00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:41The International Media Forum Islamic Civilization and New Perspective New Discoveries
00:47Organized by the Center of Islamic Civilization in Tusken
00:51Brought Media Professionals, Researchers and Technology Specialists to Uzbekistan
00:56The Forum explored new ways of presenting history to today's audiences
01:01The wider idea behind the Forum echoed President Shavgat Mirziyoyev's 2017 UN Address
01:08When he rejected attempts to link Islam with violence and called for enlightenment and religious tolerance
01:14One of the Forum's central themes was that knowledge has long traveled between cultures
01:19We believe that we invented a ring, but it's not true
01:22All the knowledge passed from the, I call it the Silk Road of Knowledge
01:27It passed from ancient China to in the middle of the Middle East
01:31And then we go to the Renaissance Award
01:33Dr. Taddei cites medieval engineers Al-Murandi and Al-Jazari
01:38As part of this wider history of scientific exchange
01:42But this was only part of the story
01:45Spanish envoy Rui Gonzalez-Teclavijo traveled to Samarkand in the early 15th century
01:51To meet Amir Timur
01:52Charlotte Kramer presented a new publishing project based on his account
01:57We already see a very strong connection from Europe to Central Asia and especially to the actual region of Uzbekistan
02:04Because of the trade road, of the Silk Road and also because of diplomatic dialogues
02:10The project gives that centuries-old account a new form for today's audiences
02:16What stood out at the Forum was how the same piece of history could take very different forms
02:22An ancient manuscript could study with AI, reproduced in a book, brought into a digital exhibition or retolled on screen
02:31All starting from the same historical source
02:34AI could help researchers work with all manuscripts more quickly, but new technology did not remove the need to verify
02:42information
02:43And I think that we can better get closer to the people, to the culture, to the culture, to the
02:51culture
02:51So if we can take a modern thing and a traditional thing, we can take the two of them
02:59And we can take the two of them
03:01But the debate was not only about format
03:04It was also about how history itself is understood
03:08Behind many of the projects presented at the Forum was a broader aim
03:12To challenge stereotypes about Islam by looking back at its scientific and cultural history
03:18The approach was not to ignore today's realities
03:20But to bring a much wider part of that history into the picture
03:40But some speakers argued that the problem was not only about perceptions in the West
03:59The discussion also turned to how international media report on Uzbekistan
04:18Being on the ground is one part of the job
04:21What journalists do with what they find is another
04:25Journalists should be here on the ground
04:27Journalists should report about the reality
04:30We are there to empower our audiences to build up an own opinion
04:36What they want to think and should think about this region
04:39We are not here to teach them, we are here to inform them
04:42Across the Forum, one idea kept returning
04:45New tools can bring history closer to today's audiences
04:48But whatever the format, facts, context and critical judgment still matter
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