Communication and HIV & AIDS Working Group

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 20-24 June 2018 at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 16-20 July, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.

The Health Communication & Change and Communication & HIV/AIDS Working Groups of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions for its open session at next year’s conference, to be held in Leiceste

The Health Communication and Change and HIV and AIDS Communication Working Groups invites submissions of abstracts for papers for the 2015 IAMCR conference to be held from 12-16 July, 2015 at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada.

Communication and HIV/AIDS and Health Communication and Change Working Groups – Call for Papers

The Communication and HIV/AIDS and the Health Communication and Change Working Groups of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) welcome the submission of papers for the Conference to be held in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India between 15-19 July, 2014.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been fore-warning about the effects of the economic crisis on the global health care system and delivery mechanisms. Since the economic crisis deepens social inequalities, it is necessary to ensure that health remain equally accessible to all. However, many countries are trying to protect their own national economies, at the expense of the health care system if necessary. Ensuring access to health and promoting the right to health, in the context of the crisis conditions will therefore require negotiation between social actors, economic systems, and commitment from local, national, and international actors.

The Communication and HIV/AIDS Working Group and the Health, Communication and Change Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) welcome the submission of papers for the 2012 Conference to be held in Durban, South Africa from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).

The theme of the conference, ‘South-North Conversations’, reflects the inherent asymmetries in communication flows between the developed and the developing nations.

Wider understandings of ‘developed- developing- underdeveloped’ countries in transition as well as the ‘core-periphery’ are changing. It can be evidenced by BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), the ‘African Renaissance’ and the African Union. We cannot, therefore, continue to assume that communication and media – seen in terms of value and meaning systems, historical trajectories, monetary and technological transfers – can continue to be seen as they have been in the past.

The Communication and HIV/AIDS Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) welcomes the submission of papers for the 2011 Conference to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 13 - 17 July 2011. The theme of the conference is "Cities, Creativity, Connectivity".

Cities have always been experimental sites of connectivity through creativity. Cities and their interlocutors: artists, intellectuals, government officers, and activists, have attempted to overcome the historical and contemporary ruptures through creative acts and enactments. Every corner, every stone in every city the world over bears the traces of ruptures in memory, identity and ways of living and imagining. The memories we excavate are reminders of pasts we long for, as in nostalgia, or events we would wish to forget, in moving ahead towards a more captivating future.

The Communication and HIV/AIDS Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) welcomes the submission of papers for the 2010 Conference to be held in Braga, Portugal, from 18 - 22 July 2010. The general theme of the conference is 'Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change' and it aims to interrogate emergent models of communication and to open up innovative debates on mechanisms for empowering citizenship and participation. Creative and alternative thinking on old and new dimensions of social participation is expected to shed light on contemporary uncertainties and deadlocks.

The Communication and HIV/AIDS Working Group invites submissions for the IAMCR 2009 Conference in Mexico City, under the theme "Human Rights and Communication". We invite papers that reflect both theoretical and methodological challenges in HIV/AIDS communication research and practice, including abstracts reflecting upon and presenting results from on-the-ground communication experiences.

Papers, be they from theory or practice, should reflect upon the communication dimensions of the fight against HIV/AIDS. This may include, for example, policy challenges, implications of socio-economic or cultural contexts, the role of treatment in communication, campaign fatigue, governance and accountability issues.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

The Communication and HIV/AIDS Working Group hereby invites colleagues to submit abstracts for the IAMCR World Conference to be held in Stockholm in July. We invite abstracts which reflect both theoretical and methodological challenges in HIV/AIDS communication research as well as abstracts reflecting upon and presenting results from on-the-ground communication experiences. These experiences may well reflect the complexity of the fight against HIV/AIDS, including, for example, policy challenges, the implications of socio-economic or cultural contexts, the roll out of ARVs, campaign fatigue, the role of FBOs, governance and accountability issues, etc.