Events

ECHO organized a seminar with Gregory P. Perreault on adaptation in news.

ECHO organized a seminar with Shakuntala Banaji on visual media, disinformation and the spread of far-right

Irene has earned her PhD with the successful public defense of her thesis, “Reframing EU's Borderspace: Participatory Filmmaking as Placemaking.”

ECHO organized a film screening of Les Voyageurs (2025) in collaboration with BIRMM and BRISPO. The screening was followed by a Q&A with director David Bingong and filmmaker-researcher Irene Gutiérrez Torres.

ECHO organized a seminar with Marjolaine Boutet on the reception of TV series such as the Holocaust miniseries (1978)

ECHO co-organized a seminar on Mapping Media for Future Democracies, in collaboration with the Horizon Europe project MeDeMAP and DESIRE.

During the most recent ECHO research seminar, Max Haiven discussed in his talk the Silicon Valley’s Fascistic World‑building/World‑razing.

Valériane Mistiaen joins the collective exhibition featuring members and alumni of the ULB. Her project Utopie(s) en transit is part of the exhibition.

Irene Gutiérrez and Valériane Mistiaen won best paper awards (categories 'emerging scholar' and 'PhD holder') at the ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference "Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Reflexive Approaches to Migration, Media, and Intercultural Dialogue" at Tallinn University.

The two papers contribute to the IRP17-project, “Re-use of treated wastewater for irrigation and groundwater recharge: environmental impacts and public perception”, funded by VUB Onderzoeksraad Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds (BOF OZR) (2019—2025).