Conférenciers/Keynote Speakers

 Présentation/Presentation | Programme/Program  | Poster

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20 février, 11 h, salle Pierre-Bourgault

« The Mediation of Protest: production, representation and reception of movement discourses »

Bart Cammaerts, Ph.D.
Professeur
London School of Economics and Political Science, Angleterre

After obtaining his MA-degree in political sciences at the Free University of Brussels in 1996 Bart Cammaerts worked as a spokesperson and as advisor on information society issues for Elio Di Rupo, the then Belgian vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Economic affairs and Telecommunication. After that he joined the research centre SMIT   at the Free University of Brussels as a doctoral researcher. In 2002 he obtained a PhD in social sciences with a thesis bearing the title: ‘Social Policy and the Information Society: on the changing role of the state, social exclusion and the divide between words and deeds’. This was followed by post-doctoral research within the EMTEL2-network, financed by the 5th framework program of the EU Commission. He analysed the impact of the Internet on the transnationalisation of civil society actors, on direct action and on interactive civic engagement. After that he obtained a Marie Curie research-fellowship, based at the Media and Communication Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he studied the participatory claims and practices of international organisations, involving civil society actors in their decision-making processes and the use of the Internet to facilitate this. Bart Cammaerts is now senior lecturer in the Media and Communications Department of the LSE and director of the PhD program. He is former chair of the Communication and Democracy Section of the European Communication and Research Association – ECREA and vice-chair of the Communication, Technology & Policy-section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research – IAMCR. Beyond academia, Bart Cammaerts is also active within the community radio movement and as a musician and DJ.

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21 février, 11 h, salle Pierre-Bourgault

« Études doctorales en communication aux États-Unis : observations et réflexions comparatives »

François Yelle, Ph.D.
Professeur, Département des lettres et des communications
Université de Sherbrooke, Québec

Diplômé du doctorat en communication à l’Université de Montréal (2004), François Yelle a été chargé de cours pendant 10 ans avant d’obtenir un poste de professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke en 2002. Intéressé par l’identité de la recherche universitaire québécoise en communication, il a consacré sa thèse à l’étude des discours métathéoriques et réflexifs qui ont fait l’état des lieux et retracé l’histoire de la recherche au Québec, de 1970 à 2002. Depuis plusieurs années, il s’intéresse à l’histoire des idées en sciences humaines, plus particulièrement en communication médiatique au Québec, au Canada et aux États-Unis. Il travaille en ce moment à la rédaction d’articles sur le boom réflexif des années 1980 au Québec, à l’émergence de la « nouvelle historiographie » de la recherche en communication dans le monde anglophone, et à l’apport réflexif des revues intellectuelles québécoises des années 1960 sur les médias. Ayant découvert les Cultural Studies britanniques pendant sa maîtrise, il n’a cessé d’en observer les mutations, surtout dans les espaces francophones (in Cahier de recherche sociologique, 2009). Depuis 2012, il est responsable des recensions de langue française pour le Canadian Journal of Communication.

François Yelle graduated from the Joint Ph.D. Program in Communication at l’Université de Montréal in 2004. He taught courses for 10 years before becoming a professor at l’Université de Sherbrooke in 2002. Interested in what defines Quebec-based academic research in communication studies, his thesis took inventory of metatheoretical and reflexive discourses of research in Quebec between 1970 and 2002, tracing out a history of these discourses. This work is part of Dr. Yelle’s greater interest in the history of ideas in the humanities, particularly in the field of media and communications research in Quebec, Canada, and the United States. At the moment, he is researching the [reflexive boom?] that took place in the 1980s in Quebec, the emergence of « new historiography » in communication research in the « Anglophone world, » and contributions made to reflexive thinking by intellectual journals of the 1960s published in Quebec. Since first encountering the British school of cultural studies over the course of his masters degree, he has not stopped observing and chronicling its legacies, particularly in Francophone spaces (see his article, « Cultural studies, francophonie, études en commnication et espaces institutionnels » in Cahier de recherche sociologique 47, 2009). He has been responsible for French-language book reviews published in the Canadian Journal of Communication since 2012.