International Virtual Workshop - Inventing Government Communication in Times of COVID-19: A Crisis, Realities

The COVID-19 global pandemic shows that the exponential growth of humanity in all its aspects since the industrial era has admittedly enabled it to conquer the moon, but also leaves it as vulnerable facing a microscopic virus as it was the case with the so-called Spanish influenza epidemic a century ago.

We could therefore have expected that the answers to the pandemic had led to homogeneous behavior in most of the countries, and that consequently, the communication of the various governments in this regard was carried out in parallel, if not similar directions, in the face of the pandemic progress different stages - and of the efforts to try to counter it. However, in front of this crisis, the measures taken by the states concerned were sometimes distinct, and in a few cases even divergent. And in fact, the communication from different governments has significantly differed, whether the measures were similar or not. One crisis, different realities? Or just countries idiosyncrasies reflecting in their government communication stands? This is what the international researchers gathered for this workshop on 23-24 June 2021 will try to establish.

The Workshop will bring together international academics and researchers who will compare their work on the subject in 21 countries or regions: South Africa, Germany, Australia, Brazil, China, South Korea, Spain, United States, Finland and the Baltic States, France, Greece , Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, United Kingdom, Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, European Union.

Registration before 13 June 2021: inscription.int.workshop@gmail.com