CULCORC Seminar Series

Seminar On The Czech Citizen Parliament: Analysing Media Change, Participation and Democracy

In this event, the Czech Citizen Parliament will be examined as an illustrative case, through which the broader dynamics of contemporary democratic practices can be explored.


MeDeMAP Seminar

Mapping Media for Future Democracies

The event will include a debate on journalism and democracy, featuring perspectives from journalists, civil society organisations, and academics, as well as an interactive workshop on the MeDeMAP map— an innovative spatial interface that provides access to quantitative data on European political information environments.


Roundtable and film screening

Regulating Media for Future Democracies: Political and People’s Voices

Members of the European Parliament, national parliamentarians, European Commission officials, and policy actors will discuss the intersection of media regulation and democratic governance.

The programme will also feature a screening of ‘AGON: Constructions of Democracy’, a thought-provoking film essay that reflects on the meaning of democracy and its contestation across cultures.


PhD Course on Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis


CULCORC Seminar Series

A roundtable discussion focusing on the intersections of society, media, and childhood.


CULCORC Seminar Series

(De)constructing peace A multi-methods and multi-stakeholder project on mediated peace discourses on the Russian-Ukrainian war by David Ongenaert


Book Launch
Democracy and Media in Europe

A conversation on democracy and media in Europe took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, hosted at Rüstem’s Bookshop. The event brought together Nico Carpentier, Aysu Arsoy, Hakan Karahasan, and Mine Yücel for an engaging exchange on media and democratic practices.


10th MCAP-BNU International Media Conference 2025
TTIS-VII- Global Approaches to Media and Democracy

Discussion centred on the book Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach by Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer.


Book Seminar
“Democracy and the media at a crossroads: what are the goals, and who is in charge?”

05 February 2025

Nico Carpentier (Charles University) with Mari-Liis Jakobson (Tallinn University, Associate Professor of Political Sociology), Piret Ehin (University of Tartu, Professor of Comparative Politics). Chaired by Andres Jõesaar (Tallinn University, Associate Professor of Media Policy).

Archive: PDF


IMWK Research Talks: Media and Democracy in Europe at a Crossroads


IMWK Research Talk
“Democracy and media in Europe”

31 January 2025 @ 10am

Nico Carpentier (Charles University), Anne Grüne (Uni Erfurt), Tanja Thomas (Uni Tübingen) and Jeffrey Wimmer discuss the new book, Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach, by Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer.

Archive: https://archive.ph/Up0Xt


IAMCR Webinar on Democracy and Media: Reflections from around the world


Webinar on Democracy and Media
IAMCR Webinar Series
Democracy and media: Reflections from around the world. A roundtable discussion

In this webinar, four communication and media studies scholars reflect on the intersection of democracy and media using the recently published book “Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach”(*), authored by Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer, as a source of inspiration. 
https://iamcr.org/webinars/democracy-media


Doing Research in an Epoch of Ecological Unravelling (May 2024) — A masterclass organised by the Oriental Institute at the Czech Academy of Sciences and hosted by CULCORC.


Research Seminar by Kirill Filimonov

(May 2024)

Research Seminar, Whose Nature?: Discursive-material struggles over the environment on Swedish television.


“Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis” (October 2023)— A book presentation organised by Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta to meet and discuss Veronia Strang’s latest publication, Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis, which is especially interesting for environmental humanities scholars, anthropologists and in general for those who are interested in the semiotics of nature.


PhD Course on Discourse Studies and Method (October 2023) — The course aims to discuss two methods in the field of discourse studies: Discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA) and Discursive-material analysis (DMA). Both are grounded in so-called high theory, with discourse theory as its main starting point, but with elements of actor-network theory and new materialism.