European Communication Research and Education Association
Journalism (Special Issue)
Deadline: December 20, 2024
Guest Editors
Conflict reporters face unique psychological challenges due to repeated exposure to traumatic events. Traditionally, conflict journalism has focused on reporting from war zones and areas of armed conflict. However, this special issue adopts a broader definition, recognizing that conflict extends beyond armed warfare to include political and societal challenges. We consider conflict journalism to encompass reporting on organized crime, contentious elections, school shootings, and other situations of heightened tension or violence. This expanded view allows us to explore the complex interplay between trauma, resilience, and post-traumatic growth across a wider spectrum of high-stress reporting contexts. We aim to examine the personal, professional, and organizational factors that enable journalists to withstand and recover from traumatic experiences, contributing to the development of effective support strategies for journalists’ mental health and well-being in high-stress environments. Drawing on the concept of “collective resilience” (Dunkel Schetter & Dolbier, 2011) and recent research on resilience in high-stress professions (Fletcher & Sarkar, 2013; Šimunjak, 2023), we seek to understand how resilience can be fostered within conflict journalism. This issue will pay particular attention to the diverse experiences of journalists from different backgrounds, especially those from the Global South and female reporters in conflict zones.
Submission Guidelines
Abstract submission deadline (500 words max and brief author bio -max 100 words) should be sent no later than December 20, 2024 to traumajournalism@gmail.com
If an abstract is selected, authors will be invited to submit a full manuscript.
Full papers manuscript submission deadline: September 12, 2025
More details on this call are available here.
January 19-24, 2025
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Deadline: November 15, 2024
Greetings colleagues,
I'm organising a summer school in South Africa this January 2025. The school will focus on the significance that rhetoric and discourse has on material environmental change, and thus might might be of interest to many of you and/or your students. The school is a collaboration between the University of Groningen and Stellenbosch University.
During this summer school, participants will study the relationship between discourse, worldview, ontology and ethics, particularly in regard to questions of just sustainability transitions (in particular just water / food / energy nexus transitions). How are arguments for more sustainable ways to live on this planet being mediated to audiences? Who is doing the mediating, and how does the message change, depending on the speaker and audience?
The goal of the week is to learn the impact that discourse has on material culture and then put this into practice by working with societal stakeholders to develop powerful communicative platforms using rhetoric that is both effective and aligns with their underlying values.
For example, how can an organic farmer, committed to decolonial ecological values, win agricultural grants from the government without resorting to capitalistic rhetoric?
You can learn more and register here: https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/winter_schools/winter-schools-2023-2024/discourses-of-sustainability-transitions/
Feel free to also direct questions to me at r.l.van.der.merwe@rug.nl.
University of Copenhagen
The Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for a tenure track assistant professorship in film studies starting on June 1, 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.
We are looking for a new colleague within film studies who can complement the research environment in film studies at the department. The candidate is expected to have demonstrated a keen interest in film studies as a distinct field of research; bring a solid research profile in film studies; have teaching experience within film studies; and have a good sense of how to contribute to a sound, vibrant, and healthy teaching and research environment.
The Department of Communication is home to approx. 80 faculty members, 35 PhD students, 20 postdocs, 30 part-time lecturers, 20 administrative staff, and 2000 students. The department annually generates approx. 30 million DKK in external research funding, and it produces research and scholarship that is world leading, and which sets the agenda for many national initiatives and conversations. The department offers seven degree programs: Philosophy, Rhetoric, Education, Film and Media Studies, Communication and IT, Information Studies, and Cognition & Communication educating successful candidates to many sectors and parts of the Danish society and beyond.
The successful applicant to the position will join the Section for Film Studies and Creative Media Industries and is expected to teach within the BA and MA degree program in Film and Media Studies.
Read more about the Department of Communication: Department of Communication – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
Read more about the Section for Film Studies and Creative Media Industries: Film studies and creative media industries – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
Copenhagen is a highly diverse and international Scandinavian capital with a green profile. Education is free and child-care is subsidized. Public transport is well-developed, and many Copenhageners take their bikes to work. There are lots of green areas in and around Copenhagen, the water in the harbor is clean enough for swimming, and the city has multiple museums and other cultural venues. The University of Copenhagen was founded in 1479 and is the largest in Denmark.
Qualification requirements
A tenure track assistant professorship has a duration of six years. The main responsibilities consist of research, teaching, societal impact activities, departmental operations and administration. The ideal candidate must complete the university’s Teaching and Learning in Higher Education programme. The Department will appoint a mentor for the assistant professor.
At the end of the sixth year of employment, the Dean will set up an assessment committee for the purpose of evaluating the basis for a promotion to associate professor. For more information about tenure track assistant professorships at the University of Copenhagen: Tenure track at the University of Copenhagen – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
Appointment as a tenure track assistant professor assumes research qualifications at least at Ph.D. level. Candidates must be able to document competences in research as well as teaching. Candidates are expected to document scholarly research production at international level and must demonstrate the potential to make a significant impact in their field at both local and international levels.
Assessment criteria
Candidates deemed within the scope of the position will then have their academic qualifications assessed by an Assessment Committee and is required to describe how their competences match the following criteria:
For more information about the University of Copenhagen’s general criteria for the employment of assistant professors, please visit: Criteria for recognising merit – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
For more information about the qualification requirements for assistant professorships, as stipulated in the Ministerial Order on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities (2019) see:
Ministerial_Order_no._1443_of_11_December_2019_on_Job_Structure_for_Academic_Staff_at_Universities.pdf (ku.dk)
Further information about the position is available from the head of department Jens-Erik Mai, e-mail: il-komm@hum.ku.dk
All applications must be submitted online, in PDF format, via the link “Apply for the position” at the bottom of the page.
Application
Applications must be written in English and must include the following attachments:
1. Application letter (max. one page)
2. CV (max. three pages)
3. Documentation of qualifications (exam certificates, PhD diploma, etc.)
4. Publications: Applicants must submit a maximum of five publications for assessment, of which a minimum of two must have been published within the last five years prior to the deadline for applications. The selected publications must be uploaded as attachments and numbered 1–5. If any of the publications have one or more co-authors, applicants must clearly identify the part(s) for which they are responsible. The university may request statements from co-authors on the scope and nature of their contribution to the work.
5. Complete publication list (attached publications must be marked with an asterisk). The list must be structured systematically and divided into the following categories:
6. A research plan that includes a brief description of previous research, current research projects and upcoming research. Applicants are also asked to account for experience with organising research events (workshop, conferences, etc.) and with research collaborations, and participation in research environments both at the local and international levels (max. five pages
7. Teaching portfolio (max. five pages, documentation appendix max. 10 pages), consisting of a factual overview of teaching experience and areas of responsibility, a paper reflecting on own teaching competencies and a documentation appendix.
Only material in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and English will be evaluated.
The recruitment process
Once the deadline has expired, the head of department will set an appointment committee consisting of faculty members and a student representative from the department to give advice on the appointment. The applicants will be selected based on an overall assessment of their match with the department’s recruitment needs and the qualification requirements outlined above. This will be compared with the applicant’s research and teaching profile, as specified in their CV, list of publications, teaching portfolio, and research plan. All applicants will be notified as soon as possible whether they have been shortlisted for evaluation by the Assessment Committee. The selected applicants will be informed about the members of the Assessment Committee and they will be invited to comment on the committee’s assessment of their application before the appointment is announced.
For more information see: Recruitment process – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
Further information about the recruitment procedure is available from HR, e-mail: hrsc@hrsc.dk. Please state case number 211-0226/24-2N #1
Remuneration and terms of employment
The appointment will be made in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).
It will be possible to negotiate supplements on the basis of qualifications. For further information about the Faculty of Humanities’ starter pack for tenure track assistant professors, see: Tenure-track employment – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
It is expected that non-Danish speakers, within 3-6 years, will acquire the necessary language skills to teach in Danish-speaking classrooms and meetings. The department will support and help faculty members to acquire knowledge and skills in the Danish language.
University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the diversity of society and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their personal backgrounds. For more information on the diverse working place environment at the University and the University’s participation in the HRS4R HR Excellence in Research, see HR Excellence in Research – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
The University of Copenhagen offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including support before and during your relocation and career counselling to expat partners. Please find more information about these services as well as information on entering and working in Denmark here: For international researchers at the University of Copenhagen – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
A special tax scheme is offered to researchers recruited abroad. Please see: For international researchers at the University of Copenhagen – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
The deadline for applications is 23:59 [CET] on December 8, 2024.
Any applications or additional material submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
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Application deadline: 08-12-2024
Employment start: 01-06-2025
Department/Location: Institut for Kommunikation
Eva Novrup Redvall
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the writing and production strategies used in live-action fiction film and television produced for children and young audiences, in a period marked by remarkable change in screen consumption. Building on ideas and research from the fields of screenwriting, production, and media industry studies, the book uses case studies of Danish film and television productions targeting children – from toddlers to teenagers – to explore general challenges for reaching young audiences in the multiplatform mediascape, as well as to identify specific screenwriting practices and production frameworks. The study investigates industry notions of children and adolescents as a particular audience, exploring new methods of grounding productions for them through more inquiry-driven and co-creative writing and production practices, combined with new forms of knowledge-sharing and talent-training initiatives.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67073-2?sap-outbound-id=36F59086A45F9544590878244E0D8D759210F2B6
July 7-10, 2025
ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Brussels
Deadline: February 28, 2025
Click here to download the English version of the DNC6 call for papers.
Website: www.discourseanalysis.net/DNC6
Contact: contactdnc6@gmail.com
Important dates:
Language policy:
DiscourseNet is a multilingual association. At DNC6 we welcome contributions in the following languages: French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. We highly recommend providing a visual aid in English if you decide to present in Spanish or Portuguese. This is likely to facilitate interaction in multilingual panels.
Topic: Discourse and the imaginaries of past, present and future societies: media and representations of (inter)national (dis)orders)
The 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6) focuses on the discursive construction of social and political imaginaries. It offers a forum to discuss how social actors imagine and articulate past, present and future societies in a world marked by multiple and overlapping crises.
DNC6 welcomes contributions of authors who explore ontological, theoretical, and methodological aspects of imaginaries that may (re)shape our societies. We also welcome analyses and case studies of specific imaginaries circulating in our mediatized societies. These may focus on linguistic, textual, narrative, visual, multimodal, and/or ideological articulations of social and political imaginaries.
This conference is open to discourse scholars from all disciplines, as well as to other scholars in the humanities and social sciences working on (aspects of) the imaginaries that allow us to make sense of and shape our realities. DNC6 offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussing imaginaries and the discursive construction of old and new (inter)national (dis)orders.
A non-exhaustive list of questions that may be addressed at this event is provided below:
DNC6 invites scholars to submit papers that may enrich our understanding of social and political imaginaries, through explicit theoretical discussions and/or through relevant case studies and discourse studies.
Concepts of the ‘imaginary’ have so far occupied a relatively marginal position in the field of discourse studies. While the notion is not absent in (critical) discourse studies, other meta-concepts such as narrative, ideology, hegemony tend to be used more frequently.
The concept of the imaginary currently figures more prominently in sociology, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, and media studies. In these disciplines we find competing and overlapping notions of the imaginary that merit discourse theoretical and analytical attention.
What place can we give to the concept of the imaginary in the field of discourse studies? What concepts and methods can discourse scholars offer to investigate social and political imaginaries? DNC6 invites discourse scholars to present relevant research and/or explicit reflections on such matters.
The imaginary has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Imaginaries have been thought of as background horizons providing tacit and pre-reflective social meanings that prefigure the way subjects relate to themselves and to the world. They have been treated as images of self and society that infuse reality with imaginary significations. Authors have also drawn attention to the interpretive functions of imaginaries.
Imaginaries play a key role in fictional and non-fictional types of discourse. They also play a role in the construction of social identities and ideologies. Psychoanalysis has stressed the importance of the imaginary in constituting subjects and subjectivity. The imaginary has been theorized in relation to ideology, as well as in relation to specific ideologies such as nationalism.
Concepts of the imaginary may help us to understand how social actors construct discourses of social (dis)order. Empirical studies have focused on topics as varied as the way scientists imagine the future of climate change, the construction of plans for the future of urban environments, migration, cyber- and energy security, university education, and so on.
We only started to scratch the surface of the literature on social and political imaginaries here. DNC6 invites scholars from all subfields of the transdisciplinary field of (critical) discourse studies to submit papers and to explore what lies under the tip of the iceberg. We also explicitly welcome scholars from other disciplines and perspectives in the humanities and social sciences:
November 8, 2024
The Urbanism/Geography/Architecture Scholarly Interest Group at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) invites you to the second of our 2024-2024 online book talks, Join us for a conversation with Professor Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema (University of California Press, 2024).
Professor Wojcik will introduce the book and a Q&A will follow.
November 8, 12pm CST / 1 PM EST /6 PM GMT/UK TIME
Event is free and open to all but please register here: https://lu.ma/cjptbklw
We kindly invite you to participate in the 7th edition of the Young Media and Communication Scholars Mentoring Program of the Polish Communication Association. The Mentoring Program is addressed to Ph.D. and MA students who want to develop their research competencies under the guidance of renowned Polish researchers. Participation in the program is free of charge.
Applications (in Polish or English) will be accepted until December 1, 2024. Application form and detailed information about mentors are available here: https://www.ptks.pl/en/programs/pca-mentoring-program
We encourage you to submit your application!
If you have any additional questions, do not hesitate to contact us via: mentoring.fmmik@gmail.com
June 18-20, 2025
Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Deadline: December 2, 2024
The 9th International Visual Methods Conference, hosted by Bahçeşehir University Istanbul, aims to bring together academics, researchers, professionals, activists and artists. The theme "Visual Bridges: Connecting Perspectives" emphasizes that visual methodologies are interdisciplinary, encouraging collaboration and aiming to explore ways to facilitate innovative research. The conference stimulates critical dialogue, exchange knowledge and encourages active participation to inspire new understandings in the theory, practice, and application of visual research.
Conference Website:
https://www.visualmethods.info/
Important Dates:
Revista Comunicando
Deadline: November 30, 2024
This thematic section of Revista Comunicando aims to explore how AI is contributing to the redefinition of media and information literacy competencies and how citizens, educators and professionals can prepare for these changes.
Full text submission period: 1st September to 30th November 2024
https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/announcement/view/16
Nordic Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 7 (2026)
Deadline: February 1, 2025
Editors:
Nordic Journal of Media Studies invites contributions to the 2026 issue exploring the relationship between media, communication, and the past, focusing on international as well as Nordic perspectives. The issue aims to delve into the intersection of the uses of the past with media content, discourses, events, practices, and technologies, including but not limited to the mediated communication of the past and collective memory in areas such as politics, journalism, popular culture, film and television, and sports.
The uses of the past in media play a crucial role in shaping perceptions, identities, and societal values, thereby contributing not only to an understanding of what is of collective importance today, but also what constitutes the foundation for (un)acceptable imaginaries of the future (e.g., Angell & Larsen, 2022; de Saint-Laurent, 2018). Moreover, generative AI produces new videos, texts, and images based on historical training data, giving us an automated reproduction of past media. In recent years, the nexus of media, communication, and the past has gained attention in both societal and academic discourses, most prominently in the wake of populism and its romanticisation of a supposedly pure and secure past (e.g., Menke & Hagedoorn, 2023; Merrill, 2020; Pettersson & Sakki, 2017; Sandford, 2019). Yet, evoking the past does not necessarily have to be a restorative project. Investigating the past and its uses in media might reveal what is considered worth preserving today, which past imaginaries of the future did (not) come to fruition, and how today’s engagement with the achievements and mistakes of the past are used to imagine and legitimise certain paths into the future.
While the past seems to be omnipresent in politics these days, it is of no less importance in popular culture, fandom, sports, and many other areas in which media, such as films, television series, magazines, games, and so on contribute to people’s meaning-making and enrich the everyday life of individuals and communities coming together on- and offline (Armbruster, 2016; Garde-Hansen, 2009; Humphreys, 2020). Moreover, the past in media extends beyond mere representation. It is used to compose cultural narratives, it contributes to identity formation, and it influences social cohesion. Media serve as powerful mediators between the past, the present, and the future, thereby taking a significant position in whose pasts get (no) recognition at present and (no) consideration for the future (e.g., Gutman & Wüstenberg, 2022; Menke & Kalinina, 2019; Molden, 2016). Investigating these dynamics allows for a nuanced exploration of how media contribute to the construction of shared pasts and the negotiation of diverse cultural identities. The past is not only being renegotiated and contested in the Nordic context but also everywhere else, where progressive cultural and societal ambitions are intertwined with both rich historical traditions and conflicts rooted in colonial pasts (e.g., Angell & Larsen, 2022; Guttormsen & Swensen, 2016). Consequently, examining how media contribute to the construction, preservation, reinterpretation, or even revision of narratives about the past becomes imperative to understanding where regions, nations, and communities might be heading.
References
Angell, S. I., & Larsen, E. (2022). Introduction: Reimagining the Nordic pasts. Scandinavian Journal of History, 47(5), 589–599. https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2022.2051599
Armbruster, S. (2016). Watching nostalgia: An analysis of nostalgic television fiction and its reception (Vol. 48). transcript.
de Saint-Laurent, C. (2018). Thinking through time: From collective memories to collective futures. In C. De Saint-Laurent, S. Obradović, & K. R. Carriere (Eds.), Imagining collective futures (pp. 59–81). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76051-3_4
Garde-Hansen, J. (2009). MyMemories? Personal digital archive fever and Facebook. In J. Garde-Hansen, A. Hoskins, & A. Reading (Eds.), Save as... Digital memories (pp. 135–150). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230239418_8
Gutman, Y., & Wüstenberg, J. (2022). Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists. Memory Studies, 15(5), 1070–1086. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980211044696
Guttormsen, T. S., & Swensen, G. (2016). Heritage, democracy and the public: Nordic approaches. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586670
Humphreys, L. (2020). Birthdays, anniversaries, and temporalities: Or how the past is represented as relevant through on-this-date media. New Media & Society, 22(9), 1663–1679. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820914874
Menke, M., & Hagedoorn, B. (Eds.). (2023). Digital memory and populism [Special section]. International Journal of Communication, 17. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/19#more4
Menke, M., & Kalinina, E. (2019). Reclaiming identity: GDR lifeworld memories in digital public spheres. In N. Maurantonio, & D. W. Park (Eds.), Communicating memory & history (pp. 243–261). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14522
Merrill, S. (2020). Sweden then vs. Sweden now: The memetic normalisation of far-right nostalgia. First Monday, 25(6). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i6.10552
Molden, B. (2016). Resistant pasts versus mnemonic hegemony: On the power relations of collective memory. Memory Studies, 9(2), 125–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698015596014
Pettersson, K., & Sakki, I. (2017). Pray for the fatherland! Discursive and digital strategies at play in nationalist political blogging. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 14(3), 315–349. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2017.1290177
Sandford, R. (2019). Thinking with heritage: Past and present in lived futures. Futures, 111, 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2019.06.004
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Those with an interest in contributing should write an abstract (max. 750 words) where the main theme (or argument) of the intended article is described. The abstract should contain the preliminary title and five keywords. How the article fits with the overall description of the issue should be mentioned.
Send your abstract to both editors by 1 February at the latest
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About Nordic Journal of Media Studies
Nordic Journal of Media Studies is a peer-reviewed international publication dedicated to media research. The journal is a meeting place for Nordic, European, and global perspectives on media studies. It is a thematic digital-only journal published once a year. The editors stress the importance of innovative and interdisciplinary research, and welcome contributions on both contemporary developments and historical topics.
Read the aims & scope of NJMS: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordic-journal-media-studies
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