Monday, 28 January 2019

08:45–09:00 Arrival and Registration

09:00–09:30 Introduction by Simone M. Müller and Evi Zemanek

Panel 1: Stories of Origin
Chair: Jonas Stuck (LMU)

09:30–11:00
Mark Neuzil (University of St. Thomas): Environmental Journalism and Its History

Ayelen Dichdji (National University of Quilmes): Journalism, Environmental History and Discourse. Review about the Beginning of Environmentalism in Argentinian Counter-Culture Press between 1960 and 1980

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:00
David Larrson Heidenblad (Lund University): Barbro Soller and the Environmental Moment in Sweden, 1967–1969

Doubravka Olšáková (Academy of Science of the Czech Republic): The Silent Spring, Radio Free Europe, and Oil Gobblers: The Beginnings of Environmental Journalism in Czechoslovakia

13:00–14:00 Lunch Break

Panel 2: What if Politics Won’t Listen?
Chair: Maximilian Feichtner (LMU)

14:00–15:30
Anna Mazanik (CEU Budapest): Soviet Press and Environmental Awareness under Socialism (1965–1985)

Nataša Simeunović Bajić (University of Nís): Producing Environmental Crisis in Serbia: Unreliable Sources, Fake News and Conspiracy Theories

15.30–16.00
Environmental Journalism Today: A Conversation with Alison Abbot from "Nature" (tbc)

16:00–16:30 Coffee Break

16:30–17:30
Keynote
Torsten Schäfer (Hochschule Darmstadt): Climate Journalism – Ethical Dimension, Historical Context and Social Relevance of a New Key Discipline
Chair: Simone Müller

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Panel 3: Tools and Trends in Telling Green Stories
Chair: Evi Zemanek (University of Freiburg)

09:00–10:30
Wiebke Rögener (TU Dortmund): Was ist guter Umweltjournalismus. Definition von Qualitätskriterien aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven (“Good Environmental Journalism“? Defining Criteria from Different Perspectives)

Beatrice Dernbach (TH Nürnberg): Skandalisierung, Negativismus und konstruktiver Journalismus: Aktuelle Trends im Umweltjournalismus (Scandalisation, Negativism and Constructive Journalism. Current Trends in Environmental Journalism)

10:30–11:00 Coffee Break

Panel 4: We All Saw This One Coming
Chair: Ayushi Dhawan (LMU)

11:00–12:30
Anna Katharina Woebse (University of Gießen): Picturing Complexity – Environmental Photojournalism Then and Now

Rosalind Donald (Columbia University): Which Way the Wind’s Blowing: Miami’s Weather Forecasters and Climate Change through Andrew, Kyoto and Irma

12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–14:00 The Press Room

14:00–15:30 Final Discussion