IAMCR Webinar Series
Join the Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities (ICO) Working Group in an Early Career Symposium on Disability Studies and Inclusive Communication: A Collaborative Forum. This online interactive symposium is designed to move beyond traditional presentations and foster deep collaboration, dialogue, and networking among emerging scholars.
When: Monday 20 April @09h00 UTC / 10h00 London / 11h00 Paris / 12h00 Nairobi / 14h30 Kolkata / 17h00 Beijing / 19h00 Brisbane. The event will last 2 hours.
Pre-registration is required by 16 April.
About the symposium
The symposium will start with a plenary talk giving an overview of current issues in the field by Professor Katie Ellis, from Curtin University, Australia. Participants will then be led into 5 break-out rooms (4 participants in each group), where they will briefly talk about their PhD or other ongoing/current research to their group peers. The break-out groups will be chaired by the ICO Head members, who will moderate the discussion in each group and provide short feedback if any when needed. Each break-out room will select one participant who will, together with the group, synthesize the group’s discussion in terms of:
- Common themes across individual projects
- Originality of individual research projects
- Pressing questions identified in individual research projects
The symposium will close with a concluding discussion where the ICO core team will reflect on the main break-out group remarks and will engage in an open-floor discussion with all participants. The objective of the webinar is to offer an alternative and more accessible format than the annual IAMCR conference for ECRs to share their research, as well as to foster knowledge exchange and build community and scholarly connections, granted that ECRs may not have many peers working in the same area at their respective institutions.
Organised by: Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities (ICO) Working Group
Opening remarks by Karen Arriaza Ibarra, Professor in Audiovisual Communication at the Faculty of Communication of Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.
IAMCR Vice President
The ICO Head members are (in alphabetical order): Shahla Adnan, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan; Ying Lai, Peking Normal University, China; Prof Paula Saukko, Loughborough University, UK, Prof Panayiota Tsatsou, Birmingham City University, UK and Yan Yuqiao, Tsinghua University, China
Registration
Pre-registration is required by 16 April.
Location: The meeting will take place on Zoom. Pre-registered participants will receive personal invitations a few days in advance of the webinar.
Who can participate: The webinar is open to all IAMCR members but space is restricted. A limited number of guest invitations for non-members may be available.
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If you are not a member of IAMCR, you can join here.
About the series
The IAMCR Webinar Series aims to open-up channels for engagement and participation in addition to the annual conference, while echoing the great work that is done by Sections, Working Groups and IAMCR members. The series includes presentations, debates, book and project launches. The format is flexible, the connection is what matters. Join us!