IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

The ESN has issued two calls for papers for the forthcoming IAMCR annual conference in Istanbul (July 2011). Scroll down the page to read them both. Please note that both calls are currently closed.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO A SPECIAL SESSION ON "The University in Crisis. Tradition, innovation, and employment in Communications departments"

Deadline: April 1st, 2011

Organized by the IAMCR Emerging Scholars Network

Over the past few years, students and faculty in California, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Greece and England, and other regions where the government has customarily given strong support to higher education, have responded to massive fee increases with protests and strikes. In
other countries universities and students have recently been at the center of social struggles, as have communications technologies. What does this mean for the nature of academic employment and research in Communications? And how does neoliberal policy affect academic research and practice in Communications, an interdisciplinary area of study incorporating both critical theory and research directly applicable to the business world?

The Emerging Scholars Network of the IAMCR invites interested scholars and advocates to submit abstracts for a round table on: “The University in Crisis: Tradition, innovation, and employment in Communications departments.”

Present developments in academia in the Western world have followed a consistent trajectory of government disengagement, while institutions such as tenure and thesis-based PhDs are being questioned. niversities in the Global South are sometimes strongly supported by overnment and sometimes entirely private. We invite contributions
that address one (or more) of the following themes:

a) Historical traditions in universities and how Communications, as one of the newest disciplines in the humanities, has fit into these practices; regional differences in the nature of universities and changes affecting them;

b) The role of Communications studies in studying, critiquing, aleviating or contributing to  the negative effects of globalization;

b) The effects of different funding sources on research and employment, as well as the role of corporations in universities and Communications departments;

c) Case studies, personal ethnographies, and examples of new patterns of employment for emerging scholars;

d) Possible solutions/attempts to reconcile such debates and address contemporary challenges: visionary proposals for preserving the value of higher education in a hostile political climate, the future of academic employment and the role of Communications in future universities.

The Emerging Scholars Network welcomes proposals from both emerging and senior scholars. Interested contributors are invited to submit a proposal of no more
than 500 words along with a curriculum vitae.

**Submissions should include your name, affiliation, and email address, and should be sent by April 1 to Holly Nazar ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) with carbon copy to Stefania Milan ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). The list of panelists will be announced by the end of April 2011.

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International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

ISTANBUL 2011

EMERGING SCHOLARS NETWORK SECTION CALL FOR PAPERS

The Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) invites you to participate in the 2011 International Congress of the IAM...CR to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 13 to 17 2011. This year’s theme is “Cities, Creativity, Connectivity”. We call for general academic papers in Communication and Media Studies as well as papers addressing the concrete conference theme.

The ESN is a section dedicated to the work and careers of emerging scholars in the field of media and communication. Hence, we especially look for works in progress from graduate students and new university instructors/professors who are interested in substantial feedback and comments intended to advance their projects. The ESN organizes emerging scholar panels and joint panels with other sections. Our emerging scholar panels provide a comfortable environment for the presentation of theses and works in progress, where emerging scholars can receive feedback from colleagues also at the beginning of their careers and from senior scholars who act as respondents to individual papers. The joint panels with other sections allow for the exchange of ideas with senior scholars in the field and networking.

In line with the purpose of our section, the ESN also organizes panels about issues affecting emerging scholars: - Publishing research results; - Mentoring and the Student-mentor relationship; - Academic work and academic jobs; - Neoliberalism in the academy; - Language barriers in academia. Scholars who wish to organize or contribute to an issue-related panel are welcome to contact Michael Dick at michael.dick[at]gmail.com.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

Submissions are due February 8, 2011. Please note that this deadline will not be extended. Panelists will be announced March 25, 2011. Full papers are due June 03, 2011. - Individual abstracts may only be submitted to a SINGLE section. Please do not submit the same abstract to two or more different sections of IAMCR.

Abstracts should be submitted on the Conference website: http://iamcr2011istanbul.com/. The OCS system will be available from December 01, 2010.

Questions may be addressed to the section co-chairs, Stefania Milan stefania.milan[at]eui.eu and Sara Bannerman at Sara.Bannerman[at]gmail.com.

Submissions must include author name(s), affiliation, address, e-mail address, and paper title. - If you are submitting a work in progress, we welcome your submission! Please state that it is a work in progress in your abstract.

Abstracts should be 300-500 words. Please also take a look at our suggestions on how to write an abstract: http://iamcr.org/component/docman/doc_download/315-2010-esn-how-to-write-an-abstract