Bahçesehir University and Kent State University , USA
announce the 1st Annual, International Conference on
Communication, Mass Media and Culture

“Freedom and Prejudice”

Istanbul , Turkey
5-7 October 2006

The sessions will be held in English and Turkish.
There will be simultaneous translation in both languages.

Oturumlar İngilizce ve Türkçe olup her iki dilde de simultane çeviri yapilacaktir.

This year, the theme of the “Communication, Mass Media and Culture” conference will be Freedom and Prejudice . The conference will be held at Bahcesehir University , located in central Istanbul . The organizers invite paper proposals addressing any aspect of the conference theme. Papers from a wide variety of subjects including journalism, mass media, technology and new media, film, television, advertising, public relations, visual culture, cultural studies are welcome.

There will be a conference registration fee of $75. Graduate students and participants from institutions located in low-income and lower-middle-income economies are eligible for a reduced conference fee. See http://www.worldbank.org/data/countryclass/classgroups.htm for a list of low-income and lower-middle-income economies. A list of hotels, located in close proximity to the conference location and with specially negotiated prices, will also be posted to the conference website.

Abstracts should be 500 words in length, and should give some indication as to the theoretical grounding of the paper. The deadline for abstracts is July 28, 2006 . Notification of acceptance/rejection will be no later than August 4, 2006 .

Direct specific inquires to freedom@bahcesehir.edu.tr

Click Call for Papers for information on submitting a paper!

Bildiri cagrisinin Turkcesini okumak icin buraya tiklayiniz.