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December 2002: 02.12: Round Table: "Armenian Media in Elections" CMI, Yerevan, Armenia Program available on-line. |
November 2002: 15-17: CARNference: Borders, Social Spaces and Identities in Central Asia" Third and annual conference. Cologne, Germany. Program available on-line |
October 2002: 25-26: Regional Conference: "Economic Integration of the Central Asian Countries: Chances and Obstacles" Dushanbe, Tajikistan Programme. Document attached. Available: Occasional Paper 1: The Historical Development and Current Situation of the Mass Media in Kyrgyzstan, from Svetlana V. Kulikova & Gulnara Ibraeva. For order in English or Russian: |
Septembre 2002: 3-6: Conference organized jointly by CMI and "Utopiana: Culture in Globalization" Geneva, Switzerland Papers presented: New World Order, or the United States Empire Mr. Gilbert Achcar, political scientist, University of Paris-VIII, France A response by: Ashot Manucharian, political activist and thinker, Yerevan The French Antilles; From Diaspora to the Rise of One People Mr. Philip Chanson, theologian and anthropologist, Geneva, Switzerland A response by: Hrach Bayadian, Yerevan State University. Mr. Samuel Herzog, presented Santa Limusa, a post-modern Utopia, journalist and art critic at the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Basel, Switzerland |
August 2002: 23-29: CMI Workshop 7: For photojournalists from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. Ingushetia, Northern Caucasus Goals of the Workshop: The aim of the workshop was to prepare photojournalists for cooperation within the framework of a regional project called “Photo Information Support of Mass Media in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia”. The project aims to establish the practice of photo information sharing between the countries of the South Caucasus and to provide local media with photo information. The following photojournalists were invited to take part in the workshop:
Two experts conducted the workshop: Ruben Mangasaryan from Armenia and Igor Gavrilov from Russia. Program: |
July 2002 19-20: CMI Workshop 6: “Network Media. Theory and Practice.” Yerevan, Armenia. This workshop initially was planned to be organized in cooperation with the European Journalism Centre. However, the director of EJC changed, and the new head could not find time and help us in finding a trainer. So, CMI found a trainer in Moscow, Pavel Sukhov, who is the project head and consultant in several on-line media projects in Moscow. Goals of this workshop: Discussion of the following topics:
The workshop was attended by 18 persons, including 4 Internet specialists from Georgia. The trainer’s work was assessed as good. Main achievements of the workshop were sharing information on the latest achievements in the on-line practices, the possibility of assessing theirt own Websites, having a professional exchange of opinions on the everyday practices of the Armenian Webmasters. 13-14: Conference: " Migration and Nation Building in the Caucasus" Yerevan, Armenia. Papers presented: Ethnic and Migration Situation in Azerbaijan Alexander Skakov, Head of Department of Near Abroad Issues, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, Moscow, Russia Emigration from Georgia and Its Motives Guram Svanidze, Executive Secretary International Center “For Peaceful Caucasus” NGO, Tbilisi, Georgia Refugees, Migration Processes and Political Situation in the North Caucasus Larisa Khoperskaya, Professor, Rostov State University, Rostov, Russia Migration as a Factor of Nation Building in the South Caucasus Alexander Iskandarian,Head of CMI Research Unit Migration Trends and Policy of Armenia in 1988-2002 Gevorg Poghosyan, President, Sociological Association of Armenia, Yerevan Migrations from the South Caucasus: Impact on the Situation in Russia and Reaction of Russian Society Galina Vitkovskaya, Research Program Coordinator/Expert International Organization for Migrations /IOM, Moscow, Russia Emigrants from the South Caucasus in the Modern Russian Province: Problems of Diasporalization Viktor Dyatlov, Professor of Department of the World History and International Relations, Irkutsk State University, Russia Refugees in Armenia: an Attempt of Typologization Ludmila Haroutyunian, Head of Department of Sociology, Yerevan State University, Armenia Migration of People and Ideas: The Nature of Interrelations between Armenia and Diaspora Edward Melkonian, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia Armenian Myths about Emigration Mark Grigorian, CMI, Yerevan, Armenia 6-7: CMI Workshop 5: “Journalism and Internet. Challenge of a New Medium.” Together with the European Journalism Centre. Yerevan, Armenia. Goals of this Workshop: This workshop was organized together with the European Journalism Centre (Masstricht). The aims of this workshop were to explain the following options, connected with on-line journalism:
The two-day workshop was conducted by Brian Trench, senior lecturer in journalism and communication at Dublin City University, chair of programme board, Masters in Science Communication, teaching Science in the Media. The aims were achieved, and the trainer war highly assessed by the participants. The value of this training was that it was for the first time that the Armenian journalists and heads of media outlets discussed the differences between Internet and traditional journalism, got acquainted with the criteria of evaluating websites, had a professional discussion of business-resources of the Internet. |
June 2002: 10-15: CMI Workshop 4: "Photojournalism in Central Asia" Issyk-Kul lake, Kyrgyzstan Workshop report by Ruben Mangasaryan The aims of this workshop: This workshop was conducted by Frank Folwell, deputy head of photo section, USA Today. It was attended by Armenian and Georgian photojournalists, and the aim of this workshop was to discuss better practices in photojournalism, the international standards in photojournalism, as well as coverage of important events. The project consisted of three parts:
When the competition was over, the winners received grants of $600 to make photo reports on the selected topics. The photojournalists who received grants were:
The program:
The final stage of the project will be an exhibition of photos made for the project. Workshop proceedings and materials will be posted on the CIMERA website. |
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May 2002: 27, 29-31: CMI Workshop 3: "Addressed to photojournalists" Yerevan, Armenia This workshop was conducted by Frank Folwell, deputy head of photo section, USA Today. It was attended by Armenian and Georgian photojournalists, and the aim of this workshop was to discuss better practices in photojournalism, the international standards in photojournalism, as well as coverage of important events. 16-17: CMI Workshop 2: Editorial offices, editors and sub-editors in Caucasian Printing Press." Together with CIMERA Yerevan, Armenia Goals of this workshop: Discussion with the Editors-in-Chief of Armenian and Georgian newspapers of the following topics:
The workshop was for Editors-in-Chief of Armenian and Georgian newspapers. It was attended by nine Editors-in-Chief and five deputy editors. Based on interviews with editors, special papers were prepared for this workshop, explaining the structure of editorial offices in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The workshop was conducted by Mark Grigorian, Alan Kasaev, Andre Loersch and Zviad Pochkhua. The results of this workshop were unexpectedly interesting, because the conversation gave a start to a discussion more important than exchange of information about the structure of editorial offices. The editors discussed problems, which are most important for them today. The biggest problem is connected with small circulation and factors that negatively affect the circulation. Structure of the editorial offices is one of the important factors. |
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April 2002: 10-12: CMI Workshop 1: "News reporting and news analyses" Together with IWPR. Yerevan, Armenia Goals of this workshop:
The training was directed to young journalists from Armenia, Karabakh and Javakheti (a province in Georgia), and included 14 participants. The lecturers were: Vicken Cheterian (CMI), Mark Grigorian (CMI), Tom de Waal (IWPR). According to the participants’ evaluation, the training reached its aims. |
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