Speaker(s): Center for Media at Risk, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
In the best of times, the safety and viability of media practice are in question and risks take on unpredictable and potentially savaging forms. But what happens when the existing world order abruptly changes? Russia’s recent assault on Ukraine has ignited conditions that are inviting a reset of world alliances. This symposium will track the impact of these conditions and the emergent world order they produce on media practitioners of all sorts—in journalism, documentary filmmaking, entertainment and digital spaces. Organized by the Center for Media at Risk and the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the symposium takes place across a Thursday evening keynote event and three panels with media practitioners and scholars on Friday. We hope you can join us! |
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 ASC Room 109 + Forum 5:15-5:30pm WELCOME + INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Aswin Punathambekar, Director, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Barbie Zelizer, Director, Center for Media at Risk 5:30-6:30pm KEYNOTE EVENT: A CONVERSATION WITH KIWI CHOW Kiwi Chow, Filmmaker and Director, Revolution of Our Times, Hong Kong Alan Yu, Translator; Reporter, WHYY, USA 6:30-7:30pm RECEPTION |
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 ASC Room 109 + Forum 9:30-10:00am BREAKFAST 10:00-10:15am INTRODUCTION John L. Jackson, Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean, Annenberg School for Communication Aswin Punathambekar, Director, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Barbie Zelizer, Director, Center for Media at Risk 10:15am – 11:45am PANEL ONE: SHAKE UP Yevhen Fedchenko, Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk; Director, Mohyla School of Journalism, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Olena Lysenko, Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk; Independent Documentary Filmmaker, Ukraine Dariya Orlova, Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk; Senior Lecturer, Mohyla School of Journalism, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Moderator: Liz Hallgren, Doctoral Fellow, Center for Media at Risk 11:45 – 1:00pm LUNCH 1:00 – 2:30pm PANEL TWO: UNDOING Tikhon Dzyadko, Editor-in-Chief, TV Rain Dozhd, Russia Wazhmah Osman, Associate Professor, Temple University, USA Matt Sienkiewicz, Chair and Associate Professor of Communication and International Studies, Boston College, USA Moderator: Yuval Katz, Postdoctoral Fellow, CARGC 2:30 – 2:45pm REFRESHMENTS 2:45pm – 4:15pm PANEL THREE: FALL-OUT Ricardo Corredor, Director of Communications, Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, Colombia Myria Georgiou, Professor of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom Zoe Samudzi, Associate Editor, Parapraxis Magazine; Assistant Professor of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, USA Moderator: Florence Zivaishe Madenga, Doctoral Fellow, Center for Media at Risk 4:15 – 4:45pm CLOSING REMARKS Aswin Punathambekar, Director, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Barbie Zelizer, Director, Center for Media at Risk 4:45 – 6:00pm RECEPTION |