Registration and Submission of Abstracts

Participation in the 1st HCIAS International Symposium is possible both with and without presentation. Online registration will be open from 18 July to 18 October 2023, and places are limited. Please register and submit your abstract via email to hcias-symposium2023@uni-heidelberg.de.

The Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) is calling for abstracts for the 1st HCIAS International Symposium. This initial symposium aims to offer an exchange of approaches which broadens our understanding of the forms, premises, and consequences of communication in polarized societies, viewed from multiple angles of the social sciences and the humanities. The symposium aims to create a space for the exchange of academic experiences, to generate knowledge, and to contribute to the training of the next generation of scholars in interdisciplinary area studies on Ibero-America.

Call for Abstracts

The 1st HCIAS International Symposium addresses the study of communication and its multiple socio-political implications in Ibero-American societies. Ibero-America, with its imbrications within the region and with other regions of the world, is characterized by highly dynamic socio-cultural processes of transformation in which the role of communication is decisive. The symposium adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to reveal the analytical potential of the framework of societal communication, especially with regard to the analysis of transversal issues such as democratization and democratic backsliding, polarization, or trust. At the same time, it highlights the capacity of area studies to analyze and interpret contemporary communication phenomena based on profound regional knowledge.

The 1st HCIAS Symposium welcomes theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions from different perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities addressing one of the following four subfields:

1. political communication and the public sphere

2. (Inter-)cultural Communication

3. public communication, knowledge society, and social development

4. digitalization and artificial intelligence in public communication

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Guidelines

Submission of Abstracts for a Presentation

Presentations shall have a maximum length of 15 minutes.
The proposal is a summary of the presentation and shall include the theoretical framework, objectives, rationale, methodology, and progress of results, if applicable.
Any bibliographic references should be in APA format.
Maximum length of 500 words, including any bibliographic references.

Submission of Abstracts for a Flash Talk

Flash talks shall have a maximum length of 4 minutes.
The proposal is a summary of the ongoing doctoral research project and shall include the theoretical framework, objectives, rationale, methodology, and progress of results, if applicable.
Any bibliographic references should be in APA format.
Maximum length of 300 words, including any bibliographic references.

Symposium Abstract Submission and Registration Form

Please download the form below. It is to be completed and emailed to hcias-symposium2023@uni-heidelberg.de by June 30, 2023. Acceptance will be communicated by 17 July, 2023.

Registration and Submission of Abstracts Form

Registration and Submission of Abstracts for a Flash Talk Form