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15:00 EEST / 12:00 UTC/GMT
IAMCR General Assembly - Online
Members who registered previously are welcome to attend this virtual meeting. Participants must have registered by 15.
Agenda
- Approval of Agenda
- Approval of Minutes of the previous General Assembly, 24 June 2018, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Approval of New Members
- Summary of Reports from Officers:
- President – Janet Wasko
- Vice Presidents – Graham Murdock, Aimée Vega Montiel
- Secretary General – Gerard Goggin
- Treasurer – Elske van de Fliert
- Approval of Leadership in Sections and Working Groups
- Any Other Business
- Report of Election Committee
- Executive Board and International Council Changeover
- Adjournment
16:30 EEST / 13:30 UTC/GMT
The Unclosing: "Continuity and Change in Eras of Risk and Uncertainty"
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Moderator: Kaarle Nordenstreng, Tampere University
- Reviewing IAMCR history and launch of Basics of IAMCR history by Cees Hamelink and Kaarle Nordenstreng.
- Recalling the MacBride Commission (1977-80) and subsequent developments with Juan Somavia, Commission member and former Director General of ILO
- Highlighting McQuail's Media & Mass Communication Theory 7th ed. with Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam
- Reflecting on the future of media and communication research - two dialogues
- Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad / Trine Syvertsen, University of Oslo
- Laura Ahva, Tampere University / Leonardo Custodio, Åbo Akademi University
- Welcome to Nairobi 2021
- Concluding thoughts: Outgoing president, Janet Wasko and incoming president, Nico Carpentier