D’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France),
Kadir Has University (Turkey),
Mohamed V University (Morocco), New
York University (USA), Salahaddin
University-Erbil (Iraq), Sapienza
University (Italy), University of
London (England), Tel Aviv University
(Israel), Université Polytechnique de L’Ouest
Africain (Senegal), University of Sao
Paulo (Brazil) ve University of
Tunis-Manuoba (Tunisia).
The Power of Images: Truth, Manipulation and
Intolerance
With the advent of mass media and the
internet, the modern world has shifted from a print culture to a visual
culture: a new age of image-centered communication has begun. In this
transition, the use of analogical thinking has also shifted from verbal
metaphors to visual ones. This shift is particularly evident in the use of
intercultural communication. This year’s program explores the power of images
as a basic and indispensable tool of cultural interaction: how images are
processed, how they function in relation to our innermost beings, and how they
form the psychological fabric of our political, social, and economic
environment.
There will be a focus on the role of the
various media in creating the images which impact our lives: how visual images
create a language with profound psychological meaning, and how print,
television, film and the newly-arrived social media manipulate images to create
desired emotional effects. We will look at the most controversial areas of
image persuasiveness today — advertising, politics, and entertainment. Cutting
across many disciplines (psychology, politics, history, sociology, law,
religious studies, journalism…), the course will be done in the form of a
lecture series combined with active participation by students in the form of
project presentations and discussion groups.
Program content
The course is designed for students who
already have a background or a strong interest in the following disciplines
(social science, political science, international relations, sociology,
international law, anthropology, peace and conflict studies). Lectures and
workshops will be conducted in English by professors and academics who will
come from each partner university.
The course includes
Morning lectures on the following topics:
- Image and representation of the
Other throughout history
- Role of images and media in
creating acceptance, or fostering differences, hatred
- Authoritarianism, radicalism,
extremism
- Images and the shaping of a
culture or religion
- Images, archives and history
- Forbidden/authorized images (why?
Can we show everything? Should we show everything?)
- Media and images in today’s
globalized world (omnipresence of images as tools to depict reality)
- Terrorism and use of media
(ISIL, etc…)
- New media and social media
- Self-perception and
self-promotion (generation selfie and social media)
Afternoon workshop and visits
- In depth and small group
research / study of selected issues addressed during morning lectures
- Visits of Cappadocia
- A range of
extra-curricular activities
Research project
Students
will be equally divided into groups reflecting different countries and cultural
backgrounds, to work together on a common research project. Each group will
have to present a draft plan by the end of the summer university. Final
research projects are to be completed after the two-week program and submitted
to an international panel of academics in October 2015. (Bahçeşehir University news)
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