Gureiker Research Group

The 12th EMAKOM Conference: “Voices at Risk: Women Journalists and Gender Issues in the Spotlight” addresses the risks and challenges faced by women journalists, particularly when covering gender issues. (The seminar will be conducted in Basque and Spanish).

Date: April 29, 2026

Venue: Auditorium of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication

Leioa Campus, Barrio Sarriena, s/n, UPV/EHU.

Free admission

Team members responsible for the event: Maider Eizmendi Iraola, Julen Orbegozo Terradillos & Ainara Larrondo Ureta.

Programme:

9:30 a.m. Opening of the event. Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department of Journalism; Gureiker Research Group and event coordinators

10:00 a.m. Attacks against women journalists: the lights and shadows of the network

10:45 a.m. Q&A and discussion

11:00 a.m. Gender issues in focus. Speaker: Isabel Valdés. Specialist journalist and gender correspondent for El País.

11:45 a.m. Q&A and discussion

12:00 p.m. Coffee break

12:30–1:30 p.m. Roundtable: How to respond to and protect against attacks?

1:30–2:00 p.m. Q&A and closing of the event

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The 11th EMAKOM Conference ‘Public-political communication from a gender perspective: new horizons?’ focuses on examining how the gender perspective can help to adapt and evolve the dynamics of political-institutional communication, from public discourses to communication practices in the media and digital platforms.

Date: 2 April 2025

Venue: Auditorium of the Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences
Leioa Campus, Barrio Sarriena, s/N UPV/EHU. 

Free admission.

Organizers: Ainara Larrondo Ureta, Maider Eizmendi Iraola and Julen Orbegozo Terradillos.

Programme:

9.30 am. Opening of the Conference.

10.00am. ‘Comunicación pública y género. Los feminismos conectados que cambiaron el mundo’. Speaker: Julen Orbegozo Terradillos. Assistant Professor of the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising of the UPV-EHU.

10.45 am. Question time

11.00 am. ‘Emotion vs. Reason in political communication: Does debate in the public space make sense from a gender perspective? Speaker: Eva Silván. Political scientist in charge of the public communication consultancy ‘Silvan & Miracle’.

11.45 am. Question time

12.00 pm. Coffee break.

12.30-1.30 pm. Eztabaida-mahaia: Komunikazioa publiko-politikoa birpentsatzen: generoaren ikuspegia praktikatik abiatuta. Round table (in Basque) (Rethinking public-political communication: starting from the perspective of gender in practice), with professionals of the public and political  communication: Maialen Arteaga, Marta Pagola, Yaiza Pozo.

1.30-2.00 pm. Question time and end of the session.

The X EMAKOM Conference will focus on analyzing "Communication and scientific-technological gender gaps" from a specialized perspective.

Date: April 10, 2024, 09.30am-2.30pm.

Venue: Auditorium of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication
Leioa Campus, Barrio Sarriena, s/N UPV/EHU.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

Programme:

9.30 h. Official opening of the Conference. Dean of the Faculty and Director of the Department of Journalism.

10.00 h. "Adimen Artifizialaren genero alborapena: testuetatik ikasten" (Basque). Speaker: Maite Oronoz Anchordoqui. Lecturer at the Department of Computer Languages and Systems of the Faculty of Computer Science of the UPV-EHU.

10.45 h. "Neither intelligence nor artificial" (Spanish). Speaker: Lorena Fernández Álvarez. Director of Digital Communication at the University of Deusto.

11.30 h. Coffee break.

12.00 h. "Emakumeak, identitate zientifiko-digitalak eta erronka komunikatiboak" (Basque). Speaker: Lorea Arakistain Aizpiri. Director of marketing and communication in Puntu.eus.

12.45 p.m. Round table discussion: awareness, challenges and solutions to scientific-technological gender gaps.

13.15 h. Questions time and end of the seminar.

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Date: 29 March 2023
Venue: Auditorium of the Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences
Campus of Leioa, Barrio Sarriena, s/N UPV/EHU

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

The 9th EMAKOM Conference will focus on analysing the subject of ‘Journalism, maternity and work-life balance’ from a specialised perspective.

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1st April 2022

Baroja Hall - Bizkaia Aretoa (Bilbao)

Registration: free admission, until full capacity is reached.

Description

This 8th Conference is dedicated in memoriam to Lucía Martínez Odriozola, lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication of the UPV/EHU, journalist and posthumous winner of the Emakunde 2021 Award, and organiser of this event in previous editions. This 2022 edition aims to deepen and reflect on current discussions and advances in media treatment from a gender and feminist perspective.

Program

09.30. Opening and presentation of the conference.

Izaskun Landaida (Director of Emakunde).

Ainara Larrondo (Conference leader).

10.00. Gender biases about older women in advertising and journalistic discourse. Begoña Sanz Garrido. Researcher at the University of Deusto specialising in gender bias in the media.

11.00 From theory to practice: being a journalist and a feminist today. Isabel Valdés. Specialised journalist and gender correspondent for El País.

12.00. Coffee break

12.30. Round table: Feminist and gender media discourses: product or service?