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
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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.
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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
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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.
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73rd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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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.
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72nd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
71st ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
70th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
69th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
68th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
67th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
66th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
65th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
64th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 22-26 May 2014
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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Conference Theme: Communication and the Good Life
Program: Online Program
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63rd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 17-21 June 2013
Location: London, United Kingdom
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Conference Theme: Challenging Communication Research
Program: Online Program
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62nd ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 24-28 May 2012
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Conference Theme: Communication and Community
Program: Online Program
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61st ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 26-30 May 2011
Location: Boston, MA, USA
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Conference Theme: Communication @ the Center
Program: Online Program
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60th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 22-26 June 2010
Location: Singapore
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Conference Theme: Matters of Communication
Program: Online Program
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59th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 21-25 May 2009
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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Conference Theme: Keywords in Communication
Program: Online Program
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58th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 22-26 May 2008
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Conference Theme: Communicating for Social Impact
Program: Online Program
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57th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 24-28 May 2007
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
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Conference Theme: Creating Communication: Content, Control, & Critique
Program: Online Program
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56th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 19-23 June 2006
Location: Dresden, Germany
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Conference Theme: Networking Communication Research
Program: Online Program
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55th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 26-30 May 2005
Location: New York City, NY, USA
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Conference Theme: Communication: Questioning the Dialogue
Program: Online Program
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54th ANNUAL ICA CONFERENCE
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Date: 27-31 May 2004
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
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Conference Theme: Communication Research in the Public Interest
Program: Online Program
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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 |
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