Eleventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies
- The Image as Advocate: Shaping Cultural Conversations
- 1-2 October 2026
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore + Online
The Eleventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Director (Curatorial, Research & Exhibitions) and Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
"Reworlding Images: Towards Planetary Futurisms in the Age of A.I"
Filmmaker and Associate Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
"Disappearing Landscapes: The Cinematic Image and Vanishing Worlds"
Co-founder and Creative Director, BLACK Design, Singapore
"Image as Identity"
Professor and Researcher in Journalism, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain
“La crisis de la imagen como evidencia: IA, visualidad y desinformación en el ecosistema mediático”
(Online in Spanish)
Maryland Institute College of Art, United States of America
(English)
Profesor Titular, Departamento de Periodismo y Nuevos Medios, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España
(Spanish)
Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Research), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Senior Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Senior Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Professor, Acting Chair, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the online conference by commenting and engaging the parallel sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
University of the Philippines Visayas, Philippines
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
Tilburg University, Netherlands
(In-Person)
University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines
(In-Person)
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
(In-Person)
Korea University, South Korea
(In-Person)
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
(Online Only)
Cross River University of Technology, Calabar, Nigeria
(Online Only)
Columbia University, United States
(Online Only)
Association of Chairs, United Kingdom
(Online Only)
Dublin City University, Ireland
(Online Only)
Drexel University, United States
(Online Only)
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
(Online Only)
