[aaus-list] Conf.: Media in Ukraine, Ontario/Toronto 25./27.4.09

[Andreas Umland]

Perspectives on Media and Communications in Ukraine
 
Communications are one of the most basic features of human behaviour,
and have been at the centre of Ukraine’s transformation process from
glasnost to the present. Yet mass media remains a little studied topic within study of the postcommunist transformations and the democratization project more broadly. This conference will focus the role media is playing in one postcommunist country, Ukraine, and will examine the issues from a variety of perspectives. It will bring together an international group of the top scholars and practitioners who conduct research and work in various
aspects of media, journalism and communications in Ukraine, and the larger
context in which they operate. This interdisciplinary group includes political scientists, communications scholars, a legal expert, NGO actors and a historian.

Conference dates and locations:
25 April 2009 - University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
27 April 2009 - University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

For additional information, see conference web site:
http://history.uwo.ca/events/PMCUkraineConference/index.html

Conference organizers:
Marta Dyczok, DPhil (Oxon), UWO
Yevhen Fedchenko, Dean of Journalism, NaUKMA