The Sydney Lectures are a series of monthly lectures started in January 2020 that take place on the last friday of every month (Sydney time, Thursday in the US). Participation is possible via a Zoom interface (see the Sydney Lectures page in Facebook for detials before each lecture, and the readings for each lecture).
2023 Lectures
January 27, Cancelled, Scheduling Problem.
February24, Cancelled, Scheduling Problem.
March 31, Yang (Alice) Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University, USA. Organization–Public Relationships in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.
April 28, Michael Palenchar, Associate Professor, School of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA. External Consulting: Advancing Scholarship Beyond the Traditional Academic Structure.
May 26, Cancelled for the International Communication Association Conference in Toronto Canada.
June 30, Ruth Avidar & Margalit Toledano, Department of Communication and Health Systems Management, the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel; School of Management and Marketing, The University of Waikato. Pro and Anti-Vaccination Advocates: A Case for Dialogue.
July 28, Dmytro Konyk, Assistant Professor at National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". Wartime communications strategies of Ukrainian public companies.
2022 Lectures
January 28, Maureen Taylor & Michael Kent, Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Professor, University of New South Wales. How to Get Published: Positioning, Tips, Tricks, Letters, Strategies, Reviewers, etc.
February 25, Jim Macnamara, Distinguished Professor, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney. Organisational Listening—The Missing Link in Public Communication.
March 25, David McKie, Emeritus Professor, Strategic Communication and Leadership, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato. The Value of Entertaining Lies: Counterfactuals, Fiction and Public Relations History.
April 29, Rhonda Zaharna, Professor, School of Communication, American University. Public Diplomacy: From State Agendas to a Global Mandate.
May 27 Talk Cancelled Because of Great Interest in ICA Annual Conference in Paris.
June 24, Anne Lane, Senior Lecturer, Researcher, and Subject Area Coordinator for Public Relations, School of Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations, Queensland University of Technology. Once Upon a Time...The Adventures of Storytelling in an Organisational Context.
July 29, Speakers: W. Timothy Coombs, George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professorship in Liberal Arts Professor, Texas A&M University; Alain Grossbard, Board Member for the International Public Relations Association representing Asia/Pacific region, and Council Board member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia Victoria division; Kirk Hallahan, Professor Emertius, Colorado State University; Vince Hazleton, Professor (Retired), Radford University; Bob Heath, Professor (Retired), University of Texas; Yi-Hui Christine Huang, Professor/Chair, University of Hong Kong; Dean Kruckeberg, Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte. Respondents: Chuqing Dong, Assistant Profesor, Michigan State University; Candice Edrington, Assistant Profesor, University of South Carolina; Anne Lane, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Jordan Morehouse, Assistant Professor, Clemson University; Shima Saniei, Doctoral Student, University of New South Wales, Australia.Historic and Contemporary Definitions of Public Relations.
August 26, Michael L. Kent, Professor (Retired), University of New South Wales, Australia; Kate Fitch, Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia; Yi-Ru Regina Chen, Associate Professor/Associate Department Head, Hong Kong Baptist University; Petra Theunissen, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Elizabeth Avery, Professor/Director, University of Tennessee; Joy Cypher, Professor, Rowan University; Adam Saffer, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota; Aimei Yang, Associate Professor, University of California Annenberg.Getting an Academic Job in Communication and Public Relations.
April 29, Damion Waymer, Senior Associate Dean of the College of Communication & Information Sciences at The University of Alabama.Public Relations and Public Memory.
October 28, Yan Jin, Professor, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia. [NOT GIVEN YET] Communication Management in Public Health Crisis.
November 25, Winni Johansen, Professor, Department of Management, Department of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University | Finn Frandsen, Professor, Department of Management, Aarhus University. [NOT GIVEN YET] Title TBA.
2021 Lectures
November 27, Nneka Logan, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Virginia Tech. Public Relations, Race, Post Colonialism and Globalization.
October 30, Shari R. Veil, Professor and Dean, University of Nebraska. Best Practices in Crisis and Risk Communication.
September 25, Josh Bentley, Assistant Professor, Strategic Communication, Bob Schieffer College of Communication, Texas Christian University. Reputation Management.
August 28, 2020, Michael L. Kent, Professor, University of New South Wales (UNSW). Building Theory.
July 31, 2020, W. Timothy Coombs, George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professorship in Liberal Arts, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University. Extreme Crisis.
June 26, 2020, Nur Uysal, Associate Professor, College of Communication, DePaul University. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
May 29, 2020, Erich Sommerfeldt, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Univeristy of Maryand. Social Capital.
April 24, 2020, Petra Theunissen, Associate Professor, School of Communications Studies, Auckland Uiveristy of Technology (AUT). Relationship Building.
March, 27, 2020, Kim Johnston, Associate Professor, Business School, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Engagement: A Research Agenda.
February 28, 2020, Aimei Yang, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. Civil Society Networks.|
February 28, 2020, Adam Saffer, Associate Professor, Hussman School of Journalims and Media, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Egocentric network methods and theories.
January, 31, 2020, Maureen Taylor, Professor, Head of Discipline, Public Communication, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Civil Society and Public Relations.
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