[Commlist] Communication Ethics and International Communicology Institute conference

Call for papers:
Image, Imagination, Communication: Exploring the Ethical as Natural or 
Artificial, Real or Surreal
May 28-30, 2025
Duquesne University
The 18th Biennial Communication Ethics conference and the Silver Jubilee 
Anniversary Conference (2000-2025) of the International Communicology 
Institute will explore current research on the “image" and 
"imagination," broadly conceived, across the human sciences. Our focus 
is on the phenomenological, semiotic, rhetorical and ethical foundations 
of communication in the experience of embodied thinking, speaking and 
inscribing. We seek to explore the frontiers of natural and artificial 
sign-systems, encounter diverse manifestations of concrete reality and 
abstract surreality of human imagination, and discover future domains of 
conscious experience that found the art and practice of human 
communicating. We welcome a diversity of scholarly and creative approaches.
Problematics that presenters may consider include, but are not limited to:

·       What questions are raised by recent phenomenological, semiotic, 
rhetorical, and critical theories of visual and mental images, 
visibility and nonvisibility, presence and absence, perception and 
expression?

·       Is there a general theory of image ethics? If so, what are its 
foundations and some of its value limitations (e.g., psychoanalysis, 
journalism, design, propaganda)?

·       What does it mean to "see" oneself or another? What is a just 
distance from which to look?

·       What social, political, economic and/or ethical contradictions 
have emerged with new convergences among art, media, software and the 
communication practices they afford?

·       How is the rhetoric of visual images impacted (enhanced, 
limited, etc.) by networked media?

·       What does artificial intelligence want from images? What do 
images want from AI? What constitutes personification in/of the media?

·       In what ways do advertisers imagine consumers?

·       What pasts, presents, and futures are depicted by the 
visualization of digital data?

·       How can we reimagine the objectives of network and social media 
science?

·       What histories of communicology and communication ethics have 
yet to be written? What futures can we imagine?

The domains of the image and imagination encompass all the Arts and 
Sciences of expression and perception. These include, the Arts of Media: 
speaking, writing, painting, printing, sculpture, performance, voice; 
the Sciences of Media: social and media ecology, film and video, 
photography, screen/digital and legacy media; and Technological Media of 
Artificial Intelligence: ubiquitous computing, robotics, holographics 
and applied algorithms. Communication ethics theory, research and 
application corresponds with and enriches our critical understanding of 
each domain.

We invite completed papers or extended abstracts of 200–500 words. We 
also invite panel proposals of three speakers per panel. Please include 
a panel title with 250-word rationale, titles and 200-word abstracts for 
each presentation, and contributor contact information (institutional 
affiliation and email).

Submissions are due by April 1, 2025.
Please visit the conference _website 
<https://www.duq.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/liberal-arts/departments-and-centers/communication-and-rhetorical-studies/conferences.php>_ for 
details.

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