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The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet

Singapore, 13-17 July 2025

The 2025 IAMCR Conference in Singapore centres on the theme "Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet", which explores the critical intersection of communication, environmental challenges, and social equity. Set against the backdrop of Singapore's unique position as a multicultural city-state vulnerable to climate change, the conference aims to amplify diverse perspectives on environmental communication. The theme underscores the urgent need for inclusive dialogue that addresses environmental crises, social inequalities, and the complex interactions between human communities and ecological systems. More information: https://iamcr.org/singapore2025

ECREA's panel seeks to extend and enrich this global conversation through a distinctly European lens. We encourage panels that bring innovative European scholarly perspectives to the global dialogue on environmental communication, emphasizing diverse voices and collaborative approaches to understanding our planetary challenges.

Panel Submission Guidelines:

We welcome panel proposals that:

• Explore European perspectives on environmental communication
  
• Critically engage with intersections of environmental justice, media, and communication 
• Offer comparative research approaches to understanding environmental challenges
  

However, not all submissions have to address the central theme. See the calls for proposals of individual sections and working groups for additional information about their themes.

Panel Composition Requirements - A strong panel proposal must:

• Include participants from at least two different countries
  
• Demonstrate EDI-Equity, diversity, inclusion
• Ideally feature no more than one contribution from a single faculty, department, or research institution
• Provide original research, not previously submitted to IAMCR
  

Submission Details - Please provide the following for your panel proposal: (a) Panel theme or title (b) Comprehensive panel description (max. 500 words) (c) For each participant:

• Full name

• Institutional affiliation

• Email address

• Proposed paper title

• Brief (up to 75 words) paper description

Practical Information

• Registering panelists. All panelists must be ECREA members by the time the conference takes place and agree in advance of submission to participate as panel presenters and to register for the IAMCR conference.
• Panelists must commit to on-site presentation in Singapore
• Panel presentations do not count towards individual paper presentation limits
• IAMCR provides a registration waiver only for the panel convener, not for the other panelists. Also ECREA does not cover any travel expenses. 

Submission Process

• Email complete proposal to: info@ecrea.eu
• Submission deadline: 12 March 2025, 23:59 CET
• Subject line: IAMCR 2025 ECREA Panel Proposal
• In case of questions please contact: info@ecrea.eu

ECREA-IAMCR Conference Review Committee:

• Indrek Ibrus (Tallinn University)
  
• Dina Vozab (University of Zagreb)
  
• Malgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska (Jagiellonian University)
  

Want to see what has been written in the Digest in previous years? Browse the newly created ECREA Weekly Digest Archive. The Digest has been published since 2019 and is subscribed to by more than 1,100 ECREA non-members in addition to ECREA members.

Check the archive HERE.

ECREA stands in solidarity with Georgia’s academic community in the face of increasing state violence against citizens, journalists, students, researchers and professors. The Georgian government’s actions—including detaining students advocating for democracy, repressing peaceful protests, and undermining university autonomy—are an unacceptable assault on academic freedom. We urge the Georgian government to respect the rights of students and academics, and we affirm our commitment to supporting Georgian scholars in their fight for justice and freedom.

ECREA Public Statement Committee

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA Summer School  4 – 10 August at Södertörn University, Sweden.

The application deadline is 14 February, 2025, 23.59 CET.

The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School is an opportunity for European doctoral students to present and develop their ongoing PhD projects and build valuable networks. It brings together members of the European research community to explore contemporary issues within media and communication studies within a supportive social setting. Our main aim is to provide you with support, insights, and guidance through a variety of activities, including individual feedback seminars with leading media and communication scholars.

Doctoral students with limited economic means can apply for an ECREA grant to cover the participation fee and travel expenses.

Full call can be found HERE.

ECREA decided to establish Task force for reviewing organisational structure of ECREA. The goal of this Task force will be to consult with the ECREA entities (their management teams) about the possible future structure of our association that would enable maintaining unity, continuity as well as innovation and flexiblity at the same time. 

If you are interested in joining the Task Force, please send your expression of interest to info@ecrea.eu by December 10, 2025.

We are happy to inform you that there is a team applying for the new Mediatization Section management team:

• Katalin FEHER - Co-Chair
• Tomasz GACKOWSKI - Co-Chair
• Bieke ZAMAN - Vice Chair
• Marlena SZTYBER-POPKO - Vice Chair
• Xiaoxian WANG - Vice Chair
• Priscilla Van EVEN - Vice Chair
• Ma ZHUORAN - Communication Officer

You can check their CVs and statements here: S/N/TWG additional election.

The election will take place online between January 6-10, 2025. Members of the Section will receive the link with all the instructions before the election.

As approved by General Assembly in June 2024, the membership fees will change from the beginning of the 2025. See the new structure of the fees here (and see the list of "Low income" and "Middle income" countries here).

ECREA Governing Body (Executive Board) decided to offer to current members and to the new members a possibility of pre-payment of the 2025 membership with the current fees:

• All members can pre-pay the 2025 membership fee with the current (old) fee amount until 15 December 2024 (via the website or by contacting info@ecrea.eu).
  
• Members can also choose to pre-pay the 2025 or both 2025 and 2026 with the new fees anytime, availing of the two-year renewal option (by contacting info@ecrea.eu). *Please note the two-year renewal option is only possible with the new fee amount.*
  
• After 15 December 2024 (from 16 December 2024 on) members will be allowed to pre-pay/renew with the new fees only. They can also wait until they will be reminded by ECREA to renew in January / February 2025, and pay the new fees then.
  

If you have any questions or comments, please, get in touch with ECREA Admin at info@ecrea.eu.

Due to the fact that the management team of Mediatization Section was not selected during the section's business meeting at the ECC in Slovenia in September 2024 we are organizing the online elections. Hereby we are launching the call for candidates for Mediatization Section Management Team. Candidates have to be current members of ECREA. If you wish to stand for election please email me at sections@ecrea.eu (with info@ecrea.eu in cc) with a short biography and position statement not later than Nov 28, 2024. Late applications will not be accepted.

ECREA is pleased to announce that new Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups Representatives were elected during the second stage of ECREA Executive Board (Governing body) elections.

New Sections Representatives are:

• Jelena Kleut - University of Novi Sad (Serbia)
  
• Catalina Iordache - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
  

New Networks Representative is:

• Dina Vozab - University of Zagreb (Croatia)
  

New Temporary Working Groups Representative is:

• Maarit Jaakkola - Nordicom
  

Elections of ECREA Executive Board (Governing Body) take place in two stages. During the first stage, ECREA members elected up new members of ECREA Executive Board (Governing Body). In the second stage, the call for representatives of Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups was organised. The candidates came from management teams of Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups and were elected by members of respective management teams. Sections can elect up to two representatives, while Networks and Temporary Working Groups can elect one representative. 

The election took place online on November 6-8, 2024. Each member of a Management Team of a S/N/TWG held one vote for the election.

Elections of ECREA Executive Board (Governing Body) take place in two stages. During the first stage, ECREA members elected up new members of ECREA Executive Board (Governing Body). In the second stage, the call for representatives of Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups was organised. The candidates come from management teams of Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups and are elected by members of respective management teams. Sections can elect up to two representatives, while Networks and Temporary Working Groups can elect one representative. 

The election will take place online on November 6-8, 2024. Each member of a Management Team of a S/N/TWG holds one vote for this election.

The results will be approved by General Assembly.

List of candidates (in alphabetical order) can be found here.