Dr. habil. Anke Fiedler

Siapera, E., Fiedler, A., & Andresen, K. (Eds). (2025). Media and past conflict in Europe: Dynamics of mediation and power. Routledge.

Richter, C., Radue, M., Horz-Ishak, C., Litvinenko, A., Badr, H., & Fiedler, A. (Eds). (2025). Cosmopolitan communication studies: Toward deep internationalization. transcript

Zupančič, R., Kočan, F., Andresen, K., Bojarska, K., Dacosta, R., Farrell, S., Fiedler, A., Hoxha, A., Ioannidis, N., Kirk, N., Martín, I., Milioni, D., Panos, D., Paradés, M., Rawski, T., Triga, V., & Vučko, T. (2023). Troubled pasts in Europe: Strategies and recommendations for overcoming challenging historic legacies. Bristol University Press.

Fiedler, A. (2014). Medienlenkung in der DDR. Böhlau.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2013). Wer jung ist, liest die Junge Welt: Die Geschichte der auflagenstärksten DDR-Zeitung. Christoph Links.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (Eds). (2011). Fiktionen für das Volk – DDR-Presse als PR-Instrument: Fallstudien zu den Zentralorganen Neues Deutschland, Junge Welt, Neue Zeit und Der Morgen. Lit.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2011). Die Grenze im Kopf: Journalisten in der DDR. Panama.

Fiedler, A., & Löblich, M. (Eds). (2025). Cultural hegemony or emancipation? Historical perspectives on media and social inequality. Javnost – The Public (Special Issue), 32(4), 417–543.

Fiedler, A., George, C., Mano, W., Radue, M., Richter, C., Rodny-Gumede, Y., & Serwornoo, M. Y. W. (2025). A critical dialogue on the cosmopolitan turn in communication studies. Global Media Journal – German Edition, 15(2). doi: 10.60678/GMJ-DE.V15I2.359

Fiedler, A., & Morrison, J. (2025). How different models of media regulation address social inequality: A qualitative textual analysis of key media regulation texts from Germany and the United Kingdom. Javnost – The Public, 32(4), 435–455. doi: 10.1080/13183222.2025.2579387

Fiedler, A. (2025). Discourse, hegemony, and the public sphere: A theoretical framework for the empirical modelling of memory. Memory, Mind & Media, 4, e13. doi: 10.1017/mem.2025.10010

Fiedler, A. (2025). The “digital village” revisited, or the re-ruralization of the public and private spheres in contemporary digitality. New Media & Society, 27(1), 168–184. doi: 10.1177/14614448231172976

Hoxha, A., Andresen, K., Paschalidis, P., & Fiedler, A. (2024). Producing indefinite drafts of history: Journalists’ roles in historic revisionism in Europe and beyond. Journalism, 26(2), 387–405. doi: 10.1177/14648849241233381

Fiedler, A. (2024). To remember or not to remember? The Germans, National Socialism, and the Holocaust – a typology. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 30(2), 202–225. doi: 10.1080/17504902.2022.2159175

Richter, C., Grüne, A., Hafez, K., Fiedler, A., Behmer, M., Horz-Ishak, C., Badr, H., Litvinenko, A., Hahn, O., Radue, M., Sarısakaloğlu, A., Löffelholz, M., Fengler, S., Illg, B., Hamidi, K., Hanitzsch, T., Thomaß, B. (2023). Die „tiefe Internationalisierung“ der deutschen Kommunikationswissenschaft? Eine Evaluation der Personal- und Forschungsstrukturen sowie der Lehrprogramme deutscher Hochschulen. Global Media Journal – German Edition, 13(1). doi: 10.22032/dbt.57904

Fiedler, A. (2023). Where the sun rises in the East: (Post-)communist remembrance in Germany’s right-wing counter-public sphere. Javnost – The Public, 30(4), 586–602. doi: 10.1080/13183222.2023.2222489

Fiedler, A., Rawski, T., Świrek, K., & Traunspurger, J. (2023). The perception and interpretation of conflicting mnemonic narratives: Post-communist remembrance in East Germany and Poland. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 64(2), 143–160. doi: 10.1177/00207152221115434 

Fiedler, A., & Wollenberg, A. (2022). Filling the void: Information seeking and processing in the context of violent conflicts. Global Media Journal – German Edition, 12(2), doi: 10.22032/dbt.55515

Nicolaidou, N., Zupančič, R., Fiedler, A., Andresen K., Hoxha, A., Daltagianni, C., Aivalioti, M., Kasapovic, M., & Milioni, D. (2022). Virtual tours as emerging technologies to engage children and youth with their country’s historical conflicts. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 17(21), 164–183. doi: 10.3991/ijet.v17i21.32853 

Fiedler, A. (2021). The power of hegemonic memory: Tracing the past in everyday discourse on the example of National Socialism in Germany. International Journal of Communication, 15, 3379–3396.

Badr, H., Behmer, M., Fengler, S., Fiedler, A., Grüne, A., Hafez, K., Hahn, O., et al. (2020). Kosmopolitische Kommunikationswissenschaft: Plädoyer für eine ‘tiefe Internationalisierung’ des Fachs in Deutschland: Ein wissenschaftspolitisches Positionspapier. Publizistik, 65(3), 295–303.

Fiedler, A. (2020). From being aware to going there: On the awareness and decision-making of (prospective) migrants. Mass Communication and Society, 23(3), 356–377. doi: 10.1080/15205436.2019.1666992

Fiedler, A. (2019). The gap between here and there: Communication and information processes in the migration context of Syrian and Iraqi refugees on their way to Germany. International Communication Gazette,81(4), 327–345. doi: 10.1177/1748048518775001

Fiedler, A. (2016). Information to go: Kommunikation im Prozess der Migration am Beispiel syrischer und irakischer Flüchtlinge auf ihrem Weg nach Deutschland. Global Media Journal – German Edition, 6(1).

Meyen, M., Fiedler, A., & Schamberger, K. (2016). ‘It is a crime to be abusive towards the president’: A case study on media freedom and journalists’ autonomy in Museveni’s Uganda. African Journalism Studies, 37(3), 1–18. doi: 10.1080/23743670.2016.1218351

Fiedler, A., & Frère, M.-S. (2016). ‘Radio France Internationale’ and ‘Deutsche Welle’ in francophone Africa: International broadcasters in a time of change. Communication, Culture & Critique, 9(1), 68–85. doi: 10.1111/cccr.12131

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2015). A quasi-public sphere: Letters to the editor in the German Democratic Republic. Javnost – The Public, 22(2), 181–195. doi: 10.1080/13183222.2015.1048932

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2015). ‘The totalitarian destruction of the public sphere?’ Newspapers and structures of public communication in socialist countries: The example of the German Democratic Republic. Media, Culture & Society, 37(6), 834–849. doi: 10.1177/0163443715584097

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2015). The steering of the press in the socialist states of Eastern Europe: The German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a case study. Cold War History, 15(4), 449–470. doi: 10.1080/14682745.2015.1028531

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2015). Auflagenmillionär im Propagandaland: Eine Fallstudie zur DDR-Jugendzeitung Junge Welt. Studies in Communication Media (SCM), 2. doi: 10.5771/2192-4007-2015-2-135

Fiedler, A. (2014). Gute Nachrichten für die SED: Medienlenkung in der DDR als politische Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Medien & Zeit, 29(2), 46–58.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2013). Journalists in the German Democratic Republic (GDR): A collective biography. Journalism Studies, 14(3), 321–335. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2012.697687

Fiedler, A. (2013). DDR-Zeitungen und Staatssicherheit: Zwischen staatlicher Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und operativer Absicherung. Deutschland Archiv, 1387, 145–155.

Fiedler, A. (2012). Mit dem Rücken zur Mauer: Wie die Bundesrepublik unerwünschte DDR-Berichterstattung unterdrückte. Deutschland Archiv, http://www.bpb.de/139630

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2011). Journalisten in der DDR: Eine Kollektivbiografie. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 59(1), 22–39.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2011). Media Control in the GDR as Political PR Operation: A Case Study on Structures of Public Communication in Socialist Countries. Journal of Media Research – Revista de Studii Media, 9, 3–12.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2011). Generalchefredakteure? Die Medienarbeit von Walter Ulbricht und Erich Honecker. Deutschland Archiv, 44(1), 18–25.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2010). ‘Nichts tun, was unseren Interessen schadet!’: Eine Inhaltsanalyse der Argumentationsanweisungen der Abteilung Agitation (1960 bis 1989). Deutschland Archiv, 43(6), 1034–1042.

Traunspurger, J., Beneker, L., & Fiedler, A. (2025). Remembering the horror: National Socialism and the Holocaust in the discourse of Germany’s leading news magazine Der Spiegel. In E. Siapera, A. Fiedler, & K. Andresen (Eds), Media and past conflict in Europe: Dynamics of mediation and power (pp. 68–88). Routledge.

Siapera, E., Fiedler, A., & Andresen, K. (2025). Mediation of memories of past conflict. In E. Siapera, A. Fiedler, & K. Andresen (Eds), Media and past conflict in Europe: Dynamics of mediation and power (pp. 1–13). Routledge.

Richter, C., Radue, M., Horz-Ishak, C., Litvinenko, A., Badr, H., & Fiedler, A. (2025). Cosmopolitan communication studies: Toward deep internationalization: An introduction. In C. Richter, M. Radue, C. Horz-Ishak, A. Litvinenko, H. Badr, & A. Fiedler (Eds), Cosmopolitan communication studies: Toward deep internationalization (pp. 7–25). transcript.

Fiedler, A., Le Cam, F., Pereira, F., & Rambaud, P. (2022). Contrer la généralisation, donner un nouveau souffle à la compréhension : La démarche comparative au regard des travaux de Marie-Soleil Frère. In G. Ducarme, M. Fierens, B. Frère, F. Le Cam, & L. Yaméogo (Eds), Les journalistes et leurs médias en Afrique : Pensées mêlées en souvenir de Marie-Soleil Frère (pp. 71–78). Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles.

Fiedler, A., Lima, H., Heretakis, E., Sipos, B., Galindo, J.A.G., & Cuartero, A. (2019). Authoritarian media control in Eastern Europe, Spain, Portugal, and Greece after World War II. In K. Arnold, S. Kinnebrock, & P. Preston (Eds), The handbook of European communication history (pp. 221–238). Wiley Blackwell.

Frère, M.-S., & Fiedler, A. (2018). Balancing plausible lies and false truths: Perception and evaluation of the local and global news coverage of conflicts in the DRC. In R. Fröhlich (Ed.), Media in war and armed conflict: The dynamics of conflict news production and dissemination (pp. 271–284). Routledge.

Fiedler, A., & Frère, M.-S. (2018). Press freedom in the African Great Lakes region: A comparative study of Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In H.M. Mabweazara (Ed.), Newsmaking cultures in Africa: Normative trends in the dynamics of socio-political and economic struggles (pp. 119–143). Palgrave Macmillan.

Fiedler, A., & Kovats, S. (2017). Digital media literacy in conflicts: The increasing role of social media in South Sudan. In B. De Abreu, P. Mihailidis, A. Lee, J. Melki, & J. McDougall (Eds), The international handbook of media literacy (pp. 368–379). Routledge.

Frère, M.-S., & Fiedler, A. (2016). Les médias dans la crise burundaise: ‘Tu tues le coq, mais tu ne tues pas ce qu’il a chanté’. In F. Reyntjes, S. Vandeginste, & M. Verpoorten (Eds), L’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2015–2016 (pp. 119–141). University Press Antwerp.

Frère, M.-S., & Fiedler, A. (2015). Liberté de la presse et développement des médias: Les cas contrastés du Burundi et du Rwanda. In F. Reyntjes, S. Vandeginste, & M. Verpoorten (Eds), L’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2014–2015 (pp. 373–391). University Press Antwerp.

Fiedler, A. (2013). Sudan: Medien im Spannungsfeld von Islam, Instrumentalisierung und Idealismus. In C. Richter, & A. El Difraoui (Eds), Arabische Medien (pp. 143–154). UVK.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2011). Uniformität mit Profil: Eine Zusammenfassung. In A. Fiedler, & M. Meyen (Eds), Fiktionen für das Volk: DDR-Presse als PR-Instrument – Fallstudien zu den Zentralorganen Neues Deutschland, Junge Welt, Neue Zeit und Der Morgen (pp. 321–331). Lit.

Fiedler, A. (2011). Wenn aus Feinden plötzlich Freunde werden: DDR-Presse im Spiegel der politischen Großwetterlage 1950-1989. In A. Fiedler, & M. Meyen (Eds), Fiktionen für das Volk: DDR-Presse als PR-Instrument – Fallstudien zu den Zentralorganen Neues Deutschland, Junge Welt, Neue Zeit und Der Morgen (pp. 135–163). Lit.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2011). Jenseits von Gleichförmigkeit und Propaganda: Warum es sich lohnt, DDR-Zeitungen zu untersuchen. In A. Fiedler, & M. Meyen (Eds), Fiktionen für das Volk: DDR-Presse als PR-Instrument – Fallstudien zu den Zentralorganen Neues Deutschland, Junge Welt, Neue Zeit und Der Morgen (pp. 7–23). Lit.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2010). ‘Totalitäre Vernichtung der politischen Öffentlichkeit?’ Tageszeitungen und Kommunikationsstrukturen in der DDR. In S. Zahlmann (Ed.), Wie im Westen, nur anders: Medien in der DDR (pp. 35–59). Panama.

Fiedler, A. (2019). Review of the book ‘Besorgt mal Filme!’: Der internationale Programmhandel des DDR-Fernsehens, by R. Oehmig. Neue Politische Literatur, 64, 629–631.

Fiedler, A. (2016). Review of the book Schwarzhörer, Schwarzseher und heimliche Leser: Die DDR und die Westmedien, by F. Kuschel. Neue Politische Literatur, 62(2), 363–364.

Fiedler, A. (2016). Review of the book Comrades of color: East Germany in the Cold War world, edited by Q. Slobodian. Neue Politische Literatur, 62(1), 158–159.

Fiedler, A. (2016). Review of the book Kommerzielle Werbung im kolonialen Afrika: Die Werbebranche und der politische Wandel in Ghana 1930–1970, by R. Finsterhölzl. Neue Politische Literatur, 61(3), 525–526.

Fiedler, A. (2015). Review of the book Fernsehen, Revolution und das Ende der DDR, by T. Großmann. Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte, 18, 203–204.

Fiedler, A. (2013). Review of the book Die Zeitung „Freie Erde“ (1952–1990): Kader, Themen, Hintergründe. Beschreibung eines SED-Bezirksorgans, by C. Baumann. Zeitgeschichte regional. Mitteilungen aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 18(2), 138–139.

Fiedler, A. (2013, October 9). Review of the book Das Presseamt: Staatliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für die SED, by K. Bobsin. rezensionen:kommunikation:medien.

Fiedler, A. (2012). Review of the book Der parteiliche Journalist: Die Geschichte des Radio-Features in der DDR, by P. Conley. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 61(1), 96–97.

Fiedler, A., & Wollenberg, A. (2017). Critical thinking meets selective exposure: An examination of the media literacy of Iraqi media users. Media in Cooperation and Transition.

Fiedler, A. (2017). Migration von Subsahara-Afrika nach Europa: Motive, Informationsquellen und Wahrnehmung deutschen Engagements. Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2016). Information – education – participation: Media use among youth in Uganda. Deutsche Welle Akademie.

Fiedler, A., Veenstra, B., & Spilker, D. (2016). Syria audience research 2016. Global Forum for Media Development.

Fiedler, A. (2015). De l’utilisation des médias au Mali. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung/Media in Cooperation and Transition.

Frère, M.-S., Nindorera, W., & Fiedler, A. (2014). Promouvoir des médias professionnels et responsables contribuant aux processus démocratiques dans les Grands Lacs. Institut Panos Grands Lacs.

Fiedler, A., Reimpell, P., & Maul, G. (2014). Syria audience research. Media in Cooperation and Transition.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2012). ‘Wolf Biermann ist ein Feind der Republik!’: Die Berichterstattung der DDR-Tagespresse nach den Biermann-Affären 1965 und 1976. Presse in der DDR – Beiträge und Materialien.

Fiedler, A. (2012). Political newspapers in Sudan after separation: Fig leaves of government monopoly or real alternatives to the state-run media? Media in Cooperation and Transition.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2012). Zeitunglesen in der DDR. Presse in der DDR – Beiträge und Materialien.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2011). Entwurf für eine Geschichte der DDR-Tagespresse. Presse in der DDR – Beiträge und Materialien.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2011). Der Blick über die Mauer: Medien in der DDR. Informationen zur politischen Bildung, (309), 72–74.

Fiedler, A., & Morrison, J. (2025, September 5). How different models of media regulation address social inequality: A qualitative textual analysis of key media regulation texts from Germany and the United Kingdom. MeCCSA Annual Conference, Edinburgh.

Fiedler, A., & Morrison, J. (2025, July 16). How different models of media regulation address social inequality: A qualitative textual analysis of key media regulation texts from Germany and the United Kingdom. IAMCR Annual Conference, Singapore.

Fiedler, A., Rawski, T., & Świrek, K. (2024, September 27). Shared memory? A comparative analysis of (post-)communist remembrance in Germany and Poland. 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Ljubljana.

Glück, A., Fiedler, A., Lilleker, D., & Morrison, J. (2024, September 27). Peripheral voices: (De-)constructing narratives of marginalization in post-industrial regions. 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Ljubljana.

Fiedler, A. (2024, June 21). Remembering the horror: National Socialism and the Holocaust in the discourse of Germany’s leading news magazine Der Spiegel. 74th ICA Annual Conference, Gold Coast.

Fiedler, A. (2024, March 15). Geteilte Erinnerung?: Eine vergleichende Analyse sozialistischer Erinnerung in Deutschland und Polen. 69th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Erfurt.

Wollenberg, A., Fiedler, A., & Radue, M. (2022, July 11–15). Exploring the paradigm of ‘contextualization’ in international media assistance. IAMCR Annual Conference, Beijing.

Fiedler, A. (2022, May 25). Rethinking online privacy literacy from the perspective of spatial-sociological comparison. Preconference Comparative privacy and the literacies of a networked age: A critical approach, 72nd ICA Annual Conference, Mulhouse.

Fiedler, A., & Wollenberg, A. (2022, May 25). Filling the hegemonic void: Information seeking and processing in the risk arena. Pre-Conference Comparative communication research in a globalized risk arena: Paradigms – methods – critique, 72nd ICA Annual Conference, Paris.

Fiedler, A., & Wollenberg, A. (2021, July 11­–15). Filling the hegemonic void: Information seeking and processing in violent conflict. IAMCR Annual Conference, Nairobi, Kenya.

Traunspurger, J., & Fiedler, A. (2021, July 11–15). Do the two go together? National self-image and nation-memory in German media discourse. IAMCR Annual Conference, Nairobi.

Fiedler, A., Traunspurger, J., Świrek, K., & Rawski, T. (2021, July 5–9). Same same but different – the public and everyday memory discourse in Germany and Poland. 5th Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, Warsaw.

Fiedler, A., & Traunspurger, J. (2021, May 27–31). The power of political memory: Tracing the past in everyday discourse on the Example of National Socialism in Germany. 71st ICA Annual Conference, Denver.

Fiedler, A., & Traunspurger, J. (2020, July 12–17). The power of public memory: The Third Reich in all-German communicative memory. IAMCR Annual Conference, Tampere.

Traunspurger, J., & Fiedler, A. (2019, July 8). Germany’s collective memory revisited: The German troubled past in media and civic discourse. IAMCR Annual Conference, Madrid.

Fiedler, A., & Traunspurger, J. (2019, June 28). Collective memory revisited: German history of the 20th century in media discourses. 3rd Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, Madrid.

Fiedler, A., & Traunspurger, J. (2019, May 26). Commemorative culture reloaded: Germany’s troubled past in right-wing counterpublic discourse. 69th ICA Annual Conference, Washington D.C.

Fiedler, A., & Traunspurger, J. (2019, May 10). Wo der Osten leuchtet: Erinnerungskultur in der rechten Gegenöffentlichkeit. 64th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Münster.

Mayerhöffer, E., & Fiedler, A. (2018, November 2). When mainstream media faces populism: A comparative discourse analysis of journalistic responses to right-wing populist movements and parties. 7th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Lugano.

Fiedler, A., & Traunspurger, J. (2018, October 31). Goodbye past?: German history of the 20th century in counterpublic discourse. Pre-Conference Towards a polyphony of memory?: Media, communication and memory in the digital age, 7th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Lugano.

Fiedler, A. (2018, May 24). For they do not know what they do?: About the role of awareness‐raising campaigns in the decision‐making of prospective refugees and migrants. Pre-Conference Communication in refugee crisis and settlement processes, 68th ICA Annual Conference, Prague.

Kozman, C., Melki, J., & Fiedler, A. (2017, September 2). Uncertainty reduction, involvement, and emotions during war: A survey of Syrian nationals’ media use in four countries. #AMIRetreat 2017 (Advanced Media Institute), Limassol.

Fiedler, A., & Frère, M.-S. (2016, July 28). Public trust or distrust? Perception and evaluation of conflict-related news in Burundi and the DRC. IAMCR Annual Conference, Leicester.

Frère, M.-S., & Fiedler, A. (2016, July 28). Media and electoral crisis in Burundi: Silencing the ‘voice of the voiceless’. IAMCR Annual Conference, Leicester.

Fiedler, A., & Frère, M.-S. (2016, June 10). Balancing plausible lies and false truth: Perception and evaluation of the local and global news coverage of conflicts in Burundi and the DRC. 66th ICA Annual Conference, Fukuoka.

Fiedler, A., & Frère, M.-S. (2015, July 14). Comparing media freedom in post-conflict societies: Reflections on the situation of the media in the African Great Lakes region. IAMCR Annual Conference, Montreal.

Frère, M.-S., & Fiedler, A. (2015, July 13). Professional solidarity and journalistic practices in conflict countries: The case of the Radio Publique Africaine in Burundi. IAMCR Annual Conference, Montreal.

Fiedler, A., & Frère, M.-S. (2015, May 23). Media freedom – an imperative in post-conflict societies?. 65th ICA Annual Conference, San Juan.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2015, May 22). The GDR’s ‘Junge Welt’: Mouthpiece of the communist youth, propaganda vehicle, and the public’s favorite. 65th ICA Annual Conference, San Juan.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2015, May 22). Letters to the editor and the public sphere in the GDR. 65th ICA Annual Conference, San Juan.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2014, November 15). Mouthpiece of the communist youth organization, propaganda vehicle, or simply the people’s favorite?: The history of the GDR’s circulation champion ‘Junge Welt’. 5th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Lisbon.

Fiedler, A. (2014, July 18). The effects of state media control on public opinion: A case study on the TV broadcaster ORTM in Mali. IAMCR Annual Conference, Hyderabad.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2014, July 16). Comparing media systems in transition: A study of Pakistan, South Sudan, Mali, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Iraq. IAMCR Annual Conference, Hyderabad.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2014, April 25). Journalism in six post-authoritarian Asian and African countries. International Conference Comparative media studies in today’s world: Journalism cultures in various socio-political contexts, St. Petersburg.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2013, November 14). The transformation of media systems in times of change: A comparative study on the freedom of the media in nine countries. The 5th International Media Readings, Moscow.

Fiedler, A. (2013, October 18). Nach dem Arabischen Frühling: Medienfreiheit in Ägypten, Tunesien, Libyen und im Irak. Workshop des Netzwerks Medienstrukturen, Munich.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2013, June 28). After the Arab Spring: The freedom of the media in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Iraq. IAMCR Annual Conference, Dublin.

Fiedler, A. (2013, June 26). Media and nationbuilding in post-secession South Sudan: A beacon of press freedom in Africa?. IAMCR Annual Conference, Dublin.

Fiedler, A. (2013, June 20). Print journalism in Sudan after separation: Writing despite official constraints. 63rd ICA Annual Conference, London.

Fiedler, A. (2012, July 18). Political newspapers in Sudan after separation: Fig leaves of government monopoly or real alternatives to the state-run media?. IAMCR Annual Conference, Durban.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2011, July 15). Autobiographies of GDR journalists: Reconstructing journalistic structures in former socialist countries. IAMCR Annual Conference, Istanbul.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2010, October 29). Media control in the GDR as political PR operation: A case study on structures of public communication in socialist countries. Conference at Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Cluj.

Fiedler, A. (2010, October 8). Medienlenkung in der DDR. Medienhistorisches Forum für Absolventen und Forschungsnachwuchs, Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte in Kooperation mit dem Nachwuchsforum Kommunikationsgeschichte der Fachgruppe Kommunikationsgeschichte der DGPuK, Wittenberg.

Meyen, M., & Fiedler, A. (2010, June 23). The totalitarian destruction of the public sphere? Newspapers and structures of public communication in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). 60th ICA Annual Conference, Singapore.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2010, June 4). Letters to the editor and the public sphere in the GDR: A case study on user generated content in socialist countries. International workshop User generated content: Historical perspectives on the participation of audiences in social communication and founding conference of the ECREA Section Communication History, Potsdam.

Fiedler, A., & Lilleker, D.G. (2025, May 7–8). Poster presentation: The VOICES project. UK-German Arts and Humanities Bilateral Celebration Event, British Arctic Survey, Cambridge.

Fiedler, A. (2022, November 17). Le soleil se lève à l’Est: La mémoire (post)socialiste dans le discours public et quotidien en Allemagne. Guest lecture at CARISM, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris.

Fiedler, A., & Wollenberg, A. (2021, November 18). Issues with trust in fragile contexts: What impact for armed violence and transition on media perception?. Symposium organized by the Forum Medien und Entwicklung (FoME), Berlin.

Fiedler, A. (2021, October 15). Assessing the gap between private and public memory: The perception and interpretation of conflicting mnemonic narratives – a comparative study from Germany and Poland. RePAST final conference Negotiating troubled pasts: History, politics, arts, and the media, Online.

Siapera, E., & Fiedler, A. (2021, May 28). Media and past conflict: Hegemonic memory and media processes. RePAST international workshop Negotiating troubled pasts: History, politics, arts, and the media, Online.

Fiedler, A. (2021, March 26). Policy recommendations for Germany. RePAST international workshop for policy-makers and other stakeholders, Online.

Fiedler, A. (2018, November 24). Goodbye past? German history of the 20th century in right-wing counterpublic discourse. Bildkorrekturen-Konferenz, Leipzig.

Trpevska, S., & Fiedler, A. (2016, November 17). Audiences and lay publics in times of conflict: Sources of information, perceptions and interaction with the media. INFOCORE stakeholder seminars, Brussels.

Fiedler, A., Frère, M.-S., Micevski, I., & Trpevska, S. (2016, September 29). Confiance ou méfiance du public? Perception et évaluation des informations relatives au conflit au Burundi et au République Démocratique du Congo. INFOCORE stakeholder seminars, Gisenyi.

Frère, M.-S., & Fiedler, A. (2016, March 22). Étude comparative sur les médias et les conflits: Réflections sur le projet INFOCORE. Workshop Recherche qualitative et comparative sur les médias et le journalism – Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.

Fiedler, A. (2015, November 20). Media and conflicts in the African Great Lakes region: Preliminary results from the EU-funded research project INFOCORE. Conference for young journalists and media researchers, Freie Universität Berlin.

Frère, M.-S., & Fiedler, A. (2015, November 16). The media and the electoral crisis in Burundi: Silencing the voice of the voiceless. MECODEM-INFOCORE Workshop Media, elections and conflicts in Africa, Oxford.

Fiedler, A., & Frère, M.-S. (2015, November 16). Comparative studies on media, conflict and elections in Africa: Reflections from INFOCORE. MECODEM-INFOCORE Workshop Media, elections and conflicts in Africa, Oxford.

Micevski, I., Frère, M.-S., & Fiedler, A. (2015, October 9–10). Media and lay publics. INFOCORE stakeholder seminars, Brussels.

Melki, J., & Fiedler, A. (2014, November 6). Methodological and logistical challenges of audience research in conflict zones: Studying news media uses of Syrians. Symposium organized by the Forum Medien und Entwicklung (FoME), Berlin.

Fiedler, A. (2013, November 5). Use and image of the national TV broadcaster ORTM in Bamako, Mali. Conference of International Broadcasters’ Audience Research Services (CIBAR), Washington D.C.

Fiedler, A., & Meyen, M. (2011, October 7). Medienlenkung als Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: Eine quantitative Inhaltsanalyse von vier zentralen DDR-Zeitungen (1950 bis 1989). Workshop Politische Kommunikation im Staatssozialismus nach 1945, University of Bielefeld.

Ceremonial event 35 Years of German Reunification, 35 Years of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, 1 October 2025; with Manuela Schwesig, Andreas Kuhlage, Julia Kausch, and Matthias Kunze. 

When the leaves fall: Autumn ’89 in Neues Deutschland, panel discussion at ND live, Berlin, 14 June 2014; with Hans-Dieter Schütt, Gabriele Oertel, Karlen Vesper, and Wolfgang Spickermann.

Juba youth: Film and television in South Sudan after independence, panel discussion at the Deutscher Entwicklungstag, Berlin, 25 May 2013; with Alexander Pfeuffer and Sebastian Prams.

Die Grenze im Kopf: Journalisten in der DDR. Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig, 19 March 2011; with Marcus Merkel, Daniel Küchenmeister, and Axel Kaspar.