"The International Media Lecture” is an open social practice course approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and co-hosted by Faulty of International Media Communication University of China(ICUC)and the Secretariat of the Media and Arts Studies Committee, which belongs to Sino-foreign Cooperative Education guided by China Education Association for International Exchange(CEAIE). The main idea is to Gather Global Elites and Disseminate Chinese Wisdom, inviting domestic and international senior experts, leaders and pioneers of innovation from media industry to have conversation focusing on media frontier of the strong and cultivating "Global Media Citizen" with international perspective, knowledge of international rules, competence of participating in international communication and ability of telling Chinese stories to the world.

"The International Media Lecture” has kicked off in May, 2017. This time, Professor Hong Junhao, a scholar of Communication from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University,willl deliver a lecture and interact with the students. The Lecture is opened to the undergraduate students from Communication Studies and warmly welcomes all undergraduate and graduate students from other majors as well. Students, who interested in having a conversation with Professor Hong Junhao, can register on the official WeChat ID of ICUC: ICUC-Good.

Keynote Speaker: Hong Junhao
Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Communication Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo; Researcher from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University

The lecture schedule
1.The theoretical framework of International Communication Studies
Time: May 15th.  Monday.  18:00-20:00
Place:  A503, No.48 Building

2. Hot issues of International Communication Studies
Time: May 17th.  Wednesday.  13:30-15:30

Place: A507, No.48 Building

3. Main research methods of International Communication Studies
Time: May 18th.  Thursday.  18:00-20:00
Place: A503, No.48 Building

4. Some ideas on the world ranking of China's soft power and Chinese Cultural International Communication
Time: May 19th.  Friday.  13:30-15:30
Place: A507, No.48 Building

Hong Junhao is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Communication Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, a researcher of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is also an assessment expert of Changjiang Scholar Projector of Ministry of Education of China Hongkong Social Science Research Foundation etc. He has many other great titles awarded by related universities and institutions in China, the USA, Great Britain and some other countries. He is well-known in media industry and often invited to corporate with mainstream press in China.
His main teaching and research fields include international communication and international politics, communication and social development, social influences from new media and new media technology etc. He has already published many books and all kinds of academic articles, more than 170 of them in total.