18th Biennial Communication Ethics Conference

The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers and panel proposals for the 18th Biennial Communication Ethics Conference, held in conjunction with the Silver Jubilee Anniversary Conference (2000-2025) of the International Communicology Institute. The conference will take place at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, from May 28–30, 2025.

Conference Theme

The 18th Biennial Communication Ethics Conference welcome a diversity of scholarly and creative approaches, addressing topics such as:

• The impact of phenomenological, semiotic, rhetorical, and critical theories of visual and mental images, perception, and expression.
• The existence of a general theory of image ethics, and its limitations across fields like psychoanalysis, journalism, design, and propaganda.
• The ethical considerations of self and other-perception: What is a just distance to look at oneself or others?
  Social, political, economic, and ethical contradictions arising from new intersections between art, media, software, and communication practices.
• The role of networked media in enhancing or limiting the rhetoric of visual images.
• The relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and images, and the implications of personification in media.
• Ethical questions about how advertisers imagine consumers and how digital data visualization affects the past, present, and future.
• Reimagining the objectives of network and social media science.
• Unwritten histories of communicology and the imagined futures of communication ethics.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
• Conference Dates: May 28–30, 2025