Authors and Papers announced for IHPRC

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Tom Watson in Conference, News

The authors and papers chosen for presentation at the First International History of Public Relations Conference are announced. The 36 papers from authors representing 14 countries were chosen by an international panel of reviewers.

“The response to the conference has been wonderfully positive and it has attracted a wide range of papers from around the world,” said  conference chair, Dr Tom Watson. “We have well-established historians and early stage researchers, as well as practitioners. It shows that historical research into public relations is a very healthy youngster with plenty of potential for growth.”

The papers will be presented on July 8-9, 2010 at Bournemouth University in England. A selection of them will be published in a special History of Public Relations issue of the Journal of Communication Management later in the year.

Author Paper Title 
Aimee Postle A study of the role played by PR-specific education in the recruitment process
Andy Purcell & Ian Somerville A history of Republican paramilitary public relations in Northern Ireland from “Bloody Sunday” to the Good Friday Agreement
Antje Berg Forced professionalisation? An analysis of government public relations in the German empire using the example of the 1890-1914 “Navy Propaganda”
Bonita Dostal Neff The History of Public Relations Body of Knowledge Development within Associations: Global Implications
Burton St John & Margot Opdycke Lamme The Evolution of an Idea: Charting the Early Public Relations Ideology of Edward L. Bernays, 1919-1929
Conor McGrath Charles Weller Kent: The UK’s First ‘Parliamentary Lobbyist’ (1913-1916)?
David Berendt Revealing historical evidence of public relations professionalization and commercialization: The early history of public relations education at Bournemouth University – Structure, evolution, people and curricula
David Remund The World’s Work: Arthur W. Page and the Movement towards Social Responsibility in Corporate Communications in the United States, 1913-1927
Diana Knott Martinelli A Practical and Theoretical Look at Women’s Use of Public Relations to Spur Early to Mid 20th century U.S Social Change
Donald K. Wright A Critical Analysis of the History and Development of Public Relations Education in the United States and Canada
Donn James Tilson Corporate Social Responsibility – A New Imperative? A View of the Social Dimension of Public Relations through the Rearview Mirror of Time
Donnalyn Pompper Discovering U.S Frontier Women and Their Public Relations Functions
Elisabetta Bini, Ferdinando Fasce & Toni Muzi Falconi The Origins and Early Developments of Public Relations in Italy, 1945-1960
Gunter Bentele PR-Historiography, a functional-integrative strata model and periods of German PR history
Gunter Bentele & Sandra Muhlberg Can Propaganda and Public Relations coexist? ‘Socialistic Public Relations’ in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1965-1989
Gyorgy Szondi Public Relations in Communist Hungary – A Historical Perspective
Jane Johnston A history of Public Relations on screen: Cinema and television depictions since the 1930s
Kaja Tampere Historical heritage: Paradigmatic changes in the PR field in the 20th century
Lee Edwards Empire, Economy and Exploitation: A ‘Raced’ View of Public Relations History
Maria Isabel Miguez Gonzalez From Public Relations to Communication Management: historical revision of Public Relations and fundamentals of a new discipline.
Marius Lange Propaganda instead of PR? Corporate Public Relations in the transition from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi dictatorship
Mark McElreath, Lyudmila Azarova & Olga Markova The history of applied and professional ethics in public relations in the United States and Russia: The case for “relatively universal” principles
Michael J Palenchar & Bernardo Motta Historical Evolution of Community Right to Know: Implications on the Development and Practice of Public Relations
Oliver Raaz, Stefan Wehmeier & Peggy Hoy Histories of public relations: Comparing the historiography of British, German and US public relations
Owen Kulemeka All the old media were once new media: Public relations and new media technologies between 1950-1999
Patricia A Curtin & Lisa Forster Creating Counternarratives: Harvey Company publicity and Native Americans: 1902-1936
Pawel Surowiec Rethinking national images management: From propaganda to nation branding
Peter Sekuless History of Government Relations and Lobbying in Australia
Peter Szszka Public Relations in Germany – own or common history? Empirical findings – theoretical foundation – methodological consequences
Richard Stanton Politics, Publicity and the Press: The South Sea Bubble and the Eighteenth Century Birth of Modern Public Relations
Robert L. Heath Evolution of Issues Management: John Hill, Tobacco Controversy, and the Battle of Scientists
Scott Anthony Stephen Tallents and the Development of Public Relations in Britain
Thomas Hove & Richard T. Cole Edward Bernays, the United Fruit Company and the Ethical Complexities of the Public Relations Counsel
Veronique Pouillard The 1958 International Congress for Public Relations and the question of the late development of PR in Continental Europe
Vehbi Miftari & Vilma Biba History of Public Relations in Kosovo 
Vincent Hazleton Theoretic Issues in Histories of Public Relations

Conference News – 1

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

Award: The first Journal of Communication Management special issue on the History of Public Relations (2008 Vol 12. No.4) won a Highly Commended Special Issue Award in the Emerald Literati 2009 Awards recently. As well as being a very popular issue, it helped define the world-wide interest in this area of historical and practice research.

Website: As you can see, the conference website www.historyofpr.com has introduced and will be supported by a Twitter feed called ‘historyofpr, a Linked-In group and Facebook presence. It is being developed as a communication point for the conference, a guide to resources and a discussion centre. We aim to make access to existing online resources simpler.

Conference pricing: Tickets for the conference will be £240 per delegate, with an ‘early-bird’ rate of £200 for registration and payment by Friday, April 30 2010. There will be a special rate of £80 for doctoral and postgraduate students. Details of booking arrangements will be announced later.

Venue: The conference will be held at Bournemouth University in southern England from July 8-9, 2010. To find out more about this famous beach resort town, go to: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/around_bournemouth/around_bournemouth.html . Before or after the conference, you can enjoy yourself in Bournemouth or visit Thomas Hardy country, the very old New Forest and take a day trip to Stonehenge.