Previous Conferences
Conference Themes and Locations (Under Construction)
2023 - October 12 - 14: UPenn Annenberg and the Media, Inequality, and Change Center
Left Undone
2021 - June 23 - 25: (Virtual Conference - Covid-19)
Masking the Crisis: Social Movements, Street Politics, and the Political Process
2019 - California State University, East Bay
Call for Papers
Conference Program
2018 - Loyola University, Chicago
2016 - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Troubled Waters: Structural Inequalities, Structural Responses
2015: May 1 - 3: Hosted by the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology; University of Toronto: Toronto, ON
Circuits of Struggle
2013: November 1 - 3 - A joint conference of UDC and Project Censored Hosted by the Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action
2012: May 10 - 12 - Hosted by the School of Communication, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Climates of Change: Democracy Movements, Media, and Global Environments2010: October 14 - 16 - Hosted by the College of Communications, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Democratic Communications, Equal Rights & Global Justice2009: May 28 - 31 - Co-Presented by the Buffalo State Communication and Niagara University Communications Studies Buffalo, New York
Aftermath and Renewal: Reclaiming the Critical Ideal2007: October 25 - 28 - Hosted by The School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication and the Global City2006: May 18 - 21 - Hosted by the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies and the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida
Against the Neoliberal Tide: Media and Democracy in the 21st Century2004: April 22 - 25 - Hosted by the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
The Axis of Empire: An International Conference of the Union for Democratic Communications2002: October 10 - 13 - The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Democratic Communications and Global Justice2001: May 17-19 - Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Democratic Communications in a Branded World1999: October 14 - 16 - University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Communication, Culture and Environments1998: June 11 - 14 - University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Media, Democracy, and the Public Sphere1996: October 10 - 13 - Loyola University Lakeshore Campus, Chicago, IL
What‘s Left? Critical Communications in the Belly of the Corporate Beast1995: March 30 - April 2 - University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Revisiting Social Responsibility in a Multicultural Society1993: December 2 - 6 - International School of Film & Video, San Antonio, Cuba
Media, Culture and Popular Hegemony; A Pan American Dialogue1992: May - Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
Feminism(s) and Cultural Resistance in the Americas1990: October 11 - 14 - The University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
World Information Order: Initiatives for Cultural Autonomy1989: October 26 - 29 - Hunter and Marymount Colleges, New York, NY
Grassroots Communications1988: April 28 - May 1 - Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Communications, Culture, Socialism1987: February 27 - March 1 - California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Third Biennial Union for Democratic Communications National Conference1984: October 19 - 21 - Chevy Chase, Maryland
Communications and Empowerment1981: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
First National Conference and Meeting of the Union for Democratic Communications