We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the forthcoming international conference entitled: ‘Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism, Communication and Humanities in the New Technology Era’. The conference is organized by the Advanced Media Institute, the Communication and New Journalism program at the Open University of Cyprus, the Cyprus University of Technology, and the School of Law of the University of Nicosia. The conference will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Cyprus perhaps inspired the legend about the birth of goddess Aphrodite, because it too emerged from the foam of the ocean some million years ago. Its capital, Nicosia, is probably the only area in Cyprus that can boast continuous habitation since the beginning of the Bronze Age (c. 2500 BC). During the first millennium BC, when Cyprus was divided into cities-kingdoms, Nicosia enjoyed neither the power nor the prosperity of other kingdoms along the coastline. read more…