Invited by the International Communication Association, IAMCR organised a panel for the 71st Annual ICA Conference held from 27-31 May 2021. The panel titled "Rethinking borders and boundaries: Beyond the global/local dichotomy in communication studies" featured 5 presentations by IAMCR members.

The voting period for the Sections and Working Groups heads election has ended. We would like to thank all of the candidates who expressed their willingness to serve as a section or working group office also to all who voted. See the results here.

The Gender and Communication Section has released its September 2021 newsletter including information about forthcoming events and publications that might be of interest to the section's members.

15 September, 2021 - The Political Communication Research Section will be holding an online seminar on the German Parliamentary Election 2021, with guest speaker Prof. Dr. Ursula Münch (Academy for Political Education Tutzing). After a short lecture the online audience will be able to ask questions and discuss the recent campaign.

IAMCR will host a special session at the annual conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). The "Roundtable on Arts-based Research in Communication and Media Studies: Strategies and Experiences" will be live online on 9 September from 09h00 to 10h30.

We are pleased to announce that IAMCR, together with the Department of Media and Communication of School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), and Tsinghua University, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to host IAMCR 2022 in Bejing, China.