Media & Civil Rights History Symposium
The Media & Civil Rights History Symposium will be held at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Friday and Saturday, March 8-9, 2019. The biennial event welcomes scholars from various disciplines and aproaches that address the vital vital relationships between civil rights and public communication from local, local/national/transnational contexts, perspectives and periods. The symposium, which concludes with the Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History, takes place in conjunction with the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium.
Call for Abstracts and Proposals
(Papers, Research-in-Progress and Panels)
We are accepting abstracts (up to 500 words) for papers and panel sessions (up to 1,000 words) on all aspects of the historical relationship between media and civil rights.
Submission deadline is Monday, Dec. 17 at midnight. Notification of acceptance will be made by Feb. 1, 2019.