CFP ESTIDIA 2024: Exploring Real-life, Fictional and Virtual Dialogue (Lithuania)

Call for proposals: 7th ESTIDIA Conference: Exploring Real-life, Fictional, and Virtual Dialogue , 12-14 June, 2024, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Deadline: for workshop proposals, 1 October 2023; for paper abstracts, 5 November 2023.

Like previous European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue (ESTIDIA) conferences, the 2024 event puts dialogue and dialogic forms of communication in the spotlight, as front and centre of all forms of human communication. This time the focus is on exploring real-life, fictional and virtual dialogues in terms of similarities and differences, overlaps and complementarities, constancy and change. To understand the context-driven, situation-based and culture-specific impact of dialogic communication patterns, it is essential to examine in situ instantiations of dialogue as social interaction practice, as jointly steered activity, as philosophical or scientific method of inquiry, as rhetorical process of co-reflection, as pedagogical approach, as problem-solving tool, as mechanism of ethical and political scrutiny (Ilie 2022). Theoretical and empirical studies have explored dialogues in various forms of verbal communication: oral and written, private and public, multi-level (between two or several interlocutors, with or without an overhearing audience), synchronous and asynchronous (e.g., face-to-face vs. computer-mediated).

Within the broad theme of the conference, participants are invited to explore a range of questions concerning dialogue genres, dialogue practices and/or dialogue strategies, in relation to roles and goals of dialogue participants, to convergent or divergent speech acts, to common ground and shared knowledge. 

Methodological Workshop:

Different approaches to dialogic research: analysing a multimodal and multicultural embodiment of joint action in real-life and “non-real-life” interactions. Convenor: assoc. prof. dr. Keiko Tsuchiya, Yokohama City University, Japan. For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

Thematic Workshops:

1. Would you laugh with us? Internet humour and mutual (dis)trust in the dialogue process (case of Ukraine in 2022-2023). Convenor: dr. Kateryna Yeremieieva, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of Vigilance”, Germany. For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

2. Shifting Gears: a prolegomenon to teaching Twenty-First Century Skills. Convenors: dr. John McKeown (the Üsküdar American Academy, Istanbul, Turkey) and Maria Ramadori Volker. For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

3. Multi-foci analysis of real and fictional healthcare dialogue. Convenor: prof. Catalina Iliescu-Gheorghiu (University of Alicante). For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

4. Real-life dialogues between humans and machines: the interface between discourse research in linguistics and dialogue systems research in engineering. Convenor: prof. dr. Mayumi Usami (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan), prof. dr. Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Nagoya University, Japan), and assoc. prof. dr. Hiroyuki Nishikawa (Meikai University, Japan). For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.

5. InTranslation 2024. For information on previous InTranslation 2022 workshop, please see the In Translation | 2022 (mruni.eu). Convenors: assoc. prof. dr. Lora Tamošiūnienė (Institute of Humanities and head of King Seijong Institute, Mykolas Romeris University), assoc. prof. Vilhelmina Vaičiūnienė (Institute of Humanities, Mykolas Romeris University), and assoc. prof. dr. Viktorija Mažeikienė (Institute of Humanities, Mykolas Romeris University). For further information about the workshop, please contact the convenor.