Montreal 2015

UQAM - Host of IAMCR 2015IAMCR'S 2015 conference was held July 12-16 2015 in Montreal, Canada. Hosted by the Faculté de communication at the Université du Québec à Montréal, IAMCR 2015 was the first IAMCR conference in North America. The conference theme was: Hegemony or Resistance? On the Ambiguous Power of Communication. Information is available below and on the Montreal organisers website.

You can download the Programme and watch the Plenary Sessions.

Communiquer issue - IAMCR 2015

Communiquer, a journal published by the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), host of IAMCR’s 2015 conference, has just published a special issue based on the conference theme, Hegemony or Resistance? On the Ambiguous Power of Communication. The issue features a selection of papers presented at the conference, in their original language and in French.

Travel grants foster diversity

Patricia Lima is a health communication researcher in Paraguay's Ministry of Public Health. She received a travel grant to attend IAMCR 2015 in Montreal and to present her paper, "Patterns and risk communication issues during the contingency against Chikungunya in print media of Paraguay, from June to October 2014" to the Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group.

A redefining experience

K.S. Mochish is a Doctoral Fellow at the School of Media and Cultural Studies of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. He received a travel grant to present the paper “Negotiating Gender and Caste Publicly: An Analysis of the Struggles of a Woman Tribal Leader in Wayanad, India” to the Gender and Communication Section.

Diversity is essential to IAMCR

Luíza Alvim was temporarily employed as a lecturer in communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil when she received a travel grant to attend IAMCR's 2015 conference in Montreal. She presented her paper, “Rhythms of images and sounds: an analysis of films by Robert Bresson”, in the Visual Culture Working Group.

A very rewarding experience

Nelly Lara, a PhD student in the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), received a travel grant to attend IAMCR's 2015 conference in Montreal. Her paper, Discursive practices of women artists in Mexico City's Hip Hop culture, was presented in the Gender and Communication Section.

Goodbye Montreal!

This letter was after the Montreal conference from IAMCR president Janet Wasko to the 1,300 registered participants of IAMCR 2015 conference in Montreal.


Thank you for being a part of this year's IAMCR conference in Montreal. Thank you for making it a success. Thank you for your willingness to further engage with media and communication research on a multitude of methodological levels, across a variety of cultures, countries and languages, and political, technological, and social contexts that make the IAMCR the vibrant community that it is.

IAMCR pre-conf: Towards "Participation Studies"

IAMCR members, Colin Chasi, Nyasha Mboti and Viola Milton from South Africa are co-sponsoring an IAMCR preconference, "Towards Participation Studies" in association with the 2015 conference in Montreal. The pre-conference will take place on 11 July 2015 and "is envisaged to be an enabling founding moment in creating and re-creating unapologetic modes of thought and practices grounded in African worlds."

Speed Networking for students

The Association des Étudiants de la Maîtrise et du Doctorat en Communication (AÉMDC) and IAMCR invite graduate students of universities around the world to submit proposals to the IAMCR 2015 Speed Networking Event, to be held on the 13th of July, 2015 at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).

IAMCR 2015 programme - draft

The draft programme for IAMCR 2015 is now available. The conference will take place over 5 days from July 12- 16. It begins with the official opening ceremony at 17:30 on Sunday July 12. The complete draft programme, including the times of individual presentations, will be published by the end of May. The final programme will be available online by June 29.

Time ran out

The deadline to submit proposals for IAMCR's 2015 in Montreal, Canada (12-16 July) was midnight GMT on 9 February. More than 2,200 proposals were received. Authors will be informed of the decisions on their proposals by 23 March.

News producers & public interest: An IAMCR pre-conference

The Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la communication, l’information et la société (CRICIS) is organising an IAMCR pre-conference entitled News producers and the public interest/Producteurs d’information publique et intérêt public. The pre-conference will take place on 11 July 2015, the day before the main IAMCR conference, at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), the same location as the main IAMCR conference.

IAMCR 2015 awards

IAMCR will make a number of awards and prizes available to its members in 2015. They include a prize in memory of Stuart Hall, an urban communication research grant, travel grants to attend IAMCR 2015, and a new climate communication research award.

IAMCR 2015 pre conference

The IAMCR Law Section and Ethics Working Group are co-sponsoring an IAMCR preconference, Media and Journalists in the Age of Open Government and Transparency, in association with the 2015 conference in Montreal. The pre-conference is in collaboration with and will serve as the 11th edition of the International Congress of Ethics and Communication Law (CIEDI 2015).

IAMCR 2015 in Montreal

IAMCR'S 2015 conference will be held July 12-16 2015 in Montreal, Canada. Hosted by the Faculté de communication at the Université du Québec à Montréal, IAMCR 2015 will be the first IAMCR conference in North America. It will feature the theme: Hegemony or Resistance? On the Ambiguous Power of Communication.

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