The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC), co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for the 2025 conference. Submissions will open Thursday, January 2, and the submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. Monday, January 20, 2025. 

This one-day interdisciplinary conference welcomes faculty and graduate students with an interest in journalism or communication history. Innovative research and ideas from all areas of journalism and communication history and from all time periods are welcome. This conference offers participants the chance to explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the world interested in journalism and communication history in a welcoming environment.

When: Friday, March 28, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park
Cost: $90 online by March 1 and $45 online afterward (includes lunch)

Research, research-in-progress, panels, and workshop proposals are all welcome. Your proposal should detail your presentation topic and offer a compelling rationale as to why your research would interest an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

• Papers are completed research studies and should be attached to the submission, along with the 500-word abstract.
• Research-in-progress are projects that are currently underway, and which would benefit from collegial feedback in a conference setting. The JJCHC eagerly welcomes this kind of work and prides itself as a forum for generative thinking and feedback. To submit an RIP, include a 500-word abstract of the work in the submission form.
• Panels are pre-constituted presentations around a single topic. To submit a panel, include a 500-word rationale overview, along with separate abstracts for individual presentations.
• Workshops JJCHC is inviting workshop submissions (previously known as ’10 in a Den’). These round-table meetings are designed to foster intimate conversation among peers working with similar theories, ideas, or methods or in related subject areas. These are also useful opportunities to work toward a collaborative project, such as journal special issues or proposals for edited collections. Scholars are encouraged to propose meetings of any time length during the conference day with up to twelve participants. To submit a workshop, include a 500-word abstract and rationale and a list of possible participants.

All submissions will be managed through EasyChair. Presenters must create an account through Easy Chair in order to submit work. More information about submissions available atjournalismhistorians.org. Creating an account is quick and easy. Once your account is created, you can submit at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jjchc2020

JJCHC 2025 Conference Organizers:

Elisabeth Fondren, St. John’s University, New York, NY, fondrene@stjohns.edu