[ecrea] cfp - 4. International Conference in Communication and Media Studies

Call for papers for the Fourth International Conference in Communication 
and Media Studies
Theme: “If You Wish Peace, Care for Justice”
Dates of the Conference:  19-21 November 2014
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Oliver Richmond,
University of Manchester, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, UK
Conference web site:  http://crcp2014.emu.edu.tr
Organizer:  Center of Research and Communication for Peace
  Faculty of Communication and Media Studies
Eastern Mediterranean University
  Famagusta, North Cyprus
  http://fcms.emu.edu.tr/crcp/

The Center of Research and Communication for Peace in the Faculty of 
Communication and Media Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University 
invites paper, panel, and event proposals addressing the general theme 
of “If You Wish Peace, Care for Justice.” The Fourth International 
Conference in Communication and Media Studies, which will be held at the 
Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel in North Cyprus between 19-21 November 
2014, aims at bringing together scholars to present their research and 
exchange ideas in a range of topics under the general theme including:
·       Peace and conflict
·       Justice (unconditional) and the laws (conditional)
·       Remembering or forgetting for peace
·       Documentary: Film as remembering?
·       Filming/forgetting the scene
·       Peace journalism
·       Ethnocentrism and its different manifestations like racism, 
sexism, nationalism, orientalism, agism,
carnism, speciesism
·       Ethnocentrism and xenophobia
·       Truth and reconciliation
·       Truth, representation, and the media
·       Epistemic violence and its role in the perpetration of physical 
violence
·       Theory and politics of non-violence
·       Migration, exile and diaspora
·       Intercultural/International communication
·       Alterglobalization
·       Hospitality and hostility
·       Ethical and political responsibility
·       Dialogue and dialogic of self-other relations
·       Human-animal dissociation and its discontent
·       Our relationship with the Earth
·       Democracy and capitalism, and their relationship with peace and 
justice

Papers will be accepted in both English and Turkish, and there will be 
separate sessions for each language. The opening and closing meetings 
will, however, be conducted mainly in English.

The deadline for submitting proposals is October 15, 2014.

Please send your abstract (not more than 300 words) to: (crcp /at/ emu.edu.tr)


Theme of the Conference: "If you wish peace, work for justice"

Our global economy and governance today are marked by exponentially 
growing local and global inequalites where the growth of affluence 
simultaneously creates and depends, as a condition of its possibility, 
on environmental destruction, and human misery and poverty. The “global 
division of labor,” which enables the corporations to have the goods 
sold under their brand-name to be produced in the impoverished parts of 
the globe—precisely because labor and environment can be super-exploited 
in those places—furnish but one example. Global warming and climate 
change provides another flagrant example.

The global communication networks that have provided the infrastructure 
of this “global economy,” also have the unintended consequence of 
bringing this intertextual, interdependent relationship to our attention 
regardless of the distances involved. They enable us to see that, in 
Zygmunt Bauman’s words, “no well-being of one place is innocent of the 
misery of another.” Yet, these consequences continue to be treated, in 
many cases, as unrelated or as “economic externalities” in the 
calculation of the “bottom-line,” and do not affect the measure of 
affluence and success.

Turning a blind-eye to these consequences by the short-term 
beneficiaries of this relationship, however, does not make them feel 
safe regarding the repercussions of their actions. They feel insecure 
and vulnerable, and live under the real or imagined threat of the 
multitudes whose lives are adversely affected, seeking to safeguard 
themselves locally by erecting “walls of protection” to shut the 
outsiders, the foreigners, the aliens out, and conducting “wars against 
terrorism” against internal and external threats, which is a stark 
contradiction in terms and feeds the cycle of violence rather than 
peace. The problem is, these “outsiders” are internal to the 
interdependency relationship we are outlining here, and cannot be shut 
out. Hence, justice, in our day, needs to be global and planetary, 
calling for “responsibility and respect for justice concerning those who 
are not there,” in Jacques Derrida’s words. We are facing serious global 
problems and, even while acting locally, we need an international, 
planetary vision and connections and collaboration.



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