[Commlist] ICA 2023 Preconference on the Legacies of Elihu Katz

CFP: ICA Preconference on the Legacies of Elihu Katz

Preconference date & location: 25 May 2023, as part of the International 
Communication ‘Association annual conference at the Sheraton Centre 
Toronto Hotel

Submission deadline: 20 December 2022. (there is no registration fee for 
this preconference)

Elihu Katz (1926–2021) was a peerless scholar, colleague, mentor, 
administrator, and friend to many in the field of communication. His 
passing has left the field with an absence that calls out for 
remembrance and for scholarly consideration. This one-day, all-plenary 
preconference will create a space for scholarly exchange on Katz’s life, 
works, and themes—a forum, in other words, for active, critical 
engagement with his legacy for the field. The preconference invites 
presenters to explore, critique, and extend Katz’s contributions to 
communication scholarship. Some will situate Katz’s legacies in 
pertinent historical contexts; others will use his work to imagine media 
futures; still others will consider Katz’s many roles (teacher, 
institution-builder, broadcast pioneer, mentor).

Some lines of inquiry presenters may wish to explore include, but are 
not limited to, the following topics:

* considerations of journalism and the public that draw upon Katz’s 
configurations of Gabriel Tarde’s ideas

* explorations of the promise and limitations of the idea of the media 
ritual

* elaborations upon the idea of the two-step flow of media effects

* diffusion processes in varied media and networks

* the evolution and contemporary significance of the concept of media events

* perspectives on Katz’s ideas that come from disparate subfields in 
communication, including but not limited to: interpersonal 
communication, organizational communication, and intercultural communication

* philosophical interrogations of Katz’s ideas and research

empirical studies that draw explicitly on Katz’s ideas, for instance 
cross-cultural readings of American television inspired by the Export of 
Meaning* (his co-authored book with Tamar-Liebes)

* Shifts of emphasis in media studies between content providers and 
audiences

* Katz’s place in the canon of media studies

* new ideas concerning the Katzian intersection of mass communication 
and interpersonal communication

* transpositions of Katz’s ideas into new arenas, like human-machine 
communication and virtual reality

* historical scholarship addressing:

* Katz’s involvement in broadcasting and mass media, including his role 
as a creator of Israeli Television

* the export of Katz’s ideas to communication and media studies 
departments around the world

* the impact of Katz’s ideas on academic fields and areas of practice 
outside of communication

Abstracts of 400 words (maximum), in Spanish or English, should be 
submitted no later than 20 December 2022. Draft papers will be 
pre-circulated in advance of the preconference, with all participants 
expected to read in advance. Send abstracts to the pre-conference 
organizers at:(legaciesofkatz /at/ gmail.com) 
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Presenters will work within a timeline established to ensure that full 
papers are available for password-protected precirculation a month or 
more before the preconference, on the expectation that presented and 
non-presenters attendees read the papers in advance. The benefit of 
pre-circulation is that the bulk of time devoted to each panel can be 
given over to discussion among presenters and other attendees.

Authors will be informed regarding acceptance/rejection no later than 10 
January 2023. The preconference will take place on 25 May, 2023, and 
will be **free to all participants**, thanks to generous support from 
the Department of Communication and the Smart Family Institute of 
Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Annenberg 
School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern 
California, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University 
of Pennsylvania.

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