‘Courting the Abyss’: Book Launch and Workshop on the Freedom of Speech and Press Freedom
The Institute for Media Studies of the NMHH Media Council and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Media Science Research Group are organizing an event entitled ‘Courting the Abyss’: Book Launch and Workshop on the Freedom of Speech and Press Freedom.
Date and time: Thursday, 7 April 2016
Venue: Faculty of Law and Political Science, Pázmány Péter Catholic University,
Pope John Paul II Room (1088 Budapest, Szentkirályi utca 28-30.)
Preliminary registration is required for participating. If you wish to attend, please contact us by e-mail at kapcsolat@mtmi.hu by 5 April 2016.
The planned conference programme:
9.30 – 10.00 a.m. Registration
10.00 – 10.20 a.m. András Koltay (associate professor, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences): Courting the Abyss: Peters and the Ideal of Freedom of Speech
(John Durham Peters, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition)
10.20 – 10.40 a.m. Levente Nyakas (Head of NMHH Institute for Media Studies): The Correspondences between Fundamental Rights and the Principle of Media Pluralism in the Practice of the European Court
(András Koltay – Bernát Török (eds.): Press Freedom and Media Law in the Beginning of the 21st Century No. 2)
10.40 – 11.00 a.m. Klára Gellén (associate professor, University of Szeged, Faculty of Law): Unlawful Commercial Communications and Regulatory Competences
(András Koltay – Bernát Török (eds.): Press Freedom and Media Law in the Beginning of the 21st Century No. 2)
11.00 – 11.20 a.m. Péter Smuk (assistant professor, Széchenyi István University, Deák Ferenc Faculty of Law): Disclosure Laws in Eastern Europe
(András Koltay (ed.): Comparative Perspectives on the Fundamental Freedom of Expression)
11.20 – 11.35 a.m. Coffee break
11.35 – 11.55 a.m. Róbert Takács (researcher, Institute of Political History): Press Freedom in the Kádár Era
(Vince Paál (ed.): The History of Press Freedom in Hungary, 1914-1989)
11.55 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. Mihály Gálik (professor emeritus, Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences): McQuail and Communication Theory
(Denis McQuail, Mass Communication Theory)
12.15 – 12.35 p.m. Dr. Tamás Klein (assistant lecturer, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Faculty of Law): The Development of Press Freedom in England
(James Curran and Jean Seaton, Power without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain)
Lunch from 12.35 p.m.
Moderator: Petra Lea Láncos
(associate professor, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences)