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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana Campus (Neuderfer Hall), <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>New Media and the Arts: Interfaces, Challenges, and New Insights<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Symposium<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Since the early 1960s, a rapidly growing and highly challenging corpus <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>of new-media art (initially addressed as "digital art") has made its <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>appearance. Recently, scholars, curators and artists are expressing a <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>growing concern about archiving, preservation, research and exhibition <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>of this important corpus, given the vulnerability of both hardware and <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>software, and particularly their rapid fall into obsolescence. To quote <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>from the the 2008 Liverpool Declaration, signed by leading curators and <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>scholars: "as a result of rapid changes in technology […] we face <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>losing an art form that is a central part of our post-industrial <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>digital culture".<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Various attempts have been made, worldwide, to meet this challenge. Of <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>notable contribution to the field is the Archive of Digital Art (ADA<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><U><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; COLOR: red'><A href="https://www.digitalartarchive.at/nc/home.html">https://www.digitalartarchive.at/nc/home.html</A></SPAN></U><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>), initiated by Prof. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Oliver Grau, a major proponent of research and studies of Media Art <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Histories.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>The present symposium will take place at the Open University of Israel. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Prof. Grau's keynote address will be followed by papers addressing <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>various aspects of the interface between new media and the visual arts. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>The event will open with a performative experiment in virtual reality <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>("Time-Body Study", Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Lab, IDC Herzliya), and will end with "Light Sense vE", a live <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>performance by Shaul Tzemach.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Symposium organizer: Dr. Hava Aldouby, Department of Literature, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Language, and the Arts, The Open University of Israel, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><U><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; COLOR: red'><A href="mailto:havaal@openu.ac.il">havaal@openu.ac.il</A></SPAN></U><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>PROGRAM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>9:30-10:00 Gathering<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>10:00-10:30<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Greetings and Welcome Address<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer, President, The Open University of Israel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Prof. Adia Mendelson Maoz, Chair, Department of Literature, Language<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>and the Arts, The Open University of Israel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>10:30-11:30<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Chair: Dr. Anat Ben David, Department of Sociology, Political Science <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>and Communication, The Open University of Israel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Dr. Doron Friedman and Daniel Landau, Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>School of Communication, IDC Herzliya<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Time Body Study / Performative Experiment<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>11:30-11:45 Coffee Break<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>11:45-13:00 <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Chair: Prof. Oren Soffer, Chair, Department of Sociology, Political <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Keynote Address<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Prof. Oliver Grau, Department of Image Science, Danube University, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Austria<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Digital Art's Challenges to the Humanities: MediaArtHistories and Image <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Science<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>13:00-14:00 Lunch Break<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>14:00-15:00<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Office The Israel Museum, Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Prof. Paul Frosh, Department of Communications and Journalism, The <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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