Official Conference Programme for ACE ACSET ACEurs 2015

Top left: A still shot from the winning film of the IAFOR Documentary Film Award 2014 – “The Changing Place of Making” by Jack Weisman.

Top right: Three-time Emmy Award Winning Producer and Editor for the NBC Network and Founding Judge of the IAFOR Documentary Film Award, Professor Gary Swanson of UNC, announces the award winners.

Above left: Alec Klein is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author and professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and director of The Medill Justice Project. Professor Klein delivers a keynote address outlining how interdisciplinary collaborations between faculty and students working in law and journalism joined forces to overturn wrongful convictions. Above right: Medill Journalism Professor and Pulitzer Prize Nominee, Richard Roth discusses the impact of social in journalism in the Middle East.

Below left: Art Historian and independent scholar, Jared Baxter, looks at religious symbolism is Van Gogh’s works. Mr Baxter’s interpretations have received a large amount of interest internationally, with his work being prominently in the media. He credits IAFOR with helping “find his voice in the academic community”. Below center: Dr. A. Robert Lee is a prominent author, poet and literary critic whose work has been internationally published and translated. A cultural studies expert specializing in 20th Century American Studies, he has been a broadcaster with the BBC in the UK, and NPR and PBS in the US. His brilliant keynote address looked at issues of cultural identity in the United States and its literary authorship, was attended by an audience of more than three hundred. Below right: Professor Myles Chilton is a literary scholar at Nihon University, and presented a brilliant and controversial look at the English language as taught from a historical perspective to the present day in an address entitled “Global English: Disciplining the Discipline”.