Miklos Haraszti, the Representative on Freedom of the Media of OSCE
to visit UNC

Next week, Sept. 21-24, 2008, Miklos Haraszti, the Representative on Freedom of the Media of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), will be visiting UNC.

Miklos Haraszti is a Hungarian journalist, writer, human rights advocate, and political activist. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading figure in Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and an editor of the samizdat journal, Beszelo. He was elected to Parliament in 1990 and served until 1994. He later was a lecturer on democratization and media politics in several universities. Among his writings are A Worker in a Worker’s State and The Velvet Prison. In 2004, he was selected as OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. He was reappointed in 2007. For more information, see http://www.osce.org/fom/.

Miklos Haraszti

Schedule of events:

Monday, September 22

5:00 p.m. “The State of Media Freedom in Post-Soviet Republics as seen from Vienna by OSCE’s Free Press Watchdog.”
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 UNC

Tuesday, September 23

2:00 p.m. "Media freedom East and West as seen by the OSCE's media freedom watchdog,"
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Freedom Forum Conference Center (3rd floor), Carroll Hall UNC

Wednesday, September 24

12:00 p.m. Lunch with Transatlantic Masters (TAM) and RUES graduate students, FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003
2:00 p.m. Informal meetings with students, Global Cup Café, FedEx Global Education Center
4:00 p.m. “Is post-communism still on? The state of democracy in Central Europe,”
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003

Mr. Haraszti’s visit is being sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East Europe Studies; the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Duke University Center for International Affairs; the UNC College of Arts of Sciences; the UNC Office of International Affairs; and the UNC Center for European Studies/European Union Center of Excellence.