09.05 | Welcoming remarks by Professor Marco Milani, University of Bologna
09.10 | Welcoming remarks by Professor Steve Green, Toyo University
09.20 | PANEL ONE: THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEDIA AND POLITICS CHAIR: Dr Licia Proserpio, University of Bologna
9.25 | Comfort Women: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Newspapers Views (Lucilla Amerini, Rimi Kanaya, Clara Latorraca)
10.00 | How China Enters Our Homes: Chinese Propaganda on Traditional and New Media (Alessandra Coletti, Kurumi Kishino, Giulia Rossi)
10.35 | A PM’s Charm on Social Media: A Study of Social Media Use by Prime Ministers Fumio Kishida and Giorgia Meloni (Nagisa Fukui, Anna Pepe)
10.50 | Concluding remarks
09.05 | PANEL TWO: THE ROLE OF POP CULTURE IN POLITICS AND IR CHAIR: Dr Veronica Barfucci, University of Warwick
09.10 | From Reel to Real: How Fukushima’s Fish Has Become a Political Tool (Francesca Bauleo, Edoardo Grimaldi, Yura Oguri)
09.45 | New Oracles or Killing Machines? How Pop Culture Influences the Perceptions (and Policy) around A.I. (Mariano Varesano, Fabiana Zuccarello)
10.15 | Concluding Remarks
10.30 | End of the conference