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Department of Economic Journalism and Public Relations since 1995 held five International Scientific Conferences which laid the foundation under forthcoming EconPR Round Table. During these events the Department hosted many famous scholars and guests from all over the world.
Conferences dealt with following issues:
1st Transitional Public Relations Conference - 1995
„Public Relations as an Instrument of Regime Transformation.”
2nd Transitional Public Relations Conference – June 8-11, 2001
„Public Relations Contribution to Transition In Central and Eastern Europe”
3rd Transitional Public Relations Conference – May, 2003
„Public Relations – an Instrument for Transformations and Development of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe” in cooperation with UNESCO/CEPES. UNESCO publication.
4th Transitional Public Relations Conference – June 16-19, 2005
„Introducing Market Economy Instruments and Institutions – the Role of Public Relations in Transition Economies”
5th Transitional Public Relations Conference – EconPR 2009
„Economics and Public Relations in times of an economic downturn”
Contributors:
Barbara Baerns – professor emeriti from Department of Communication at the Free University of Berlin. Member of the editorial Board of Journal of Communication Management – An international Journal from 1996. Honorary member of the Management Board of the German Institute of Public Relations.
Alexander Christov – Marketing and PR executive of the Bulgarian Export Insurance Agency (BAEZ). He has a professional experience as a journalist, as marketing communications specialist and as project manager. A member of Bulgarian Public relations Society (BDVO).
Alexander Chumikov – vice president of the Russian Association of Public Relations, the CEO of the Agency “The International Press Club. Chumikov PR and Consulting”, and the professor of the faculty of state management of Moscow State University.
Alan Freitag – an assistant professor with the Communication Studies Department, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and serves on the University Faculty Council. He held position of a director of media relations and press aide to the Supreme Allied Commander for NATO’s military arm headquartered in Belgium.
Larissa A. Grunig – professor emeriti of the University of Maryland, College Park. She was awarded several times by PRSA and the Institute for Public Relations. She was co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Public Relations Research and has written more than 200 publications, among othera the first book about women in public relations.
James E. Grunig – professor emeritus of public relations in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland College Park. The winner of three major awards in public relations he also won the most prestigious lifetime award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research.
Michael Kunczik – A Professor in the Institute of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. He has researched mass media effects, theories of mass communication, international communication, mass media and social change, media economics.
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