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Oct
14
2022

"What the Ukraine War Tells Us About China-Russia Convergence in the Information Space": A conversation with Maria Repnikova (Georgia State University)

When: Friday, October 14, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT

Where: Harris Hall, 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Cindy Pingry   (847) 467-1933

Group: Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program

Co-Sponsor: History Department
East Asia Research Forum

Category: Academic

Description:

This talk will discuss how China’s media coverage of the war signals the emerging information nexus with Russia, as well as some fractures or divergences in their media spaces.

About the speaker:

Maria Repinkova is an expert on Chinese political communication, and an Associate Professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University. She has written widely on China's media politics, including propaganda, critical journalism, digital nationalism, and soft power. Dr. Repnikova is the author of the award-winning book, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge 2017), as well as the recent, Chinese Soft Power (Cambridge Global China Element Series). Her public writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Atlantic, amongst other outlets. Other than working on China, Repnikova does comparative work on information politics in China and Russia. Most recently, she has been researching and completing a monograph on Chinese soft power in Africa, with a focus on Ethiopia. Dr. Repnikova holds a doctorate in politics from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar. In the past, she was a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center (2020-2021), a visiting fellow at the African Studies Center at Beijing University (2019), and a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication (2014-2016).

 

This event is co-sponsored by the East Asia Research Forum, the Department of Political Science and the Department of History

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