Fourth International Conference in Communication and Media Studies

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 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.” 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

Papers will be accepted in both English and Turkish, and there will be separate sessions for each language. The opening and closing meetings will, however, be conducted mainly in English.

Please send your abstract (not more than 300 words) to: crcp@emu.edu.tr