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Events run by Australian and international organisations concerned with the study of media and communication history.

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Australian Media Traditions Conferences

Pacific & Asian Communication Association (PACA) Conference 2009

10–12 January 2009, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, ‘Communication Across Cultures’

http://www.fbmk.upm.edu.my/paca2009/

The Department of Communication, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, will be organizing an International Conference entitled Communication Encounters Across Cultures. This conference is jointly organized between us and the Pacific and Asian Communication Association (PACA).

Reeling in the Years: 30 Years of Film, TV, and Popular Culture

24-28 February 2009, Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, 330 Tijeras Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://swtxpca.org/documents/elements.html

This year the SW/TX PCA/ACA celebrates its 30th Birthday with our theme, Reeling in the Years: 30 Years of Film, TV, and Popular Culture. Papers are particularly sought on aspects of film, TV, and popular culture of the last 30 years with an emphasis on the popular culture of 1979.

Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission

24-26 April 2009, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/

What are the implications of these trends for historians who seek to understand the place of media in our own culture? What challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find ways to preserve and catalogue the vast enlarging universe of words and images generated by new technologies? How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we tell, the art we produce, the social structures and policies we construct? What are the implications of this tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?

Mixed Media, Mixed Messages: Media and Mediality in the Eighteenth Century

13-15 May 2009, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/~voltaire/workshopcfp09.html

In declaring an eighteenth-century "media revolution" most scholarship has focused on the circulation of new printed forms and the emergence of a public sphere. In this workshop we would like to go beyond well-established narratives of print culture, the effects of the printing press and the history of the book, to consider "the media revolution" --if there was one in the eighteenth century-- in a wider sense. We are especially interested in the relationships between media, their differences, their limits, and their cultural, social, and/or political ramifications. How are messages affected when the medium changes? To what extent were eighteenth-century actors/agents/cultural producers aware of mediality and mediation, or of the implications of placing form above content? Did the eighteenth century witness a "media revolution"? How effectively can we, in the twenty-first century, assess the cognitive or affective impact and significance of messages first sent in the eighteenth century (and since transmitted through multiple media)?

"Literary Journalism: Past, Present and Future": The Fourth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies

14-16 May 2009, Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism, Evanston, Illinois

http://www.ialjs.org/conferences09.html

The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies invites submissions of original research papers, abstracts for research in progress and proposals for panels on Literary Journalism for the IALJS annual convention on 14-16 May 2009. The conference will be held at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA (Evanston is the first suburb immediately north of the city of Chicago).

The conference hopes to be a forum for scholarly work of both breadth and depth in the field of literary journalism, and all research methodologies are welcome, as are research on all aspects of literary journalism and/or literary reportage. For the purpose of scholarly delineation, our definition of literary journalism is "journalism as literature" rather than "journalism about literature." The association especially hopes to receive papers related to the general conference theme, "Literary Journalism: Past, Present and Future." All submissions must be in English.

International Communication Association Conference 2009

21–25 May 2009, Chicago, USA, ‘Keywords in Communication’

http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2009/2009CFP.pdf

‘Keywords in Communication’, the theme for ICA 2009, gives us a chance to take stock of the field of communication – its place, its core knowledge, its terms, its debates and its direction. Focusing on keywords in communication will afford an opportunity to consider, clarify and debate what we are about as a field, what is most central to the ways in which we shape our inquiry, where our points of difference lie, and what we may hope for our future. Call for Papers: 3 November 2008, 11:00 p.m. EDT.

Australian Historical Association Regional Conference 2009

30 June–3 July 2009, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, ‘Constructing the Past’

http://www.theaha.org.au/conference%202009/flyer.pdf

We invite proposals for individual papers, panels and workshops from all members of the AHA that explore, engage with and/or challenge the conference theme. We welcome presentations that reflect on histories from any part of the world, not only Australia. Contributions from postgraduates are very welcome. Call for Papers: 6 February 2009.

International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) conference 2009

8–11 July 2009, Aberystwyth, Wales, ‘Social Fears and Moral Panics’

http://www.aber.ac.uk/history/research/centreformediahistoryIAMHIST2009.html

The aim of the conference is to explore both the role of the media in addressing, highlighting or perpetuating social fears, and the mass media itself as a perceived moral agent and/or threat. Topics to address might thus include questions of media content and/or language; concerns about public intrusion; censorship and the freedom of information; the reporting of crimes or disasters; invasion and security fears in times of peace or war; religious, cultural and/or linguistic fears; fears relating to youth or children, or to minority groups; fears relating to particular behaviours, pursuits or leisure activities; ‘golden ageism’. 300 word abstracts due 14 November 2008.  

International Communication Association ( ICA) Regional Conference 2009

16–17 July 2009, University of Melbourne, ‘Journalism in the 21st Century: Between Globalization and National Identity’

http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/othercalls/melbourne.asp

Journalism in the 21st century is transforming rapidly, through the globalization of news organizations and digital technologies. The conference will provide a broad platform for the discussion of emergent issues shaped by globalization and the network society in journalistic practice and the meaning of news not only in Australia and the larger region of the Asia-Pacific, but also in other parts of the world.

Televising History 2009

22–25 July 2009, University of Lincoln, UK

http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/televising_history/index.htm

A diverse, and interdisciplinary, international 3-day conference open to media professionals, archivists, museum professionals and scholars, with papers given on the broad themes of representing the past on TV and in other fora. The conference forms part of the Televising History 1995-2010 AHRC-funded research project: http://tvhistory.lincoln.ac.uk Dr David Starkey has been confirmed as keynote speaker, and Prof Pierre Sorlin (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris); Prof Jay Winter (Yale University); Prof John Corner (University of Liverpool) and Dr Alison Landsberg (George Mason University) are confirmed plenary speakers.

The Radio Conference 2009: A Transnational Forum

27–30 July 2009, York University, Toronto, Canada

http://theradioconference2009.apps01.yorku.ca/

This conference the fifth transnational forum aims to continue the work of Sussex 2001, Madison, Wisconsin 2003 Melbourne 2005 and Lincoln 2007 to bring together scholars, practitioners, and students of radio to share ideas and perspectives on radio’s cultural role in an increasingly global media context. We welcome proposals and abstracts for papers, panels, and symposia on all aspects of radio – historical, cultural, critical, and institutional – including investigations of the changing form and content of radio and its associated audio media.

Australian Media Traditions Conferences

The Australian Media Traditions conference, held biannually, is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, journalists and others researching or working in the Australian media, particularly in the area of media history. The inaugural conference was held in 1999. Previous conferences held as part of the Media Traditions series are listed below:

AMT 2009: Internationalising Australian Media History

The 2009 conference will be held in Sydney in the second half of 2009.

AMT 2007: Distance and Diversity: Reaching New Audiences

http://www.csu.edu.au/special/amt/home.htm

22-23 November 2007, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst.

The 2007 conference, Distance and Diversity: Reaching New Audiences, explored the notion of the New Audience as an historical continuum. The historic role of the media and communicators in overcoming distance and diversity of populations to reach new readers, listeners and viewers was the dominant theme of the conference.
Contact: Margaret Van Heekeren, Charles Sturt University.

AMT 2005: Politics Media History

http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/comm-international/amt/

24-25 November 2005, Old Parliament House, Canberra

This conference explored historical relationships between politics and the media, including the role of political journalism, government relations with the media, and historical pulls between the power of policy makers and the power of media barons.
Contact: Trish Payne, University of Canberra.

AMT 2003: When Journalism Meets History

http://search.informit.com.au/browsePublication;isbn=0864593066;res=E-LIBRARY

13-14 November 2003, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

The speakers on the opening night of the conference were Mitchell Stephens, professor of journalism and mass communication at NYU and author of A History of News and The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word; Ken Inglis, one of Australia's best known historians who began writing about the local media scene for Nation magazine in the 1950s; and Chris Masters, an award-winning investigative journalist with the ABC, best known for his work with Four Corners. Eighteen of the refereed papers presented at the conference can be found at the link above.
Contact: Sybil Nolan, RMIT University.

AMT 2001: Mapping Continuity and Change

http://www.ejournalism.au.com/ejournalist/v1n2.html

13-15 June 2001, Rockhampton, Queensland.

Selected papers from the conference can be found using link above (eds. Denis Cryle and Alan Knight). Veteran journalist Paul Kelly delivered the keynote address for the conference. The published issue of Media Traditions is dedicated to Clem Lloyd, a keynote participant at the AMT 2001 conference.
Contact: Denis Cryle, Central Queensland University.

AMT 1999: Historical Perspectives Conference

16-17 July 1999, State Library of NSW, Sydney.

Selected papers from the inaugural conference can be found in the Australian Media History special issue of Media International Australia, no. 99, May 2001, edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley and David McKnight.