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Speakers list
Juan Pablo Cannata
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Coordinator and researcher of the CECAP (Center of Studies in Applied Communication) of the EPC. Degree in Communication from the Austral University and Master in Sociology from FLACSO. Professor of Collective Communication Sociology at the Austral University and Media Relations at the Postgraduate School of Communication (EPC). Coordinator of the "Public Speech Management" program. He held post-graduate seminars at the Austral University, the University of Santa Croce and at Princeton University (organized by the Witherspoon Institute). He is a visiting professor at the University of La Sabana (Colombia), the University of Montevideo (Uruguay) and the Universidad Panamericana (Mexico). He is in charge of the seminar "The media and public debates: the case of Human Rights", of the School International of the Austral University. |
Efrén Díaz Díaz
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Efrén Díaz Díaz is a lawyer and Senior Associate at the law firm Bufete Mas y Calvet in Madrid, Spain. He is Consultant-Auditor of Information Systems and is Head of the Department of Technology and Geospatial Law and is a specialist in Civil Law and administrative litigation. He holds an International Master’s Degree in Data Protection, Transparency and Information Access (University of San Pablo CEU). He is currently the Spanish Lawyer in the IDEE Working Group in Spain and is an expert on the European Commission for “Inspire Maintenance and Implementation” in the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community. He is a Corporate Member of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy (USA) and Spokesperson on the Technical Standardisation Committee AEN/CTN 148 for Digital Geographic Information in AENOR. He lectures on the Master’s Degree programme for Company and Fiscal Law and the Access to Law programme at the University of Navarra. He is a member of the Geovation Hub at the Ordinance Survey in London and is an investigator at the Open Data Institute (UK).
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Margaret Doherty
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Margaret Doherty is the Deputy Director of Communications of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. She was the Press Secretary to the late Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. She is a Board Director of St Joseph’s Hospice in North London and a Governor of a preparatory school in North West Kent. She is also the Director of a new initiative called the Art of Dying Well. www.artofdyingwell.org |
Roberto Fontolan
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Born in 1956, a journalist, he worked extensively in print (L'Avvenire, Il Sabato) and at Rai. He was television director of the Il Sole 24 Ore group. He is a lecturer in the journalism master of the Catholic University of Milan. He was Director of Oasis, an international magazine promoted by the Patriarch of Venice Card. Angelo Scola. He is in charge of the International Center for Communion and Liberation. He has published books and has made numerous television documentaries. |
Steve William Fuller
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Steve Fuller (born 1959, New York City) graduated from Columbia University in History & Sociology before gaining an M.Phil. from Cambridge and PhD from Pittsburgh, both in History and Philosophy of Science. He currently holds the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology. He is most closely associated with the research program of social epistemology. Originally trained in the history and philosophy of science (Ph.D., 1985, University of Pittsburgh), he is the founder of the research program of social epistemology. It is the name of a quarterly journal he founded with Taylor & Francis in 1987, as well as the first of his more than twenty books. His most recent work has been concerned with the future of humanity, or 'Humanity 2.0'. He has spoken in over 30 countries, often keynoting professional academic conferences, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 1995. He was awarded a D.Litt. by Warwick in 2007 for significant career-long contributions to scholarship. He was appointed to the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology in 2011, and is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Breakthrought Institute, the leading 'ecomodernist' think-tank and an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the leading 'transhumanist' think-tank. His writings have been translated into more than twenty languages. Since 2013, he has been a member of Edge, the 'third culture' at the edge of knowledge, contributing to its annual questions. |
Franco Galdino
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Representative of Communication for the Shalom Community |
Chiara Giaccardi
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Chiara Giaccardi, born in Forlì in 1959, is a full professor of Sociology and Media Anthropology at the Catholic University of Milan, where she also directs the magazine Social Communications. Laureata in philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan with a thesis on McLuhan, she received his PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Kent (UK). Married to Mauro Magatti, she has five natural children and one foster child. She and Magatti published Generatives from Around the World Unite! Manifesto for the Society of the Free (Feltrinelli 2014). With some other couples they founded a family association, Eskenosen, which, in partnership with Caritas, deals with reception and accompaniment for the integration of migrant families. Among her books are Inhabitants of the Network: Youth, Relationships and Affections in the Digital Age (Vita e Pensiero, 2010); Intercultural Communication in the Digital Age (il Mulino, 2012). |
Victoria Gómez
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Information Service, Movimento dei Focolari |
Nataša Govekar
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She is Director of Theological-Pastoral Direction at the Vatican's Secretariat for Communication. Born in Šempeter pri Gorici, in Slovenia, in 1975, she studied theology and the Slovenian language at the University of Ljubljana. She received her doctorate in missiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University with a thesis on the communication of faith through images. |
Ken Hallenius
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He is the communications specialist for the Center for Ethics and Culture, handling the CEC's public relations, social media engagement, podcast, website, and donor relations. He joined the staff in March 2016 after 15 years at the University of Portland, where he worked in alumni relations and residence life. He holds an M.A. in pastoral ministry from the University of Portland and a B.A. in philosophy from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. In addition to his work at the Center, he co-hosts Living Stones, a syndicated weekly radio conversation about the Catholic faith produced by Mater Dei Radio in Portland, Oregon. |
Mónica Herrero
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Mónica Herrero is a tenured professor of Information Technology and Structure and Communication Markets at the University of Navarra. Graduated in Journalism in 1997, obtained the European Doctorate in Public Communication in 2002 with Extraordinary Prize and is Master in Media Management from the University of Stirling (Stirling, 2000). She has worked as a researcher at, among among institutions, the University of Westminster (London, 2004), University of Glasgow (Glasgow, 2005 and 2007) and the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano, 2010). She has taught as visiting professor at the University of Missouri and in the Master in Media Management at the International Institute of Social Sciences of Sao Paolo. This academic year, she is Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford University. |
Richard R. John
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Richard R. John is a historian who specializes in the history of business, technology, communications, and American political development. He teaches and advises graduate students in Columbia’s Ph.D. program in communications, and is member of the core faculty of the Columbia history department, where he teaches courses on the history of capitalism and the history of communications. His publications include many essays, eight edited books, and two monographs: Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) and Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010). John has been a fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D. C., and has served as a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Among the institutions that have sponsored his research are the College of William and Mary, the American Antiquarian Society, and the National Endowment of the Humanities, which awarded him a faculty fellowship in 2008. Spreading the News received several national awards, including the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians and the Herman E. Krooss Prize from the Business History Conference. Network Nation won the first Ralph Gomory Book Prize from the Business History Conference and was the 2010 Best Book in Journalism and Mass Communication History, an award bestowed by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. John is a former president of the Business History Conference, an international professional society dedicated to the study of institutional history. Between 1977 and 1989, John earned a B.A. in social studies (magna cum laude), a M.A. in history and a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization, all from Harvard University. |
Martin Kramara
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He has been, since 2014, the spokesperson of the Slovak Bishops' Conference. He was ordained a priest in 2003 in the diocese of Žilina, He completed his studies in philosophy and theology at the Comenius University - in the priestly seminary of Nitra. From 2003 to 2005 he served as the master of ceremonies in Nitre and from 2005 to 2007 as a chaplain in the parish of Žilina-Mesto. |
Donato Lacedonio
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Donato Lacedonio is a Salesian priest working in the field of communication. Having received his license degree in 1997 in Social Communication at the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS), he served for 6 years as the delegate for communication in the Salesians' Southern Italy Province. He was a critic and programmer of the Cinema Theater Don Bosco of Potenza (1995-1999) and Lecce (1998-2000). From 2001 to 2005, he was the artistic director of the Cinema Theater Don Bosco of Caserta, promoting projects of image education in some schools in the city. From 2005 to 2013 he was director of ANS (Agenzia iNfo Salesiana - www.infoans.org), a communication organ of the Salesians (a weekly magazine), and editor of various institutional events of the same Congregation. In the same years, he edited the writing and direction of various institutional, promotional and missionary videos of the Salesian Congregation. Currently, he is a PhD student at the School of Church Communications of Santa Croce and teaches two subjects at the Faculty of Social Communication Sciences of the UPS: Theory and Techniques of Television and Religion and Media. |
Sheila Liaugminas
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She is an Emmy award-winning Chicago-based journalist in print and broadcast media. Author of a book about ‘Essential Principles of a Just Society and Humane Culture’. Her writing and broadcasting covers matters of faith, culture, politics and the media. She reported for Time magazine in its Midwest Bureau for over 20 years. At Chicago’s NBC-owned station, she co-hosted the TV magazine program YOU. Sheila formerly hosted three radio programs, The Right Questions; and Issues & Answers for Relevant Radio, and America’s Lifeline on the Salem network. Besides her work on MercatorNet, Sheila has published in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, Crisis Magazine, Voices Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic New World, the Center for Morality in Public Life blog Ethika Politika and the National Review Online. She has also appeared on the BBC programme World Have Your Say. She currently hosts the daily radio program A Closer Look on Relevant Radio and serves as the Network News Director. Her programme features notable experts, newsmakers, elected officials, scholars and clergy on a variety of current event topics including social and moral issues, politics, and medical bioethics. She and her guests put the news of the day into sharp focus from a uniquely Catholic perspective. |
Ivan Maffeis
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He is the Director of the National Office for Social Communications of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) and - from 2017 - Consultor of the Secretariat for Communication of the Holy See. President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and President of the National Commission for Evaluation Film of the CEI. He teaches the courses The Social Communications Office in a Diocese at the Pontifical Lateran University and Ethics and Media Deontology and Media Management at the Salesian Pontifical University. Fr. Maffeis is also the author of numerous reports, essays and books, including Things I remember (Cose che ricordo, San Paolo 2017, togehter with Card. Angelo Bagnasco), Invisible Chroniclers: Religious information - 15 Professionals Tell Their Stories (Cronisti dell'Invisibile. Informazione religiosa, 15 protagonisti si raccontano, Ancora, 2015) e Di terra e di cielo. Manuale di comunicazione per seminaristi e animatori (San Paolo, 2017, con Adriano Fabris). From 2016, he is also editor, with Pier Cesare Rivoltella, of an annual pubblication about the Message of the Pope Francis for the World Communications Day (Ed. La Scuola | Morcelliana).
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S.E.R. Eamon Martin
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Born 30 October 1961, he is an Irish Roman Catholic prelate, the incumbent Archbishop of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Dioceses of Derry and served as an assistant priest of St. Eugene's Cathedral from 1987 until 1989. He moved into teaching and earned two more degrees; from 1999 to 2008, he was President of St. Columb's College, Derry. He then served as Secretary-General of the Irish Episcopal Conference from 2008 to 2010, Vicar General of the Diocese of Derry from 2010 to 2011, and diocesan administrator of the Diocese of Derry from 2011 to 2013. He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh in January 2013, consecrated a bishop in April 2013, and succeeded Seàn Brady as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland on 8 September 2014. |
Rafael Martín Aguado
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Rafa Martín has always worked in corporate communication. Master's Degree in Institutional Communication and Politics from the Carlos III University and Executive Media MBA from the University of Navarra, he launched the agency "Dr. Livingstone, supongo", of which he was a Managing Partner. In recent years he has specialized in online corporate communication. He also advises companies and organizations in the field of communication. |
Vincent Neymon
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Director of Communication and Vice Spokesperson for the French Bishops' Conference since June 2016. Vice Secretary General, since January 2015. |
Luka Oleh
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Coordinator of the information department of the Commission, coordinator of the communication department at the Institute for Continuing Formation of the Clergy of the Archdiocese of Lviv (Ukraine) of the UGCC. Teacher of rhetoric, homiletics, communication of ecclesiastical institutions in the Lviv Seminary (UGCC). He is alumni of Santa Croce, School of Communications |
Jordi Pujol
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Prof. Pujol is from Barcelona (1975) and has a masters degree in Law (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) and in Moral Theology (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome). He got his PhD in Moral Theology in November 2017 with a dissertation on «The Moral Foundations of Freedom of Expression: A Critical Analysis of the Liberal tradition on Free Speech» In June 2014 he was appointed assistant professor in the area of "Ethics of communication and legislation on the press» at the School of Social Communication Institutional of Santa Croce. In February 2018 he was appointed Assistant Professor of the same department, where he is teaching Media Ethics and Law. Last academic year 2016-2017 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), for the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. He was also Visiting Scholar at Columbia School of Journalism (January-September 2017). |
Walter Quattrociocchi
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Walter Quattrociocchi is coordinator of CSSLab at the IMT - School for Advanced Studies of Lucca. His research focuses on the quantitative characterization of social dynamics, from opinions to the dissemination of information, with particular regard to birth, fruition, dissemination of narratives on the web (conspiracy theories and false information) and social contagion. His studies on the dissemination of false information have often been mentioned in the national and international press. |
Brett Robinson
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Brett Robinson is the Director of Communications for the Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. In his current role, he develops and implements marketing and communications strategies for the institute and its programs in faith formation and Catholic leadership development. Brett studied Marketing and English at the University of Notre Dame and received his PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Georgia. He taught at Saint Vincent College before returning to Notre Dame where he also teaches courses in social media. Brett is the author of Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs and his essays and commentary on technology and culture have been featured in Wired Magazine, CNN and the LA Times. |
Ángel Rodríguez Luño
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Full Professor of Moral Theology and Vice Rector at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce. Born in Madrid (Spain) on June 30, 1951. Secular priest, incardinated in the Prelature of Opus Dei. Ordained priest in 1975. Consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 1993. Appointed Chaplain of His Holiness on January 3, 2003. On 28 June 2004 he was appointed Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. |
Eric Salobir
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Father Eric Salobir o.p. is the General Promoter of the Order of Preachers for Social Communications. While his educational background was in business, he has been involved in evangelization through the media since his entry into the Dominican Order. He first served as chief editor of an ecumenical radio station in northern France, and has developed new types of radio programs for evangelization. He was elected to the board of Directors of the French Federation of Christian Radios (FFRC) and he worked for four years to support Catholic mass media. In 2002, together with a group of friars, he founded a retreat service online named « Retraite dans la Ville » (Retreat in the City), which became one of the key players on the French speaking Internet. In 2004 he became responsible for the communication of the Rosary Pilgrimage in France and forged partnerships with Catholic media to promote Marian activities. In 2006, Father Salobir joined the team of the French catholic weekly show « Le Jour du Seigneur » (The Day of the Lord), on the public TV channel France 2. He has been responsible for the digital development and the production of a web series and short films, and has covered several celebrations of the World Youth Day. He is also the founder of the think tank OPTIC (Order of Preachers for Technology, Information and Communication), and he collaborated for eight years with the Permanent Delegation of the Holy See to UNESCO. Three years ago, he was called by the Master of the Order to join the Curia of the Dominican Order, where he coordinates communication and develops preaching projects through the media. He has also designed the Dominican Order's private social network. |
Massimiliano Signifredi
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Massimiliano Signifredi, PhD, is the author of the book Giovanni Paolo II e la fine del comunismo. He carries out research on the political, religious and social history of Eastern Europe in the contemporary age and collaborates with the communication office of the Community of Sant'Egidio. |
Margaret Somerville
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Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Medicine at The University of Notre Dame Australia and Samuel Gale Professor of Law Emerita, Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director Emerita of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, Montreal where she taught from 1978 to 2016.
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Mons. James C. Vlaun
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Ordained in 1988, Msgr. James C. Vlaun is currently President and CEO of Telecare, a not-for-profit, state-of-the-art television and production facility of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. In the past, Msgr. Vlaun has served as a special counsel to Bishop Murphy for community relations and chaplain at his alma mater, St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School, West Islip, N.Y. as well as interim spokesperson for Bishop Murphy. In addition to his managerial role at Telecare, Msgr. Vlaun is also the host of several shows on the station. For many years he has also been hosting "Religion and Rock", a nationally syndicated radio show (WBAB 102.3 FM Sundays at 7:00 a.m. or 95.3 on the East End of Long Island). Msgr. Vlaun is the author of Life, Love and Laughter: The Spirituality of the Consciousness Examen and Feasts of Life: Recipes from Nana's Wooden Spoon. Msgr. Vlaun earned a master's degree from the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington, N.Y. and a master's degree in communications from NYIT. He also earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and sociology from the Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception, Douglaston, N.Y. |
Michael P. Warsaw
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Michael P. Warsaw is the Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer of EWTN. He joined EWTN in 1991 and has held senior management positions in the areas of television production, satellite operations, and technical services, working directly with Mother Angelica, the network’s founder, on all of her major initiatives. Michael was named President of EWTN in 2000 and assumed the post of chief executive officer in 2009. With the Network’s 2011 acquisition of the National Catholic Register, he became its publisher. Michael assumed the post of chairman of the board of EWTN in 2013. In that capacity he oversees the network’s strategic direction and mission around the world. In 2017, Pope Francis appointed him as a Consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. |
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