Workshop: Writing an Abstract

The workshop will consist out of two parts. The first part focusses on the do's and don'ts of conference abstracts. Issues to be discussed are the different conference models, conference formats, conference selection, selection of presentation topics, abstract characteristics and abstract evaluation criteria.

In a second part, the workshop will then focus on writing a conference abstract, taking the IAMCR 2018 conference in Eugene (Oregon) as a starting point. The participants will write an individual abstract in response to this call. Divided into small groups, each group will select one or two abstracts. Each group will then legitimize its selection to the entire group, which is fed into a constructive discussion at the end of the workshop.

NICO CARPENTIER

Nico Carpentier is Professor at the Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University. In addition, he holds two part-time positions: Associate Professor at the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Docent at Charles University in Prague. His work focusses on the intersection of democracy, culture and conflict, with a vivid interest in discourse theory, participation and peace-building. His latest books are: The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation (Peter Lang, New York, 2017) and Cyprus and Its Conflicts: Representations, Materialities, and Cultures (Berghahn, New York, 2018).