[ecrea] Stuart Hall Award 2015

The International Association for Media and Communication Research – 
IAMCR – invites applications from graduate students and emerging 
scholars for a prize in memory of Stuart Hall, to be awarded at IAMCR 
annual conference (July 12-16 2015) in Montreal, Canada.

The Stuart Hall Award was established at IAMCR's Hyderabad Conference to 
celebrate his lasting contribution to communications scholarship and to 
remember his work. His writings, inspirational mentoring and teaching, 
intellectual leadership, and political vision, shaped the study of 
communications in decisive ways.

The deadline for submissions is 4 April 2015.


   Criteria

A scholarly paper with an innovative theoretical foundation, combining 
analytical excellence with a commitment to extending the 
interventionist, critical attributes that marked Stuart Hall's 
contribution to the study of media, culture and communication.


   Rules

   * Papers may be submitted by graduate students and emerging scholars
     who have been members of IAMCR for at least one year and who are
     under the age of 35 at the time the paper is submitted.
   * Papers are limited to 7,000 words.
   * Papers must be based on work that has not already been published.


   Procedure

   * The closing date for submissions is April 4, 2015. Send
     submissions in electronic form to the Stuart Hall Award Committee
     (see below). The subject of your message should be Stuart Hall
     Award 2015.
   * If an award is made, the author(s) will be notified at least 3
     weeks before the IAMCR conference when the result will be publicly
     announced.
   * The award consists of a cash prize of USD 1,000, plus the 2015
     IAMCR Conference registration fee, together with a commemorative
     plaque marking the winner’s achievement.
   * An award will not necessarily be made following the Call, and
     decisions arrived at by the Stuart Hall Award Committee will be final.


   2015 Stuart Hall Award Committee

   * Hopeton S. Dunn, Chair, The University of the West Indies
   * Graham Murdock, University of Loughborough, UK
   * Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, India
   * Garry Whannel, University of Bedfordshire, UK

*Send submissions to*: hall2015 (at) iamcr.org with *Stuart Hall Award 
2015* as the subject of your message.

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   Brief biography of Stuart Hall

*Stuart Hall* was born in Kingston, Jamaica on February 3, 1932 and 
attended Jamaica College. He won the Rhodes Scholarship and left Jamaica 
in 1951 to study in Merton College at Oxford University in England. His 
experiences and analyses of race, popular culture and anti-colonial 
struggles fashioned his early scholarship, leading to an exceptional and 
distinguished career in cultural studies and communications theories.

Hall's theoretical constructs, including original and influential ideas 
on Encoding and Decoding in communication discourses, Multiculturalism 
and Ethnicity in Sociology and his re-conceptualization of Reception 
Theory, among others, all earned him wide respect and admiration by 
several generations of academics and communication scholars around the 
world.

Stuart Hall's early scholarship from the political left, advanced to new 
levels after he moved to Birmingham in the British Midlands, where, 
under the leadership of writer and academic Richard Hoggart, he served 
as a Research Fellow and later Director of the Centre for Contemporary 
Cultural Studies at Birmingham University. Hall is regarded as the 
founder of the modern discipline of 'Cultural Studies'. He developed an 
impressive body of work on issues of cultural hegemony, identity and 
communication.

He became Professor of Sociology at the Open University in the UK in 
1979, remaining there until 1998, when he retired in the capacity of 
Professor Emeritus. Hall remained active as a critical scholar and 
leading intellectual throughout his retirement, until his death on 
February 10, 2014, one week after his 82nd birthday.

See the videos of the plenary session held in tribute to Stuart Hall at 
IAMCR's 2014 conference in Hyderabad, India 
<http://iamcr.org/congress/hyderabad2014/video-tribute-to-stuart-hall>.