17 - 18 December 2018, Central European University

During this international workshop participants presented a series of contemporary and historical case studies which tackled the very topical and relevant subject of challenges to the freedom of media, through the lens of broadcasting. ‌The workshop featured presentations and discussion from the following network members and invited participants.

• Dr David Clayton, Chair of Graduate School Board, Department of History, University of York 
• Dr. Gergely Gosztonyi, Ph.D, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Faculty of Law
• Dr. István Hegedüs, Chairman, Hungarian Europe Society
• Dr Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Research Associate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research at the TU Dresden
• Dr Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Assistant Professor of the History of International Relations, University of Amsterdam 
• Jessie Labov, Resident Fellow in the Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University
• Professor Peter Bajomi-Lazar, Professor of Mass Communication, Budapest Business School
• Professor Simon Potter, Professor in Modern History, University of Bristol 
• Dr Nelson Ribeiro, Associate Professor in Communication Studies, Catholic University of Portugal  
• Dr Rebecca Scales, Associate Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Dr Andrea Stanton, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Denver  

The full programme is available to download here: National and International Broadcasting in Turbulent Times: Mediating between St (PDF, 124kB)

You can also read a summary of the member’s visit to the Open Society Archives and the event at CEU on the blog here: Blog post 

Nelson Ribeiro (left) talking about the establishment of radio censorship in Portugal under Salazar in the 1930s during the first panel chaired by István Hegedüs (right).

Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Chair of the second panel, speaking on Radio Free Europe after 1989.