Past conferences

Amplification and Everyday Life

The Amplification Project, a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project housed within the Music and Music Technology division of the University of Huddersfield, invites...

Illness Narrative Retold

The conference welcomes researchers at all career stages working within the fields of illness narrative, health communication, medical humanities, narrative medicine, and media and cultural studies.

Fourth international Data Justice conference

Hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) in the UK.

The Positioning Theory Research Conference 

The Positioning Theory Research Conference is intended for early-career to senior academics, higher degree students, community researchers and practitioners interested in connecting with research related to Positioning Theory.

Between Cultural Appropriation and Ethnic Shifting: The Entangled Histories of Romani Imitation

This conference asks how individuals and groups claim, borrow, or mimic Romani cultural and ethnic markers, and how unequal power relations shape which identities are recognized as (in)authentic or (il)legitimate.

18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026

Theme for Web Science 2026: Managing Risks in the Era of Generative AI – How 20 Years of Web Science Research can Help

Emotions, Populism and Polarised Politics, Media, and Culture

This event is part of a long running effort of the HEPP research group.

The Sixth Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation

Since 2019, the HEPP conferences have provided a space to explore themes related to populist mobilisation, polarisation, and the dynamics of emotional engagement in various political and mediatised contexts.

The Apocalypse is Not Coming (TANC)

The Apocalypse is Not Coming (TANC) transdisciplinary conference invites paper submissions to its thematic panels, which examine both the destructive and transformative energies of crisis, aiming to unpack apocalyptic imaginaries while also exploring regenerative responses across diverse fields and practices.

Time to Take Part: Mobilization, Resistance and Learning in Times of Polarized Social Communication and AI Slop

Time to Take Part: Mobilization, Resistance and Learning in Times of Polarized Social Communication and AI Slop.
A Two-Day Conference Organized by the TakePart Project at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

From Print to Promt: Media and Communication Research and Education in the Era of AI

Emerging forms of AI, in particular GenAI, are fundamentally reshaping contemporary media and communication research and educational practices.

Mevi Days

The Day of Media and Communication Research, or Mevi Days, will be held on 7.-8.5.2026 in Vaasa. The theme of the days is Roots.

Nordic Media Days

The Nordic Media Days is a three-day gathering taking place from 6 to 8 May 2026 in Bergen, Norway.

Media Realities International Symposium 2026

This symposium addresses the multiplicities of realities within empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, digital technologies, culture and society.

The 4th annual Corvinus Communication Conferences (CoCoCo)

The 4th annual Corvinus Communication Conference (CoCoCo) explores the ways in which individuals, the public, and institutions are challenging contemporary power constructs and environments through communication practices.

Environmental Communication Conference 2026: The Politics of Disagreement

Conference theme: The politics of disagreement.

Comics and Machines 

We are pleased to announce a two-day international conference on April 22-23, 2026 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and at Uppsala University dedicated to examining the rapidly evolving landscape of comics.

Race and Media Conference

This conference aims to bring a global perspective to the study of race and media, tracing the filiations and resonances of racist, divisive and far-right discourses across ‘liberal’ and illiberal, ‘democratic’ and authoritarian media landscapes and political contexts.

Decolonization Strategies and Memory Work in Popular Culture

This conference approaches popular culture as a vibrant site of memory work (Kuhn 2000).

36th Annual Thinking Gender Conference

This year’s conference theme, “Feminist and Queer Ecologies,.