Visiting Scholars

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Each summer, a number of globally recognized academics, authors, actors, scholars, and educators visit the Salzburg Academy. Past visitors who have spoken to the Academy include:

  • Daniel Barenboin, Conductor
  • Lorraine Branham, Dean, Journalism School, Syracuse University, US
  • Mattias Dopfner, Bertelsmann
  • Richard Ford, Author
  • Stephen Jukes, Dean, Media School, Bournemouth University, UK
  • Sir Gilber Levine, Conductor
  • Vanessa Redgrave, Actor
  • Tom Stoppard, Playwright
  • Peter Sutherland, Chairman, BP/Goldman Sachs

Occasionally these guest sessions are recorded. See below for some of the recent recorded talks.

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Tom Stoppard Speaks to the 2009 Salzburg Academy - This year’s Academy participants were lucky enough to be visited by Tony and Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Tom Stoppard.  In an hour-long conversation with the students, Stoppard took questions from the audience and touched on themes ranging from the future of journalism to the power of the theater to create social change.

 

Click on the image above to see audio slideshows featuring clips from Stoppard’s appearance.

 

 

Changing Journalism in a new Digital Media Age
by Lorraine Branham, Dean, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication, Syracuse University, USA

Lorraine Branham became dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in July 2008. In her first year at the school, Branham has focused on developing professional partnerships in an effort to address the issues raised by a rapidly changing media industry. Under her leadership, the school has continued to move toward a multimedia emphasis, with the launch of a multimedia storytelling class, the development of a student-produced newszine, continued curricular overhaul and other activities. She also facilitated the school’s entry into News21, a journalism student fellowship program created by the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism; hosted a major on-campus symposium examining the work of legendary television executive Fred Silverman ’58; and secured major gifts to support students and academic programming in the school. In addition, Branham was a driving force behind the establishment of SU’s Semester in Los Angeles, a satellite campus program that will engage students in professional internships, specialized course work and regular interactions with industry leaders on the West Coast. The program will begin in Fall 2009. Before coming to Newhouse, Branham was director of the School of Journalism and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT).