International History of Public Relations Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS – update

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Tom Watson in Conference

The deadline for abstracts has now passed.

Academics, practitioners and research students are invited to submit competitive abstracts and papers for presentation at The First International History of Public Relations Conference.

 This conference will be the first international opportunity for academic researchers, historians, interested practitioners and research students to meet, present papers and discuss this emerging area of research.

•  Full Papers – 3000 to 6000 words
• Working Papers – 1500 to 3000 words
• Posters

 Papers and posters for presentation at the conference will be selected, after peer review, on the basis of abstracts, of no more than a single page length. Author details must be printed on a separate sheet and the author(s) should not be identified in the abstract.

Manuscripts of the selected papers are to be submitted using Harvard referencing and according to the Journal of Communication Management editorial style found at: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jcom . The manuscript should be in MS WORD format, in 1.5 line spacing and 12 point font size.

Deadlines

•  Submission of abstracts: December 7, 2009 (closed)
•  Acceptance notification (by email): January 18, 2010
•  Submission of selected papers: April 26, 2010

 All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference programme, which will be available online. A selection of full papers will be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Communication Management in late 2010.

Tags: History of Public Relations, PR History, Public Relations History