Dr. Dirk-Claas Ulrich

Program Director MEDAS 21 & SIIC

Curriculum Vitae

Research Focus and Interests

  • Gobalization Studies (Political Science and Communication Studies)
  • Global Public Sphere
  • United Nations Studies (UN media description and UN media legitimacy (crisis))
  • (De-)Westernization in International and Intercultural communication
  • Media Development Studies, UN Media & Peacekeeping

Publications

  • Ulrich, Dirk-Claas (2016): Die Chimäre einer Globalen Öffentlichkeit. Internationale Medienberichterstattung und die Legitimationskrise der Vereinten Nationen. transcript. (more)
  • Gruene, Anne and Ulrich, Dirk-Claas (2012)(eds.): (De-)Westernizing Media and Journalism Studies: Demarcating, Transcending and Subverting Borders. In: Global Media Journal (German Edition), vol. 2 (2), pp. 1-10. (more)
  • Review: Dutta, Mohan J. (2011): Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency. London: Routledge. 342pp. In: Global Media Journal (German Edition), vol. 1 (2), Autumn 2011. (more)

Presentations/ Talks

  • "The missing global consciousness: The media, the United Nations, and the legitimization quandary". Conference: The role of the factual mass media in post-conflict reconstruction. Center for Freedom of the Media (CFOM), University of Sheffield, 11.06.2018, Sheffield.
  • Panel "Comparing democracies and non-democracies: The art of possible" (invited discussant). 4th Annual Conference: Comparative media research in today's world. New methodologies and approaches. St. Petersburg State University, 20.04.2016, St. Petersburg.
  • "Transnationalisierung von Öffentlichkeit - Emergenz einer Europäischen Öffentlichkeit?" Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Europa zum Anfassen" des Moduls Studium Fundamentale der Universität Erfurt, 10.11.2009, Erfurt.

Conferences

  • Beyond "Center" and "Periphery": (De-)Westernization in International and Intercultural Communication. Annual Conference of the International and Intercultural Communication Section of the German Communication Association in Erfurt, Germany, October 27-29, 2011. (Initiative & Arrangement with Anne Grüne and Carola Richter)

Teaching

  • De-Westernization, Entangled Histories and international / intercultural Communication and Media Studies (SIIC seminar, 2016)
  • International and Comparative Communication & Media Studies: An Introduction (SIIC seminar, 2016)
  • Globale Öffentlichkeit? Global Governance, die Vereinten Nationen und Strukturen internationaler Medienberichterstattung (SS 2015)

Professional Affiliations / Community Activities

  • since 2015 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK; Young Scholars Representative, Section International and Intercultural Communication)
  • since 2009 Network of International and Intercultural Communication (niik)
  • External reviewer: Binational Master's Program "Global Communication and International Journalism" at Free University Berlin and State University Sankt Petersburg (2018)

Grants & Fellowships