African Women in Media 2020 Summit

Call for Proposals

Dear Friend
African Women in Media (AWiM) is pleased to bring you our fourth annual conference. We welcome paper, panel and workshop proposals from researchers, practitioners, policy professionals and CSOs.

Reimagining Futures:
Women in Media, Peace and Technologies

With the theme Reimagining Futures: Women in Media, Peace and Technologies, AWiM2020 Summit takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa on 29-31 July 2020.

‘Re-imagining Futures’ reflects innovation in media industries, and the growing drive to change the narrative of Africa globally, particularly as African countries work towards achieving a dominant global position, and urgent objectives like Silencing the Guns by 2020, Free movement of people, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

Issues around movement, immigration, peace and security, and the lived experiences, roles and insights of women in media practitioners, policy makers, CSOs and researchers make the AWiM2020 Summit a timely focal point to bring these stakeholders together.

AWiM2020 aims to explore three thematic areas:

1. The prospects of free movement in Africa and the potential impact for female media professionals, and media and creative industries broadly;
2. The lived experiences of women in media as participants of peacebuilding and conflict prevention; and,
3. Emerging technologies and how Africa’s media might leveraging these to improve issues affecting female journalists.

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Deadline 20 January 2020