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Nico Carpentier is Extraordinary Professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), and Visiting Professor at Tallinn University (Estonia) and at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). He was Vice-President of the European Communication Research and Education Association (2008-2012) and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (2020-2024). His theoretical focus is on discourse theory, his research is situated in the relationship between communication, politics and culture, especially towards social domains as war & conflict, ideology, participation and democracy. He frequently uses arts-based research methods, as a hybrid scholar, artist and curator. His latest monographs are The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation (2017, Peter Lang, New York) and Iconoclastic Controversies: A Photographic Inquiry into Antagonistic Nationalism (2021, Intellect, Bristol). The new book Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach (2025, with Jeffrey Wimmer, Routledge) will be published at the end of 2024. His last exhibitions were The Mirror of Conflict photography exhibition in October 2023 at the Energy Museum, in Istanbul, Türkiye, and in October 2024 at the Hollar Gallery, in Prague, Czech Republic, and the Moulding Nature arts exhibition in Färgfabriken in Stockholm, Sweden (August-November 2023).