FUTURE CONFERENCES / EVENTS IN 2009

International Symposium of Electronic Arts - ISEA
University of Ulster, Belfast - Northern Ireland - 23 August - 1 September 2009
Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.ISEA publishes a newsletter; hosts an online archive and exchange environment and oversees the International Symposium on Electronic Art, a regular gathering of the international art, science and technology community.

5th Annual CRESC Conference 2009 "Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change"
1-4 September 2009, Manchester, UK

The fifth annual conference of CRESC will tackle Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change. As contemporary social theorists continue to signal the need to reconfigure our deliberations on the social through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality, this conference takes as its focus the objects and values which find themselves at centre stage.

For the full call of papers please go to http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference2009/callforpapers.html or open the attached document.

For information about how to submit a paper or complete session please go to http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference2009/guidelines.html

Call for Papers: "Culture, Media: Protest" Conference
September 3-5, 2009
Organised by the Research Project “Protest as Medium – Media of Protest”
Location: University of Lucerne (CH)

Keynote speakers include:
Ernesto Laclau, University of Essex (UK), Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster, London (UK), John Downing, Southern Illinois University (USA), Kevin McDonald, Goldsmith College (UK), Jenny Pickerill, University of Leicester (UK), Klaus Schönberger, Zurich University of the Arts (CH), Oliver Marchart, University of Lucerne (CH)

ECPR GENERAL CONFERENCE
POTSDAM
10-12 SEPTEMBER 2009

SECTION: PROTEST POLITICS
PANEL: THE VISUAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSION OF PROTEST
Whether at the local level or within an increasingly transnational field of collective action, the cultural and visual politics of protest continue to be an underresearched and all the more relevant field for protest and symbolic action. The proposed panel invites social and political scientists interested in the cultural and symbolic politics of protest, both in the European context, in other regional areas and in transnational and global arenas of protest. What is the relationship between identity, strategy and the cultural and visual encoding of protest?

FOR MORE DETAILS ON PAPERS SUBMISSION
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/files/paper_proposals_guidelines_and_dead...
OTHER INFO ABOUT THE ECPR general conference, sections, panels, day by day program and practical details http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/default.asp

XIII FELAFACS Conference
19 - 22 October 2009
Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, Cuba

PAST CONFERENCES / EVENTS

Human Rights and Communication. IAMCR 2009 Conference
Mexico City, Mexico July 21-24 2009.

Allied Media Conference
Detroit, USA 16-19 July, 2009

Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference 2009
Communication, Creativity and Global Citizenship
Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Precinct
Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia
8 - 10 July 2009

Beyond East and West - Two Decades of Media Transformation After The Fall of Communism
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary - 25-27 June 2009.
An International Conference, organized by the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University (CEU) and the COST A30 Action "East of West: Setting a New Central Eastern European Media Research Agenda", in cooperation with the International Communication Association (ICA).

Keywords in Communication
The 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Chicago - USA - May 21-25, 2009

14th Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference
Manchester, UK - April 15-17, 2009

Women, Action & the Media: A Conference for Activists, Journalists & Everyone
MIT’s Stata Center, Cambridge, MA
March 27 - March 29, 2009

World Water Forum
Istanbul, Turkey / 16-22 March, 2009

Info-Activism Camp
Bangalore, India / 19-25 February 2009

Community Radio in Europe: Broadcasting on the edge
Hotel Caro, Bucharest, Romania, 12-14 December 2008

INTRAC International Conference: Whatever Happened to Civil Society?
KDK Conference Centre, the Netherlands / 3-5 December 2008.

Civil society is a development buzzword that is used by many, but whose meaning has become unclear. INTRAC's conference will re-examine the concept and role of civil society and focus on its significance in relation to current debates and practice in development, human rights and democracy promotion. Participants will include a wide range of global civil society actors such as activists and lobbyists, social movements’ members, local and international NGOs and community based groups. Academics, official and private donors, and policymakers engaged in civil society support programmes will also be present.Call for case studies: Contributions are invited of case studies that document the roles, activities and interactions of civil society actors in their work on development.

2008 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Conference / Many Voices - Common Ground
13th - 16th November 2008
Alice Springs Convention Centre - Northern Territory, Australia

Making Links 2008 Conference
Community - Responsibility - Sustainability
11 – 13 November 2008
University of Melbourne, Australia

EASA Media Anthropology Network Second Workshop
MEDIA PRACTICES AND CULTURAL PRODUCERS
Barcelona, Spain, November 6-8, 2008

The workshop addresses media practices and the arenas of cultural production in the context of the "new media" landscape. In broad terms, the workshop will inquire into the leading theoretical and methodological perspectives for doing anthropological research on digital mediated practices and their implications for the understanding of people's interaction with media. The aim is to explore the circulatory flows of media practices and in particular, how digital technology use is changing media culture, cultures of media circulation and the very definition of cultural producer.

Coordinators
Elisenda Ardèvol - Open University of Catalonia
Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson - Coordinator of the European Association of Social Anthropologists Media Anthropology Network

Quality/Control: Designing a new system for ethical media Symposium
17 October, Melbourne - Australia

Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place
The 9th annual conference of the Association of Internet Reseachers -
Copenhagen, Denmark, October 15th - October 18th 2008.
This year's conference theme "Rethinking Community, Rethinking Space" takes its point of departure in the fact, that in the past few years, new forms of net-based communities have emerged, distributed on various websites and services, and making use of several media platforms and genres to stay connected. As mobile and location-based technologies are reintroducing "place" as an important aspect in the formation of communal and social activities, it is time to consider and rethink the concept of online or virtual communities.

IX Congreso Latino Americano de Investigacion de la Comunicacion / IX Latin American Congress of Communication Research
Mexico City, 9- 11 October 2008

Access to Knowledge 2008 - A2K3
Geneva, Switzerland, 9-11 September 2008

Subversion, Conversion, Development: Public Interests in Technologies
Centre for Research in the Arts , Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 24-26 April 2008.