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As part of this year’s Late Autumn School, organised by the interdisciplinary DFG Research Training Group “Trust and Communication in a Digitized World”, two public lectures by international researchers will be held on Friday, November 16.8.

In this year’s 7. European Communication Conference, organized by the European Communication and Research and Education Association (ECREA) will be held in Lugano, Switzerland from 31 October to 3 November. Researchers from the Münster Department of Communication (IfK) are taking part with 15 contributions. Amongst these are four contributions presenting the results of studies carried out by master’s students in the context of two research seminars in the summer and winter semester of 2017 and 2018.

For her master’s thesis with the title “Text-Classification Using Machine Learning”, IfK-Graduate Anke Stoll receives the Paul Lazarsfeld-Prize.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Münster Department of Communication (IfK), the next annual DGPuK (The German Communication Association) conference will take place in Münster from May 9th till May 11th, 2019. The conference with the title “Integration through Communication in digitized public spheres“ will bring together around 500 participants.

Last Friday, the Münster Department of Communication (IfK) celebrated 101 graduations. Two doctorate, 17 master graduates and 82 bachelor graduates received the congratulations of Prof. Volker Gehrau, managing director of the IfK.