February 5 - July 2, 2021

Online

Deadline: January 15, 2021

On behalf of the Crisis Communication Section management team:

Because it was not realistic to plan & host a live Crisis Communication conference in 2021, the Crisis Communication Section is offering two different avenues for presentation of research in 2021:

- Live Panel Sessions (two-hours each) on the first Friday of each month from 5 February – 2 July

- Live/pre-Recorded Presentations (up to 20 minutes each) posted on our website https://ecreacrisis.com/

All Live Sessions are Free to Attend.

Theme for Crisis2021: Risk & Crisis Communication & the ‘New Normal’.

As the world responds to 2020 and all of the new challenges it has posed, risk and crisis communication researchers, students, and practitioners have the opportunity to explore issues of work environments, politics, social justice, disasters, ‘ordinary’ crises, learning and teaching, well-being, social responsibility, and technology to name just a few areas connected to the tumultuous year we have all experienced. We are calling for abstracts that look forward from Covid-19 to the future across industries and even for reflective discussions about the role of risk and crisis communication.

You can submit an individual abstract or a panel proposal – send an MSWord document OR pdf attachment to: audra.lawson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

More details available at: https://ecreacrisis.com/call-for-participation-crisis2021/

Deadline for Submission for Live Presentations: 15 January, 2021.

First live panel session: "COVID-19: Learnings and Consequences for International Crisis Communication Research and Practice"

Date: Feb 5 2020 (Friday), 4-6 p.m. CET (10-12 a.m. EST)

The first session will be chaired by Dr. Florian Meissner, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and endorsed by IPRA –the International Public Relations Association www.ipra.org.

The keynotes will address the following questions:

1) What have we learned from our observations of crisis communication during the pandemic by governments, organizations, health experts, media, and stakeholders around the world?

2) What are the consequences crisis researchers and practitioners need to draw from this pandemic? What is—or should be—on the research agenda for the next years?