[ecrea] CfP IAMCR 2016, Leicester, UK // International Association for Media and Communication Research

The Call for Proposals for the 2016 conference of the International
Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR's 2016 - is now 
published on the conference website at
<http://iamcr.org/leicester2016> and copied below.

The conference will be held from *27 -31 July 2016* in Leicester, UK.
The deadline to submit abstracts is *midnight GMT on 15 February 2016*.

The individual CfPs of IAMCR's sections and working groups are also
online. Follow the links at the end of this email of go to
<http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp#SWG>http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp#SWG

*Conference theme: *


Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward

This year'€™s conference theme seeks to explore the relationship between
memory, commemoration and communication. This theme anticipates the 60th 
anniversary, in 2017, of IAMCR, which has played a strong role in the 
development of media and communication studies.

Although scholars have long been interested in memory and culture,
advancements in technologies are providing new and innovative
opportunities to think about how memory is created, preserved, passed
on, and archived. Within academia, we have witnessed increased interest
in cultural memory studies – from media representations of the past to
oral history projects - and growing interest in digitizing data leading
to the history of everything. Various public bodies are also engaged in
this work. In the UK, for example, the BBC launched a Public Space
Project in 2011, which saw the corporation link up with various other
cultural institutions including libraries, galleries, museums, archives, 
schools, colleges and universities to make cultural material publicly 
and freely available to all. The following year, BBC’s Radio 4
launched the Listening Project, which seeks to broadcast ‘intimate
conversations’ on topics such as living with Alzheimer’s and 
falling
in love, in order to ‘help to build a unique picture of our lives
today’ which will be preserved for future generations. Across the
globe, there are numerous examples of oral history projects,
associations, and commemorative organisations and websites on topics
such as the Holocaust, the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, World Wars
One and Two, immigration, oral literature, and popular memory.

As a result, the growing interest in (mediations of) cultural memory
provides a timely opportunity not only to look back at which memories
are preserved and which forgotten, but also to look forward to how
cultural memories might be archived, remembered, (re)produced, storied,
erased, modified and re-told across time and space. The theme also opens 
up space to commemorate IAMCR's history and contribution to the field of 
media and communication research.

This year'€™s conference welcomes paper and panel proposals that engage
with the concepts of memory and commemoration, and with the ways the
past is (re)mediated, historicised, documented, archived, remembered,
forgotten and (re)told. It also welcomes submissions which commemorate
IAMCR as an organisation as well as the contributions its members have
made over the years. Looking forward, papers might also address where
the field is heading. Submissions might also focus on areas such as:
memory and colonialism; commemoration of historic events; the
reproduction of culture through story-telling; the media's role in
(re)producing cultural narratives and commemorations. We welcome
submissions from early career researchers and veteran scholars alike.

Questions asked might include: Why and how do
people/cultures/organisations/families share or hide memories? What
strategies are used to share memories, either collectively or
individually? What role does privilege/inequality play in the creation,
sharing, or preserving of memory? How do individuals, groups, or
cultures learn memories? How are events remembered, retold, preserved or 
erased differently in different locations, historic periods, spaces and 
cultures? How is storytelling conceived of as a form of cultural memory? 
When looking to the future, what is the relationship between forms of 
memory and ideas about technologies moving towards the "post-human"? We 
welcome contributions ranging from the empirical to the theoretical and 
methodological in focus.


      Submission of Abstracts

Each Section and Working Group of IAMCR will issue its own Call for
Papers, based on the general thematic outline above. Abstracts should be 
submitted from *1 December 2015 – 15 February 2016*. Both individual
and panel submissions are welcome. Early submission is strongly encouraged.


      Deadlines

The deadline for submission of abstracts is *15 February 2016*. Please
note that this deadline will not be extended.

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to applicants
by their Section or Working Group Head no later than *8 April 2016*.

For those whose abstracts are accepted, full conference papers are to be 
submitted by *30 June 2016*.


      Guidelines for Abstracts

Unless otherwise stated by a Section or Working Group, abstracts should
be between 300 and 500 words in length.

All abstract submissions *must* be made via IAMCR's Open Conference
System. There are to be no email submissions of abstracts addressed to
any Section or Working Group Head.

It is expected that for the most part, only one (1) abstract will be
submitted per person. However, under no circumstances should there be
more than two (2) abstracts bearing the name of the same author either
individually or as part of any group of authors. Please note also that
the same abstract or another version with minor variations in title or
content must not be submitted to more than one Section or Working Group.

Such submissions will be deemed to be in breach of the conference
guidelines and will be rejected by the OCS system, by the relevant Head
or by the Conference Programme Reviewer. Authors submitting them risk
being removed entirely from the conference programme.

Technical guidelines, if any, are defined by the individual Sections and 
Working Groups. If you have questions, consult the Section or Working 
Group's specific CfP <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp#SWG> or contact 
the head of the Section and Working Group that interests you.

For further information, please consult the conference website
<http://iamcr.org/leicester2016-test/> or contact the Local Organizing
Committee (LOC) by email at iamcr2016 (at) leicester.ac.uk.


      Criteria for Evaluation

Submitted abstracts will generally be evaluated on the basis of:

 1. theoretical contribution
 2. methods
 3. quality of writing
 4. literature review
 5. relevance of the submission to the work of the Section or Working Group
 6. originality and/or significance

Sections and Working Groups may use additional criteria and may assign
different weights to the above criteria. Consult the specific CfP or
contact the head of the Section and Working Group you want to submit to
if you have questions.


      Sections and Working Groups

Consult the individual CfPs of IAMCR's Sections and Working Groups from
the links below.


      Sections

* Audience <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_aud>
* Communication Policy & Technology
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_cpt>
* Community Communication <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_coc>
* Emerging Scholars Network <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_esn>
* Gender & Communication <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_gec>
* History <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_his>
* International Communication
* Journalism Research & Education <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_jre>
* Law <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_law> - Derecho
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_law_es>
* Media & Sport <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_mes>
* Media Education Research <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_mer>
* Mediated Communication, Public Opinion & Society
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_mps>
* Participatory Communication Research
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_pcr>
* Political Communication Research
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_pol>
* Political Economy <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_poe>


      Working Groups

* Comic Art
* Communication & HIV/AIDS <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_hcc>
* Crisis Communication <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_cri>
* Diaspora & Media <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_dim>
* Digital Divide <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_did>
* Environment, Science & Risk Communication
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_esr>
* Ethics of Society & Ethics of Communication
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_eth>
* Health Communication & Change <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_hcc>
* Islam & Media <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_iam>
* Media Production Analysis <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_mpa>
* Popular Culture <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_poc>
* Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_psp>
* Public Service Media Policies <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_pmp>
* Religion, Communication & Culture
    <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_rcc>
* Visual Culture <http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_vic>

<http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/faqs#registration>

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