[ecrea] Three international debates on Russia and the West: Media, Democracy and Conflict

>Three international debates
>Russia and the West: Media, Democracy and Conflict.
>
>Professor Stephen Hutchings was awarded a supplementary grant to his
>second AHRB Research Grant to investigate post-Soviet Russian Television
>Culture.
>
>Under the auspices of this grant a series of three public debates are being
>organized. These will involve prominent print, television and new media
>journalists as well as academics from the USA, Russia, and Western Europe.
>The debates will be held sequentially in the first half of 2007, in
>Manchester, Birmingham and London.
>
>Debate 1. The Media and Freedom of Speech
>
>Date: 15 February 2007
>Venue: The University of Manchester
>Panel members:
>- Mary Dejevsky (The Independent, UK),
>- Bridget Kendall (BBC, UK) (TBC),
>- Professor Ellen Mickiewicz (Duke University, USA) (TBC),
>- Vladimir Pozner (Channel One, Russia).
>
>Debate 2. New Media and Civil Society
>
>Date: 16 March 2007
>Venue: The University of Birmingham
>Panel members:
>- Aleks Eksler (Web expert, Russia),
>- Oleg Kozlovskii ('Oborona' movement, Russia),
>- Oleg Kuvaev (Mult.ru, Russia),
>- Anton Nosik (President of Rambler search portal, Russia),
>- Dr Vlad Strukov (Internet researcher, UK),
>- Ivan Zassourskii (Moscow State University, Russia).
>
>Debate 3. The Media and the War on Terror
>
>Date: 5 April 2005
>Venue: Frontline Club, London
>Panel members:
>- Nadezhda Azhgikhina (Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, Russia),
>- Mark Brayne (Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, UK),
>- Ruslan Gusarov (Northern Caucasus Centre, NTV, Russia),
>- Victoria Ivleva-Iork (Photo journalist, Russia).
>
>Debate 2 will be dedicated mostly to Russian New Media, while two others
>will be
>concerned with comparison between the British and Russian practices.
>
>Journalists, academics, educators and members of general public are
>invited to
>attend the debates and participate in the discussions.
>
>Website:
>
>http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/Research/Projects/AnAnalysisofPost-SovietRussianTelevisionCulture/
>
>Contact:
>
>Dr Oxana Poberejnaia: (Oxana.Poberejnaia /at/ manchester.ac.uk)

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