FIRST ABSTRACTS CALL AND FOR PAPERS

COMMUNICATING CRISIS IN AN AGE OF COMPLEXITY

Second International Conference on Crisis Communication at the Beginning of the 21st Century

OCTOBER 6-8 2011

First Call for Abstracts and Papers

Organized by ASB Centre for Corporate Communication Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University Denmark

CRISIS 2

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS

COMMUNICATING CRISIS IN AN AGE OF COMPLEXITY OCTOBER 6 - 8 2011

FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS

The first international conference on Crisis Communication at the Beginning of the 21st Century took place at the University of Ilmenau, Germany, in 2009. The second international conference, organized by ASB Centre for Corporate Communication, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark, will take place on October 6-8, 2011. The theme of this conference is the complexity characterizing all types of organizational and societal crises, be they national or international; a complexity to which organizations and nation-states have to pay attention in their crisis management and crisis communication efforts. Thus, the challenge for both scholars and practitioners is to develop concepts, models, theories, and practical approaches where this complexity is reflected and integrated.
Plenary speakers Professor, PhD Priscilla Murphy, Department of Strategic and Organizational Communication, Temple University, co-author of Crisis Management in a Complex World (2008). Conference topics
Jonas Kretschmar Fink (jni@asb.dk) or to the conference secretariat (crisis2@asb.dk) no later than March 15, 2011 (cf. list of deadlines below).

The complexity of organizational and societal crises New crisis communication theories: from Image Restoration Strategies to Situational Crisis Communication Theory and beyond International and cross-cultural crises Internal crisis communication Emotions and crisis Crisis communication and the social media Crisis journalism and the news media Crisis communication in the public sector Crisis communication in the private sector Wars and disasters Lessons learned from the financial and economic crisis Crisis management: between anticipation and resilience Crisis management consulting The methodology of crisis communication research The global risk society: organizing uncertainty

Doctoral students

Papers

All participants (with accepted extended abstracts) are invited to compete for two top paper awards, sponsored by Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management and Corporate Communication: An International Journal, by submitting full/completed papers of no more than 25 pages (inclusive of tables and references) by June 15, 2011 (cf. list of deadlines below). Papers must be sent to centre administrator Jonas Kretschmar Fink (jni@asb.dk) or to the conference secretariat (crisis2@asb.dk).

A pre-conference doctoral seminar, entitled Studying Crisis Communication: New Theories and Methodologies, will be organized on October 3-5, 2011. More information will follow.

Deadlines

March 15, 2011: Abstract Submission Due April 15, 2011: Acceptance Notification (sent via e-mail) June 15, 2011: Paper Competition Consideration (full/completed papers only) August 15, 2011: Proceedings Papers Due Early bird rate: 300 (registration before August 15, 2011) After August 15: 350

Conference chairs

Conference fee

Professor, mag. art. Finn Frandsen, Associate Professor, PhD Winni Johansen and Assistant Professor, PhD Helle Kryger Aggerholm

Abstracts

Scientific committee

All abstracts must be submitted in the form of an extended abstract according to the template to be downloaded from the conference website www.asb.dk/crisis2. Abstracts must be sent to centre administrator

W. L. Benoit, A. Boin, G. Cameron, W. Timothy Coombs, Robert L. Heath, Sherry J. Holladay, Larske Larsson, Martin Lffelholz, Augustine Pang, Christophe Roux-Dufort, Andreas Schwarz, Matthew Seeger, Timothy Sellnow, and Robert Ulmer.

The conference registration fee covers admissions to all sessions, conference proceedings, two luncheons, coffee breaks, and reception. Conference dinner and accommodation rates are not included in the conference fee.

FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact Centre Administrator Jonas Kretzschmar Fink, jni@asb.dk or visit the conference website: www.asb.dk/crisis2

CENTRE FOR CORPORATE COMMUNICATION Aarhus School of Business Fuglesangs All 4 DK 8210 Aarhus V

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