{"id":16260,"date":"2018-09-11T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/falsfrettir-fjolmidlar-og-lydraedi\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:18:37","slug":"falsfrettir-fjolmidlar-og-lydraedi","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/falsfrettir-fjolmidlar-og-lydraedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation, Media and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday September 13 from 12:00 to 13:30 at the Nordic House<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Open seminar hosted by the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland and the EU Delegation to Iceland<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disinformation, Media and Democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At this open seminar Giles Portman will discuss Russian disinformation targeting the EU, its neighbourhood and democratic values as such. How do we respond to this and what actions are needed to improve the EU\u2019s strategic communications and support for quality media?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giles Portman<\/strong>, Head of the East Stratcom Task Force at the European External Action Service (EEAS)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Panel discussions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elfa \u00ddr Gylfad\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, Director, Media Commission<\/p>\n<p><strong>J\u00f3n \u00d3lafsson<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>Professor of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sm\u00e1ri McCarthy<\/strong>, MP for the Pirate Party and Chairman of the Icelandic delegation to the EFTA and EEA Parliamentary Committees<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: <strong>Valger\u00f0ur J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir,<\/strong> Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, University of Iceland<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will take place in English and is open to all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.hi.is\">www.ams.hi.is<\/a><br \/>\nThe Institute of International Affairs on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/althjodamalastofnun\">www.facebook.com\/althjodamalastofnun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday September 13 from 12:00 to 13:30 at the Nordic House &nbsp; Open seminar hosted by the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland and the EU Delegation to Iceland \u00a0 Disinformation, Media and Democracy At this open seminar Giles Portman will discuss Russian disinformation targeting the EU, its neighbourhood and democratic values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16255,"template":"","event-categories":[7],"class_list":["post-16260","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-lecture","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/16260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=16260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}