ECSJ2020 programme
| 1 September 2020 | |||
| 9:00 9:20 | Opening remarks | ||
| 9:20 9:50 | KEYNOTE – 30 minutes with David Mair (EU Joint Research Centre) “Understanding our political nature” | ||
| 9:50 10:00 | Get-up break | ||
| 10:00 10.30 | KEYNOTE – 30 minutes with Martin Bauer (London School of Economics, UK) “How many science cultures?” | ||
| 10:30 10:40 | Get-up break | ||
| 10:40 11:40 | PLENARY ROUNDTABLE Filters for Truth: Will AI replace reporters and fact-checkers? Mico Tatalovic (Research Fortnight, UK) , Fabiana Zollo (Università Ca’ Foscari, Italy), Harry Collins (Cardiff University, Wales) Charlie Beckett (Polis/LSE, UK) Moderator: Fabio Turone (CESJ, Italy) | ||
| 11:40 11:50 | Get-up break | ||
| 11:50 13:20 | PLENARY ROUNDTABLE Covid-19: dealing with uncertainties and politics Roberta Villa (freelance health journalist, Italy), Olga Dobrovidova (EFSJ, Russia), Daniela Ovadia (CESJ, Italy), Sarah Neubauer (TVS, Slovenia), Chloé Hecketsweiler (Le Monde, France), Mohammed Yahia (Nature Middle East, Egypt) Moderator: Alexandra Borissova (AKSON, Russia) | ||
| 13:30 14:00 | SCIENCECHEF CORNER How to cook carbonara, scientifically Dario Bressanini (Italy) | ||
| 14:00 14:30 | 30 minutes with Andrada Fiscutean (ProFM, Romania) Cybersecurity for science journalists | 30 minutes with Pakinam Amer (MIT, Egypt) Journalist in a deep dive into virtuality and emerging technology | |
| 14:30 14:40 | Get-up break | ||
| 14:40 15:10 | 30 minutes with Leo Hickman (Carbon Brief, UK) How the media covers climate change – a journalist’s perspective | 30 minutes with Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto, Canada) Studying the future of work through patents: humans and robots in Amazon warehouses | |
| 15:10 15:20 | Get-up break | ||
| 15:20 15:50 | 30 minutes with Siri Carpenter (The Open Notebook, USA) The craft of science writing | ||
| 15:50 16:00 | Get-up break | ||
| 16:00 17:00 | KSJ panel. Science Editing Katie Fleeman (Knowable Magazine, USA) Melinda Wenner Moyer (Scientific American, USA) Moderator: Joshua Hatch (Chronicle of Higher Education, USA) | Numbers for policy and science communication: opening black boxes Michele Catanzaro (freelance, Spain) Andrea Saltelli (Open University of Catalonia, Spain) | |
| 17:00 17:10 | Get-up break | ||
| 17:10 18:10 | Can Academia or Foundation-funded projects help independent science journalism? Gioia Lovison (Il Bo Live, Italy), Deborah Blum (Undark, USA), Volker Stollorz (German Science Media Center, Germany), Andrey Konyaev (N+1, Russia) Moderator: Krijn Soeteman (EFSJ, The Netherlands) | Communicating uncertainty: a challenge that precedes Covid-19 David Michaels (George Washington University, USA), Tracey Brown (Sense about Science, UK), Vera Novais (Observador, Portugal) Moderator: Rita Ferreira (freelance, Portugal) | |
| 18:15 | Climate Grant and European Science Journalist of the Year awarding ceremony | ||
| 18:30 | Conclusions | ||
| 2 September 2020 | |||
| 9:00 10:45 | General assembly of SWIM, Science Writers in Italy (in person and online: only for members) | ||
| 11:00 12:45 | General assembly of the European Federation of Science Journalists EFSJ (in person and online: only for members) |