April 29-30, 2025

University of Minho, Portugal

Deadline: November 30, 2024

Until November 30, 2024, the MigraMediaActs project is accepting submissions for the "Migrations and communication in a planetary age: debates and actions" conference it is organising between April 29 and 30, 2025, at the University of Minho in Braga. Proposals will be peer-reviewed, and the evaluation results will be sent by January 20. Abstracts should be submitted using the form available on the project's website. To value the linguistic diversity and the diversity of forms of communication, proposals (for oral communications, panels and artistic interventions) can be submitted in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French. Still, the sessions will not have simultaneous translation. The conference will have face-to-face and online sessions.

Based on inter-and transdisciplinary approaches, fostering dialogue between different areas of knowledge and other types of expertise, the main objective of this conference is to debate how communication, culture and migration studies can challenge existing notions of diaspora, identities, cultures, nation, family, literacy, digital networks, youth, body, gender, among others, and contribute to building fairer and more inclusive futures. The aim is to discuss the multiple dimensions of communication, art and social activism in order to understand their role in (re)configuring relational spaces and poetics and in promoting attentive listening. In a fragmented planetary context marked by daily "crises", this conference proposes to question, rethink and rebuild community paths through communication.

We welcome contributions on the following topics and other issues in the field of communication and migration:

* Migration, decolonisation of knowledge and science communication

* Intercultural communication and the media

* Mnemonic activism, arts and media

* Media culture, racialisation processes and intersectionalities

* Media productions and artistic practices of migrant and racialised people

* Migrations, media and action research

* Migration, media activism and social change

* Experiences of (im)mobility and their mediation

* Migration and ecotransition

* Transnational comparisons of media practices in the communication of migration

* Media representations of migration

* Mediated experiences of family migration

* Digital technologies and the governance of migration and borders

* Challenges and innovations in methodologies for communication and migration studies

* Others, not named but related to the theme

For submission guidelines and further details, please visit our website: https://www.migra.ics.uminho.pt/en/conference-2025.

We look forward to your contributions and encourage you to share this call with colleagues who may be interested.