Media and Identity II Conference
The NMHH Institute for Media Studies kindly invites you to its conference ‘Media and Identity II’.
Date and time: 11 June 2015, 10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Venue: HAS Research Centre for the Humanities, Jacobin Room (1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30.)
If you find this conference is of interest to you and would like to attend, please tell us by e-mailing us at balla.marta@mtmi.hu.
The planned conference programme:
10.00 a.m. Levente Nyakas (Head of NMHH Institute for Media Studies) – Welcome address
10.15 a.m. István Apró (moderator, NMHH Institute for Media Studies) – Keynote
10.45 a.m. Ferenc Gereben (sociologist, Budapest) – The Identification Impacts of Books and Reading – Within and Beyond our Borders
11.15 a.m. János Moszkovits (MTVA Media Services and Support Trust Fund, Budapest) – An Up-to-Date Politics of Nationhood: News and Analysis from the Carpathian Basin and the Diaspora in the Programme ‘Without Borders’ on Radio Kossuth
11.45 a.m. – 12.00 noon Debate
12.00 – 12.30 p.m. Lunch break
12.30 p.m. Béla Makkai (historian, Budapest) – The Role of the Native-Tongue Press in Shaping the Identity of Emigrated Hungarians
1.00 p.m. Tamás Kiss (sociologist, Cluj-Napoca) – Assimilation and Border Reinforcement. Mixed Families, and Ethnic Socialization within Mixed Families in Transylvania
1.30 p.m. Tibor P. Papp (media researcher, Novi Sad) – The Layering of Identity Strata in the 21st Century
2.00 p.m. Debate