The 2016 International Association for Media and Communication Research conference will be held at the University of Leicester, UK from 27-31 July 2016, hosted by the department of Media and Communication. The conference theme is Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward.
This year’s conference welcomes paper and panel proposals that engage with the concepts of memory and commemoration, and with the ways the past is (re)mediated, historicised, documented, archived, remembered, forgotten and (re)told. The main call for proposals is at http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp and the specific calls of IAMCR's many sections and working groups are at http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp#SWG. You can submit proposals until 15 February via IAMCR's Open Conference System.
The speakers for the plenary sessions have been confirmed and can be found here: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/plenaries. With the Opening Plenary being delivered by Professor Graham Murdock and Dr. Shakuntala Banaji, followed by the welcome reception, the conference will be off to a great start.
In 2016, there will be a record number of 8 pre-conferences happening in the days leading up to the main conference. Many are happening in Leicester at the University, where others have been organised at Goldsmiths University, LSE, University of Leeds and Canterbury Christ Church University. Among the topics and themes being addressed by pre-conferences are anti-austerity & media activism, the rights of children and young people in the digital age, media and governance in Latin America, and surveillance and security in the age of algorithmic communication. Read more about all the pre-conferences at: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/preconf.