ECSJ2020 programme

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1 September 2020
9:00
9:20
Opening remarks
9:20

9:50
KEYNOTE – 30 minutes with
David Mair (EU Joint Research Centre)
“Understanding our political nature”
9:50 10:00 Get-up break
10:00

10.30
KEYNOTE – 30 minutes with 
Martin Bauer (London School of Economics, UK)
“How many science cultures?”
10:30
10:40
Get-up break
10:40

11:40
PLENARY ROUNDTABLE
Filters for Truth: Will AI
replace reporters and fact-checkers?
Mico Tatalovic (Research Fortnight, UK) , 
Fabiana Zollo (Università
Ca’ Foscari, Italy), 
Harry Collins (Cardiff University, Wales) 
Charlie Beckett (Polis/LSE, UK)
Moderator: Fabio Turone (CESJ, Italy)
11:40
11:50
Get-up break
11:50

13:20
PLENARY ROUNDTABLE
Covid-19: dealing with
uncertainties and politics 
Roberta Villa (freelance health journalist, Italy),
Olga Dobrovidova (EFSJ, Russia),
Daniela Ovadia (CESJ, Italy),
Sarah Neubauer (TVS, Slovenia),
Chloé Hecketsweiler (Le Monde, France), 
Mohammed Yahia (Nature Middle East, Egypt)
Moderator: Alexandra Borissova (AKSON, Russia)
13:30
14:00 
SCIENCECHEF CORNER
How to cook carbonara, scientifically
Dario Bressanini (Italy)
14:00
14:30
30 minutes with 
Andrada Fiscutean (ProFM, Romania)
Cybersecurity for science journalists
30 minutes with 
Pakinam Amer (MIT, Egypt)
Journalist in a deep dive into virtuality and emerging technology
14:30
14:40
Get-up break
14:40

15:10
30 minutes with 
Leo Hickman (Carbon Brief, UK)
How the media covers climate change – a journalist’s perspective
30 minutes with 
Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto, Canada)
Studying the future of work through patents: humans and robots in Amazon warehouses
15:10
15:20
Get-up break
15:20

15:50
30 minutes with 
Siri Carpenter (The Open Notebook, USA)
The craft of science writing
15:50
16:00
Get-up break
16:00

17:00
KSJ panel. Science Editing
Katie Fleeman (Knowable Magazine, USA)
Melinda Wenner Moyer (Scientific American, USA)
Moderator: Joshua Hatch (Chronicle of Higher Education, USA)
Numbers for policy and science communication: opening black boxes
Michele Catanzaro (freelance, Spain) 
Andrea Saltelli (Open University of Catalonia, Spain)
17:00
17:10
Get-up break
17:10
18:10
Can Academia or Foundation-funded projects
help independent science journalism?
Gioia Lovison (Il Bo Live, Italy),
Deborah Blum (Undark, USA),
Volker Stollorz (German Science Media Center, Germany),
Andrey Konyaev (N+1, Russia)
Moderator: Krijn Soeteman (EFSJ, The Netherlands)
Communicating uncertainty: a challenge that precedes Covid-19
David Michaels (George Washington University, USA),
Tracey Brown (Sense about Science, UK),
Vera Novais (Observador, Portugal)
Moderator: Rita Ferreira (freelance, Portugal)
18:15Climate Grant and European Science Journalist of the Year awarding ceremony
18:30Conclusions
2 September 2020
9:00

10:45
General assembly of SWIM, Science Writers in Italy (in person and online: only for members)
11:00

12:45
General assembly of the European Federation of Science Journalists EFSJ (in person and online: only for members)