Schedule

(Version: 23 April 2021)

22.04.21        

8.45-9.00        Check In

9.00-9.45        Welcome Notes

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (ZeMKI – Center for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen)

PD Dr. Astrid Blome (ZI – Institute for Newspaper Research, Dortmund)

Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger (DGPuK, German Association of Communication Researchers, Communication History Section)

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz (ZeMKi-Lab Communication History and Media Change, University of Bremen)

9.45-10.45        Keynote Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Basel): The effectiveness of the invisible: Communication  and International Organizations during World War II

11.00-12.30        Panel 1: Remembering the League of Nations

Chair: Kaarle Nordenstreng (Tampere)

11.00-11.30        Fei Huang (Beijing): The 1919 Moment Revisited: Two versions of Self-determination and the background of League of Nations

11.30-12.00        Peter de Bourgraaf (Amsterdam): Postcolonial IO Cultures of Remembrance? Mind the gap!

12.00-12.30        Soonim Shin (Vienna): Albert Cohens literarische Satire auf den Völkerbund: „Belle du seigneur“ / Albert Cohen's satire on the League of Nations: "Belle du seigneur" (Presentation in German)

Lunch break with poster session on “Visual Communication of International Organizations” (in German), MA-Student’s Research Seminar, ZeMKI

13.00-14.00        Panel 2: How to Mediate International Organizations

        Chair: Emil Eiby Seidenfaden (Oxford)

13.00-13.30        Kaiyi Li (Braunschweig): Teaching the League of Nations: An attempt of cultivating international consensus during the interwar period

13.30-14.00        Miriam Goetz (Düsseldorf): Internationale Organisationen in der Öffentlichkeit und öffentlichen Debatten: Die UN im Spiegel serbischer und kroatischer Karikaturen (1986-2008) / International Organizations in the Public Sphere and Public Debates: The UN in the Mirror of Serbian and Croatian Caricatures (1986-2008) (Presentation in German, Slides in English)

Coffee Break with poster session

14.30-16.00        Panel 3: Norm building and Communication in International Organizations

        Chair: Arne L. Gellrich (Bremen)

14.30-15.00        Sarah Nelson (Nashville): The Anticolonial Struggle to Universalize “Information Freedom” through International Organizations in the 20th Century

15.00-15.30        Jürgen Wilke (Mainz): The Prevalence of Communication. A case study on the early International Labour Organisation (ILO)

15.30-16.00        Sigrid Kannengießer (Bremen): From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming development communication to sustainability communication?

16.30-17:30        FG-Sitzung Kommunikationsgeschichte mit Verleihung Nachwuchsförderpreis Kommunikationsgeschichte 2021 (Meeting of the Communication History Section of the DGPuK, German Association of Communication Researchers, in German)

23.04.21        

9.00-10.00        Keynote Torsten Kahlert (Wolfenbüttel): International Bureaucracy at Work. The League of Nations Secretariat and its International Civil Servants.

10.30-11.30        Panel 4: Communicating Europe

        Chair: Jürgen Wilke (Mainz)

10.30-11.00         Anne Bruch (Hamburg): "Mission Europe". The Communication Policy of the European Institutions and their early audio-visual Public Relations Campaigns (1948-1973)

11.00-11.30        Ines Soldwisch (Aachen): Das Europäische Parlament als Kommunikationsraum – Konstituierung, Organisation und Wahrnehmung durch die Abgeordneten / The European Parliament as a Communication Space - Constitution, Organization and Perception by the Members of Parliament (Presentation in German, Slides in English)

Lunch Break with poster session on “Visual Communication of International Organizations” (in German) MA-Student’s Research Seminar, ZeMKI

12.30-14.00        Panel 5: Case studies in Internationalism

        Chair: Thomas Birkner (Münster)

12.30-13.00        Pelle van Dijk (Florence): Internationalism on Display: Case studies on the League of Nations in the member states

13.00-13.30        Arvind Rajagopal (New York): International Organizations and National Communication Systems: India’s Satellite Television Experiment, Unesco and Ford Foundation

13.30-14.00        Roja Zaitoonie (Bochum): The Policy-Making of the United Nations in the Field of Media and Public Communication – A Historical Comparison between the General Assembly and the Security Council

Coffee break with poster session

14.30-15.00        Panel 6: Risk and Development Communication

        Chair: Christian Schwarzenegger (Salzburg)

14.30-15.00        Lukas Schemper (Berlin): International Organisations and the Communication of Risk: the example of the Atomic Energy Agency in the 1970s-1980s

Résumé Erik Koenen/Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz

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