Call for papers: Intercultural Communication Interest Group, Western States Communication Association, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2025. Deadline: 2 September 2024.
The Intercultural Communication Interest Group (ICIG) invites submissions from intercultural communication teachers, scholars, and practitioners who examine different cultural phenomenon within trans/national contexts that can provide us with a nuanced understanding of the world we live in. ICIG also supports co-sponsored programs with other interest groups that consider the conference theme.
The 2025 convention theme is support. “Support” encompasses critical ideologies, acts, practices, and sites of inquiry for us to carefully examine how we view, understand, and make sense of the meaning and capacity of communicating through differences. Specifically, interrogating the role of support in challenging the historical continuum of power and envisioning the equitable and accessible care for marginalized communities is particularly urgent in today’s world more than ever, given ongoing institutional barriers such as #CommunicationSoWhite, restriction on academic freedom, anti-DEI and anti-trans legislatures, and policed anti-war protests. Therefore, ICIG asks members to critically engage with the role of support (in its various forms) in intercultural communication in order to foster constructive academic conversations and actions, advocating for social (in)justices and creating inclusive and equal space.
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