This year, Franzisca Weder and Jens Seiffert-Brockmann, together with international colleagues, are organizing a preconference at ICA 2026 in South Africa on “Metamodern Public Relations: Navigating Inequality, Engagement, and Transformation in Complex Contexts”. Abstracts of up to 800 words are invited, with a submission deadline of February 15, 2026 (prresearch25@gmail.com). More information can be found here: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2026/ica26-pc-metamodern.pdf