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Centre for Communication and Glocal Change

Ørecomm Meets C4D Network East Africa Hub

by Yuliya on 2016 March 10 10:03

An exciting collaboration between Ørecomm and C4D Network results in a  co-hosted event in Nairobi on Communication for Development and Glocal Change. Are you joining?

Ørecomm project manager Marie Brobeck will focus her presentation on the centre’s goal to interlink research and practitioner-driven knowledge. Furthermore, she will give some concrete examples over how Ørecomm team is working to achieve this goal.

“Communication for Development: A Constantly Changing Research Field” by Senior Lecturer and Researcher Ylva Ekström, Uppsala University, Sweden, will give an overview of contemporary trends and challenges in the field, relating it both to contemporary theory, methodology and practice.

Doctor Abraham Mulwo, Moi University, Kenya will present project of Critical Perspectives on New Media and Processes of Social Change in the Global South, which is aimed at cross-disciplinary study of new media appropriations.

The event will serve as a platform for networking as well as an introduction of C4D Network East Africe Hub. All participants will get newly-released ‘Sounds of Peace’ podcast produced by C4D Network.

The event will take place on  Saturday 19th March 2016, at 1pm – 4pm in Wasini hotel, Church Road, Westlands, Nairobi. To confirm attendance please send an email to christine.ndungu@c4d.org.

 

 

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