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M100 Sanssouci Colloquium

Building on Potsdam's historic role as a focus for dialogue between East and West, and in the face of increasingly complex and important challenges emanating from Russia, the Middle East and Far East, the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium has  developed into a significant ‘East-West Media Bridge'. The Colloquium has become an annual meeting point of media and public figures from across today's most sensitive geo-political and communal fault lines. The Colloquium aims to foster cross-continental media relations, exposing not only differences, but also commonalities in the challenges faced by media from different cultures and geographies.

 

 

Between 2005 and 2009, ISD co-organised the M100 Colloquium.


Recent Events

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2009
Muslim Media and Muslims in the Media
14 - 15 September 2009
Potsdam

 

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2008
The Future of Eurasia
5 September 2008
Potsdam

 

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2007
An East-West Media Bridge
7 September 2007
Potsdam

 

All M100 Sanssouci Colloquium events


Research and Policy Papers

Muslims in the European Mediascape: Integration and Social Cohesion Dynamics

M100 Colloquium, September 2009

Based on interviews in Germany, France and the UK, this research explores patterns of media consumption amongst European Muslims and the portrayal of Muslims within mainstream European media. Its findings served as the basis for discussions at the 2009 M100 Sanssouci Colloquium.


Summary Reports

The Future of Eurasia: Convergence or Conflict? What Role will the Media Play?

September 2008

The 2008 M100 Sanssouci Colloquium conference focused on the media in Eurasia. Participants included journalists and media executives from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, and several Central Asian republics.

East-West Media Bridge: The Middle East

September 2007

In 2007 the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium focused on dialogue between members of the Middle Eastern media and their counterparts from Europe, to explore how they affect public perceptions and social harmony amongst their audiences and interpret their roles and responsibilities vis-à-vis society, politics and the reporting of international affairs.

Historian Saul Friedlander, Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford, May 2012
Meeting of the Energy Expert Group to discuss energy issues of mutual concern to Turkey,USA and the EU
Vanessa Redgrave, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, speaking at the University of Oxford, February 2012
Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012-2013
Humanitas Visiting Professor in the History of Art, Philippe de Montebello, University of Cambridge, November 2012
Members of the Phoenix Network at a meeting hosted by ISD with the Three Faiths Forum and the British Council, March 2012
Journalists Edward Lucas, Deborah Rayner and Nabila Ramdani talking to ISD's Weidenfeld Scholars, June 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in the History of Ideas, Professor Lorraine Daston, January 2013
HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
Meeting of the Turkey Task Force, Istanbul, 13-14 April 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, University of Cambridge, March 2013
The Inaugural Hoffmann Lecture with Jim Leape, Director General of WWF International, February 2013
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music 2012, Robert Levin, University of Cambridge, October 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Media, Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman Google, January 2013
Dr Suraya Dalil, Afghan Minister of Health, speaking at the Weidenfeld Debate, Oxford, May 2013
Leading activists from pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, speaking at a Weidenfeld Debate, February 2012
Dr Magnus Ranstorp of the Swedish National Defence College addressing the Counter-terrorism and Communities Workshop, September 2012
Participants watch a presentation during ISD's second Social Media and Intolerance workshop, July 2012
European Leader Series, with Mikhail Kasyanov, former Prime Minister of Russia, February 2013, London
Imogen Cooper, pianist, Humanitas Visiting Professor of Classical Music and Music Education, 2012-2013
Recent events

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2009

Potsdam, 14 to 15 September 2009

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2008

Potsdam, 5 September 2008

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2007

Potsdam, 7 September 2007


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