Brussels Symposium

The ECREA Symposium "Equal Opportunities and Communication Rights" will take place on 11 and 12 October 2007.

ECREA

The full title of the symposium is "Equal Opportunities and Communication Rights: Representation, Participation & the European Democratic Deficit".

It will take place at the Residence Palace in Brussels (Belgium).

This symposium is organised by four ECREA Sections: Communication and Democracy; Journalism Studies; Gender and Communication; and Political Communication; with the support of the European Journalism Centre and Vesalius College.

This Symposium aims to assess the roles of media and communication in fostering equal opportunities, civic participation and diversity in Europe, as well as its potentials for addressing the European democratic deficit, particularly the perceived disconnection between the economic and political elites and large parts of EU citizens. In this Symposium we aim to critically discuss and interrogate the role of media and communication relating to issues of equality, diversity, civic participation and democracy beyond the nation state, on the basis of theoretical and/or empirical research.

Information on the venue, registration and accommodation has now been made available at the conference website, information on the programme will follow shortly.