Announcements

Political Communication Divisions

of the International Communication Association & American Political Science Association
Text Box: Please submit your announcements to the webmaster. (1) American Political Science Association Preconference on Political Communication 2008 and Beyond: Change and Continuity in Media and Politics The 7th Annual APSA Preconference on Political Communication will be held on Wednesday, September 2th, 2009 at the University of Toronto. The theme of this year’s conference is the exploration of developments, continuities, and tensions between forces of change and continuity currently operative in our political communication environment. In many ways, the events of the last year represent a conflagration of dramatic technological, economic, and political shifts, with profound implications for media and politics. Recent elections have showcased the current state of the art in new ways of campaigning and communicating about politics that have been emerging for over a decade. But these developments have also brought patterns of continuity and stability into sharper relief. Beyond campaigns and elections, these tensions are also evident in broader contexts as political actors of all kinds negotiate a changing economic and political landscape, often through new and still-evolving technologies of communication, while retaining many interests and behaviors that predate these influences. We invite proposals for individual papers and panels related to any aspect of these currents in political communication. For paper or panel submissions or expressions of interest in serving as a panel chair or discussant, please contact Michael Xenos, pre-conference program chair, at xenos@lsu.edu. The deadline for proposals is February 6th, 2009. (2) American Political Science Association Annual Conference Toronto, Ontario, Canada; September 3-6, 2009 (3) International Communication Association Annual Conference Chicago, IL, USA; May 21-25, 2009 (4) Conflict, Terrorism and Society Conference “Societies Under Siege:  Media, Government, Politics and Citizens' Freedoms in an Age of Terrorism” Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey; April 28-30, 2009 Keynote speakers: Yonah Alexander and Brian Jenkins Conference website: http://sites.google.com/site/societiesundersiege/Home Contact: societiesundersiege@gmail.com Submission deadline: January 9, 2009 (5) Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Call for Grant Applications The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy provides grant funding in the major areas of the social sciences for scholars throughout the world who are in the initial phases of their research career. Applications for 2008 Awards will be accepted starting July 1, 2008. Applications and all required materials must be postmarked no later than January 31 of each year and received no later the February 10. (6) “Citizen Politics: Are the New Media Reshaping Political Engagement?” Barcelona, May 28th-30th The deadline for proposals submissions is February 9th. We welcome theoretical and empirical papers, particularly if comparative and/or combining different methodologies (see the attached file for more details). Please send the proposals to laia.jorba @uab.cat. Keynote speakers: Bruce Bimber, Rachel Gibson, Brian Krueger and Caroline Tolbert (7) Summer Institute in Political Psychology July 12-July 31, 2009 The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences is pleased to announce that it plans to host the 2009 Summer Institute in Political Psychology (SIPP) this coming summer. Directed by Stanford Professor Jon Krosnick, SIPP is a three-week intensive training program introducing graduate students and professionals to the world of political psychology scholarship. (6) Book Announcement: Media and Power Edited by Assist.Prof Zeynep Karahan Uslu, Assoc. Prof. Can Bilgili, and Assist.Prof. Nesrin Tan Akbulut will be published in January 2009 by one of the leading publishers in academic publications in Turkey, BETA Yayınevi (www.betakitap.com). The aim of the book is to discuss the role of the media in the formation of social and political power in a way enabling multidimensional and international comparisons. Academicians wishing to contribute are kindly requested to send their published or ready to be published articles in English to izuslu@yahoo.com (Zeynep Karahan Uslu) by December 15, 2008 with their academic info. Translation of the texts to publication language, namely Turkish, will be carried by the publisher and 20 copies will be sent to the writers after being published.