Target participants: Members of the Organisational and Strategic Communication Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Organisational and Strategic Communication Section
Venue: University of Toulouse
Date: Jun 09 2009
Contact: arlette.bouzon@iut-tlse3.fr
This workshop aims to understand contemporary developments in communication theory by looking backwards as well as forwards. It intends to deal with the question of how communication is intertwined at various levels. Additionally, we would like to address the question of what kind of alterations can be used to adapt existing models and theories for current crisis.
This full day workshop will take place in University of Toulouse III, at the Department Génie Chimique. This meeting, opened to experts, practitioners and scholars, is an invitation to a joint reflection on the crisis. It will be an excellent opportunity to exchange and debate about the trends of Organizational and Strategic communication,
Conference format
This will be a small working conference, facilitating conversations intended to develop future connections between participants. Each scholar is asked to submit a paper (30-minute presentations and to provide one approach, theory or analytical tool that can be used to productively understand and/or resolve the issue presented in the paper.
Examples could include a media text, a transcript of a conversation, a videotape of interaction, a web page, or a narrative written by a group member. Possibility to do a PowerPoint presentation. Participants will share their case studies before the conference, and spend time during the conference analyzing them from a variety of
approaches.
After the conference is over, the papers will serve as a common database to facilitate further research. To facilitate discussions at the conference, the conference languages will be English and French.
Specific topics
1. Information and Public Relations in a period of crisis
2. Identity, Culture in a period of crisis
Abstracts
Abstracts were submitted to a the Scientific Committee for double-blind review.
The proceedings are available in the June 2009 newsletter of the section. Please contact Arlette Bouzon for any further information.
Registration
All participants to the conference, including those who present papers, must register electronically. Registrations will open after May 15, 2009. The deadline for conference registration will be June 1, 2009.
Information
Download the provisional programme, including the registration form and directions to the workshop.
Submission deadlines:
Deadline for full papers: June 1, 2009
