Programme
10:00-10:45am
Academia’s contributions to journalism safety and media freedom
| 10:00-10:10am |
Welcome from Hawley Johnson, Associate Director, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Dr Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director General for Communication and Information, UNESCO, Official Opening of the Conference |
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| 10:10-10:25am | Professor Jackie Harrison, UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity, University of Sheffield, UK: Reflecting on the contribution of academia’s research to the global media freedom and journalism safety stakeholder community |
| 10:25-10:35am | Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, Reader in Global Journalism and Media, University of Liverpool, UK/Worlds of Journalism Study: Academia and journalism safety: current and future global initiatives |
| 10:35-10:45am | Discussion |
10:45am – 1pm
Current challenges to freedom of expression as a driver for other human rights
Weaponization of law (Chair/Discussant: Dr Gemma Horton, Impact Fellow, Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield, UK):
Dr Sejal Parmar (Parmar.S@cardiff.ac.uk), Cardiff University, UK: Counter-disinformation law as a rising threat to freedom expression.
Professor Edward L. Carter (ed_carter@byu.edu), Brigham Young University School of Communications, USA: “An Anti-SLAPP Framework Under the American Convention on Human Rights”
Journalists’ safety issues around the globe (Chair/Discussant: Dr Emily Harmer, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Liverpool, UK)
Dr Diana Maynard (d.maynard@sheffield.ac.uk), Julie Posetti, Kalina Bontcheva and Nabeelah Shabbir, University of Sheffield and ICFJ, U.K. & U.S.A: Monitoring Online Violence Against Women Journalists as a Predictor of Offline Harm Amid Escalating Risks
Benjamin P. Tetteh (bptetteh@syr.edu), Syracuse University, U.S.A./Ghana: Ghana’s failing press freedom: A dent on a bastion of African democracy.
Dr Leire Iturregui Mardaras (leire.iturregui@ehu.eus), University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain: Safety Conditions of Journalists Covering International Conflicts
Freedom of expression (Chair: Dr Rosalynd Southern, Senior Lecturer in Political Communication, University of Liverpool, UK)
Professor Ivor Shapiro (ishapiro@torontomu.ca), Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada: The journalism school as a space for encountering the tensions between the freedoms of expression and of the press and their dynamic connections with liberty, oppression, and social justice
Ms Smitha Khorana (smithakhorana@gmail.com), Independent Journalist and Academic, U.S.A: The Need for Interdisciplinary Work to Approach Freedom of Expression
Ms Colette Wahlqvist (cosh@mediasupport.org) and Mr Binod Bhattarai (bbhattarai2006@gmail.com), International Media Support and Tribhuwan University, Denmark and Nepal: Title