The Changing Face of Africa

2013 International Affairs Conference

Friday 31 May, National Gallery of Ireland

Speakers include Eamon Gilmore TD, Sivuyile Bam, Niall Quinn, Alex De Waal, Eileen Connolly, Declan Power, Padraig Carmody, Patrick Walsh, Tom Lodge

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Irish Foreign Policy (forthcoming publication)

 

Edited by the Academy Committee for International Affairs, the forthcoming publication, Irish Foreign Policy, is the first contemporary and authoritative textbook presenting major themes and analysis of Irish foreign policy within a contextual framework of history, political science, economics and international relations. For more information please visit the publisher’s website: www.gillmacmillan.ie/government--politics/government--politics/irish-foreign-policy

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Royal Irish Academy Conference for International Affairs 2011

‘Democratisation and New Media'

Friday 25 November

The International Affairs Conference, organised by the Academy’s Committee for International Affairs, is the premier conference on international studies in Ireland, attracting an audience of students, academics, Irish and foreign diplomats and members of the public.

The Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Eamon Gilmore, TD, delivering the opening address to the 2011 International Affairs Conference .To veiw more photos from this event please click here

Session 1

Chair: Dr Noel Dorr, Chair, Academy Committee for International Affairs

9.30am Welcome by Professor Luke Drury (President, Royal Irish Academy)
9.40am Address by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Eamonn Gilmore TD
10.30am Professor Sarah Oates (University of Glasgow): Web Diplomacy 2.0: Opportunities, Threats and Challenges in Exporting Democracy On Line
11.00am Questions and Answers
11.15am Coffee Break

Session 2:

Chair: Professor Ben Tonra, School of Politics & International Relations, University College Dublin

11.30am Mr Michael Foley, Professor Noirin Hayes & Dr Brian O’Neill (Dublin Institute of Technology): Journalism and Child Rights Education: How the Curriculum Can Support Media Development in CEE/CIS Countries
11.45am Dr Ecaterina McDonagh (Dublin City University): Effects of Democracy Promotion in the Post-Soviet Space: A Comparative Analysis of the EU, the CoE and the OSCE
12.00pm Ms Işil Turkan (University of Strasbourg): Democratisation and New Media Dilemmas: Case Study of Press Freedom in Turkey
12.15pm Questions and Answers

Session 3:

Chair: Dr Maura Conway, School of Law & Government, Dublin City University

12.30pm Professor Philip Seib (University of Southern California): Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era
1.00pm Questions and Answers
1.15pm Lunch

Session 4:

Dr John Doyle, Head, School of Law & Government, Dublin City University

2.30pm Ms Susan Pointer (Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, Google): Free Expression in the Digital Age
3.00pm Questions and Answers

Session 5:

Chair: Dr Michael Kennedy, Executive Editor, Documents in Irish Foreign Policy

3.15pm Professor Christian Christensen (Uppsala University): Discourses of Technology and Liberation: State Aid to Net Activists in the Era of ‘Twitter Revolutions’
3.30pm Professor Amit M. Schejter (Pennsylvania State University): Media New and Old in the Struggle for Al A’rakib – A Case Study
3.45pm Mr Paul Candon (Trinity College Dublin): A Triumph of Rhetoric over Practice? The ‘Online Public Sphere’ and Political Discourse in Ireland’s General Election 2011
4.00pm Questions and Answers
4.15pm Coffee Break

Session 6

Chair: Dr Mark Callanan, Institute for Public Administration

4.30pm Mr Mark Little (founder of @Storyful): Real-Time Revolutionaries - How social media is shaping an activist generation
5.00pm Questions and Answers
5.15pm Conclusion of Proceedings

6.00pm Reception & Launch of vol. 22 of Irish Studies in International Affairs, Iveagh House, Department of Foreign Affairs