Jesus Martín-Barbero visits Roskilde University

The great Latin American scholar in the field of communication, Jesus Martín-Barbero will give a guest lecture at Roskilde University, on Monday 10 May 2010, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon in room 40.2.25.

Professor Martín-Barbero will lecture on:

Diversidad cultural y convergencia digital
[Cultural diversity and digital convergence]

The lecture will be in Spanish, without translation, followed by a discussion. In the discussion, participants may put questions in English. To learn more about professor Martín-Barbero’s academic record, see his brief CV.

Guest professor: Karin Wilkins

Professor Karin Wilkins, University of Texas, Austin, is guest professor at Roskilde University 6-19 September 2009. She will participate in the PhD course on mediated communication initiatives 8-10 September. On 12 September Karin Wilkins will lecture in Malmö (see below).

Professor Wilkins will give an open lecture in the Ørecomm Open Seminar series at RUC on Monday 7 September at 13:15 in room 42.2.37 (slides available here as pdf):

Changing Communication for Social Change
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Seminar: Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

On 25 and 26 March 2009 Alfonso Gumucio Dagron will lecture at Roskilde and Malmö universities, in the Ørecomm Open Seminar series. Gumucio is director of programs at the  Communication for Social Change Consortium. Among his recent publications is the Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, co-edited with Ørecomm co-director Thomas Tufte.

Seminar: Stefan Helgesson: World literature?

Stefan Helgesson will speak about “World Literature? Some Alternatives for Transnational Literary Studies” at a seminar in the Ørecomm Open Seminar Series to be held at K3, Malmö University, 3 March 2009, 9:15 – 11 am. The seminar will be webcast. (more…)

Seminar: Anders Hög Hansen: Memory, art and social change

At the Ørecomm meeting at Roskilde University 8 December 2008, in the Ørecomm Open Seminar series:

Anders Hög Hansen, MAH gave a very inspiring seminar about memory, art and social change. Drawing on a series of examples from art performances in Sweden (Alfredo Jaar), Canada and Germany, Anders illustrated the centrality of memory and the potential social processes around art forms that explore memory (memorial art).

Johanna Stenersen, Örebro University, subsequently presented her first ideas regarding her upcoming PhD project. She only just started as a PhD student in October 2008. Her work is going to be about the role of communication in rights-based sexual and reproductive health projects and programs. Her empirical focus is on Nicaragua. Her focus will be on civil society practitioners (ie community driven NGOs, community radio and likewise) and their relation with government and with the international donor community.

Paolo Mefalopulos: Concepts and Practices of Development Communication – a World Bank perspective

Guest lecture by Paolo Mefalopulos, Senior Communication Officer, World Bank Development Communication Division. Tuesday November 4th, 2008, at 13.30-16 hrs, Roskilde University, Dept of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Room: 43.3.29

What is the World Bank perspective on the strategic use of communication in enhancing development processes? How does the World Bank work in this field, and what are the development challenges, and related benefits, in which ‘comdev’ is applied?

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Ørecomm takes off

Ørecomm was officially launched on 22 July 2008 at the IAMCR conference “Media and Global Divides” in Stockholm. The event was arranged in cooperation with the IAMCR section on Participatory Communication Research. Ørecomm founding member and co-director Oscar Hemer introduced Ørecomm and chaired the session. This included presentations by Karin Wilkins, Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Ørecomm co-director Thomas Tufte. The three presentations on “Articulating Power in Models of Development Communication” (Wilkins), “21st century globalization and development” (Pieterse) and “Entertainment-Education – new theoretical perspectives” (Obregon and Tufte) were followed by a lively discussion – cut short due to the time limits of the conference.