EMU!: Fourth International Conference in Communication and Media Studies 2014 [EVENT]

The Center of Research and Communication for Peace in the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University invites paper, panel, and event proposals addressing the general theme of “If You Wish Peace, Care for Justice.” 

Theme: “If You Wish Peace, Care for Justice”

Dates of the Conference: 19-21 November 2014

Keynote Speaker: Professor Oliver Richmond, University of Manchester, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, UK

Conference web site: http://crcp2014.emu.edu.tr

Organizer: Center of Research and Communication for Peace, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies

The Fourth International Conference in Communication and Media Studies, which will be held at the Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel in North Cyprus between 19-21 November 2014, aims at bringing together scholars to present their research and exchange ideas in a range of topics under the general theme including:

Peace and conflict
Justice (unconditional) and the laws (conditional)
Remembering or forgetting for peace
Documentary: Film as remembering?
Filming/forgetting the scene
Peace journalism
Ethnocentrism and its different manifestations like racism, sexism, nationalism, orientalism, agism, carnism, speciesism
Ethnocentrism and xenophobia
Truth and reconciliation
Truth, representation, and the media
Epistemic violence and its role in the perpetration of physical violence
Theory and politics of non-violence
Migration, exile and diaspora
Intercultural/International communication
Alterglobalization
Hospitality and hostility
Ethical and political responsibility
Dialogue and dialogic of self-other relations
Human-animal dissociation and its discontent
Our relationship with the Earth
Democracy and capitalism, and their relationship with peace and justice.

Original flyer

Credit:
Center of Research and Communication for Peace
Eastern Mediterranean University
Faculty of Communication and Media Studies