Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Publishing Studies
- Beyond Borders: Democratizing Knowledge in a Polarized World
- 1-3 July 2026
- NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal + Online
The Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Publishing Studies featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Full Professor, Department of History, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
"Publishing as a fluid practice"
(English)
Professor of Jurisprudence, Nova School of Law, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal; Honorary Professional Fellow, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"Law is a Foreign Language (that You'll Likely Never Learn)"
(English)
Associate Professor of Musicology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
"On Belonging: What I Learned from Music"
(English)
Professor of Portuguese Studies, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
(Spanish)
Associate Professor of Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
"La simbiosfera: comunidades sostenibles y el horizonte ético de los videojuegos"
(Spanish)
Senior Lecturer, Central and East European Studies, Glasgow University
"Travel Writing and Social Change: Creating a Community of Readers"
(English)
Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks
Researcher, INET-md, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal
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 conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Tilburg University, Netherlands
(In-Person)
Duke Kunshan University, China
(Online Only)
Lisbon, Portugal