June 23-24, 2021

Registration deadline: June 20, 2021

The Covid-19 global pandemic shows that the exponential growth of humanity in all its aspects since the industrial era has admittedly enabled it to conquer the moon, but also leaves it as vulnerable facing a microscopic virus as it was the case with the so-called Spanish influenza epidemic a century ago.

We could therefore have expected that the answers to the pandemic had led to homogeneous behavior in most of the countries, and that consequently, the communication of the various governments in this regard was carried out in parallel, if not similar directions, in the face of the pandemic progress different stages - and of the efforts to try to counter it. However, in front of this crisis, the measures taken by the states concerned were sometimes distinct, and in a few cases even divergent. And in fact, the communication from different governments has significantly differed, whether the measures were similar or not.

One crisis, different realities? Or just countries idiosyncrasies reflecting in their government communication stands? This is what the international researchers gathered for this workshop on June 23 and 24, 2021 will try to establish.

Day 1 : Wednesday, June 23

13:45-14:00 – Workshop participants presentation

14:00 -14:30 – Opening

• Noël Dimarcq, Vice-President Recherche et Innovation, Université Nice Côte d'Azur
• Nicolas Pelissier, Université Nice Côte d'Azur, Directeur du Sic.Lab. Méditerranée
• Philippe J. Maarek & Faïza Naït-Bouda, Université Paris Est-UPEC & Université Nice Côte d'Azur, Directeurs scientifiques du workshop

14:30-16:30 – Panel 1 : Who decides ? Charismatic Leaders or Scientific Experts?

Chair : Juliana Raupp, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Germany

• Lars Nord, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
• Darren Lilleker, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
• Adilson Vaz Cabral Filho, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
• Sofia Ventura, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy

16:45- 18:30 – Panel 2: Leading or following the Crisis?

Chair : Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

• Inna Šteinbuka, University of Latvia, Latvia
• Philippe J. Maarek & Faïza Naït-Bouda, University Paris Est – UPEC & University Nice Côte d'Azur, France
• Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

18:30- 19:00 – Open discussion

Day 2 : Thursday, June 24 morning

9:15 - 9:30 – Second Day Opening

9:30 - 11h – Panel 3:  What kind of Underpinning ? Mobilization or Propaganda?

Chair : Lars Nord, Midwestern University, Sweden

• Sally Young, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Jangyul Robert Kim, Colorado State University & Sera Choi, Colorado State University, United States
• Deqiang Ji & Lu Liu, Institute for A Community with Shared Future, Communication University of China, China

11:15 - 13:15 - Panel 4 : Who to believe? Government trust or mistrust?

Chair : Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Antonis Armenakis & Achilleas Karadimitriou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Hillel Nossek, Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel
• Žaneta Ozoliņa, University of Latvia, Latvia
• Marta Rebolledo & Jordi Rodriguez Virgili, Navarra University, Spain

Day 2 : Thursday, June 24 afternoon

13:15 - 14:30 – Lunch break

14:30 -17:00 – Panel 5 : How to reach the people ? Traditional Television, Press conferences or Social Media ?

Chair : Darren Lilleker, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

• Anastasia Grusha, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
• Juliana Raupp, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Germany
• Marion R. Just, Wellesley College, Joseph Saraceno & Ann N. Crigler, University of Southern California, United States
• Alexander Frame & Gilles Brachotte, University of Burgundy, France
• Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town, South Africa

17:00 -18:00 – General discussion :

Chair : Philippe J. Maarek & Faïza Naït-Bouda, University Paris Est – UPEC & University Côte d'Azur, Workshop Scientific Directors

This international research workshop is organized by Sic.Lab Méditerranée, with the participation of the Center for Comparative Studies in Political and Public Communication (CECCOPOP). It is supported by the University of Côte d'Azur EUR Creates, the International School of Political Science of University Paris Est- UPEC and the Val de Marne Department Council. It has been granted by the UCA-JEDI ANR-15-IDEX-01 program.

Scientific Direction

• Philippe J. MAAREK, Université Paris Est – UPEC & Sic.Lab Méditerranée
• Faïza NAIT-BOUDA, Université Côte d'Azur & Sic.Lab Méditerranée

Scientific Board

• Philippe J. MAAREK, Université Paris Est – UPEC & Sic.Lab Méditerranée
• Faïza NAIT-BOUDA, Université Côte d'Azur & Sic.Lab Méditerranée
• Yves PALAU, Université Paris Est – UPEC & Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’étude du politique - Hannah Arendt (LIPHA)
• Nicolas PELISSIER, Université Côte d'Azur & Sic.Lab Méditerranée
• Paul RASSE, Université Côte d'Azur & le Sic.Lab Méditerranée

Organizing Committee

• Philippe J. MAAREK, Université Paris Est – UPEC & Sic.Lab Méditerranée
• Faïza NAIT-BOUDA, Université Côte d'Azur & Sic.Lab Méditerranée

assistés de :

• Samer ELHAJJAR, Doctorant, Sic.Lab Méditerranée, Université Côte d'Azur
• Annie Flore IBINGA, Doctorante, Sic.Lab Méditerranée, Universit Côte d'Azur
• Loïc SUMIEN, Doctorant, Sic.Lab Méditerranée, Université Côte d'Azur

Registration before June 13 : inscriptions.int.workshop@gmail.com