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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 2007-2008
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 2007-2008
------July 23-25 2007 Paris, France IAMCR 50th Anniversary Conference The next IAMCR Conference, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of IAMCR will be held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The conference theme will be: Media, Communication, Information: 50 Years of Theories and Practices.
For more information: International Association for Media and Communication Research Phone: +44 20 7955 6380/7195 Fax: +44 20 7955 7248
http://www.iamcr.org/content/view/138/253/
------July 25-28 2007 Berlin, Germany Law and Society in the 21st Century The 2007 Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law will be held at Humboldt University in Berlin. The theme is: Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures.
For more information: Anne Boigeol Law and Society Association and Research Committee on Sociology of Law [email protected] http://www.lawandsociety.org/ann_mtg/am07/call.htm
------August 7-9 2007 St Louis, MO, USA 7th Annual Global Fusion Conference The Purpose of the Global Fusion Conference Series is to promote academic excellence in international-intercultural communications studies worldwide. This year's Global FusionConference theme is the interface between media research, media arts, media professions and media activism. As usual, an international focus will be evident.
For more information: Southern Illinois University [email protected] http://www.dce.siu.edu/conferences/070215fusion.htm
------August 10-12 2007 New York, USA Public Views of the Private - Private Views of the Public The theme for the 2007 IVSA conference is the multi-faceted relationship between public and private realms and how they are shaped by human action while at the same time condition our lives. The aim of the conference is to visually examine the various layers of the public/private relationship.
For more information: International Visual Sociology Association / IVSA New York University [email protected] http://www.visualsociology.org/conference.html
------August 15-17 2007 Stockholm, Sweden Regulating Chemical Risks: Science, Politics and the Media This conference welcomes contributions from both natural and social science. The conference is open for both academics and practitioners, including people representing the media, industry, government and NGOs. The conference is organized by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies / CBEES at Sodertorn University College in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and the Royal Institute of Technology.
For more information: Karin Johansson Sodertorn University College Phone: +46 8 608 4365 [email protected] http://www.sh.se/chemicalrisks07
------August 27-28 2007 Turku, Finland International Research Policy Conference In collaboration with the European Research Council (ERC), the Finnish Ministry of Education, Nordic Council of Ministers, NordForsk and the Academy of Finland are organising the international conference Excellence Stems from People. The conference aims to identify the optimal conditions for developing Excellence in research.
For more information: Heli Salminen [email protected] http://www.eventnordic.fi/congreszon/excellence07/
------August 29-30 2007 Oxford, UK Masculinity and the Other This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars studying masculinities in a variety of fields, including literature, history, art history, sociology and philosophy, to explore some of the forms of 'otherness' against which ideas of masculinity have been defined over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
For more information: Heather Ellis Oxford University [email protected] http://masculinityandtheother.googlepages.com/
------August 29 2007 Chicago, IL, USA APSA Political Communication Preconference The preconference on Machine Politics/Politics of the Machine takes Political Science and Communication beyond the old boundaries of machine politics into the realm of new technology for research and teaching in political communication.
For more information: University of Illinois at Chicago Departments of Political Science and Communication [email protected] http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/othercalls/apsa.asp
------August 30 - September 1 2007 Lusaka, Zambia World Congress on Global Ethics for the Media in the 21st Century The conference brings together media professionals, theoreticians and policymakers both from Zambia and from foreign countries. The conference offers keynote speeches, panel debates and discussions in smaller workshops. Its end result will be a formal statement on global media ethics for the 21st century.
For more information: Kasoma Media Foundation [email protected] http://www.kasomamediafoundation.com/
------September 1-2 2007 Birmingham, UK Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading Beyond the Book is a three-year collaborative interdisciplinary AHRC-funded research project investigating contemporary cultures of reading. Keynote speakers: Janice Radway, Duke University & Elizabeth Long, Rice University For more information: Anouk Lang University of Birmingham Department of American & Canadian Studies [email protected] http://www.beyondthebookproject.org
------September 3-6 2007 Glasgow, UK Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society The 8th European Sociological Association Conference will bring together scholars from across the globe to explore contemporary citizenship in Europe and debate the state of democracy and the fate of civil, political and social rights that have been the political lifeblood of European societies.
For more information: European Sociological Association
http://www.esa8thconference.com
------September 4-5 2007 Selangor, Malaysia Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture. Voices from Southeast Asia This is a comparative study workshop that will be carried out to determine the ways in which issues of gender and sexuality inform popular culture in Southeast Asia.
For more information: Universiti Kebangsaan School of Language Studies & Linguistics [email protected] http://www.fpbahasa.ukm.my/ppbl/events.asp
------September 5-7 2007 Manchester, UK CRESC Annual Conference: Re-thinking Cultural Economy This Conference seeks to assess where the various debates about culture and economy and cultural economy have got to, and to explore where they may be going in the future. Discussion and debate will be structured around parallel streams of themed session papers as well as plenaries.
For more information: ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change / CRESC [email protected]/ http://www.cresc.ac.uk/
------September 6-7 2007 Westminster, UK Transforming Audiences. Identity - Creativity - Everyday Life An international conference in association with the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association / ECREA, and the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association / ICA. Confirmed speakers include Martin Barker, Goran Bolin, John Corner, Peter Lunt and Maire Messenger Davies.
For more information: Erica Spindler University of Westminster [email protected] http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1530
------September 7-8 2007 Leeds, UK Mediations of Cultural Difference: Debating Media and Diversity Target participants of this conference are ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media section members, but the conference is open to all.
For more information: Myria Georgiou European Communication Research and Education Association / ECREA [email protected]
------September 7-9 2007 Glasgow, UK Communication and Conflict The conference will be an international gathering of experts and researchers in the area of propaganda, spin, lobbying, media management and investigative journalism.
For more information: David Miller Strathclyde University Department of Geography and Sociology [email protected] http://gs.strath.ac.uk/content/view/240/130/
------September 7-9 2007 St Louis, USA Global Fusion Conference The theme of this conference is 'Contested Intersections: Publics, Movements, Institutions'. Plenary round-tables will address video/film production, news and journalism, and advertising from these perspectives, all with an eye to how we teach Communication. For more information: Southern Illinois University Global Media Research Center [email protected] http://www.gmrc.siu.edu
------September 8-10 2007 Istanbul, Turkey Shifting Landscapes of Film and Media II: Questioning Legacies, Navigating Critique The aim of this conference is to bring together film and media scholars as well as professionals (from film/media industry and from related institutions such as archives, research boards, museums, etc.) in order to encourage a collective effort of refreshing our thinking and understanding of contemporary production and consumption practices. Keynote speakers: Toby Miller, Ravi Vasudevan, Ginette Vincendeau.
For more information: Ozge Ozyilmaz Istanbul Bylgy University & Karlstad University [email protected] http://filmandmedia.bilgi.edu.tr/
------September 12-13 2007 Cardiff, UK The Future of Newspapers The journals Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies are launching a biennial conference, sponsored by Routledge Taylor and Francis and hosted by the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC). The conference will focus on the highly contested future of newspapers with contributions from the international community of academics, along with newspaper executives, trade unionists, journalists and regulators.
For more information: Bob Franklin [email protected] http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rjoscfp1.pdf
------September 12-13 2007 Munich, Germany Media in Transition 2007 / From Gutenberg to Google The Media in Transition 2007 Conference, will be discussing the structural transition in the media industry how the Internet is modifying the way media is produced, distributed and consumed.
For more information: Matthias Kohler [email protected] http://www.mediaintransition.com
------September 13-15 2007 Piran, Slovenia Communication and Peace The colloquium invites participants to consider forms and functions of communication in the process of negotiating peace, to question the role of media in the (re)production of conflicts and their resolutions, and to reflect on the importance of dialogue in making sense of disharmony and producing closure.
For more information: Slavko Splichal EURICOM [email protected] http://www.euricom.si/
------September 14 2007 London, UK Television Studies Goes Digital This conference asks what is the place of television, and TV Studies, in the age of digitalisation. It brings together internationally renowned scholars, including Prof John Caldwell UCLA, Prof Karen Lury -Glasgow, Prof William Boddy - NYC.
For more information: London Metropolitan University [email protected] http://digitaltvstudies.org.uk
------September 15-16 2007 Birmingham, UK Women, Power and the Media The main aim of this conference is to bring together studies assessing the (a)symmetrical treatment of female political leaders in the media.
For more information: Pierre Larrivee Aston University [email protected]
------September 19-21 2007 Bloemfontein, South Africa SACCOM 2007 Conference: The African Landscape As a developing continent, Africa is faced with a multitude of general communication challenges. The objectives of this conference are to discuss such challenges within the prevailing political-ideological and socio-economical frameworks governing practices in South Africa and in African states. For more information: Ms Mercia Coetzee South African Communication Association [email protected] http://www.sacomm2006.co.za/
------September 19-21 2007 Berlin, Germany Public Opinion and the Challenges of the 21st Century WAPOR seeks to bring together scholars with a historical, sociological, political science or communications science background. This is the 60th annual conference.
For more information: Richard Hilmer World Association for Public Opinion Research [email protected] http://www.unl.edu/WAPOR/
------September 20-22 2007 Jonkoping, Sweden Media Brands: Their Management, Effects, and Social Implications The objective of the conference is to explore media brand management in theory and practice. The conference will also seek better understanding of the effects of media brands on consumer media behaviour as well as on society.
For more information: Dr. Per-Erik Wolff Jonkoping International Business School [email protected] http://www.ihh.hj.se/mmt/events.html
------September 27-30 2007 Roskilde and Lund, Denmark and Sweden EUPRERA on Organisation and Society: Legitimacy in a Changing World European Public Relations Education and Research Association /EUPRERA and the Nordic re-search network LOKE invite all interested colleagues to a joint conference at the universities of Roskilde and Lund, September 27-30, 2007. The conference constitutes the 2007 annual EU-PRERA congress and the annual LOKE conference.
For more information: Professor, Dr. Ib Poulsen EUPRERA [email protected] http://euprera.eprn.org/
------October 4-5 2007 Reus, Catalonia Narrating the Nation. Television Narratives and National Identities This conference is conceived as an open meeting for the exchange of experiences in the fields of television fictional and reality based programs, social identities, cultural identities and national identities. The conference is hosted and organised by Communication Studies at Universitat Rovira i Virgili
For more information: Universitat Rovira i Virgili Communication Studies [email protected] http://www.sre.urv.es/web/comunicacio/narratingthenation.htm
------October 5-7 2007 Uppsala, Sweden Restrictions and Possibilities. The Media in Discourses of Migration, Citizenship and Belonging in Africa The workshop invites research papers that critically discuss aspects of the media and media texts in discourses of migration, citizenship and belonging in contemporary societies in Africa and its diasporas.
For more information: Uppsala University Nordic Africa Institute [email protected] http://www.nai.uu.se/news/conferences/en/2006/0510T000000U9/
------October 6 2007 Nicosia, Cyprus Political Communication: The New Era in Election Campaigning The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of Communications, Mass Media and other related disciplines.
For more information: Andreas Masouras Research Institute of Applied Communication [email protected] http://www.freewebs.com/2ndconference
------October 11-12 2007 Brussels, Belgium Equal Opportunities and Communication Rights: Representation, Participation & the European Democratic Deficit The aim of this Symposium is to critically discuss and interrogate the role of media and communication relating to issues of equality, diversity, civic participation and democracy beyond the nation state, on the basis of theoretical and/or empirical research.
For more information: Sofie Van Bauwel European Communication Research and Education Association / ECREA sofie.vanbauwel@ugent http://www.ecrea.eu/events/seminars/page/2
------October 11-14 2007 Belgrade, Serbia Education, Art and Media in the European Integration Process An interdisciplinary conference organized by the University of Arts in Belgrade, ADAM Tempus project and supported by the Serbian Ministries, Secretariat of culture of the city of Belgrade as well as by a number of international organizations. The aim of the conference is to present the developments and the results achieved in the process of European integrations in the field of education, art and media, i.e. culture in its widest definition.
For more information: Nevena Dakovic, Bo Reimer, Suncica Milosavljevic University of Arts [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected] http://webzone.k3.mah.se/projects/adam_eam07/
------October 17-20 2007 Vancouver, Canada AoIR Annual Conference: Let's Play! Each year the Association of Internet Researchers organises an annual Internet Research conference. This conference brings together academics, researchers, graduate students and other participants for a interdisciplinary, multi-methodological look at the Internet.
For more information: Dr. Richard Smith AoIR [email protected] http://conferences.aoir.org
------October 18-19 2007 Shanghai, China Global Communication and Development Conference Communication researchers, scholars, and graduates are invited to submit papers and panel for proposals for inclusion in the Inaugural Conference of the Global Communication Association (GCA) related to Global Communication and Development.
For more information:
http://www.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gca/
------October 19 2007 London, UK Indian Mass Media and Politics of Change This conference aims to bring together researchers looking at the Indian film and media interested in the question of change. Keynote Speaker: Dr John Hutnyk Advisors: Prof Annabelle Sreberny, Dr Mark Hobart, Dr Rachel Dwyer.
For more information: Sacred Media Cow and Centre for Film and Media Studies
http://sacredmediacow.com/?page_id=450
------October 20-21 2007 Beijing, China Harmonious Society, Civil Society and the Media The Chinese Association for Communication has invited the International Communication Association / ICA to join it in organizing an international conference to bring together scholars from China and around the world to discuss some of the pressing issues of communication.
For more information: ICA
http://www.icahdq.org/
------October 25-28 2007 Edmonton, Canada What's the Matter? Cultural Studies and The Question of Urgency The Canadian Association for Cultural Studies / CACS invites for its national conference, to be held at the University of Alberta.
For more information: Sharon Rosenberg Canadian Organisation for Cultural Studies [email protected] http://www.culturalstudies.ca/index.html
------October 26 2007 Jonkoping, Sweden International Copyright and IP Law. Contemporary Challenges for Media Companies This one-day symposium is aimed at intellectual property lawyers working in practice and academia, as well as media industry professionals and researchers with an interest in the effects of the area of law on the business of media.
For more information: Jonkoping International Business School Media Management & Transformation Centre
http://www.ihh.hj.se/mmt/events.html
------October 26-27 2007 Valencia, Espana 5? Congreso Internacional de Etica y Derecho de la Informacion El 5? Congreso Internacional de Etica y Derecho de la Informacion reunira en Valencia a especialistas europeos y americanos en estas materias. Este 5? Congreso Internacional de Etica y Derecho de la Informacion es continuador de las anteriores ediciones, en las que se debatio sobre la veracidad y la objetividad como desafios eticos en la Sociedad de la Informacion; sobre las relaciones entre informacion, libertad y derechos humanos; sobre la informacion para la paz, autocritica de los medios y responsabilidad del publico; y sobre los aspectos eticos y juridicos del entretenimiento audiovisual.
For more information: Fundacion COSO Phone: +34 96 392 29 47 [email protected] http://www.fundacioncoso.org/congreso/
------October 27-31 2007 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Communication at the Crossroad of Globalization Communication educators, students and media professionals are invited to submit research papers and panel proposals for the Twelfth International Conference of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators / AUSACE.
For more information: Dr. Badran Badran Arab-US Association for Communication Educators/ Zayed University [email protected] http://www.zu.ac.ae/ausace/
------November 1-2 2007 San Francisco, USA Shoot, Rip & Burn: Cinema's Digital Insurgency A conference on the rapid development and proliferation of digital media technologies as a revolution.
For more information: Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association [email protected] http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~cinegsa/
------November 2-3 2007 Sussex, UK Digital Media - European Perspectives Target participants of this conferenca are ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section members, but the conference is open to all.
For more information: Maren Hartmann European Communication Research and Education Association / ECREA [email protected] http://www.ecrea.eu/events/seminars
------November 8-9 2007 Surrey, UK Landmarks: 25 years of Universal Pragmatics, Facts and Fictions This conference is the first of ECREA's Philosophy of Communication Section biannual conference series. It tries to uncover new pathways deriving from a renewed examination of communication theories' philosophical axioms and fundamentals.
For more information: European Communication Research and Education Association / ECREA [email protected] http://www.landmarks.philosophy-of-communication.eu/
------November 8-9 2007 Staffordshire, UK Journalism and Politics The Media and Politics Group of the Political Studies Association is to hold its annual conference. The conference is themed around 'Journalism & Politics', and the intention is to look specifically at the relationship between journalists and the political system.
For more information: Professor Mick Temple Political Studies Association [email protected] http://www.psa.ac.uk
------November 9-10 2007 Urbana-Champaign, USA African Film Conference The African film conference in Urbana-Champaign will explore how an appreciation of films as mode of expression and form can be combined with an understanding of their content. For more information: Mahir Saul University of Illinois Department of Anthropology [email protected] http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=154782
------November 15-17 2007 Izmir, Turkey International Symposium on Media and Politics This international symposium aims to discuss the interdependent relations between media and politics.
For more information: Ege University [email protected] http://www.mp.ege.edu.tr
------November 17-18 2007 London, UK Channel 4 Conference As part of a project reviewing 25 years of British broadcaster Channel 4, the BFI is organising a major academic conference to assess the channel's history. The aim is to discuss the impact and influence that C4 has had on the production and consumption of television in the UK, and on British life as a whole.
For more information: Phil Wickham [email protected] [email protected]
------November 22-23 2007 Paris, Sorbonne, France Media and Communication: Quantitative and Econometric Analyses Any research work involving quantitative analyses (econometrics in a broad sense) is eligible for the conference. The field covered includes both traditional media such as Press, Radio and TV, and the "new media, such as Internet. Guest speakers: Eli M. Noam, Columbia University, Robert Picard, Technical University of Jonkoping Hitoshi Mitomo, Waseda University, Philippe Tassi, Mediametrie.
For more information: Frederick Divialle Applied Econometric Association / AEA [email protected] http://www.aea-eu.com/2007Paris
------November 29-30 2007 Glasgow, Scotland National Days: Summoning The Nation? Celebrating, Commemorating, Communicating, Contesting This conference welcomes proposals for papers on the subject of National Days on: National Days in film, television, radio and the press; National days and the internet; National Days and tourism among others.
For more information: Irene Brown Glasgow Caledonian University Cultural Business Group Phone: +44 141 331 8852 [email protected] http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/nationaldays/
------November 30 - December 2 2007 Dunedin, New Zealand IASPM-ANZ Conference: Music on the Edge The title reflects Dunedin s geographic isolation from other Australasian centres of cultural influence, but also the culture of alternative music that has long predominated in the local music scene. Four thematic areas are outlined: 1. The edge of discipline(s) 2. The edge of popular 3. The edges of society. The cutting edge.
For more information: Dan Bendrups The International Association for the Study of Popular Music University of Otago Phone: +64 3 479 4025 [email protected] http://www.iaspm.net/start.html
------December 7-9 2007 Fudan, China Communication and China Fudan Forum 2007 Fudan University has set the stage for the launching of Communication and China Fudan Forum as part of its institutional commitment to global intellectual exchange. The forum is expected to gather seasoned researchers both at home and abroad to a platform of ideas, that celebrates diversity of viewpoints and contribution to knowledge in China s communication research. Conference theme: Media Literacy and Citizenship
For more information: Xue Li Fudan University Center for Information and Communication Studies Phone: 86-21-65643743 Fax: 86-21-65644784 [email protected]
------December 13-15 2007 Brussels, Belgium European Perspectives on Film Culture: Film Exhibition and Cinemagoing in Historical Comparative Context Target participants of this conference are ECREA Film Studies Section members, but the conference is open to all.
For more information: Philippe Meers European Communication Research and Education Association / ECREA [email protected] http://www.ecrea.eu/events/seminars/
------February 13-16 2008 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture The Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA aims to promote an innovative and nontraditional academic movement in humanities and social sciences, to provide an outlet for scholars, writers, and others interested in the popular culture.
For more information: Sally Sanchez Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA [email protected] http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
------March 14-15 2008 Denton, USA Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th- 21st Century Submissions are invited on any topic dealing with the concept of "Spanishness" in the Spanish novel and/or cinema of the 20th-21st century.
For more information: Dr. Cristina Sanchez-Conejero University of North Texas Foreign Languages and Literature [email protected] http://www.forl.unt.edu/events/Spanishness2008.html
------March 26-28 2008 Liverpool, UK City in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image City in Film will explore the relationship between film, architecture and the urban landscape drawing on interests in film, architecture, urban studies and civic design, cultural geography, cultural studies and related fields.
For more information: Dr Richard Koeck University of Liverpool School of Architecture / School of Politics and Communication Studies [email protected] http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/cityinfilm/
------April 3-5 2008 Miami, FL, USA Politics and Propaganda The 29th Annual Conference of Nineteenth Century Studies Association / NCSA.
For more information: Lauren Christos NCSA
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html
------April 17-19 2008 Tunis Interact and Transmit, Inform and Communicate: Which Values, Which Development? This French-Tunisian International Conference has the purpose of:
- Reinforce scientific partnership started several years ago between the French Society of Information and Communication Sciences [La Societe francaise des sciences de l'information et de la communication] and the researchers of the Higher Institute of Documentation [lInstitut Superieur de Documentation] and those of the Press and Information Sciences Institute [lInstitut de presse et des sciences de linformation] of the University of Manouba. - Initiate and develop new scientific collaboration with other researchers in social and human sciences within the Maghrebian countries and in an interdisciplinary perspective.
For more information: SFSCI / ISD / IPSI [email protected] http://www.sfsic.org/portail/index.php? name=News&catid=&topic=1&allstories=1
------April 24-25 2008 Trondheim, Norway Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Child and Teen Consumption This conference is the third in an ongoing series establishing a dialogue between specialists from a variety of academic disciplines focusing on young consumers in contemporary society.
For more information: Vebjorg Tingstad or Karin Ekberg The Norwegian University of Science and Technology / NTNU Norwegian Centre for Child Research [email protected] (after july 2007) http://www.svt.ntnu.no/noseb/Consuming/
------May 22-26 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada ICA 58th Annual Conference The 2008 International Communication Association Conference / ICA Conference will be held in Montreal.
For more information: International Communication Association [email protected] http://www.icahdq.org/
------July 3-7 2008 Kingston, Jamaica The 7th Crossroads Conference The International Crossroads Conferences were started in 1996 in Tampere, Finland to fill what was felt to be a gap in the international cultural studies community. The seventh Crossroads Conference will be held in Kingston, Jamaica.
For more information: Assosication for Cultural Studies / ACS
http://www.crossroads2008.org/
------July 20-25 2008 Stockholm, Sweden IAMCR Conference 2008: Media and Global Divides Stockholm University and the Dept of Journalism, Media and Communication has the privilege to host the 26th scientific conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) to be held in Stockholm. The Conference will address relationships between media and contemporary global divides, be they historically founded or emergent phenomena. It will explore the pivotal, but still under-researched, roles of the media with regard to today s global inequalities.
For more information: IAMCR [email protected] http://www.jmk.su.se/contents/sidor/english/info/scientific_confe rence.php
------October 30 - November 2 2008 Chicago, USA Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, facilitates a biennial international conference that brings scholars from around the world together.
For more information: The Center for the Study of Film and History [email protected] http://www.filmandhistory.org
------May 21-25 2009 Chicago, IL, USA ICA 59th Annual Conference The 2009 International Communication Association Conference / ICA Conference will be held in Chicago.
For more information: International Communication Association [email protected] http://www.icahdq.org/
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Barcelona, Spain European Communication Conference 2008 The next European Communication Conference will be held in Barcelona. The conference will be co-organised by the Faculty of Communication and the Institute of Communication / InCom of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona / UAB. More details will be announced as they become available.
For more information: European Communication Research and Education Association / ECREA
http://www.ecrea.eu/news/article/id/4
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Nordic conferences
June 18-19 2007 Stockholm, Sverige The Nordic Conference on Information and Documentation The conference will deal with the human aspect of IT. It could be within the field of knowledge organization, information tasks, librarianship, learning and teaching as well as other aspects of information technology. The conference is held every third year and is a Nordic venue on information and knowledge management. It concentrates on the latest methods, applied science, development and technology in the field of information science, librarianship and knowledge management.
For more information: Swedish Association for Information Specialists [email protected] http://nordiod2007.sfis.nu/
------June 25-28 2007 Reykjavik, Island 24:e Nordiska Statistikermotet Vad skall vi mata? Hur skall vi mata? Matproblem i statistik ar temat for denna nordiska konferens, organiserad av Hagstofa Islands (Statistics Iceland).
For more information: Phone: +354 528 1000 [email protected] http://www.nordstat2007.is/
------August 15-16 2007 Helsinki, Finland New Media, New Theories, New Methods Prior to the Nordic Conference for Media and Communication Research in Helsinki, the NordForsk Ph.d.-network in Media and Communication Research will arrange a seminar, open for 25 Nordic doctoral students.
For more information: Per Jauert NordForsk [email protected] http://old.imv.au.dk/eng/academic/norfa.html
------August 16-19 2007 Helsinki, Finland Den 18:e Nordiska konferensen for medie- och kommunikationsforskning Den 18:e Nordiska konferensen for medie- och kommunikationsforskning ager rum i Helsingfors 2007.Tema for arets konferens ar 'Generationer, kommunikation och mediefilosofi'. I samband med konferensen haller aven Foreningen for svensk medie- och kommunikationsforskning / FSMK sitt arsmote.
For more information: Sinikka Torkkola, Generalsekreterare Phone: + 358 3 3551 4170 [email protected] http://www.uta.fi/conference/nordmedia2007/
------August 27-28 2007 Turku, Finland International Research Policy Conference In collaboration with the European Research Council (ERC), the Finnish Ministry of Education, Nordic Council of Ministers, NordForsk and the Academy of Finland are organising the international conference Excellence Stems from People. The conference aims to identify the optimal conditions for developing Excellence in research.
For more information: Heli Salminen [email protected] http://www.eventnordic.fi/congreszon/excellence07/
------September 21-26 2007 Oulu, Finland 18th Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival Nordisk Panorama Event is the main platform for short films and documentaries in the Nordic region, offering an annual business venue and showcase, spanning all professional focus areas from development and financing to distribution and exhibition.
For more information: Jing Haase FILMKONTAKT NORD [email protected] http://www.filmkontakt.com
------September 27-30 2007 Lund, Sverige EUPRERA 2007: Public Relations och Strategisk kommunikation ur ett nordiskt perspektiv Avdelningen for Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet kommer hosten 2007 i samarbete med ansvariga for utbildningen i Public Relations vid Roskilde Universitetscenter, Danmark, att sta som vardar for en stor internationell konferens kring Public Relations och Strategisk kommunikation. Konferensen ar en del i ett arligt arrangemang inom ramen for den europeiska forskarsammanslutningen EUPRERA som 2005 mottes i Lissabon, Portugal och 2006 i Preston, UK.
For more information: Gunilla Jarlbro, Helena Sandberg Lunds universitet Phone: +46 46 2228837, +46 46 2220329 Fax: +46 46 2224794 [email protected] [email protected] http://euprera.eprn.org/
------October 3-5 2007 Helsinki, Finland Towards a New Consumer? Towards a New Consumer Policy? A Nordic conference with the aim of increasing the dialogue between consumer researchers and the practitioners of consumer policy. For more information: Director Eila Kilpio, Professor Folke Olander or Dr Herdis D. Baldvinsdottir The Nordic Forum for Consumer Research [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]
------October 5-7 2007 Uppsala, Sweden Nordic Africa Days The Nordic Africa Institute invite to the Nordic Africa Days 2007. The conference will be structured around lectures given by internationally known scholars and workshops led by researchers at the Nordic Africa Institute and their networking colleagues. Workshop among others are Restrictions and Possibilities: The Media in Discourses of Migration, Citizenship and Belonging in Africa. Convener: Hilde Arntsen
For more information: Nina Klinge Nygard Uppsala University The Nordic Africa Institute [email protected] http://www.nai.uu.se/news/conferences/
------October 25-28 2007 Vaxjo, Sweden Imagine Media! Media Borders and Intermediality Nordic Society for Interarts Studies announce its eighth conference, to be held at Vaxjo University, Sweden. The aim of the conference is to illuminate the very basic queries in order to facilitate communication and theoretical cross-fertilization over the borders between the aesthetic disciplines, media & communication studies, linguistics etc. Keynote speakers will be W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago and Jurgen E. Muller, Universitat Bayreuth.
For more information: Nordic Society for Interarts Studies / NorSIS [email protected] http://www.vxu.se/hum/forskn/ims/imagine_media/
------October 25-27 2007 Stockholm, Sweden Nordic Visual Studies Workshop II The Nordic Network for Visual Social Science arranges its second conference under the title: Through the Image: Using the visual to investigate, analyze, create and present . Scholars from the Nordic and Baltic countries and, particularly, doctoral students, with a strong visual orientation in their dissertation/work, are invited to participate and present their work.
For more information: The Nordic Network for Visual Social Science [email protected] http://visual.sociology.su.se
------November 13-14 2007 Helsinki, Finland Nordic Mobile Media Conference Mobile Media convergence seems to be the next phase in the evolution of the Telco and Media industries as handheld devices, mobile communications and conventional media are converging to form a new type of media Mobile Media .
For more information: Phone: +372 640 8501 Fax: +372 640 8502 [email protected] http://www.nordicmobilemedia.com/index.html
------April 21-23 2008 Lund, Sweden Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication In order to discuss, present and analyse the problems and challenges that arise within scholarly communication Lund University Libraries invite scholars, publishers, vendors, editors, librarians and other interested parties to the Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication.
For more information: Hakan Carlsson Lund University [email protected] http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc
------July 20-25 2008 Stockholm, Sverige IAMCR 2008 The International Association of Media and Communication Research / IAMCR:s internationella rad har beslutat att lata nasta stora internationella konferens ga till Stockholm. Det blir forsta gangen i historien (organisationen fyller 50 ar i ar) som en sadan konferens halls i Norden. Ambitionen ar ocksa att skapa en konferens med nordiska fortecken.
For more information: IAMCR
http://www.jmk.su.se/contents/sidor/english/info/scientific_confe rence.php
------National conferences
June 11-13 2007 Norrkoping, Sverige Kulturstudier i Sverige: andra nationella forskarkonferensen Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden / ACSIS arrangerar Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden i samarbete med den Europeiska grenen av den internationella forskarforeningen Association for Cultural Studies / ACS. Konferensen ar oppen for doktorander och forskare med intresse for tvarvetenskapliga kulturstudier. Den ager rum i Norrkoping vid Louis de Geer konsert och kongress och Campus Norrkoping, Linkopings universitet.
For more information: Bodil Axelsson ACSIS [email protected] http://www.isak.liu.se/acsis/konferenser
------June 13-15 2007 Goteborg, Sweden Game in Action Games do not have viewers, they have users, and are therefore radically different from media like cartoons or television. Online games, connecting gamers in a virtual play-ground, adds further complexity and makes it even harder to grasp games in relation to older forms of media. The conference aims at focusing on the research of different aspects of the activity of gaming.
For more information: Jonas Linderoth Goteborg University [email protected] http://www.learnit.org.gu.se/english/conference_venues/Game_in_Ac tion/
------June 19 2007 Copenhagen, Denmark New Literacies: Conflict or Confluence? This one-day conference has as its overall objective to bring key researchers in literacy studies together in order to map out and debate the commonalities as well as the differencies in theory-driven literacy research. The conference is organised by DREAM, Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials in association with the University of Aarhus, University of Roskilde, and University of Southern Denmark.
For more information: [email protected] http://www.dream.dk
------June 25-26 2007 Halmstad, Sweden Media, Youth Culture and Ethnicity. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges The organisers invite scholars with special interests in issues relating to media, migration and young people. Confirmed speakers: Stuart Cunningham, Liesbeth de Block, Leen d'Haenens, Sonja de Leeuw, Olga Guedes Bailey, Kaoruko Kondo, Litsa Kourti, Heinz Moser, Thomas Tufte.
For more information: Ingegerd Rydin or Ulrika Sjogren Halmstad University [email protected] or [email protected] http://www.hh.se
------June 27-30 2007 Norrkoping, Sweden In the Name of the Child. The Social and Cultural History of Children and Youth A conference on history of children and youth from all periods of time with comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives borrowing from areas such as demography, ethnography, ideological analysis, institutional approaches, legal studies, media studies, psychological frameworks, etc.
For more information: Petra Andreasson Linkoping University Department of Child Studies [email protected] http://www.liu.se/shcy2007/
------June 27-29 2007 Lillehammer, Norway Video in Teaching and Learning The main goal for the conference DIVERSE 2007 is to enhance the use of video in teaching and learning. Those who produce, use or want to use video in their daily work, or do research within this area are invited.
For more information: Per Eriksson Lillehammer University College Phone: +47 61 28 83 52 [email protected]
------August 15-17 2007 Stockholm, Sweden Regulating Chemical Risks: Science, Politics and the Media This conference welcomes contributions from both natural and social science. The conference is open for both academics and practitioners, including people representing the media, industry, government and NGOs. The conference is organized by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies / CBEES at Sodertorn University College in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and the Royal Institute of Technology.
For more information: Karin Johansson Sodertorn University College Phone: +46 8 608 4365 [email protected] http://www.sh.se/chemicalrisks07
------August 16-17 2007 Kobenhavn, Danmark Tvfestival.dk Tvfestival.dk bestar af omkring 25 sessions, heraf er 2/3 med internationale speakere. Festivalens sessions bestar af paneldebatter eller one-man-sessions, hvor en opl?gsholder gar i dybden med et emne eller et program. Stort set alle genre diskuteres - dokumentar, nyheder og diverse underholdningsformater. Tvfestival.dk er en non-profit event, der arrangeres af Producentforeningen og stottes af DR, TV2, TV3 og SBS TV samt en r?kke ovrige sponsorer.
For more information: Producentforeningen [email protected] http://www.tvfestival.dk/sw14757.asp
------August 17 2007 Helsingfors, Finland FSMK:s arsmote Foreningen for svensk medie- och kommunikationsforskning / FSMK haller sitt arsmote i samband med den nordiska konferensen i Helsingfors. Lokal anslas och meddelas i samband med konferensen.
For more information: FSMK
------September 20-22 2007 Jonkoping, Sweden Media Brands: Their Management, Effects, and Social Implications The objective of the conference is to explore media brand management in theory and practice. The conference will also seek better understanding of the effects of media brands on consumer media behaviour as well as on society.
For more information: Dr. Per-Erik Wolff Jonkoping International Business School [email protected] http://www.ihh.hj.se/mmt/events.html
------October 5-7 2007 Uppsala, Sweden Restrictions and Possibilities. The Media in Discourses of Migration, Citizenship and Belonging in Africa The workshop invites research papers that critically discuss aspects of the media and media texts in discourses of migration, citizenship and belonging in contemporary societies in Africa and its diasporas.
For more information: Uppsala University Nordic Africa Institute [email protected] http://www.nai.uu.se/news/conferences/en/2006/0510T000000U9/
------October 26 2007 Jonkoping, Sweden International Copyright and IP Law. Contemporary Challenges for Media Companies This one-day symposium is aimed at intellectual property lawyers working in practice and academia, as well as media industry professionals and researchers with an interest in the effects of the area of law on the business of media.
For more information: Jonkoping International Business School Media Management & Transformation Centre
http://www.ihh.hj.se/mmt/events.html
------November 8-9 2007 Joensuu, Finland Changing Views on Technology, Media and Cultural Approaches The seminar presents recent developments, views and ideas of cultural and social studies of technology, its methodologies, practices and future prospects. The aim of the event is to develop and strength the field of cultural and social studies of technology and media in Finland.
For more information: Noora Talsi University of Joensuu [email protected] http://www.joensuu.fi/englishindex.html
------November 30 - December 1 2007 Vaasa, Finland National Conference of Communication Studies 2007 The University Network for Communications Sciences, University of Vaasa, is hosting this conference on reader- and user-oriented communication.
Key note speakers: FT Frans Mayra, Tampereen yliopisto and Dr. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University.
For more information: Heli Katajamaki University of Vaasa Department of Communication Studies [email protected] http://www.uwasa.fi/viestintatieteet/english/conference/
------April 24-25 2008 Trondheim, Norway Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Child and Teen Consumption This conference is the third in an ongoing series establishing a dialogue between specialists from a variety of academic disciplines focusing on young consumers in contemporary society.
For more information: Vebjorg Tingstad or Karin Ekberg The Norwegian University of Science and Technology / NTNU Norwegian Centre for Child Research [email protected] (after july 2007) http://www.svt.ntnu.no/noseb/Consuming/