CRISIS 8
September 15-17, 2025
SNSPA, Bucharest, Romania
Communication at the crossroads: the intersection of crisis management, sustainability, and digital transformation
ECREA Crisis 8 aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners to discuss developments in risk and crisis communication within the evolving communication ecosystem. Although research on communication in crisis contexts is extensive, it has become increasingly clear that we face disrupted traditional interpretative frameworks. The widespread use of social media platforms and the rapid advancement of communication technology have challenged long-established theories, models, and practices in risk and crisis communication. The challenges include delivering timely and accurate crisis information, strategically framing messages, engaging in dialogic forms of crisis communication, and managing reputational crises. In such situations, digital and social media play a key role in how the public interprets events, with significant implications for crisis management and the shaping of trust in public and private institutions during overlapping global crises. One critical issue that demands more attention is the risk of widespread misinformation and disinformation for which governments, officials, and organizations have worked to reduce the public’s vulnerability to these threats.
For Crisis 8, we invite researchers and practitioners presenting cross-disciplinary approaches from communication, public relations, journalism, business, marketing, education, political communication, management, and other related fields. We also encourage PhD students to submit presentations and to attend the thematic workshops featured within the conference as well as a PhD workshop focused on career development for young professionals.
Abstract submission
Submit an abstract for open sessions (max. 250 words) or panels (max. 500 words, 5-6 participants) by April 4 at crisis8@comunicare.ro
Key dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts | April 4, 2025 | crisis8@comunicare.ro
Deadline for submission of panels | April 4, 2025 | crisis8@comunicare.ro
Kindly mention ‘Crisis 8 submission’ in the email’s subject line.
Notification of authors | May 9, 2025
Registration: open: May 19, 2025 |early bird by June 15, 2025 | close: August 15, 2025.
Keynote speaker
Yan Jin
Yan Jin, Ph.D., is the C. Richard Yarbrough Professor in Crisis Communication Leadership and a professor of public relations at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia (UGA), United States. She is Director of the Crisis Communication Think Thank (CCTT) and Director of the Crisis, Risk, and Disaster Communication (CRDC) graduate certificate program at UGA. Dr. Jin’s work serves as a framework for crisis management and strategic risk communication research and practice in a rapidly evolving media landscape and amidst emotionally charged conflict situations, tackling sticky crisis challenge with a READINESS approach.
Thematic workshops
- Crisis simulation workshop
- contact: Sten Torpan |University of Tartu, Estonia | torpan@ut.ee
- Meme & crisis communication workshop
- contact: Pavel Rodin |University of Gothenburg, Sweden | rodin@jmg.gu.se
- PhD workshop – Life after PhD: How to plan for your future carrier?
- contact: Heini Ruohonen |Abo Akademi, Finland | ruohonen@abo.fi
Further details to be shared in the coming months via our online communication channels.
Crisis Communication Think Tank Best PhD Paper Award
PhD candidates whose abstracts are accepted for presentation at Crisis 8 will have the opportunity to submit their presentation to receive the ‘CCTT Best PhD Paper Award’ ($500), sponsored by the Crisis Communication Think Tank. Decisions regarding the award will be made by a committee consisting of representatives of the Think Tank and members of the scientific committee of the conference, that will assess all the submitted papers and presentations.
Conference fees:
– ECREA member: 290 EUR (240 EUR early bird, until June 15, 2025)
– ECREA PhD student: 100 EUR (50 EUR early bird, until June 15, 2025)
– Non-ECREA member: 400 EUR (350 EUR early bird, until June 15, 2025)
– Non-ECREA PhD student: 150 EUR (100 EUR early bird, until June 15, 2025)
Conference organizer and venue:
College of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania
30A Expozitiei Blvd, Bucharest, Romania
Social activities
Sunday afternoon, 14.09.2025 | Guided tour at Village Museum (Bucharest) | registration required, not included in the conference fee
Monday evening, 15.09.2025 | 19.00 | Reception diner | included in conference fee
Accommodation
Recommendations about hotels and planning the trip to Bucharest will be available soon on the conference webpage: https://commcenter.eu/ecrea-crisis-8/