Organizer:

AAB COLLEGE

in partnership with: 

Pedagogical University of Kracow, Poland
Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies, University of Sarajevo 
Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Tirana
Faculty of Pedagogy - St. Clement Ohridski University-Bitola, North Macedonia
University of Structural Engineering & Architecture 'Lyuben Karavelov', Sofia
Communication Institute of Greece, Athens

Keynote speakers:

Continuity in a Crisis: Coming to Terms with COVID-19

At a glance

• Event Date: 23 March, 2021
• Louisiana State University in Shreveport
• 15 minute presentations
• $1000 1st place, $500 2nd place, $250 3rd place
• $250 logo design contest
• Submission Deadline: 15 January 2021
• Invitations Announced: 15 February 2021
• Selections for new, free academic journal: The Beast

How did the Coronavirus impact education? 

Guy Debord examined the spectacle through the Marxist lens and discerned that the spectacle draws the public gaze through a collection of images that contain signs that feed on and feed the socially dominant ideology. In other words, spectacles perpetuate the images the ruling class produces to subjugate and degrade. Thus, spectacles are discourses about the ruling class—"a self-portrait of power” (Debord, Society of the Spectacle).  A scandal is a spectacle that violates the social norms of the ruling class, even as it draws the public gaze through sensationalizing the social transgression.