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The thematic sections and networks organize highly focused seminars and conferences under the ECREA umbrella.

Title: "Selling Politics and War. I International graduate conference on media and communication (ICMC)".
Target participants: Graduates and members of YECREA (but also open to MA and BA students)
Affiliation: Centro para as Ciências da Comunicação (C2COM -University of Porto) in collaboration with the European Communication Research and Education Association’s Young Scholars’ Network (YECREA) and Media XXI - Investigação e Consultoria/FormalPress
Venue: University of Porto
Date: May 13 - May 14, 2010
Contact: icmc2010info@icicom.up.pt
Website: http://icmc2010.wordpress.com/

The I International Graduate conference on Media and Communication (ICMC) at the University of Porto will provide a timely opportunity to spark a discussion on the dynamics between media and the political world, in different countries, with a particular focus on the role of the media in exceptional times: the way candidates and parties are covered during elections campaigns and the media performance in wartime periods.

Title: "User Generated Content. Historical perspectives on the participation of audiences in social communication".
Target participants: Members of the ECREA Communication History section (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Communication History section, in collaboration with the Center for Research on Contemporary History (ZZF), the Historical Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and the Working Committee for Historical Communication Research (AHK), Austria.
Venue: Center for Research on Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam, Germany
Date: Jun 03 - Jun 05, 2010
Contact: klaus.arnold@ku-eichstaett.de
Call for papers: http://sections.ecrea.eu/CHIS/CFP-UGC-Potsdam-2010.pdf

The Communication History thematic section of ECREA will held its founding conference in Potsdam/Berlin on 3-5 June 2010. Abstracts for the international workshop 'User Generated Content. Historical perspectives on the participation of audiences in social communication' have to submitted by 17 January 2010.

Title: "Writing the Past beyond Boundaries? Transnational versus Comparative Approaches in Communication History. Young Scholars Workshop".
Target participants: PhD researchers in Communication History, and theoretical and methodological aspects of transnational and comparative research
Affiliation: Young Scholars Communication History Network of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and YECREA – ECREA Young Scholars Network in cooperation with the Center for Research on Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam
Venue: Center for Research on Contemporary History, Potsdam/Berlin (Germany)
Date: Jun 03 2010
Contact: loeblich@ifkw.lmu.de

The idea behind the workshop is to discuss concrete theoretical and methodological issues of doing communication history transnationally or comparatively within working groups and in a plenary session. The aim of this working method is to optimize exchange and networking between PhD students and experts in the respective fields of research. At the beginning of the workshop there will be keynotes presented by these experts in transnational and comparative research from all over Europe. Prof. Dr. Marcel Broersma (Groningen), Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers (Maastricht), Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (Bremen), Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht) and Dr. Josef Seethaler (Vienna) are requested.