The keynote speaker is Robert S. Leaf, former international chairman of Burson Marsteller, and author of a recent memoir, The Art of Perception: Memoirs of a Life in PR (2012, Atlantic Books).

The dinner is arranged as a three course meal, with meat and vegetarian choices. It will be preceded by a drinks reception. Dress will be business casual or smarter. Tickets cost £35.00/person. These can only be booked through the conference registration system: http://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/historyofpr/registration/, by Thursday June 20.

There is also a keynote speech on trends in PR historiography from the conference organiser, Prof Tom Watson. A new feature for 2013 are book signings by Bob Leaf, David McKie, Richard Evans, Scott Anthony and Thomas Mickey.

There will also be a “Meet The Editors” panel with contributions from Anne Gregory (Journal of Communication Management), Ray Hiebert (Public Relations Review), Jacquie L’Etang (Public Relations Inquiry) and Donald K. Wright (Public Relations Journal).

The conference will be held at Bournemouth University on June 24-25. To register, please go to: http://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/historyofpr/registration/

The Call for Papers has been issued, with Abstracts due by Friday May 31. The conference is a collaboration of Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University.

* The conference has a section on the history of public relations, corporate communications and marcoms, including advertising, in Asia and Australasia.

Click  here for the International C&MC Conference Call for Papers.  For more details on this exciting, new conference, go to: http://cuprimcconference.net/

CALL FOR PAPERS – 1

Public Relations Inquiry – a Sage journal

Special Issue

Public relations, propaganda and terrorism

This issue is intended to explore connections between public relations, propaganda and terrorism through conceptual and empirical analyses that embrace sociological, philosophical, socio-psychological, political, anthropological, historical perspectives including humanistic perspectives such as language and literature.

Central concerns include: definitional challenges; ideological framing and composition; processes of identification and justification; the taboo nature of propaganda in particular contexts; the way in which public communication and rhetoric are employed to position some sources and communications as propaganda; psychological operations and counter-terrorism, and counter-terrorism.

Articles and essays may take a variety of forms including philosophical analysis, case studies and social scientific empirical work, histories, textual analyses, social theory, shorter polemics, up to around 3,000 words will be considered and made available for ‘Reply to’ responses – please contact the Editors.

Submissions focused on communications around the following themes are welcomed:

• Power
• Public diplomacy, nation-building and nationalism
• Resistance and accommodation
• Networks
• Political struggle
• Ethnic conflicts, diasporas and migration
• Charisma
• Religions and cults
• Racism
• Rhetoric and discourse
• Resource conflicts
• Political persuasion
• Psyops
• Source-media relations

Submissions should be clearly marked for Special Issue – please also email Jacquie L’Etang, Queen Margaret University, Scotland: JLetang@qmu.ac.uk

Deadline: 1 October 2013
http://pri.sagepub.com

CALL FOR PAPERS 2

Public Relations Inquiry – a Sage Journal

Special Issue

Memory, mortality, discourse and identity

This Special issue is intended to open up connections between the fields of Public relations and Memory Studies, and to give scholars the opportunity to reflect upon the ways in which public relations and public communications practices influence the articulation of memory in public ad academic discourses. Public relations work may connect past and present through its cultivation of organizational myths and rituals, as well as framing official discourse around organizational death, reincarnation or rebirth.

Articles may take a variety of forms and may focus on individual or shared memories in order to reflect upon the role of formal communications on such processes.

Submissions around the following themes are welcomed:

• Public communications, commemoration and remembrance
• Cultural memories, heritage and public communication
• Public relations and nostalgia
• Publics’, stakeholders’ and community memories
• Public relations, discourse and narrative
• Public relations’ memories, narratives and myths
• Public relations and story-telling
• Public relations, biography, autobiography and auto-ethnography
• Public relations, identity and politics
• Nation-branding, public diplomacy and nostalgia
• Public relations, migration and diasporas
• Bereavement and promotional culture

Submissions should be clearly labelled for the Special Issue and submitted by April 2014.

Please also email Jacquie L’Etang, Queen Margaret University, Scotland: JLetang@qmu.ac.uk

Call for Papers for Public Relations History 2014 special edition

For the 2014 special edition, papers  from IHPRC and more generally are sought for the widest range of submissions. The Call for Papers outlines the range of topics that authors can consider, but is not limited to those. In addition to the topics and themes that have characterised IHPRC since it was launched in 2009, two additional themes are promoted for the next special edition.

• Historical aspects of the professionalisation of public relations
• The historiography of public relations

Both build from major topics of discussion at IHPRC. Papers and presentations can be found under the Proceedings tab at http://historyofpr.com.

Manuscripts must be submitted with APA referencing. The MS of 3000 to 6000 words, plus references, must be presented in Word format.

The deadline for submission is October 1, 2013 through the journal’s submission portal at http://ees.elsevier.com/pubrel/. All submissions must be noted for the “Public Relations History 2014 Special Issue” in the pull-down menu.

Please note that authors must register for both days of the conference. Graduate students, however, register for just £100 / delegate. There is a day rate of £160/day for other delegates.

If you’re attending ICA in London or heading to Dublin for IAMCR, IHPRC fits neatly between these two conferences. It’s by the seaside with the reputation of a high-standard, friendly conference.

Go to http://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/historyofpr/registration/ to register, and for travel and accommodation information.

The 83-page Abstract document is accessed through this link:  IHPRC 2013 Abstracts

Written by Franz Wisner and published by the firm, it tells the story of Dan Edelman, son of immigrants, and the development of his consultancy around the world.

The conference will be free to attend and also involves academics from Swedish and German universities. Abstracts are welcome and should be sent to juliat@bournemouth.ac.uk. For more details of the conference, click on this link: CMH May 2013 Conference.