Category: Conferences

CFP 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism (Canada)

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Call for papers: 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Saskatoon, Canada, 14-18 June 2027. Deadline: symposium submission: 30 June 2026; paper submission: 1 October 2026.

The theme for ISB 16 is Languages in Academia and in Communities, reflecting both scholarly excellence and community engagement. The theme is aimed at meeting ISB’s mission to create a space for researchers with a diverse range of interests to share their knowledge and gain new perspectives, and to foster meaningful cross-disciplinary collaborations. Organizers hope to bring together researchers working on different faces of bilingualism, including different research areas, methodological approaches, and populations. In line with this aim, they have invited key-note speakers who represent different faces of bilingualism. This broad theme reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the organizing committee and multilingualism of our communities.

To capitalize on this expertise, ISB16 will feature the Community Outreach Event to engage with parents, language teachers, practitioners and general public on issues of bilingualism and multilingualism. Reflecting the home of the conference, our special focus is on linguistic inclusion and diversity, as we have distinct areas of Indigenous languages as well as bilingualism and multilingualism in official, heritage, immigrant, regional and other minority languages.

CFP IMISCOE: Studying Migration in the Digital Era (Canada)

ConferencesCall for papers: IMISCOE Annual Conference: Studying Migration in the Digital Era: Innovation, Regulation, Ethics, and Rights, 10-12 March 2027, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline: 26 June 2026.

Across the globe, states and international organizations are increasingly deploying advanced digital technologies (ADTs), from biometric registration systems and AI-driven risk assessments to mobile applications mediating access to services, as instruments of migration management. While these tools promise efficiency and innovation, they also raise urgent ethical and political questions about surveillance, accountability, the rights of migrants and refugees, and intersectional forms of discrimination based on gender, race and class. Similarly, app-based platform work, algorithmic decision-making, and the externalization of environmental costs resulting from hosting energy-intensive data centres have many implications for migrant labour and mobility.

At the same time, digitalization is reshaping the research process itself. Migration scholars are navigating new opportunities and challenges in data collection, storage, and analysis. From digital ethnography and big data analytics to participatory and community-based approaches designed to counteract power asymmetries, ADTs are reconstituting the field of migration studies. These developments call for reflexive and interdisciplinary dialogue that brings together diverse perspectives and methods to critically engage with digital transformations, grounded in migrants’ lived realities.

For the 2027 IMISCOE Spring Conference, organizers invite migration scholars from all disciplinary backgrounds, geographical regions, and career stages to submit paper proposals that critically interrogate the digital transformations shaping both migration governance and the practice of migration research. Specifically, the program will focus on two interrelated dimensions:

First, organizers welcome contributions that examine how ADTs are impacting migration governance and human rights. They seek to discuss the deployment of advanced technologies in border management, the influence of algorithmic decision-making on migration narratives, and the impact of these tools on the rights and lived experiences of migrants and refugees.

Second, the conference seeks to explore how digitalization is reshaping research methods and ethics. They invite reflections on the opportunities and challenges of digital data collection, the ethics of conducting research in the digital era, and the ways in which ADTs are reconstituting the scientific work on migration.

CFP: Communicating for a Better World (USA)

ConferencesCall for proposals: Communicating for a Better World, 21-23 October 2026, New York City, NY, USA. Deadline: 31 May 2026.

Organizers invite scholars and practitioners at the intersection of communication and international relations to submit their  research, communication proposal, or poster/video for the first conference exclusively dedicated to communication around UN system organizations and the issues they seek to address. The conference seeks to explore how UN organizations—and their stakeholders—can communicate to strengthen the institutions and advance solutions to global issues. They welcome submissions related to all communication aspects related to the United Nations, organizations and campaigns of the UN system, and the global issues UN system organizations address. They encourage submissions that are relevant for UN system organizations, including those with practical policy recommendations.

Potential types of submissions include:

Paper: Original research that could be published as a paper. The paper will be presented on a panel and circulated among conference participants before the conference.

Communication Proposal: Submit creative ideas about how UN organizations and their stakeholders could communicate.

Poster / Video: If your insights and ideas can be displayed in a visually engaging fashion, consider submitting a poster or multimedia/video proposal. Selected submissions will be displayed during networking events.

CFP: Globalisation/Deglobalization in Languages, Education, Culture & Communication 2026 (UK)

ConferencesCall for proposals: Globalisation / Deglobalization in Languages, Education, Culture, and Communication, 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. Deadline: extended to 18 May 2026.

The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and outcomes, can be largely attributed to the forces of globalisation. Consequently, adopting the globalisation perspective is timely and provides a natural framework for connecting these diverse yet interlinked disciplines.

This conference aims to bring together researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers from the realms of education, foreign and second languages, cultural studies, translation, interpreting, and communication to disseminate research outcomes, share insights, discuss findings, exchange visions, and identify challenges and trends in an interactive and immersive multidisciplinary environment.

Keynote speech: “Translation, Chinese Texts, and World Literature” by Professor Yifeng Sun, University of Macau, China.

This conference, notwithstanding the dissemination of works within individual and traditional discipline specified scopes, endeavours to break the subject silos. Papers and other contributions in Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, or Communication, as well as contributions crossing the borders of traditional disciplines or emerged from frontier research, are welcome.

The conference is organised by AT Publishing in association with its four journals namely, Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy: Global Perspectives (RECAP) [ISSN: 2977-1633]; New Perspectives on Languages (NPL) [ISSN: 3033-490X]; The International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting (IJCETI) [ISSN: 2753-6149] and Recent Advances in Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) [ISSN: 2978-1345]. There is a “conference first” policy in place. Selected papers will be invited to further develop into full journal articles free of APCs. Conference proceedings will be published open access with an ISBN.

ICA Regional Conference: Global Communication Shifts and Implications for Africa (Nigeria)

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Global Communication Shifts and Implications for Africa, International Communication Association Nigeria Chapter conference, 24-25 March 2026, Nile University, Abuja, Nigeria.

The global communication landscape is undergoing far-reaching transformations driven by rapid media and technological change, shifting geo-political power relations, intensifying climate pressures, and evolving cultural and religious narratives. These transformations do not unfold uniformly across regions. In Africa, they intersect with colonial legacies, uneven development, youthful demographics, gendered power relations, religious pluralism, and heightened vulnerability to climate change. As a result, Africa is not only embedded within global communication flows but also constitutes a critical site where global communication shifts are negotiated, contested, and redefined.

CFP NCA Public Dialogue & Deliberation Division 2026

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Call for submissions: Public Dialogue and Deliberation Division (PD3), National Communication Association, 19-22 November, 2026, New Orleans, LA, USA. Deadline: 25 March 2026.

The Public Dialogue and Deliberation division (PD3) is a vibrant and growing community of scholars, teachers, and practitioners who research, conceptualize, and facilitate public dialogue and deliberation, to support democratic engagement and social justice. They invite your contributions for the 112th NCA convention to be held in New Orleans, from November 19-22, 2026.

They welcome contributions that engage meaningfully with the 2026 NCA convention theme “MOVE/MENTS in Communication” and that demonstrate the rich potentials for public dialogue and deliberation scholarship, teaching, and practice. The theme of “MOVE/MENTS in Communication” invites us to consider how we are people on the move, prompting questions of “both/and” thinking. They encourage submissions to consider social, cultural, and political movements that reflect the rich potentiality, spaces, and challenges of dialogue and deliberation work. Following with the theme, the division welcomes submissions that question and examine how dialogue and deliberation moves us to action; what limits exist in research and practice; and what openings we should move into to discover new opportunities. The division has much to contribute to these conversations.

NOTE: All divisions of NCA are currently calling for submissions – see the formal announcement here.

CFP Japan-US Communication Association 2026

ConferencesCall for submissions: Japan-US Communication Association, held as part of National Communication Association’s convention, 19-22 November 2026, New Orleans, LA, USA. Deadline: 25 March 2026.

The Japan-U.S. Communication Association (JUCA) invites submissions for competitive review for the 112th NCA Annual Convention (November 19–22, 2026, in New Orleans, Louisiana). Submitted work may address issues in any area of communication, including communication technology, social media, pop culture, journalism and mass communication, interpersonal/ small-group/organizational communication, rhetoric, politics, health, peace, gender, and critical/cultural studies. All methods are welcome. However, they must be related to Japan or Japanese people/culture in some way, such as Japanese indigenous communication, Japan–U.S. communication or relations, and communication between Japanese and people of any nation, not just the United States. They encourage submitters to embrace the 2026 convention theme, “MOVE/MENTS in Communication,” in their work.

CFP International Rhetoric Workshop 2026 (Argentina)

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Call for proposals: International Rhetoric Workshop: Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities and Cultures of Resistance, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, 5-7 August 2026. Deadline: 21 March 2026.

The Planning Committee for the 5th Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop invites international PhD students, emerging scholars, and established researchers to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making.

In the heart of Buenos Aires, at the Centro Cultural Paco Urondo (Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UBA), the workshop will center on the theme, “Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities and Cultures of Resistance,” inviting participants to reflect critically with and from a city that has long been a site of poetic militancy, political mobilization, and intercultural exchange. Named for Francisco “Paco” Urondo — poet, journalist, academic, and activist who fused literary creativity with resistance to authoritarianism — this Center locates us amid a legacy of words as weapons, ideas as action, and networks of solidarity that transcend borders and boundaries. Buenos Aires itself, with its histories of migration, contestation, memory, and re­appropriations of public space, offers a vital ground for exploring how rhetorical practices flow across languages, geographies, traditions, time, peoples, and cultures. We welcome proposals that draw on this spirit: whether tracing the circulation of rhetorical forms, investigating collaborative practices of dissent, or imagining new solidarities that respond to both local and global urgencies.

This year’s theme, “Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities & Cultures of Resistance,” prompts us to examine the notions of:

  • Solidarity in a global, yet increasingly divided world; and
  • Strategies of rebellion against—and critical engagements with—the gaps between the affluent and the poor, technology and nature, artificiality and authenticity, generations and communities.

    In preparation for the 5th International Rhetoric Workshop 2026, organizers invite submissions on the themes of solidarity, transnationality, and resistance.

CFP Global Communication and Global Governance (China)

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Call for submissions: Global Communication and Global Governance, Xiamen University, China, 29-31 May 2026. Deadline: 1 March 2026.

Xiamen University is pleased to announce an international communication conference on “Global Communication and Global Governance,” organized in collaboration with members of the National Communication Association (NCA) and leaders from the Communication University of China (CUC). The conference will be held at Xiamen University, China, from May 29 to 31, 2026. Under this overarching theme, organizers invite research presentations that engage broadly with the communication discipline, particularly within three thematic tracks; the one most likely to be relevant to followers of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue is:

Theme 2: Video Trends in Intercultural and International Communication

From short-form video, proliferating entertainment platforms, and livestreaming to documentaries, viral clips, and transnational media flows, video has become a central site of cultural expression, negotiation, and contestation. This track foregrounds video as a key mode of symbolic action in intercultural and international communication, inviting scholarship that examines how video technologies and practices shape representation, identity, power relations, and cross-cultural understanding. They invite scholarship on platform cultures, digital storytelling, creator and influencer economies, diasporic media, and the transnational circulation of video across linguistic and cultural boundaries, foregrounding dialogue on how evolving video practices are transforming intercultural communication. They welcome perspectives that critically engage how contemporary video trends both enable and constrain intercultural and international dialogue in an increasingly mediated and contested global environment.

CFP ICA Virtual Preconference: Media and Communication in Global Latinidades (2026)

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Call for extended abstracts: Media and Communication in Global Latinidades, International Communication Association VIRTUAL Preconference, 3 June 2026. Deadline: 15 February 2026.

This preconference examines the production, distribution, and consumption of media and communication in global Latinidades. It follows up to the six preconferences held in the context of the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 Annual Meetings of the International Communication Association – on “Digital Journalism in Latin America” in 2019, on “Digital Media in Latin America” in 2020, on “Digital Media in Latinx and Latin America” in 2021, and on “Media & Communication in Global Latinidades” in 2022-2025.

This 8th edition will continue to center on media and communication practices of the Latinx and Latin American experience globally. Despite its long history, research about Latinx and Latin American topics — largely made by Latinx and Latin American researchers worldwide — tends to be underrepresented in communication scholarship in general, and in ICA in particular. As such, the preconference will address the theme of media and communication in local, global and/or transnational Latinx and Latin American experiences, such as those related to issues of access, practices, representations, markets, technologies, and more.