BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL PR CONFERENCE 2019

Call for papers

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 CALL FOR PAPERS FOR BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL PR CONFERENCE #9</div>
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 UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA 1 - 2 July 20189</div>
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 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the third year, and maybe into the future, the BCN theme concerns interdisciplinary interactions. The aim is to retain this PR conference’s key point of difference by concentrating attention on interdisciplinarity as essential to engaging with contemporary challenges and the organization of knowledge in general, and where possible, major research funds. We see this as core to both raising the status of PR in the academy and to increasing the quality and quantity of conversations with other disciplines. In our title, critical has two meanings: the first is to choose the vital intersections, and the second is to be socially critical. 

 Approaches considering either or both meanings will be considered for acceptance. This year’s theme looks to capture specific features that change in relation to geographical location and key moments. The aim is to flesh out a feature of this age whose major challenges cannot be met by silo thinking. Whether climate change, global finance, sustainability, or thinking critically about them, potential solutions lie in intersecting with others (e.g., collaborators, fields, technologies). Big questions remain: how can we do this effectively? How can PR show what it can do to other disciplines and how can PR learn from other disciplines? This conference offers a unique mix of traditional and new PR research and theory and seeks participants and papers from other fields to experiment with finding productive intersections. 

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With none of the usual disciplinary boundaries, we invite a wide range of contributions that reflect, and that reflect on, traditional concerns, current issues and projected trends in PR and strategic communication – however that is interpreted. We encourage participation on a spectrum of possible intersections, whether it be in content, methodology, pedagogy, technology, or futures. To start with PR, which PR intersection most appeals or most troubles you? What intersections are key for PR practices, teachings, and theories to engage now and into the future. For other fields, put your discipline in place of PR and ask the same questions. Proposals addressing – and even challenging – the overall theme are warmly invited. Conventional paper on any aspect of public relations will also be considered. Please feel free to contact the organisers directly if you wish to discuss the relevance of any proposal. We offer the following questions not as a definitive list, but as prompts for a spread of responses:
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 What is PR learning from historical intersections (e.g., PR and journalism in the early 20th century), from currently hot topics (e.g., AI, Big Data), and from futures thinking 
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 Who leads in using digital disruptions and what can they teach PR? 
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 How many disciplines – and which ones – offer promising lines of development for PR?
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 How has education intersected with PR in the past and how might it intersect in the future?
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 Does PR need to stay insular to survive?
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 We are particularly interested in panels around common topics that feature speakers from different fields. 
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 Organising committee:

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 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Management and Marketing. The University of Waikato 
 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240 (New Zealand) 
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 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Department of Communication. Pompeu Fabra University 
 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roc Boronat, 138. 08018 Barcelona (Spain) 
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 Universitat Pompeu Fabra 
 Facultat de Comunicació 
 Roc Boronat, 138 
 08018 Barcelona (Spain)

  

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Dates Event local time

Dec

24^th

'18

00:00 Registration opens

Jul

1^st

'19

09:00 Starting date

Jul

2^nd

'19

18:00 Closing date

Jul

2^nd

'19

18:00 Registration closes

Event place

BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL PR CONFERENCE 2019

Organized by Facultat de Comunicació, UPF