The Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) invites you to participate in the 2010 International Congress of the IAMCR to be held in Braga, Portugal, from July 18 to 22 2010.
This year's theme is “Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change". We call for general academic papers in Communication and Media Studies as well as papers addressing communication, citizenship, crisis, and change.
ESN is a section dedicated to the work and careers of emerging scholars. 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. We seek academic work on any topic in the field of communication.
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. Wealso organize joint panels with other sections, which allow for the exchange of ideas with senior scholars in the field and networking.
In particular, this year the ESN anticipates one joint panel with the Global Media Policy Working Group.
The title of this joint panel is 'Rethinking Citizenship in a Globalized World: Lessons from the field'.
The goal of this panel, jointly organized by the Emerging Scholars Network section and the Global Media Policy Working group, is to articulate reflections, based on empirical evidence, with a view to understand where, how and by what subjects visions and practices of post-national citizenship are developed and framed.
We invite submissions that, based on the Conference theme, will look into concrete case studies that relate to the nexus between participation and crisis, broadly understood: from the recent financial crisis and its worldwide consequences, to other crises and challenges that characterize today's world: environmental, economic, social crises. We invite emerging scholars to present reflections based on empirical work concerning local, national or transnational activism and participatory dynamics focused on promoting/strengthening the exercise of citizenship. These case studies could be dealing with the most diversified issues (from gender to climate change, from local struggles over land resources to transnational campaigns for net neutrality): the common feature being a focus on the interplay between different levels of activism as a way to prompt new visions of citizenship. Theoretical interpretation of research results should be exposed in to articulate concepts such as post-national citizenship, global citizenship, trans-national citizenship.
The ESN invites submissions to this joint panel as well as general submissions. Submissions to the joint panel should be clearly indicated as such by including the statement "SUBMISSION TO JOINT PANEL" as a part of the abstract, and should be submitted to the ESN on the conference website.
The ESN operates a mentorship program for emerging scholars who would benefit from linkages with senior scholars. This program addresses publication techniques, teaching opportunities, professional involvement, and other issues. If you are interested in connecting with a mentor, please contact the section co-chair, Stefania Milan at stefania.Milan[AT]eui.eu.
Submission Guidelines:
- Submissions are due the January 31, 2010. Panelists will be announced mid-March. Full papers are due April 30, 2010.
- 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.
- Questions may be addressed to the section chair, Sara Bannerman at sara.bannerman[AT]gmail.com.
- Submission 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 take a look at our website for more information. See also the ESN suggestions on how to write an abstract .
Sara Bannerman
ESN co-chair
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