#ICA25 – 12-16 June 2025 | Denver, Colorado, USA
Addressing ICA’s 75th anniversary, the 2025 conference theme is an invitation to critically reflect on communication studies as a discipline and ICA as an agent and site of disciplinary development. Theme sessions will take stock of our past, critically review present developments, and chart out future avenues for communication research. We particularly welcome contributions speaking to three important aspects of the theme: communication scholarship as a transformative and stabilizing force in society, as a research practice that can be both revolutionary and consolidating, and communication studies as a disrupted and resilient discipline. In all these contexts, elements of disruption and consolidation are not necessarily antithetical but may productively be framed as a dialectical relationship.
Online registration is available until 17th June 2025.
Conference Notifications
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Conference Registration
Conference registration is now open! Be sure to log in before registering to ensure you receive the ICA-member discounted rate! Check conference rates here. Register by 31st January to receive the hotel block early.
VCSD Pre-Conference
This one-day pre-conference will bring together emerging and senior scholars from various sub-fields in media and communication studies and ICA divisions and interest groups whose members focus on visual representation in their ongoing research projects.
Outstanding Journal Article
At #ICA25 in Denver, Colorado US, VCSD will award a journal article on visual communication published in the last calendar year which has made an outstanding contribution to our state of knowledge about visual communication. Nominations closed on 1st March.
VCSD Top Dissertation Award
Nominations closed on 1st March. VCSD has already notified all who submitted their nominations. Please note that, as per ICA policy, submitters only qualify for one division/interest group to which they submit their dissertation for a division/interest group dissertation award.
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