Jointly organized by the Faculty of Human Sciences (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), the Center for Media@Risk at the Annenberg School for Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the School of Journalism and Communication (Chinese University of Hong Kong), the Department of Media and Communications (London School of Economics and Political Science) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Helsinki), the II Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication will take a comparative and global approach to the study of media and uncertainty across time.

Due to the pandemic, the III Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication has been postponed to January 2022. 

In 2019/20, the Winter School theme was “Media and Uncertainty” and featured the following keynote speakers:

• Teresa Ashe (The Open University)
• Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics & Political Science)
• Fathali Moghaddam (Georgetown University)
• Victor Pickard (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania)
• James Painter (University of Oxford)
• Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Barbie Zelizer (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania)
• Carla Ganito (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

In 2018/19, the Winter School theme was “Media and Populism” and featured the following keynote speakers:

• Barbie Zelizer (Annenberg School for Communication)
• Francis Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University
• Nelson Ribeiro (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
• Risto Kunelius (University of Tampere)
• Rolien Hoyng (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Ruth Wodak (LAncaster University)
• Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
• Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University)