Program of the IV International Colloquium «Patria»
MONDAY, MARCH 17
09:00-10:00: Opening Ceremony. Location: Plaza Mella
Wreath laying ceremony at Julio Antonio Mella monument and family photo on the steps of the University of Havana, next to Alma Mater.
10:00-17:00: Keynote lectures, panels, presentation of communication projects, workshops, immersive room. Location: Convention Center of the University of Havana (Varona Building)
● Keynote Lectures: Varona Amphitheater
● Communication Experiences: Room 300
● Theoretical Workshops: Room 250
● Immersive Room: Minerva Room
10:00-17:00: Communication Exhibition Fair of Southern Countries. Location: Patio de Los Laureles (Faculty of Mathematics and Computing)
19:00-21:00: Tribute to Telesur in the transforming neighborhood “El avioncito,” in the municipality of La Lisa.
TUESDAY, MARCH 18
9:00-17:00: Keynote lectures, panels, presentation of communication projects, workshops, immersive room. Location: Convention Center of the University of Havana (Varona Building)
9:00-17:00: Communication Exhibition Fair of Southern Countries. Location: Patio de Los Laureles (Faculty of Mathematics and Computing)
18:00: Screening of the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” by Johan Grimomprez. Location: Yara Cinema
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19
9:00-16:00: Panels, presentation of communication projects, workshops, immersive room. Location: Convention Center of the University of Havana (Varona Building)
9:00-15:00: Communication Exhibition Fair of Southern Countries. Location: Patio de Los Laureles (Faculty of Mathematics and Computing)
20:00-21:00: Closing Gala. Location: Ignacio Agramonte Square of the University of Havana.
CONFERENCE HALL PROGRAM
| Location: Varona Amphitheater | ||
| March 17 | ||
| Time | Activity | Speakers |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Opening Ceremony at Plaza Mella and family photo at Alma Mater | Welcome Address |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Keynote Lecture: «How to Establish a Counter-Hegemonic Agenda with Global Impact: The Case of TeleSUR» | Patricia Villegas, President of Telesur |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Panel: «Who Will Tell You the Truth? Three Key Countries in the Coverage of Counter-Hegemonic Media» | Reinaldo Taladrid (Cuba) |
| Randy Alonso (Cuba) | ||
| Marcela Heredia (Argentina) | ||
| (Coordinator: Rolando Segura) | ||
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Workshop: «Who Would Have Told You?» | Hernando Calvo Ospina (Colombia) |
| José Cabañas (Cuba) | ||
| Víctor Hugo Morales (Argentina) | ||
| (Coordinator: Rolando Segura) | ||
| 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Workshop: «Keys to Multimedia Coverage. Social Media Growth Strategies» | Luis Mejías (Venezuela) |
| María Fernanda Ruiz (Argentina) | ||
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Panel: «Influencers: Allies or Outcasts? The Role of Content Creators» | Alberto Alvado (Venezuela) |
| Juan Texeira (Spain) | ||
| Cristian Nader (Mexico) | ||
| (Coordinator: Rolando Segura) | ||
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Panel: «Trumpism in the Digital Age: Social Media, Polarization, and Media Manipulation» | |
| Carlos Fernández de Cossio (Cuba) | ||
| Nidia Bauzá (Puerto Rico) | ||
| Jorge Elbaum (Argentina) | ||
| March 18 | ||
| Time | Activity | Speakers |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Keynote Lecture: «From Propaganda to Cognitive Warfare: Resistance Strategies and the Building of Informational Autonomy» | Speaker: Freddy Ñáñez, Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information of Venezuela. |
| 10:00 am – 11:00 am | Dialogue: «Culture, Communication, and Geopolitics: Music as a Tool of Power in Destabilization Processes» (Inspired by “Soundtrack to a Coup d’État”) | Johan Grimonprez (Belgium) |
| Hannah Priscilla Craig (USA) | ||
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Panel: «Algorithms and Social Control: Towards Democratic Digital Governance» | Rob Lucas (United Kingdom) |
| Teresa Rodríguez De la Vega (Mexico) | ||
| Tim Anderson (Australia) | ||
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Panel: «Decentralized Social Networks, AI, and Digital Sovereignty: Challenges and Possibilities Beyond the Metaverse» | Johan de Backer (Belgium) |
| Loes Rom (Belgium) | ||
| Chen Songquing (China) | ||
| Jiang Yan (China) | ||
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Panel: «Cognitive Warfare and Informational Manipulation: Control Devices and Response Strategies» | Javier Couso (Spain) |
| Daria Yuryeva (Russia) | ||
| Andrea Puccio (Italy) | ||
| William Serafino (Venezuela) | ||
| 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Panel: «Alternatives to Mass Manipulation Platforms» | Javier Blanco (Argentina) |
| Bruno Lontani (Argentina) | ||
| Gabriela Cultelli (Uruguay) | ||
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Panel: «From Territorial Sovereignty to Digital Sovereignty: Challenges and Strategies for Self-Determination in Cyberspace» | |
| Jorge Luis Oviedo (Honduras) | ||
| Marco Teruggi (Argentina) | ||
| Kango Bhallchandra (India) | ||
| 4:00 pm – 5:00pm | Panel: «Education and Media Literacy: Forming Critical Citizens in the Digital Era» | Karen Méndez (Venezuela) |
| Bruno Lupi (Italy) | ||
| Arnold August (Canada) | ||
| March 19 | ||
| Time | Activity | Speakers |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Panel: «Reprogramming the Network: Strategies to Mitigate Polarization and Hate Speech in Digital Environments» | Marco Schneider (Brazil) |
| José Manzaneda (Spain) | ||
| Hindu Anderi (Venezuela) | ||
| 10:00 am – 11:00 am | Panel: «Technologies for Emancipation: Alternative Communication and Informational Sovereignty in the Global South» | María José Paz (Honduras) |
| Ana Fernández (Argentina) | ||
| Sacha Llorenti (Bolivia) | ||
| 11:00 am – 12:00 m | Panel: «Media Counter-Hegemony: Strategies of the Global South Media Against Western Informational Domination» | |
| Nguyen Duc Loi (Vietnam) | ||
| Mauro Ramos Pinto (Brazil) | ||
| Kalimekolan Sreenivas Reddy (India) | ||
| 12:00 m – 1:00 pm | Panel: «Media as Political Actors: Should They Be Regulated in Contemporary Democracies?» | Claudio Estrada Muñoz (Honduras) |
| Carlos Penalva (Spain) | ||
| Yuri Guillermo Lozada Balazar (Peru) | ||
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Panel: «Media Consumption and Supply: Dynamics of Access, Appropriation, and Information Production in the Digital Era» | Carsten Hanke (Germany) |
| Alejandra Cuéllar (Colombia) | ||
| Đinh Quỳnh Anh (VietNam) | ||
| 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Keynote Lecture: «Media Lessons from the Palestinian Genocide: Propaganda, Silencing, and Informational Resistance» | Wafica Mehdi (Lebanon) |
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Panel: «Interconnectivity and Future Scenarios: Challenges and Opportunities in Shaping the New Global Order» | Alina Duarte (Mexico) |
| Pascual Serrano (Spain) | ||
| Gabriela Rivadeneira (Ecuador) | ||
Communication Experiences Program
| Location: Room 300 | |||
| March 17 | |||
| Time | Project | Speakers | |
| 9:00am – 10:00 am | Opening Ceremony at Plaza Mella and family photo at Alma Mater | ||
| 10:15am – 10:30am | NODAL | Paula Jiménez (Argentina) | |
| 10:33 am –10:48am | PTB Social Media | Loes Rom (Belgium) | |
| 10:51am – 11:07am | Anti-Blockade Observatory | William Castillo (Venezuela) | |
| 11:10 am – 11:20am | Belly of the Beast | Thais Lombao (Cuba) | |
| 11:23am – 11:38am | Children’s Educational Television: The World of Zamba | Ayelen Giulidori (Argentina) | |
| 11:41am-11:56am | Electoral Campaigns | Maria Fernanda Ruiz (Argentina) | |
| 12:00am-12:15pm | Illustration Against Media Lies | Julian Montilla (Colombia) | |
| 12:18pm –12:33pm | Fudan University of Shanghai (English) | Yin Zhiguang (China) | |
| 12:36 pm – 12:51 pm | La raíz del olivo | Carolina González López y Sergio Equino (Bolivia) | |
| 1:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch Break | ||
| 1:35 pm – 1:50pm | Training Human Resources in Journalism to Address Digital Transformation in Vietnam (English) | Dinh Thi Quýnh Anh (Vietnam) | |
| 1:53 pm – 2:08 pm | Revista Común | Diana Fuentes (Mexico) | |
| 2:11 pm – 2:25 pm | Creative communication strategies against fascism | Pieter de Vos (Belgium) | |
| 2:28 pm – 2:43pm | NGOs, Environment, and Communication | Mahir Qurbanov (Azerbaijan) | |
| 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Patria | Lil María Pitchs (Cuba) | |
| 3:03 pm – 3:18pm | Ciudad CCS | Mercedes Chacín (Venezuela) | |
| 3:20 pm – 3:35 pm | Diplomacy 2.0 | Liurka Rodríguez (Cuba) | |
| 3:38 pm – 3:53 pm | Palestine | Murid Abukather (Palestina) | |
| 3:55 pm – 4:10 pm | A Marxist Opinion: Elections, Fascism in the U.S., and Cognitive Dissonance | Arnold August (Canada) | |
| 4:13 pm – 4:28 pm | PanAfrica TV | Dr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr. (Ghana) | |
| 4:30 – 5:00pm | Iguana TV | Miguel Perez Pirela (Venezuela) | |
| March 18 | |||
| Project | Speakers | Project | |
| 9:00am – 9:15 am | El Chamuco TV | Rapé (Mexico) | |
| 9:18 am – 9:33 am | Political Cartooning | Monero Hernández (Mexico) | |
| 9:38am – 9:53 am | Spanish Revolution | Juan Texeira (Spain) | |
| 9:58am – 10:13 am | Creative ambushes TeleSUR | Rolando Segura (Cuba) | |
| 10:15am –10:30am | The peña El Titan de Cuba | Genri Almenarez (Cuba) | |
| 10:33am –10:48am | Our America: Democra-CIA Under Siege and Interference | Luis Ernesto Guerra (Ecuador) | |
| 10:51am – 11:06am | Canal Red | Daniela Pastrana (Mexico) | |
| 11:09am – 11:24am | Cubavisión Internacional | Bárbara Doval (Cuba) | |
| 11:27am – 11:42am | Ideas Multimedios | Oscar Figueredo (Cuba) | |
| 11:45am – 12:00am | Editorial de la Mujer | Gabriel Orihuela (Cuba) | |
| 12:03am – 12:18pm | Instituto de Formación Política de Morena | Ivan García (Mexico) | |
| 12:21pm –12:36pm | Political photography | Estanislao Santos (Argentina) | |
| 12:39pm –12:54pm | Digital Communities: How do social networks emerge amid corporate media crises? | Meme Yamel (México) | |
| 1:00pm-1:30pm | Lunch Break | Almuerzo | |
| 1:35 pm – 1:50pm | Alternative and Community Media from the Vice Presidency of Communes of PSUV. | José Gregorio Montilla (Venezuela) | |
| 1:53 pm – 2:08pm | Technology in Popular Resistance and Social Emancipation: The Case of Western Sahara. | Eida Abdu Mahhmud (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) | |
| 2:11 pm – 2:25pm | La Mesa Roja | Teresa Rodríguez de la Vega (México) | |
| 2:28 pm – 2:43pm | International Journalism | Fabian Cardozo (Uruguay) | |
| 2:45 pm – 3:00pm | Revolution and Culture | Enrique Ubieta (Cuba) | |
| 3:03 pm – | Media cooperation between Cuba and Vietnam: an effort dedicated to preserving and promoting the value of historical memory. | Bùi Chí Trung (Vietnam) | |
| 3:20 pm – 3:35 pm | ALBA-TCP and its Communication Approach | Román Montilla (Venezuela) | |
| 3:38 pm – 3:53pm | Verifica JT | Iramis Alonso (Cuba) | |
| 3:55 pm – 4:10pm | The Possible Future in a Hyperconnected World. | Irene del Río (Spain) | |
| 4:13 pm – 4:28pm | Escambray | Juan Carlos Castellón (Cuba) | |
| 4:45pm –5:00pm | Russia Today | Oliver Zamora (Cuba) | |
| SLANDER CAMPAIGNS AS PART OF POLITICAL PERSECUTION IN PERU | Uberlinda Zevallos Flores (Perú) | ||
| March 19 | ||
| Project | Speakers | Project |
| 9:00am – 9:15 am | Faculty of Communication | Ariel Terrero (Cuba) |
| 9:18 am – 9:33 am | Regeneración | Jorge Gómez Naredo (Mexico) |
| 9:30am – 9:45 am | Editora Abril | Miguel Cruz Suárez (Cuba) |
| 9:38am – 9:53 am | Resumen Latinoamericano | Graciela Ramírez (Argentina/ Cuba) |
| 9:58am – 10:13 | Radio Sancti Spíritus | Luis Ramón González |
| 10:15am –10:30am | The power of mobile apps as a socialist tool | Waldemar Cerrón (Perú) |
| 10:33am –10:48am | Geopolitics and Communication | Beto Almeida (Brasil) |
| 10:51am – 11:06am | Sputnik | Daria Yuryeva (Rusia) |
| 11:09am – 11:24am | El Puka | Leonel Falcón Guerra (Peru) |
| 11:27am – 11:42am | Reinventing the Media Model in Capitalism | Eduardo Alvares Moreira (Brazil) |
| 11:45am – 12:00am | Multipolar horizon | Santiago Caetano (Uruguay) |
| 12:03am – 12:18pm | La Juventud | Gonzalo Isasmendi (Uruguay) |
| 12:21pm –12:36pm | Four pillars of effective information analysis | Héctor Geager (United States) |
| 12:39pm –12:54pm | Smear campaigns as part of political persecution in Peru | Uberlinda Zevallos Flores (Peru) |
| 1:00pm-1:30pm | Lunch Break | |
| 1:35 pm – 1:50pm | Chavistamente Podcast | Alí Daniel Álvarez Merlo (Venezuela) |
| 1:53 pm – 2:08pm | DeWereldMorgen | Youna Mulock (Países Bajos) |
| 2:11 pm – 2:25pm | Mate Amargo | Gabriela Cultelli (Uruguay) |
| 2:28 pm – 2:43pm | Art and Culture as Divergent Technologies | Genival Oliveira (Brasil) |
| 2:45 pm – 3:00pm | Violeta Radio | Maru Chávez (México) |
Theoretical Workshops Program
| Location: Room 250 | COMMUNICATING DECOLONIZATION | |
| March 17 | ||
| Time | Project | Speakers |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Opening Ceremony at Plaza Mella and family photo at Alma Mater. | |
| 10:30 am – 12:30 am | Workshop: Anti-Imperialist Solidarity and Communication. | Coordinator: Alejandro Pedregal (Finland) |
| Speakers: | ||
| 10:00 AM – Seminar introduction by Omar González | ||
| 10:10 AM – Alberto García Molinero (Researcher on OSPAAAL and Tricontinental) | ||
| 10:30 AM – Immanuel Ness (Journal of Labor and Society) | ||
| 10:50 AM – Inea Lehner & Kai Heron (Climate Vanguard) | ||
| 11:10 AM – Henry Häkamaki (Guerrilla History podcast, Iskra Books) | ||
| 11:30 AM – Helen Yaffe | ||
| 11:50 AM – Nemanja Lukic (Anti-Imperialist Network) | ||
| 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Taller: Workshop: Anti-Imperialist Solidarity and Communication (Continuation) | Coordinator: Alejandro Pedregal (Finland) |
| Speakers: | ||
| 2:00 PM – José Sarrión Andaluz (Researcher on Manuel Sacristán and Mientras Tanto magazine) | ||
| 2:20 PM – John Bellamy Foster (Monthly Review) | ||
| 14:40: Thaís Hernández (Belly of the Beast) | ||
| 2:40 PM – Thaís Hernández (Belly of the Beast) | ||
| 3:00 PM – Paris Yeros (Agrarian South) | ||
| 3:20 PM – Ernesto Teuma (La Tizza) | ||
| 3:40 PM – Temas Award presentation to Alberto García Molinero | ||
| 4:00 PM – Screening of Belly of the Beast | ||
| 5:00 PM – End of the workshop | ||
| March 18 | ||
| Time | Project | Speakers |
| 9:00 am – 12:00 pm | Workshop: Hegemonic crisis and capitalist transition as builders of (extreme) right-wing ideologies and a decalogue to combat them | René Ramírez (Ecuador) |
| 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Workshop: Neo-Fascisms in Latin America | Alina Duarte (México) Diana Fuentes (México) Iván García (México) |
| March 19 | ||
| Time | Project | Speakers |
| 9:00 am – 12:00 pm | Workshop: Policy Challenges of AI for the Global South Speakers: Araceli Acosta (Argentina), Javier Toret (Spain), Rob Lucas (United Kingdom), Artem Chibarov (Russia), Henry Contreras (Venezuela) Coordinator: Javier Blanco (Argentina) | Javier Blanco (Argentina) |
| 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Workshop: Big Tech and the US Military Apparatus | Sergio Amadeu da Silveira (Brazil) |