Sustaining Journalism—32nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
The 32nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals will focus on sustaining independent cultural journalism in an increasingly difficult public sphere. As an industry, the cultural and community media spheres in Europe are affected by shifting public funding models, digitised markets, audience expectations, and political interference. Bringing together Eurozine’s network partners and cultural professionals, as well as local audiences, the conference will explore:
(a) ownership and labour in media;
(b) public funding models in Europe; and
(c) politics encroaching on independent cultural journalism.
We will discuss how these shifts in the cultural field are affecting both journalism and audiences in Europe. The conference will feature a keynote discussion and two panel discussions, as well as presentations from our partners in the Come Together Creative Europe Journalism Partnerships project. Internal sessions will allow network members and interested participants to workshop industry-specific questions and themes.
The sessions will be live-streamed, recorded, and published here.
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Itinerary
Friday 11th October
Arrivals in the morning
Location: Staszic Palace
15:00-18:00 – Internal networking and catch-up
18:00-20:00 – Keynote speech
The beautification of war: Digital communications, public indifference, rebel journalism and civilian resistance in the age of meta wars
by John Keane, professor of politics, University of Sydney, Australia
John Keane’s keynote lecture proposes that in matters of war we are now living in a strange world unknown to our grandparents and great grandparents, a world immeasurably different than both the Cold War of the 20th century and recent talk of ‘Cold War II’. We have entered the age of destructive meta wars. Digital communications technologies are nowadays enabling not only frightening transformations of the modes and weapons of warfare – Hellfire precision-guided, air-to-ground missiles and sophisticated cyber weapons capable of jamming and seizing control of enemy satellites – but also, paradoxically, media representations of war by governments, military PR propagandists, breaking news journalists, soldiers and citizens that ‘gamify’ war, beautify its horrors, and lullaby millions of people into indifference towards wars that are seemingly emptied of blood, cruelty, and genocidal destruction. Especially in the old democracies of the Atlantic region, the new meta wars generate public indifference, feelings of emotional disconnection and the cold unconcern of people busily preoccupied with their own cluttered lives. But this public indifference is vulnerable to a counter-trend unique to the age of meta wars: the birth of new media platforms whose rebel journalists digitally expose the terrible realities of these wars, cast doubts on their moral and practical necessity, and teach civilians everywhere that they have the right not to suffer meta wars, even that there’s a time coming when war in every form will have to be abolished.
Discussion with
Ivana Dragičević, journalist and executive producer international news, N1, Zagreb
Radosław Markowski, professor of political science and director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw
20:30 – Standing Dinner
Saturday 12th October
Location: Centrum Bankowo Finansowe
09:00-09:15 – Come Together Introduction Presentation
09:15-10:45 – Internal session: Securing EU funding for cultural media
10:45-11:00 – Break
11:00-12:30 – Internal session: Fact-checking to sustain quality journalism by PISMO magazine
12:30-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:30 – Panel discussion
Political shifts, media freedoms and cultural journals
Anne-Lorraine Bujon, managing director at Esprit, Paris
Mustafa Ünlü, director at P24, Istanbul
Moderated by Simon Garnett, senior editor at Eurozine, Vienna
15:30-16:00 – Break
16:00-17:30 – Panel discussion
Bullshit journalism: career paths of young journalists
Paulina Januszewska, journalist at Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw
Paula Cardoso, journalist, activist and founder of Afrolink, Lisbon
Ivana Dragičević, journalist and executive producer international news at N1, Zagreb
Moderated by Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič, historian, essayist and editor at Razpotja, Ljubljana.
18:30 – Dinner at Runo Restaurant
Sunday 13th October
Location: Centrum Bankowo Finansowe
10:30-12:00 – Internal session: Representing Palestinian voices
12:00-14:00 – Closing Remarks & Lunch
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