[ecrea] Call for papers - Conference - Media and history: crime, violence and justice

Call for papers

MEDIA AND HISTORY:CRIME, VIOLENCE and JUSTICE

XXVII conference of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA AND HISTORY 
(IAMHIST)

July 10-13, 2017 – PARIS, FRANCE

Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of the 
Media (CARISM) and the French Press Institute, Panthéon-Assas 
University, Paris (France), the conference marks the 40th anniversary of 
IAMHIST as well as the 80th anniversary of the French Press Institute.



THEME:

MEDIA AND HISTORY: CRIME, VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE is the main topic of the 
conference and a special section will also deal with international and 
comparative approaches to media history. Workshops for younger scholars 
will be organized.

The relations between media and the acts or representations of crime, 
violence and justice are evolving through history. The openness of this 
call for papers is voluntary chosen in order to receive diverse and 
critical proposals dealing with this broad topic. Most of the time, it 
is through media that we encounter conflicts and violence; from news 
formats to fictional accounts; from traditional media such as 
newspapers, film, radio and television to ‘newer’ interactive media. 
Such media coverage is very frequently linked to debates on law and 
order. How can an open society react to crime and violence? Often, the 
relationship between conflict and crime and their representation can 
cause various conflicts.

First, media can become tools of propaganda, war and discrimination. 
They are then not only ways to communicate information but they are also 
part of performativity and action.Second, media can become a target of 
violence themselves, whether or not in totalitarian states or countries 
where the freedom of speech is restricted. Third, in each historical 
context, ‘new’ media inventions can produce an atmosphere of fear and 
violent contest or censorship, especially when they disturb existing 
(political) power patterns or structures. Fourth, media and 
communication technologies are also an essential part of social 
movements and political activism by offering spaces of visibility and 
instruments of contestation aimed at social change that can lead to 
situations of conflict and confrontations within the public sphere.

These various relations of media to crime, violence and justice are not 
new. Numerous scholars work or have worked on this topic by focusing on 
media and law, politics, journalism, media activism, war, (cultural) 
diplomacy or likewise the narration and mediatization of war, conflicts, 
punishment, violence, crime and justice. The latter are not only an 
essential part of news and the journalistic, political agenda, but they 
are also essential when it comes to fictional formats such as film or 
television series. Depending on historical, political and cultural 
premises, the signification and definition of crime and violence in 
media and law texts ask the question of the circulation and 
understanding of these concepts in society. This conference aims to 
(re)think the historical relations between media, crime, violence and 
justice also in order to offer new insights into more recent forms of 
this very complex interplay.

TOPICS:

Scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and approaches 
(history - media and communication studies – law - politics, gender, 
queer and feminist studies – sociology – anthropology - economy etc.) 
are welcome to submit papers and panel proposals that deal critically 
with the following topics:

- Historical representation/mediatization/definitions of crime, violence 
and justice in news or informational formats, film, documentaries, 
television drama or radio plays

- Historical approaches to media events related to crime, violence and 
justice.

- The production and reception of news and fiction dealing with crime, 
violence and justice

- Media historical approaches to symbolic and physical violence

- The crime scene, the criminal and the victims in news and fiction

- Historical (media-) constructions of the judge, the lawyer or secret 
service agents

- ‘New’ media inventions as aggregators of fear, conflict or censorship

- The historical role of media and technologies in social and political 
protest, movements and activism, leading sometimes to conflicts and violence

- The historical (international) relations of legal public entities, 
diplomacy, the police and the military with journalists and media 
institutions

- Media as targets of violence and crime

- The role of media archives for the historiography and memory of crime, 
violence and justice

- Media, history and criminology

- The history of cybercrime

- Legal actions attacking or protecting media content and their 
producers or audiences/users

There is also one special area dedicated to the question of 
international approaches to media history. Panel and paper proposals in 
this field are warmly welcome. The idea is to have space for 
epistemological, theoretical, practical and also comparative discussions 
on how media history is thought and experienced in different cultural 
areas: what kinds of archives are accessible, in creation or needed, the 
place of media history in academia etc.



SUBMITTING A PAPER OR PANEL PROPOSALS:

Please send your proposal to the (iamhist2017 /at/ gmail.com) until December 
15th by inserting your text directly in the body of the mail or by 
attaching a WORD-file. PDF documents will NOT be accepted. Members of 
the scientific committee will peer-review the proposals anonymously.

Panel proposals: three paper presentations for each panel (a general 
outline of max. 400 words and a 500 words-abstract with title for each 
paper, a short biography)

Individual paper proposals: a title, an abstract of 500 words, a short 
biography

Proposals for presentations of artistic or (multi-)media projects are 
also welcomed.



SCHEDULE:

. September 15th: Launch call for abstracts for papers and panels

. December 15th, 2016: Last day to submit abstracts for papers and panels

. February 15th, 2017: notification of panel and abstract decisions





REGISTRATION:

Registration fees for conference speakers and participants

. iamhist members (students): 130 Euros

. iamhist members:150 Euros

The fees include breakfast (Tuesday – Thursday), coffee breaks, lunch, 
the Monday evening reception and the conference package.

Registration fees for non Iamhist members:

.students: 165 Euros

.others:195 Euros

The fees include a one-year iamhist membership , breakfast (Tuesday – 
Thursday), breaks, lunch, theMonday evening reception and the conference 
package.



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Claire Blandin (Université Paris 13)

Nataly Botero (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Nicholas Cull (University of Southern California)

Fabrice d’Almeida (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Valérie Devillard (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Leen Engelen (LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven)

Agnès Granchet (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Tobias Hochscherf (U of Applied Sciences Kiel in Germany/ U of Flensburg)

Isabelle Huré (Université de Franche-Comté)

Frédéric Lambert (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Guillaume LeSaunier (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

Tristan Mattelart (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Cécile Méadel (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Katharina Niemeyer (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Bibia Pavard (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Francois Robinet (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

Giuseppina Sapio (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Guillaume Sire (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Roel Vande Winkel (KU Leuven/ LUCA School of Arts)


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