By Will Mari
Hi again, everyone,
I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely still in recovery mode, post-semester (though I am rooting for our friends still wrapping things up on the quarter system!).
I have been humbled by my limitations over the past year, but especially over the past month or so. Please know I deeply appreciate of you all and your resiliency and community.
I just wanted to check in to encourage you to please renew your membership and register for the conference, if you have not done so—our draft schedule is also out, thanks to the hard work of Maddie and Cayce. We will be following up closer the conference with more details. Thank you to all those who submitted, reviewed or have otherwise volunteered to help.
As a reminder, the conference is online, from Aug. 4-7—though don’t forget that our awards gala will be on the night of Aug 3, at 7 p.m. We’d love to see you at the general membership meeting at 8:45 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 5. Registration is till only $69 for regular members and $39 for student members, as long as you sign up before July 23. I’m looking forward to a great conference, and hopefully to next year back in person in Detroit.
A few other quick reminders:
- It’s never too early to think of good MA theses to submit, to next year’s Dicken-Garcia Award.
- Don’t forget that the American Journalism Historians’ Association has its call out for papers, panels, and research-in-progress abstracts (all due June 15).
- ICA’s Communication History division is a great sibling organization to join; they just had their conference (it’s happening right now as I write this note).
- Our colleagues at the ECREA’s Communication History section are having a post-conference in September, with one focused on “Old Media Persistence;” you can read their call for papers here: https://oldnewspersistence.com/cps/.
- Finally, the Media Building conference, focused on the physical manifestations of news, is happening in July, for free, and is sponsored by some of our media-history friends in the UK and around the world.
We’ll continue to update you via the listserv, @AEJHistory Twitter and the History Division Facebook page, as well as our new site: https://mediahistorydivision.com/; please know your leadership team is working hard behind the scenes, for you all.
Feel free to drop me a line at wmari1@lsu.edu, wtmari@gmail.com, or @willthewordguy, if you have any questions or just wanted to say “hi.” Take care—#mediahistorymatters.