NOTE: this is the page for listings of future conferences. Discussion (and photos!) of the NCA Summer Conference on Intercultural Dialogue (Istanbul, 2009), the ICA Preconference on Intercultural Dialogue (Singapore, 2010), and the NCA Mini-Conference on International Opportunities are all on other pages (follow the embedded links). As conferences occur, their listings will be transferred to the page for past conferences.
The Center for Intercultural Dialogue does not sponsor conferences, but it strongly encourages intercultural scholars to travel internationally in order to meet professional colleagues around the world, and conferences are one of the most obvious ways to begin. There is an ever-expanding and nearly infinite list of possible conferences, so this listing should only include international conferences on topics relating to intercultural dialogue. Here are a few examples:
4th International Conference on English, Discourse and Intercultural Communication. Part I: Macau (June 11-14, 2013). Part II: Urumqi, China (June 14-17, 2013). Co-organized by Macau Polytechnic Institute and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Normal University. International Conference
Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media (14-15 June 2013, Urban Communication Foundation & Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds in association with ECREA Media and the City Temporary Working Group)
International Communication Association: Challenging Communication Research (June 17-21, 2013, London, England)
International Listening Association Convention (20-23 June, 2013, Montréal, Canada)
International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) (June 23-27, 2013, University of Nevada in Reno, Nevada, USA).
IAMCR CONFERENCE 2013: Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders. (Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, 25-29 June, 2013)
26th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (June 30-July 3, 2013, Tacoma, Washington, USA)
3rd World Journalism Education Congress (July 3-5, 2013, Mechelen, Belgium). The European Journalism Training Association and the Flemish/Dutch Network of Journalism Institutes are hosting the Congress.
STTF2013 Summer School: Sustainable technologies and transdisciplinary futures: From collaborative design to digital fabrication (July 8-12, 2013, ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)
International Association of Media and History (IAMHist) 25th Congress: Childhood and the Media (University of Leicester, UK, July 17-20, 2013)
Why Should I Trust You? Challenges for Communication in Times of Crisis. ICA/ACOP/AE-IC/UMA Regional Conference (18-19 July 2013, U of Malaga, Malaga, SPAIN)
World Communication Association: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN THE GLOBAL WORLD (Seoul, South Korea, August 8-12, 2013)
DeXus 6.0: Discourses and Practices That Matter: An International Summer School on Discourse, Practice and Social Justice (19th – 24th August, 2013, Centre for Discourses in Transition (C-DiT) Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)
“Cultural Memory” The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) – The Balkan Network for Culture and Culture Studies (BNCCS) (September 5-6, 2013, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia)
Sixth International Conference on Global Studies (New Delhi, India, 5-7 September 2013)
Communicating Soft Power: Contrasting Perspectives from India and China (9-10 September 2013, University of Westminster, London, England)
3rd IPRA International Public Relations Congress and Latin American Meeting (18 – 20 September, 2013, Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Peru)
Global Reach, Local Touch: How streams of culture are shaping our future (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) Europa’s 19th annual convention, Tallinn, Estonia, 18-22 September, 2013)
Human Communication Studies International Conference: Celebrating the Caribbean in Communication, Culture and Community (Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies, The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad, Sept 26-27, 2013)
Middle Class Phenomenon in Emerging Markets: Multi-disciplinary and Multi-country Perspectives – Consumers, Citizens and Media; An International Conference (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, 26-28 September 2013)
Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction Conference (European Communication Research and Education Association and the Institute of Health Communication at the University of Lugano; Lugano, Switzerland, 3-4 October 2013)
International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS): EXPLORING DIVERSITY TO REACH UNDERSTANDING ACROSS CULTURES (Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russian Federation, Vladivostok, Russia, October 3-5, 2013)
Intercultural Horizons 3rd Annual Conference. Intercultural Competence: Key to the New Multicultural Societies of the Globalized World (October 7-9, 2013, Siena, Italy)
Rhetoric in Europe (Oct 9-13, 2013, Universität des Saarlandes / Université du Luxembourg)
4th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses (October 23-26, 2013, Hangzhou, China)
Understanding Social Media and Global Change: 24th Annual Global Issues Conference (Manchester Community College, October 26, 2013)
MEDIA AND THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE (18TH TO 20TH CENTURY) (Lisbon, 1-2 November 2013)
ICA Regional Conference: Communication and Social Transformation (8-10 November 2013, Shanghai, CHINA)
Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory (14-15 November, 2013, The University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
7th International Conference of Intercultural Communication: Cultural Conflict and Intercultural Communication (15–17 November, 2013, Wuhan University, CHINA)
IX Communication Conference of the Americas (FELAFACS-NCA) (Washington, DC., November 20, 2013, as preconference to National Communication Association convention)
10th CAFIC (China Association for Intercultural Communication) International Conference (co-sponsored with IAFICS -International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies, and ACCS-the Association for Chinese Communication Studies): Intercultural Communication for a Harmonious World: Challenges and Opportunities (Hainan University Tourism College, Haikou, China, November 21-24,2013)
7th Global Communication Association. The Communication Galaxy: Discoveries, Boundaries, and Opportunities (St. Paul University, Ottawa, Canada, 22-24 November 2013)
12th annual conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC): Language and Intercultural Communication in the Workplace: Critical Approaches to Theory and Practice (29 Nov-1 Dec, 2013, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Middle East Dialogue (MED) and call for papers. The MED2014 will be held at The Whittemore House: Washington DC on Thursday, February 27th, 2014.
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16th Biennial
Rhetoric Society of America Conference
May 22-26, 2014
Marriot Rivercenter – San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio is an ideal city for thinking about borders. Not only has the city been positioned along different national borders, but it also exists at the interesting intersection of diverse cultures and histories. “Border Rhetorics” not only invites consideration of these kinds of geographic, political and cultural borders but also invites consideration of a wider range of borders: the borders between identities, between roles, between disciplines, between concepts, etc. The 2014 conference theme seeks to spur a broad conversation about the borders that unite and divide us, the ways in which these borders are constructed and deconstructed, confirmed and contested.
The theme of “Border Rhetorics” opens a space for numerous inquiries and conversations about the things that constitute our borders – politically, culturally, academically, etc. – as well as the ways in which those borders are constructed, crossed, challenged, circumvented, diminished and redrawn. The theme also encourages us not only to think about our borders but also to think across them in the hopes of opening spaces for dialogue and disagreement that may in turn alter our sense of these borders.
Interested parties are invited to submit abstracts for individual papers, proposals for panels, and ideas for special format events (roundtables, debates, etc.). Panels representing only one institution are strongly discouraged and a slight preference will be shown for panels representing not only different institutions but also different disciplinary fields (e.g., Composition and Communication Studies). Submissions that take advantage of off-site venues are also encouraged.
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2013
For full call go to: http://www.rhetoricsociety.org/
Please direct any questions to Kendall Phillips – kphillip@syr.edu
Call for Abstracts
International Conference “Plurilingualism and the Labour Market. The Quality of Communication”
University of Udine
Udine, Italy
October 25-26, 2012
New research and innovative papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
1) terminological needs and solutions for plurilingual communication in the workplace;
2) opportunities and challenges in plurilingual human resource management;
3) difficulties and proposals for the quality of communication between companies and users.
The conference will be organized as follows: it will open on Thursday 25th with a plenary invited talk by Georges Lüdi. On both days, a roundtable debate will be followed by scholars’ contributions. On Thursday 25th, the first round table will gather experts and delegates from companies such as IKEA Italia and Wärtsilä Italia to discuss plurilingual communication in multilingual settings. On Friday 26th, a second roundtable will feature among others the PR officers of some hospitals and healthcare services in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region. Contributors will be given 20 minutes for presentation, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Important deadlines
Deadline for submission: 15th June 2012
Notification of acceptance: 15th July 2012
Conference: 25th and 26th October 2012
As soon as further details are available, they will be published on this website: http://plurilingualismlabourmarketudine.wordpress.com/
The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in Africa
Strategies to confront the Challenges of the 21st Century: Does Africa have what is required?
(Berlin, 14 – 17 July 2011)
organized by the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Berlin)
Please visit our blogs to know more about the conference and to discuss with us about the issues:
http://www.riseofafrica.wordpress.com
http://www.culturaldiplomacynews.wordpress.com
Thanks,
the CD-News team
Call for Abstracts:
Laughter and Humor in Interaction
Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts
June 23-24, 2011
Conference overview
This conference brings together scholars from around the world conducting research on laughter and humor from conversation analytic, discourse analytic, pragmatics, ethnomethodological, ethnographic, and related perspectives. Presentations and papers will concern topics such as the sequential organization of laughter, laughables and humor in everyday talk, and how laughing and humor-related actions shape identities and relationships.
Invited speakers:
Wayne Beach, San Diego State University
Alexa Hepburn, Loughborough University
Submissions
Abstracts due by February 1, 2011. Send to: laughterconference@emerson.edu
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out no later than March 1, 2011.
Conference web page
http://www.emerson.edu/academics/professional-studies/courses-and-workshops/laughter-and-humor-conference
Conference Planning:
Phillip Glenn, Emerson College
Liz Holt, University of Huddersfield
A mini-conference on international opportunities for Communication scholars is to be held during the National Communication Association conference in San Francisco, 14-16 Nov, 2010. Scholars, students and funders will all be speaking at this major event.