Conference: Communicating Narratives, Imaginaries and Epistemes of Hope
The conference on hope as a communicative force in media, culture, and public discourse. Abstract submissions open until the 10th of May 2026.
CULCORC is a research unit affiliated with the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. CULCORC was established in 2022 as part of the Institute’s CEMES research structure.
The objectives of CULCORC are to engage in, and facilitate, research on culture and communication, with an emphasis on the multitude of meaning-generating processes, enabled by communicational exchanges, the power dynamics that characterize them and the conflicts that surround them, the intersections with the material worlds of technologies and infrastructures, and with embodied practices and non-human realities.
The conference on hope as a communicative force in media, culture, and public discourse. Abstract submissions open until the 10th of May 2026.
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Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism
Faculty of Social Sciences
Charles University
Smetanovo nábřeží 6
110 01 Prague 1
Czech Republic