Media Practice in an Emergent World Order

Join the Center for Media at Risk and CARGC for a symposium exploring what happens to media practitioners when the existing world order abruptly changes.

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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! 

Full Program

Thursday, December 1

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

9:30-10:00am | Breakfast

10:00-10:15am | Introduction

John L. Jackson, Jr., Dean, Annenberg School for Communication
Aswin Punathambekar, Director, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Barbie Zelizer, Director, Center for Media at Risk

10:15-11:45am | 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, Pain Dozhd, Russia
Wazhmah Osman, Associate Professor of Media and Communication, Temple University, USA Matt Sienkiewicz, Chair and Associate Professor of Communication and International Studies, Boston University, USA
Moderator: Yuval Katz, Postdoctoral Fellow, CARGC

2:30-2:45pm | REFRESHMENTS

2:45-4:15pm | 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

4.45-6.00 PM | RECEPTION