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On August 27, at 12:00 a workshops on Women, Media, and Activism will take place in Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor office. /adress: 59 Tigran Mets st./ 

Dr. Carolyn Byerly of Howard University (Washington, D.C.) is visiting Armenia for workshops on Women, Media, and Activism. (Scroll down to see her brief profile)

The workshops are targeting to provide the participants with the skills about media use in women’s and other social movements and with the tools of strategy development, building media tools, and evaluating progress.

Participants will learn:

-How to identify which media will work best in your campaigns for change;

-Prioritizing feminist agendas, setting goals, developing short-and-long-term strategies, identify allies;

-How to develop traditional and media tools to get out the message;

-How to define and measure outcomes, how to build evaluation into the strategic plan, working with funding agencies to gain financial support.

The duration of the workshop

is 4,5 hours (12:00-16:30)

Eligibility: activists, bloggers, journalists, NGOs, students, USG-sponsored alumni, other interested communities.

How to Participate: 

The workshop is free of charge. Dr. Byerly recommends reading the Chapters 1st and 3rd of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire for the workshops. You can read it online both in English and in Armenian.  Armenian brief translations are from the Pedagogy of the Oppressed .

For registration, please contact

Ms. Ani Ghambaryan – aghambaryan@hcav.am 

Note: Please, register two days before a workshop starts. Also, follow the updates on our Facebook page but please take into account that only email applications will be considered for registration.

The workshops are organized in the framework of the U.S. State Department’s Muskie MAX Program, with the great support by the IREX Armenia and with the partnership of Aarhus Center in Ijevan, Asparez Journalists’ Club in Gyumri, Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor Office in Vanadzor, and Women’s Development Resource Center Foundation in Goris.  

DR. CAROLYN. M. BYERLY
(Brief profile extracted from the HU website)

Degrees and background: 

M.A. and Ph.D. in communications from University of Washington, Seattle; and B.S. in education from University of Colorado, Boulder. She joined the faculty of Howard University in 2004. She taught previously at University of Maryland, Ithaca College and Radford University. She is the author of Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media (2011), the co-author of Women and Media: A Critical Introduction (2006), and the co-editor of Women and Media: International Perspectives (2004). Her articles have appeared in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Howard Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies and other journals and edited volumes. She has received awards for her activist scholarship and teaching.

Personal statement: 

As a co-founder of the Howard Media Group, I have several longstanding concerns about media in the United States as well as the larger global environment. These revolve chiefly around the takeover of commercial media by very large, powerful conglomerates, the increasingly conservative content of both commercial media and public broadcast, and the lessening of access that women and people of color have to media ownership in this climate of deregulation. These problems, which are being experienced in many nations today, interfere with open debate and people’s right to hold governments and corporations accountable. I come to my scholarly life as a former media professional and political activist. My scholarship takes both empirical and critical approaches to track the media-public relationship, to reveal specifics around media ownership, and to pose practical solutions to problems. When possible, I also contribute to the shaping of public communications policy by offering comments on proposed changes, critiquing studies funded by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), and meeting with FCC staff on specific administrative procedures.