[Air-L] Deadline extended - Conference CFP "Histories, Presents and Futures of Media and Communication", University of Westminster, central London, 22-23 May 2025

[Graham Meikle]

Hi everyone

**We have extended the deadline for abstracts to Friday 13 December, as we recognise now is a busy time of semester in many parts of the world.**

Please share widely. Hope to see you there.

Conference call for papers — Histories, Presents and Futures of Media and Communication
CAMRI, University of Westminster (Regent Street), 22-23 May 2025

Confirmed keynote speakers

Professor Payal Arora, University of Utrecht
Professor Nick Couldry, London School of Economics
Professor Lina Dencik, Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania

In 1975 the first undergraduate Media degree in the UK was launched at the Polytechnic of Central London, now the University of Westminster. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this foundational moment, Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) invites proposals for presentations at a two-day conference in central London on 22 and 23 May 2025. We invite papers and panels that reflect upon aspects of the histories, presents, or futures of the field of Media and Communication. What lessons can we learn from the emergence, shaping and development of this field? Where are we now and how do we matter? And how can we respond as a field to those future challenges — political, social, cultural, environmental, technological — that we can anticipate?

Papers may address developments in the subject area over the past half-century, or assess present conditions and states-of-the-art, or engage with coming challenges. They may also consider key developments, events or moments within media industries and cultural practices in those fifty years that have been important in how the academic field has taken shape and in how it has influenced societies. And while the conference is prompted by the anniversary of the institutionalisation of this subject within universities in the UK, and the opportunity for reflection that this offers, global perspectives and contributions are both vital and very welcome.

Submission details

Proposals should be 200-word abstracts that outline the aims, methods, findings and conclusions of the 15-minute paper. Abstracts should include five keywords and a one-paragraph bio. Keywords, bio, and any references are not included in the word count.

Proposals for pre-constituted panels of four papers should include individual abstracts for each paper as well as an additional 200-word rationale for the overall panel. If a pre-constituted panel is accepted, then all presenters must register by the 30 April 2025 deadline.

Full written papers are not required. This event is in-person only.

Cost: £200 for two days, including lunches, refreshments, and drinks reception on first night. Current PhD students £80.
We are unable to offer registration for a single day only.

Proposals should be sent to 50years at westminster.ac.uk<mailto:50years at westminster.ac.uk> by 17:00 UK time, Friday 29 November 2024. Friday 13 December 2024

Timeline

Abstract submission deadline: 29 November 2024 13 December 2024
Notification of acceptances: 17 January 2025
Registration opens 31 January 2025, closes 30 April 2025
Event: 22-23 May 2025
Venue: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW


All the best, gm

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Professor Graham Meikle
Director, Communication and Media Research Institute
College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries
University of Westminster, UK

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