[Commlist] CfP International Conference in Scandalogy

*5^th international conference in SCANDALOGY: *

*SCANDALS IN TIMES OF CRISES, CONFLICTS, AND CONSPIRACIES*

*UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG | DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES | BAMBERG, 
GERMANY (IN COOPERATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES 
KUFSTEIN-TYROL)/, /4. APRIL - 6. APRIL 2024 IN BAMBERG*

Society appears to have entered a stage of perpetual crisis and growing 
dysfunctionality. The rapid succession of scandals may be a symptom of 
crises, while being their catalyst at the same time. Further, one can 
argue that crises accentuate social conflicts. Such conflicts are 
increasingly demarcated along ideological and partisan lines. In this 
regard, scandal can be a means of driving conflicts. Thus, as societies 
are divided on controversial political issues, we can observe how 
conspiracy theories become more salient in public discourse. While the 
interrelation between crisis, conflict, and scandal is well established, 
it appears relevant to ask what role scandals play in the proliferation 
of conspiracy narratives.

With respect to this broad diagnosis, the conference aims to analyze 
scandals in all their manifestations in regard to crises, conflicts, and 
conspiracies and discuss how this interrelation is relevant. The goal is 
to better understand and conceptualize possible impacts of these 
phenomena on public discourse and media practices from an 
interdisciplinary and critical scientific perspective.

The organizers call for proposals in all subfields of communication 
studies, political communication research as well as related disciplines 
and invite conceptual, empirical, and methodological proposals 
reflecting on political scandals and the role which media and/or 
communication plays therein. The conference encourages submissions of 
both empirically and theoretically focused work from advanced scholars 
as well as graduate students or doctoral candidates.



You can find the call on the official conference website:

https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/uni/fakultaeten/split_lehrstuehle/kommunikationswissenschaften_1/Dateien/Fotos/Scandalogy4/Call_Scandalogy5.pdf 
<https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/uni/fakultaeten/split_lehrstuehle/kommunikationswissenschaften_1/Dateien/Fotos/Scandalogy4/Call_Scandalogy5.pdf>

No payments from the authors will be required.



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