Events

The OberCom Events programme will present a wide variety of academic and/or policy-oriented lectures, seminars, forums and conferences, involving leading figures in academia and other sectors. The programme is intended to fulfil a variety of needs: to disseminate and help inform our own research, to inform policy and practice communities, and to stimulate wider public debate on a variety of issues.

Conferences and Debates

Robert Picard was the first guest in the programme. On October 2006 he spoke at one of the OberCom \ISCTE Seminars. Robert Picard is the Director of MMT and professor in the Department of Economics at JIBS. In research, he specialises in: the economic structure of the media market, industries and enterprises; the demand for media products and services; business models and operation strategies in media; the productivity of media enterprises; financial performance; and the economic effects of political actions on the media.

As part of a cooperation between OberCom, the ISCTE Doctoral Programme and the master in Communication, Culture and ICT's from ISCTE, Esther Império Hamburger conducted a lecture in Portugal in April 2007. She is a professor at the University of Sao Paulo’s School of Communication and Arts (Cinema, Radio and Television Department) and is the author of a recent study on the role of soap operas in Brazilian society entitled “O Brasil antenado. A Sociedade das Novelas”. She is also a columnist for the Folha de São Paulo newspaper.

On May 7th 2007 Piet Bakker from UVA/ASCOR Amsterdam visited OberCom for a seminar with newspapers directors and a lecture at ISCTE, on the 14th May 2007 Jonathan Taplin from USC Annenberg held a Conference and seminar with TV media companies.

For the Fall 2007 OberCom will again invite several schoolars for seminars in Lisbon. The schedule for the Fall will be available in this webpage in July 2007.