Conferences

conferences.jpgThe Faculty of Journalism is an organizer of many nation-wide and international conferences. It is also a proud host of several international conferences organized in cooperation with leading academic establishments: European Media Management Association (EMMA) in 2011, and International Media Management Academic Association (IMMAA) in 2015, European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) in 2017.

Since 2009, the Faculty of Journalism organizes the annual International Media Readings in Moscow “Mass Media and Communications”, also known as the Moscow Readings conference. The event takes place in October each year. At the moment, Moscow Readings conference is the biggest international academic conference organized and hosted by the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. In previous years, it was co-organized jointly with European Media Management Association (2011), International Media Management Academic Association (2015), European Journalism Training Association (2017), and International Association for Media and Communication Research (2019, 2020, 2021).
 
Each year the conference brings media scholars, researchers, lecturers and PhD students from diverse Russian and international institutions to Moscow. In 2022, Moscow Readings conference was themed around ‘Digital Platforms and the Future of Legacy Media’. The conference was attended by 200 scholars from 200 speakers and listeners from 17 countries.

The conference normally includes two plenary sessions (in 2022 featuring Profs. Uma Shankar Pandey, Afonso de Albuquerque, Usha Raman, Shi-xu), thematic sessions and round table discussions. The conference runs for two days (Thursday and Friday). The main working language is English, although we also organize a number of sessions in Russian too. Plenary sessions are in English with simultaneous translation into Russian.

More information about the Moscow Readings conference is available at the official conference website