Programme

(pre-registration required)

9h30 – 9h45 - Welcoming Session

· Sílvia Roque and Sofia José Santos (University of Coimbra)
· Thomas Tufte (University of Leicester) and Oscar Hemer (Malmo University)

9h45 – 10h45 - Session 1: Discursive constructions of Europe
moderator: Sílvia Roque

· Licínia Simão (University of Coimbra) and Sofia José Santos (University of Coimbra) – “Challenging presentism and imagining Europe: EU communication imaginaries and strategy on refuge and migration”.

· Oscar Hemer (Malmo University) – “Creolization and Conviviality in Provincialized Europe: a tentative approach”

(10h45– 11h00 - Coffee Break)

11h00 – 12h30 - Session 2: Communicative dynamics and expressions
moderator: Sara Araújo

· Amalia Sabiescu (Loughborough University London) – “Adult education and vulnerable young people in Romania: a communicative ecologies approach”
· Thomas Tufte (University of Leicester) – “Activist Citizenship and the Dramaturgy of Social Change”
· Tina Askanius (Malmo University) – “Bringing critical media studies into policy debates on securitization and online radicalization in Europe’”

14h30 – 15h15 – Book launch: Tufte, Thomas (2017), Communication and social Change. A citizen perspective, London: Polity

· Oscar Hemer (University of Malmo)
· Thomas Tufte (University of Leicester)