“媒介与女性”教席设立情况介绍
　　　　　　　　中国传媒大学党委书记 苏志武教授



尊敬的各位来宾：
　　大家好！
　　非常感谢各位在百忙之中出席“媒介与女性”教席签字暨揭牌仪式！下面，我简单地向大家介绍一下“媒介与女性”教席设立的过程和情况。
　　联合国教科文组织教席是由联合国教科文组织与其他教育或资助机构联合设立的教授席位，1992年创建，主要成员是大学和其他高等教育机构，主要任务是广泛地结合联合国教科文组织在教育、文化、环境等各个领域的优势地位，开展科研、培训与学术交流等活动。目前，联合国教科文组织共设立了550多个教席。1992年，联合国教科文组织首次在北京大学设立了“植物生物技术”教席。在我校设立的“媒介与女性”教席是联合国教科文组织在中国设立的第十八个教席，是中国信息传播领域的首个教席。
　　2004年9月1日，中国传媒大学成立了“媒介与女性研究中心”。目的是以促进媒介与女性和谐发展为目标，以媒介与女性的学术研究为重点，进行媒介与女性的基础理论和应用理论的研究以及学科建设，制作体现性别意识和特征的媒介产品，培养具有专业素养和多元化视野的研究人员，以期有效推动媒介与女性研究的发展。
　　2004年10月，联合国教科文组织信息助理总干事阿布杜?肯先生来我校考察，对我校“媒介与女性研究中心”的建设、研究的课题及成果给予极大的关注和肯定。为了推动媒介对性别平等理念的传播，促进女性自身发展和社会文明进步，建议我校申请联合国教科文组织“媒介与女性”教席。
2005年3月，我校正式向联合国教科文组织递交了“媒介与女性”教席的申请报告。
2005年4月，联合国教科文组织北京办事处代表青岛泰之先生，信息与传播项目干事丹娜女士来我校访问，对我校“媒介与女性”教席的申请表示支持。
　　2005年6月，我校“媒介与女性研究中心”派代表参加了联合国教科文组织在摩洛哥召开的“科学、技术与女性国际报告”会议，参与《 2005年国际报告”》的撰写和翻译工作。
　　2005年7月，“媒介与女性研究中心”向联合国教科文组织递交“传播发展国际项目”计划书，拟于2006年在西藏创设妇女媒介培训组织。
　　在申报过程中，学校整合校内外资源，为媒介与女性研究中心的建设提供了有力支持，为教席项目的实施奠定了基础。
　　2005年7月22日，联合国教科文组织正式批准在我校设立“媒介与女性”教席。此时，距我校递交报告仅4月有余。这样超常规的速度批准，表明了“媒介与女性”教席设立的必要性和迫切性，也表明联合国教科文组织对我校相关领域研究的肯定和信任。在此，我们谨向联合国教科文组织表示由衷的感谢！
　　我们相信，在联合国教科文组织和社会各界朋友们的支持下，中国传媒大学“媒介与女性”教席必将取得丰硕成果。
　　谢谢！

Introduction of the UNESCO Chair on Media and Gender
By Mr.Su Zhiwu, Vice-president of Communication University of China

Distinguished guests,
Good morning.

It is a great pleasure to have all you here today to join in the Signing Ceremony of UNESCO-CUC Chair on Media and Gender. Now, I’d like to make a brief introduction of the Chair on Media and Gender and the process of its establishment.

The chair of UNESCO set up jointly in 1992, by UNESCO and other educational or subsidiary organizations mainly for the professors. The members almost come from universities and other higher educational institutions. Its chief goal is to develop the scientific studies, training, academic exchanges with the widely use of UNESCO superiority status in educational, cultural and environmental fields. Until now, UNESCO has established more than 550 chairs. In 1992, Chair on Plant biotechnology was firstly set up in Peking University. Chair on Media and Gender in CUC is the 18th Chair established by UNESCO in China. And it is the first Chair in China information and communication field.

On September 1st ,2004 , Media and Gender Institute(MGI) was established by CUC. MGI aims to promote the goals on harmonious development of media and gender, to take the emphasis on media and gender academic research, to engage in the research on basic and practical theory and disciplinary establishment, in producing media products with gender awareness and characters, in training research staffs with professional quality and multi-cultural views, in order to promote the development on media and gender research.

In October 2004, Mr. Abdul Waheed khan，UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for communication and information, came to visit CUC. He paid great attention and gave firm affirmation to the establishment of MGI, the research which is undergoing and the results which has already achieved. In order to promote gender equity awareness through media, the women self-development and the social civilization progresses, Mr. Khan suggested that CUC should submit the application for the Chair on Media and Gender to UNESCO.

In March, 2005, CUC made the official report to UNESCO in application for Chair on Media and Gender.

In April, 2005, Mr. Yasuyuki Aoshima, director of UNESCO Office Beijing and Dana Ziyasheva, Program Specialist for Communication and Information, UNECO, came to visit CUC and gave supports to us to apply for the Media and Gender Chair.

In June, 2005, MGI of CUC send the representative to participate the conference held in Morocco by UNESCO and took on some part of writing and translations of “International Report on science, Technology and gender” .

In July, 2005, MGI submitted the plans of IPDC to UNESCO, with the idea of setting up training organizations of Women Media in Tibet 2006.

During the whole process of application, CUC integrated the resources of university, giving strong supports to set up MGI, so to lay the solid foundation to carry out the Chair Program.

On July 22, 2005, CUC was approved to establish “Media and Gender” Chair by UNESCO. That happened only more than four months after CUC submitted the report. It shows that it is necessary and urgent to establish Chair on Media and Gender, and UNESCO has the confidence and recognition in the related fields studies of CUC. So, on behalf of CUC, I pay the great appreciation to UNESCO.

At last, we do believe that under the strong support of UNESCO and all lines of friends, UNESCO-CUC Chair on Media and Gender will make fruitful results in the future!

Thank you!