Call for papers: Two overlapping conferences, Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG), 2022, Greece but online. Deadline for both has been revised: 1 August 2022.
The 7th Annual International Conference on Communication and Management: Communicate to Innovate and Innovate to Communicate (ICCM2022) will be held 26-29 September 2022.
The 3rd International Conference on Education: Communicating in Education and Educating in Communication (EDU2022) will be held 26-29 September 2022.
Call for papers: Nordic Migration Research conference, RE:MIGRATION – New perspectives on movement, research, and society, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 17-19 August 2022. Deadline: 4 April, 2022.
The term RE: – familiar from the subject lines of email threads – means regarding or in response to, and as such RE:MIGRATION is an invitation to reflect on key questions in migration studies in the current moment as interventions in an ongoing conversation. However, as a prefix, re- also introduces a temporality. It can speak both to a fresh start – rebuilding or reimagining – and to inevitable repetition. It therefore also invites us to consider migration not as singular or exceptional, but as part of the very rhythm of social life across the globe.
Call for papers: British Association of Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Social Justice in Applied Linguistics, 1-3 September 2022, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Hybrid format). Deadline: 31 March, 2022.
BAAL 2022 will be hosted by Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The conference’s theme Innovation and Social Justice in Applied Linguistics reflects an increasing interest in research that responds to real-world concerns within and beyond the field. In the face of a global health crisis and rising socio-racial awareness, this theme invites discussions around innovative and socially just practices in a field that is experiencing the multilingual, spatial, and social justice turn all at once. The current times are transformative and organizers hope that the conference theme will enable proposals from across disciplines and sub-disciplines of applied linguistics to stimulate conversations about the field’s responses to global turbulence and shifts. They also invite proposals to generate meaningful dialogue around current issues in language research.
The current plan is to hold the conference in-person with limited virtual options for participation. They will monitor the situation closely and reassess the situation in March 2022 and make a final decision as to whether the conference will be held in person or if it will have to move to an online format.
Call for Papers: International Metropolis Conference, September 4-9, 2022, Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 1 March 2022.
The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and Metropolis International invite the submission of proposals for workshops, individual papers and posters for the 25th International Metropolis Conference 2022, taking place in Berlin from 4 to 9 September. Organizers welcome submissions in all areas of migration, mobility and its governance around the world, integration & inclusion, as well as population diversity. Proposals that address the conference themes or any of the plenary topics are especially welcome. So are those that approach migration, integration & inclusion, and diversity from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
Call for papers: Dialogue in a Globalised and Digital World: Retrospective and Prospective Studies, July 12-14, 2022, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia (Hybrid format). Deadline: March 1, 2022.
UPDATE: as of March 10, this conference has been canceled: “The current war that is raging in Ukraine, the result and continuation of blatant denial of all the resources of fruitful dialogue, does not permit to hold such an event.”
The twenty-first century opened us up to a new reality. New smart, digital technologies raised communication opportunities to new heights. One does not even need a computer to participate from the eastern part of the world in a dialogue with someone who is in the west part of the globe. Smartphone is enough. Such worldwide famous programs as MS Teams and Zoom serve many communication needs, including gesture and mimics, as one can both hear and see our interlocutors.
Popular and political discourse is invested in globalization. As we nearly got used to the term ‘globalized world’, this world starts turning back again to national ideals. Integration or disintegration – that is the question?
Covid time is not over. What has it brought to us? Deeper knowledge of how to communicate from a distance or depression and desocialisation? Maybe both. One thing is clear. We cannot change strange and cruel circumstances at once, but we can help people and peoples obtain a new understanding and knowledge of how to survive and make life better through constructive dialogue.
Migration processes captured the globe as well. People of different nations hardly understand each other. Communication barriers based on cultural peculiarities can be brought down. It might be time to work out a migration linguistic policy; a time to ‘break the communication ice’ among the nations.
An interdisciplinary approach to the problem of understanding, friendship and cooperation through constructive dialogue is one more goal to achieve.
All the above mentioned challenges will be the aim of this conference.
Call for Papers: Language Policy and Planning: Language Policy, Linguistic Human Rights, and Cultural Genocide, August 25-27, 2022, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, and online). Deadline: 28 February 2022.
LPP2022 will be a space for Canadian and international researchers to share their research about oppressed language rights and literacy practices in Canada and other parts of the world. This year’s theme (non-exclusive) will bring together researchers interested in the impact of language policy on the minoritization of language speakers and the oppression of their linguistic human rights. LPP2022 will have a hybrid (virtual and in-person) format. Organizers hope that this format will maximize the participation of underfunded educators and researchers who come from communities whose languages have been affected by colonial language policies. The event will highlight research that attempts to deconstruct colonial views of language education, which advocate forms of toxic monolingualism that not only target minoritized students’ mother tongues but that put their lives in danger, as has been the case with Canadian residential schools. The three plenary speakers, Owennatekha (Brian Maracle), Abduweli Ayup, and Jaffer Sheyholislami, are scholars who come from linguistically oppressed communities and who have been studying language issues in those communities for years.
LPP2022 will continue the plurilingual policy started at LPP2021. Abstracts must be submitted in English or French, but the language(s) of presentation may include any language(s) of your choice, as long as material to help viewers understand the slides is made available in English or French.
Call for papers: 9th European Communication Conference: Rethink Impact, 19-22 October 2022, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 17 January 2022.
The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University (AU) and the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX) are happy to announce that the theme for the 9th European Communication Conference (ECC) will be “Rethink Impact.”
Impact raises fundamental questions on whether – or to what extent – university research and education should directly contribute to social, economic and political demands and be driven by agendas external to the academy. Is it possible to conduct critical research that is publicly funded? Are there models of academic collaboration with society that are not adequately described by current impact assessments? Are funders determining what impact research ought to have? Is there another way of doing impact, as impact ‘from below’, serving the needs of common spaces and grassroots communities? What is the impact of scholars working in the field of communication and external stakeholders, historically and in the present? Why is the long-term contribution of higher education often overlooked in impact discussions? What would an adequate assessment of impact look like in the field of media and communication research, respecting different work cultures, disciplinary orientations and methodologies?
By inviting researchers to ‘rethink impact’ the organisers are wishing to further discussions about both the more traditional ways of thinking about impact as well as some of the more subtle and long-term ways in which researchers and educators in media and communication make a difference contribute to society. Discussions about impact draw on different cultural, social and political histories and ambitions, dealing with contemporary funding and employment structures and incentives, as much as they relate to the place and recognition of scholarship in wider societal and global developments. Rethinking Impact raises fundamental questions about the identity and autonomy of media and communications researchers as an interdisciplinary field of research at the centre of current debates of societal transformation.
Call for proposals: NATSA: Taiwan Studies in Application, July 8-10, 2022, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 31 December 2021.
The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) invites proposals for their 27th annual conference, with the theme Taiwan Studies in Application. Both academics and practitioners are invited. They solicit submissions actively engaging with the following set of questions:
1. New directions in Taiwan studies
In what ways are Taiwan, science, practice, and politics connected in your profession(s)?
Anchored in Taiwan studies, what further work needs to be done to deepen meaningful connections between people and the planet?
How can your proposal contribute to future advancements or new perspectives in your profession(s)?
How will your research proposal facilitate productive dialogues or interactions between academics and practitioners in your profession(s)?
2. Marginalization in and of Taiwan studies
With the conference theme in mind, what topics are currently marginalized in Taiwan studies?
Why do researchers and practitioners need to pay attention to the topics you specify?
How can researchers and practitioners do more to address the marginalization of these topics?
How can Taiwan studies collaborate with other minorities across the globe?
3. Reflections on the binary between researchers and practitioners
How do researchers and practitioners interact with each other in your profession(s)?
How does the researcher-practitioner binary affect those works requiring both research skills and social activism in your profession(s)?
What are some structural factors that shape and reinforce the researcher-practitioner binary?
How do you make sense of your own positionality and identity amidst the dynamics mentioned above?
What does it mean to you to engage with Taiwan in your profession(s)?
Call for Papers: South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference: Imagining Futures, February 10-11, 2022, Virtual/Hybrid event, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Deadline: 3 January 2022.
The organizers of the conference invite proposals for papers, presentations, and posters for the 8th South Asian Media and Cultural Studies conference to be held on the mornings of February 10-11, 2022. The annual conference will be a virtual/hybrid event (with some in-person events at FSU if possible). This year’s conference has an open theme of “Imagining Futures.” The open theme will allow creating linkages that cross disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. In considering the region’s collective future in the fields of media and cultural studies, scholars and practitioners must build strategies for action. The aim is not just to reflect upon some of the pivotal challenges in these fields, but to nurture a commitment to building a collective future. There is no registration cost to present and attend the virtual conference.
Call for proposals: Across Borders IX: Freedom of Expression: Communication, Identity and Culture, May 16-29, 2022, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA. Deadline: 15 January 2022.
The organizers of the conference wish to invite scholars in humanities, social sciences, and fine and performing arts, including communication, literature, linguistics, translation and interpretation, media, journalism, cultural studies, theatre, dance, graphic design, art, music and others to a discussion on the broad topic of Freedom of Expression: Communication, Identity and Culture. Potential submissions can include traditional paper abstracts, videos of performances, photographs, images of art, etc. Contributions will be paneled for discussions related to the conference theme.
Potential topics most likely of interest to CID followers include: Minority culture, the Other and identity; Globalization and freedom of expression; Language, translation and their impacts on expression; Translation and interpreting as multifaceted intercultural mediation.
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