Within the 250 submissions worldwide, 108 studies have been accepted to the IAMCR 2022 Suzhou Pre-conference on Science Communication and will be presented in the plenary or up to 20 parallel sessions. Due to the COVID-19 containment protocols in China, IAMCR 2022 Suzhou Pre-conference is shifted to a complete ONLINE conference via Zhumu, which is an authorized partner conference platform of ZOOM in China, please visit Zhumu (https://www.zhumu.com/) to DOWNLOAD the app in advance. An account is NOT necessary to attend a meeting. You can directly click the web links below to join the conference (all sessions are opening) and talk in the session you belong to.
Thanks to the convenience offered by the online setting of this event, the pre-conference is extended from the originally scheduled 10 Jul to three days between 8 and 10 July. Sorry for any inconvenience this schedule change might have caused you and your co-authors. IAMCR 2022 Suzhou Pre-conference will feature three plenary sessions: the opening on 8 Jul, the plenary on 9 Jul, and the closing ceremony on 10 Jul, as well as 20 parallel sessions spanning across the three-day duration:
Conference Handbook:
IAMCR Suzhou Pre-conference Handbook .pdf
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Opening Ceremony | 08-Jul 19:30 Beijing Time 08-Jul 12:30 UT 08-Jul 07:30 EST | ||
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Parallel 1 Public engagement in environment, science, risk and health | Parallel 2 Technology and cross-cultural communication for health | Parallel 3 Metaverse and AI for a better post-COVID world | 09-Jul 9:00-10:20 Beijing Time 09-Jul 02:00-03:20 UT 08-Jul 21:00-22:20 EST |
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Parallel 4 Mobilization for science communication in the new era | Parallel 5 Misinformation, conspiracy, and infodemiology across cultures | Parallel 6 Media effect amidst public crisis | 09-Jul 10:40-12:00 Beijing Time 09-Jul 03:40-05:00 UT 08-Jul 22:40-24:00 EST |
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Parallel 7 Information management for public good | Parallel 8 Vaccination and health behaviors against pandemic | Parallel 9 Reconsidering public scientific literacy in a public health crisis | 09-Jul 14:00-15:20 Beijing Time 09-Jul 07:00-08:20 UT 09-Jul 02:40-03:20 EST |
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Parallel 10 Climate change and environmental communication in post-crisis world | Parallel 11 Science communication: New models in digital era | Parallel 12 Risk, emotion and behaviors beyond COVID-19 | 09-Jul 15:40-17:20 Beijing Time 09-Jul 08:40-10:20 UT 09-Jul 03:40-05:20 EST |
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Plenary Reports & Panel Discussion | 09-Jul 19:00-21:30 Beijing Time 09-Jul 12:00-14:30 UT 09-Jul 07:00-09:30 EST | ||
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Parallel 13 Internet empowerment for science communication | Parallel 14 News production and consumption for science and health | Parallel 15 Communication strategies for sustainable development | 10-Jul 09:00-10:20 Beijing Time 10-Jul 02:00-03:20 UT 09-Jul 21:00-22:20 EST |
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Parallel 16 Power and politics in epidemics control | Parallel 17 Public opinions on emerging technologies | Parallel 20 (1) Graduate student forum for science, health, risk and environment communication | 10-Jul 10:40-12:00 Beijing Time 10-Jul 03:40-05:00 UT 09-Jul 22:40-24:00 EST |
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Parallel 18 Gender, youth, disadvantaged in health communication setting | Parallel 19 Learning from history of science for tomorrow’s world | Parallel 20 (2) Graduate student forum for science, health, risk and environment communication | 10-Jul 14:00-15:20 Beijing Time 10-Jul 07:40-08:00 UT 10-Jul 02:00-03:20 EST |
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Closing Ceremony | 10-Jul 19:00-21:30 Beijing Time 10-Jul 12:00-14:30 UT 10-Jul 07:00-09:30 EST | ||
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IAMCR 2022 Suzhou Pre-conference on Science Communication's organizing committee is keen for all distinguished colleagues worldwide to attend the event. The opening ceremony is set to take place at a relatively more pleasurable 7:30 pm Beijing time for the convenience of speakers/audiences on the main continents. Other plenary sessions will also be held at a time friendly to most international participants.
All registrants and contributing authors are welcomed to the IAMCR 2022 Suzhou Pre-conference on Science Communication, no matter whether their submissions are accepted. For up-to-date conference schedule and logistics information, please visit https://iamcr2022pre.scievent.com to keep informed from the organizing committee.