European Contexts Series
When: 3 February 2022, 9:00-10:30CET
Where: Concordia Cloud
Registration is mandatory.
Registered participants will receive a Zoom link one day before the event. Registration deadline: 2 February 2022, at 18:00CET
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Speakers
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, and Research Fellow at the Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Evgenii Dainov, academic, author, and political commentator. Professor of Political Science at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Oana Popescu Zamfir, director of the think tank Global Focus. Editor-at-large of Foreign Policy magazine Romania. In 2016 she served as State Secretary for European Affairs at the Romanian Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Security and the Elderly. Europe’s Features fellow. Romania.
Richard Kollar, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Advisor of the Slovak government on the epidemoc dynamics.
Luisa Meireles, Editor-in-chief, News agency LUSA, Portugal
Michael Bang Petersen, political scientist, expert in political behaviour and psychology, professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Founder and manager of the project HOPE, an analysis of citizens’ responses to COVID-19 policies. Prof. Petersen’s findings have become a reference in Denmark. He is the chief non-medical advisor of the government.
Concept and Moderation
Mirjana Tomić, fjum/Presseclub Concordia and Ivan Vejvoda, acting Rector of Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
Background
Vaccination rates in European countries vary from 29% in Bulgaria to 89% in Portugal. What are the reasons behind these disparities: lack of trust, inadequate communication, political pressure, policy choices, conspiracy theories, medical concerns, or other?
Why do these disparities matter? Because fighting the pandemic is a global rather than an individual engagement. The growing anti-vaccine movements can have lasting political consequences.
Six speakers- university professors, journalists and two government advisors on Covid-19 - explain the context in their respective countries: i.e. countries with the highest and the lowest vaccination rate in Europe.
Target Groups
Austrian and international journalists, thinktank analysts, and academics.
Format
Moderated conversation followed by a live Q&A
Additional Information
Mirjana Tomic, email: Mirjana.tomic@fjum-wien.at, Cell: +43 676 365 26 9