Conference
New York State Communication Association
83rd Annual Conference October 17-19, 2025
Villa Roma Resort and Conference Center
“Embracing Change”
2025 CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual Conference | October 17-19, 2025
Villa Roma Resort and Conference Center 365 Villa Roma Road, Callicoon, NY 12723
Since the time of Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates, scholarly communication inquiry has often reflected a perspective white, male, and Western. From theories of persuasion to models of human interaction, this body of work has yielded important insights into and understanding of the human condition and the role communication and media play within it. Yet, in the intervening millennia the world has changed dramatically, especially in the domain of the media of communication, and new perspectives and ideas have emerged to help transform the communication and media discipline. Contributions from diverse and inclusive scholars across the Global South and beyond are reshaping the field. Still, recent years have seen enormous push-back throughout society in the West and elsewhere, questioning these contributions and even the very legitimacy of the views, ideas, and scholarship espoused. Books have been banned in school and public libraries, curricula that teach Black history or the LGBTQ+ experience have been outlawed in schools and higher education.
The annual conference of the New York State Communication Association invites participants to consider new concepts, questions, approaches, methods, or theoretical frameworks, and explore how these musings may contribute to a richer, more diverse, inclusive, and changing discipline of communication and media inquiry. Scholars, practitioners, and students are encouraged to examine how their areas of study in communication and media intersect with or contribute to understanding the changing nature of communication inquiry. Those who seek to banish contributions embracing change often rest on a false assumption; that we are playing a zero-sum game, and that engaging change means excluding more traditional views and perspectives. In fact, a more accurate metaphor is that human communication knowledge is an infinitely expandable pie, and that by embracing change the pie can grow, become more flavorful, and even more nutritious. Please see the CPF below!
Deadline
All submissions and proposals are due no later than midnight EST on June 6, 2025.
Contact Information
Direct inquiries and email submissions to John V. Pavlik, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, at NYSCA2025@gmail.com