International Conference
University of Minho
April 29-30, 2025

Call for papers (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” congress it is organizing 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 congress 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 congress 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 congress 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, decolonization of knowledge and science communication
* Intercultural communication and the media
* Mnemonic activism, arts and media
* Media culture, racialization processes and intersectionalities
* Media productions and artistic practices of migrant and racialized 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

ORGANIZATION TEAM

Alberto Sá (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Alessandra Nardini (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Ana Cristina Pereira (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Beatriz Carvalho, (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Bruno Mesquita (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Chisoka Paulo Simões (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Daniel Noversa (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Davide Gravato (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Gessica Correia Borges (CECS, universidade do Minho)
Isabel Macedo (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Luiza Lins (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Patrícia Posch (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Rosa Cabecinhas (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Tiago Vieira da Silva (CECS, Universidade do Minho e CEAA, Escola Superior Artística do Porto)

IMPORTANT DATES

Proposals submission: November 30, 2024
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2025
Provisional programme overview: March 14, 2025
Deadline for author’s registration: March 30, 2025
Final programme overview: April 10, 2025
Full paper submission: April 20, 2025
Conference: April 29-30, 2025

FEES

The registration fee applies to each participant individually. A certificate of participation will only be issued to registered participants.
* Master’s or PhD students must provide an updated certificate confirming the student status at the time of registration to benefit from the special rates.