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ECREA Risk and Crisis Communication Section

15 Sep 2025

 

 

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.

The conference will feature several thematic workshops, along with a PhD workshop, with further details to be shared in the coming months.

Deadlines:

  • April 4, 2025: submission of abstracts of oral presentations and panels
  • May 9, 2025: notification of authors

Abstracts for oral presentations and panels should be sent to corina.buzoianu@comunicare.ro. Kindly mention ‘Crisis 8 submission’ in the email’s subject.

Conference fees:

– ECREA member: 290 EUR (240 EUR early bird)
– ECREA PhD student: 100 EUR (50 EUR early bird)
– Non-ECREA member: 400 EUR (350 EUR early bird)
– Non-ECREA PhD student: 150 EUR (100 EUR early bird)