1st HCIAS SYMPOSIUM ON IBERO-AMERICAN STUDIES

COMMUNICATION IN POLARIZED SOCIETIES

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1st HCIAS SYMPOSIUM ON IBERO-AMERICAN STUDIES

Communication in Polarized Societies

4 – 6 December 2023

Venue: Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH), Germany

The 1st HCIAS International Symposium addresses the study of communication and its multiple socio-political implications in Ibero-American societies. Ibero-America, with its imbrications within the region and with other regions of the world, is characterized by highly dynamic socio-cultural processes of transformation in which the role of communication is decisive.

The symposium adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to reveal the analytical potential of the framework of societal communication, especially with regard to the analysis of transversal issues such as democratization and democratic backsliding, polarization, or trust. At the same time, it highlights the capacity of area studies to analyze and interpret contemporary communication phenomena based on profound regional knowledge.

The 1st HCIAS Symposium welcomes theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions from different perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities addressing one of the following four subfields:

1. Political communication and the public sphere

2. (Inter-)cultural Communication

3. Public communication, knowledge society, and social development

4. Digitalization and artificial intelligence in public communication

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PROGRAM

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PUBLIC EVENTS

ROUND TABLE: Science Communication

December 5, 2023, 18:30-19:30 

By Dr. David Kaldewey, Dr. Elena Lázaro RealJon Chase, and Martin Enserink 

Followed by a reception

This public event will take place at the Marsilius-Kolleg

 

KEYNOTE LECTURES

Dec. 4, 11:00-12:30
Dr. Teresa Correa
“Inequalities in the algorithmic era: A perspective from digital media users in Latin America”

Dec. 5, 09:30-11:00
Dr. Ottmar Ette
“Communication Breakdown?
The Task of Literature in Polarized Societies in Latin America”

Dec. 6, 14:00-15:30
Dr. Dale A. Koike 
“The individuality of interculturality”

These public events will take place at the IWH