Annual ICA Conference

The Annual ICA Conference is a five-day event, where an average of 3,000 in-person (and remote) scholars attend over 400 presentations representing the latest advanced in the field of communication. The annual conference is typically held in May and June every year, with calls for papers being released in September in the year before the conference.


Upcoming Conference

75th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 12-16 June 2025

Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Hyatt Regency & Grant Hyatt

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Conference Theme: ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research

Addressing ICA’s 75th anniversary, the 2025 conference theme is an invitation to critically reflect on communication studies as a discipline and ICA as an agent and site of disciplinary development. Theme sessions will take stock of our past, critically review present developments, and chart out future avenues for communication research. We particularly welcome contributions speaking to three important aspects of the theme: communication scholarship as a transformative and stabilizing force in society, as a research practice that can be both revolutionary and consolidating, and communication studies as a disrupted and resilient discipline. In all these contexts, elements of disruption and consolidation are not necessarily antithetical but may productively be framed as a dialectical relationship.


Future Conferences

  • 2026 - Cape Town, South Africa
    4-8 June 2026
    Cape Town International Convention Center
  • 2027 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
    27-31 May 2027
    Hyatt Regency Chicago
  • 2028 - Bangkok, Thailand
    15-19 June 2028
    Marriott Marqquis Queen's Park

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Previous Conferences

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74th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 20-24 June 2024

Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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Conference Theme: Communication and Global Human Rights

The purpose of this theme, Communication and Global Human Rights is threefold: to take stock of the contributions of communication scholarship to the study of human rights; to foreground current research and practice; and to outline promising directions for communication studies.


73rd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 25-29 May 2023

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Conference Theme: Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication

The ICA 2023 conference theme of Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication invites communication scholars to examine how authenticity has become a variable, rather than a constant, in public discourses and popular culture across the globe, and with what relational, social, political, and cultural implications.


72nd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 26-30 May 2022

Location: Paris, France

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Conference Theme: One World, One Network‽

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71st ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 27-31 May 2021

Location: Virtual Conference

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Conference Theme: Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice

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70th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 21-26 May 2020

Location: Virtual Conference

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Conference Theme: Open Communication

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69th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 24-28 May 2019

Location: Washington, D.C., USA

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Conference Theme: Communication Beyond Borders

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68th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 24-28 May 2018

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

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Conference Theme: Voices

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67th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 25-29 May 2017

Location: San Diego, CA, USA

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Conference Theme: Interventions: Communication Research and Practice

Program: Online Program


66th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 9-13 June 2016

Location: Fukuoka, Japan

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Conference Theme: Communicating with Power

Program: Online Program


65th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 21-25 May 2015

Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Conference Theme: Communication Across the Life Span

Program: Online Program


64th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 22-26 May 2014

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

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Conference Theme: Communication and the Good Life

Program: Online Program


63rd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 17-21 June 2013

Location: London, United Kingdom

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Conference Theme: Challenging Communication Research

Program: Online Program


62nd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 24-28 May 2012

Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA

Conference Theme: Communication and Community

Program: Online Program


61st ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 26-30 May 2011

Location: Boston, MA, USA

Conference Theme: Communication @ the Center

Program: Online Program


60th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 22-26 June 2010

Location: Singapore

Conference Theme: Matters of Communication

Program: Online Program


59th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 21-25 May 2009

Location: Chicago, IL, USA

Conference Theme: Keywords in Communication

Program: Online Program


58th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 22-26 May 2008

Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada

Conference Theme: Communicating for Social Impact

Program: Online Program


57th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 24-28 May 2007

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

Conference Theme: Creating Communication: Content, Control, & Critique

Program: Online Program


56th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 19-23 June 2006

Location: Dresden, Germany

Conference Theme: Networking Communication Research

Program: Online Program


55th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 26-30 May 2005

Location: New York City, NY, USA

Conference Theme: Communication: Questioning the Dialogue

Program: Online Program


54th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Date: 27-31 May 2004

Location: New Orleans, LA, USA

Conference Theme: Communication Research in the Public Interest

Program: Online Program


53rd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication in Borderlands
2003
San Diego, CA, USA


52nd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Reconciliation Through Communication
2002
Seoul, Republic of Korea


51st ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication Research Matters
2001
Washington, D.C., USA


50th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

ICA: 50 Years of Research in Communication, Culture, and Cognition
2000
Acapulco, Mexico


49th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication and Contradictions: Embracing Differences Through Discourse
1999
San Francisco, CA, USA


48th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Miscommunicating Across Boundaries
1998
Jerusalem, Israel


47th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication in the Global Community
1997
Montréal, Québec, Canada


46th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Democracy at the Crossroads
1996
Chicago, IL, USA


45th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication and Reality
1995
Albuquerque, NM, USA


46th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Democracy at the Crossroads
1996
Chicago, IL, USA


45th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication and Reality
1995
Albuquerque, NM, USA


44th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication and Diversity
1994
Sydney, Australia


43rd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Faces and Interfaces: Communicating Across Disciplines
1993
Washington, D.C., USA


42nd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication and New Worlds
1992
Miami, FL, USA


41st ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication and Health
1991
Chicago, IL, USA


40th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication and Equality
1990
Dublin, Ireland


39th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Comparatively Speaking
1989
San Francisco, CA, USA


38th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication and Peace: What Can We Offer?
1988
New Orleans, LA, USA


37th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Ecology of Communication
1987
Montréal, Québec, Canada


36th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Paradigm Dialogues: Connections
1986
Chicago, IL, USA


35th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Beyond Polemics: Paradigm Dialogues
1985
Honolulu, HI, USA


34th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE

Communication in Transition
1984
San Francisco, CA, USA


(Please Note: Themes for conferences were established beginning in 1984. Archives of the conference programs since 2003 are for informative purposes only. Although they have been adapted to this site, some links may not be valid.)


1983 - Dallas, TX, USA 1976 - Portland, ORE, USA 1970 - Minneapolis, MN, USA
1982 - Boston, MA, USA 1975 - Chicago, IL, USA 1969 - Cleveland, OH, USA
1981 - Minneapolis, MN, USA 1974 - New Orleans, LA, USA 1968 - New York City, NY, USA
1980 - Acapulco, Mexico 1973 - Montréal, Québec, Canada 1967 - Boulder, CO, USA
1979 - Philadelphia, PA, USA 1972 - Atlanta, GA, USA 1966 - College Park, MD, USA
1978 - Chicago, IL, USA 1971 - Phoenix, AZ, USA 1964 - Geneseo, NY, USA
1977 - Berlin, Germany