The 6th Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication (6–9 January 2026), hosted by the Catholic University of Portugal and organised in cooperation with the Europaeum, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Helsinki, investigated the relationship between media and courage.
The School began with lectures by Prof. Jacques Chevalier (Carleton) and Prof. Ola Hnatiuk (Kyiv Mohyla Academy) on courage as an idea in historical philosophy and on Ukranian writers’ courage and resilience. Further faculty keynote lectures were interspersed with a large number of student presentations, including three by students from around the Europaeum network on topics as gender bias in coverage of female politicians, the courage of queer migrants to Europe, and museums and the climate emergency.
The School took place in a number of venues across Lisbon: the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Catholic University’s main campus in Campo Grande, and the Centro Cultural de Belem.
The Europaeum once again thanks the Winter School’s organisers Nelson Costa Ribeiro (UCP) and Barbie Zelizer (Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania), and its convenors Sarah Banet-Weiser (Annenberg School for the Study of Journalism, University of Pennsylvania), Francis Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Risto Kunelius (University of Helsinki), for including us in this exceptional and wide-ranging interdisciplinary forum.
15 students from 8 Europaeum universities were selected to attend the event.
