Category: Conferences

CFP Linguistic Landscape Workshop (Thailand)

ConferencesCFP The 11th Linguistic Landscape Workshop (XIScape2019), 4 – 6 June 2019, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Deadline: 1 December 2018.

As the first Linguistic Landscape workshop convened in Asia, the theme for this year’s XIScape2019 is, appropriately, “East Meets West: Social Reflection and Integration.”

OBJECTIVES

*To attract LL scholars from Europe, America, Africa, and Asia to meet and share their research findings.

*To introduce Asian LL to Western scholars and vice versa.

*To encourage the integration of various branches of knowledge.

*To promote understanding of society through LL study.

CFP Ethnography of Communication and Interdisciplinary Moves (Finland)

ConferencesCall for Papers: Ethnography of Communication and Interdisciplinary Moves. June 11-14, 2019, Helsinki, Finland. Deadline: December 1, 2018.

The University of Helsinki cordially invites scholars working on or interested in Ethnography of Communication to Helsinki, Finland for a conference to be held June 11-14, 2019 The conference is titled Ethnography of Communication and Interdisciplinary Moves. This is the fourth conference devoted to Ethnography of Communication approaches; other conferences have gathered in Washington, Omaha, and most recently in New York.

The theoretical-methodological approach of Ethnography of Communication is a particular way to study culture, communication and interaction. It lives in and nourishes multiple languages and countries and pulls on different academic communities such as linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, anthropological linguistics, folklore studies, media studies, conversation analysis, etc.

The June 2019 conference has a two-fold structure designed to benefit local and international researchers. First, invited workshops and paper presentations will explore the ways in which Ethnography of Communication relates in particular with language ideology, folklore studies, and media ethnography. All three approaches or disciplines are alive and strong at the University of Helsinki, and they are closely related to Ethnography of Communication. Second, individual papers and panels will present recent research and other works on the Ethnography of Communication.

AIEMCA 2018 (Macau)

Conferences11th Australasian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (AIEMCA) Conference, hosted by the Department of Communication, University of Macau, Macau, China, 27-29 November 2018.

The biennial AIEMCA conference provides a forum for scholars from a range of disciplines using ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, membership categorisation analysis or discursive psychology in studies of everyday and/or institutional talk-in-interaction.

The theme for the 2018 conference to be held at the University of Macau is on Investigating Methods and Methodologies.

CFP East and West Bridges (Finland/Russia)

ConferencesFor the first time, SIETAR Russia and SIETAR Europa have organized a special event: EAST & WEST BRIDGES, October 26-28th 2018, Helsinki, Finland and St. Petersburg, Russia. Deadline: October 5, 2018.

In the world of international relations, intercultural relations are often left out of the discussion.

SIETAR Russia and SIETAR Europa invite participants to the international event dedicated to East and West Bridges. The journey to increase awareness and knowledge will start in Helsinki on October 26, 2018, and will carry on in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on October 27-28, 2018, at the Higher School of Economics’ (HSE) Management Training Centre (Kochoubey Centre). The HSE Kochoubey Centre is a magnificent site of the accumulation of the historical and cultural heritage of Russia.

Organizerswelcome researchers, teachers, interculturalists, sociologists, educators, trainers, and others interested in the development of intercultural interaction and increasing awareness of the Russian culture and on how to develop awareness and building bridges between Russia and Western countries and between East and West.

The event will combine culturally guided visits and roundtable discussions.

CFP Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (UK)

ConferencesCall for Papers: Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 6 and 7 June 2019, University of London, UK. Deadline: 1 December 2018.

Since Appadurai wrote on the intertwined phenomena of electronic media and migration as disruptive and defining features of modern subjectivity (1996), the relationship between digital technologies and diasporic communities has emerged as a critical area of study across a number of disciplines. However, such research risks remaining isolated within disciplinary silos, often despite the similar processes, practices and materials studied. This conference aims to inspire greater dialogue across disciplinary boundaries in order to develop a richer understanding of the role of the digital in creating and sustaining diasporic connections and communities, and of how diasporic groups and individuals transform and shape digital tools and technologies for their own creative and strategic purposes.

Organizers especially welcome research which pays attention to the linguistic and cultural dimensions of digital technologies and media. This is, however, not restricted to any specific geographical area, language or type of community. Equally, the digital is intended to encompass the fullest range of digital practices, materials and technologies, while the conference aims to include methodological and analytical approaches ranging across, for example, ethnographic, cultural studies and computational approaches.

CFP ICA 2019 (USA)

ConferencesCFP International Communication Association, 24-28 May 2019, Washington, D. C. Submission deadline: 1 November 2018.

The ICA 2019 conference theme of Communication Beyond Boundaries aims for an understanding of the role of communication and media in the crossing of social, political and cultural boundaries that characterize contemporary society, and encourages research that crosses the boundaries of research domains, of particular fields of research interest, and of academia and the outside world.

International Congress on Cultural Mapping (Portugal)

ConferencesInternational Congress on Cultural Mapping: Linking Heritage (Tangible and Intangible) and Creative Tourism, November 29-30, 2018, Évora, Portugal. Registration deadline: October 15, 2018.

Structured in two days the congress aims to provide a better understanding of how cultural mapping can propose actions that enhance the awareness of cultural identities, debate its implications for local development, community engagement and policymaking, including sustainable and creative tourism practices, and foster debate over its long-term results.

CFP Ethnography with a Twist (Finland)

ConferencesCall for Papers and Panels: ETHNOGRAPHY WITH A TWIST, 12–14 February 2019, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. Deadline: 31 August 2018.

Contemporary political, environmental, and social challenges and crises, rapidly changing societies, development of technology, and encountering of people and cultures produce new environments of research and a need to rethink innovative research methods. The ETHNOGRAPHY WITH A TWIST conference will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. We welcome papers and panels that explore ethnographic research from a wide range of perspectives that reflect the variety of backgrounds and/or address personal and affective experiences of the researchers. The conference will provide an interdisciplinary arena for lively discussion and exchanges in an inspiring environment that allows ethnographic research to be approached without the weight of tradition and encourages thinking outside the box and the usual comfort zones in our respective fields.

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CFP Hellenic Conference of Political Science (Greece)

ConferencesCall for Papers, International Hellenic Conference of Political Science: New Challenges, New Answers (HEPO2019), 17-20 April 2019, Athens, Greece. Deadline: 12 March 2018.

HEPO 2019

The International Hellenic conference of political science: New Challenges, New Answers (HEPO2019) is a new interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of empirical and theoretical work that is reflective of a highly dynamic political arena both domestically and internationally. The conference is seeking to receive contributions by scholars who recognise that political science needs to vindicate its relevance by tackling today’s challenges while predicting the themes ahead. We aim to establish a hub for academics that engage with peers over the latest advances and research results in any sub-field of Political Science and International Relations both in the shape of empirical and theoretical work. The theme of the conference is meant to inspire and bring together academic leaders, researchers, and scholars who like to think outside the box and transcend their disciplinary domain. While offering a forum to established academics we also like to see proposals from a new generation of researchers as well as outstanding research students who like to share their work, receive feedback and exchange ideas with faculty from all around the world.

CMM Institute: Building CMM Communities of Practice (USA)

ConferencesCMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution, 7th Annual Learning Exchange, Creating magical moments across space and time: Building CMM communities of practice, October 26-28, 2018, Oracle, Arizona, USA. Deadline: October 18, 2018.

“The CMM Institute is sponsoring its seventh annual Learning Exchange as part of its role as a connector and cultivator of people and communities who are striving to make better social worlds. We invite practitioners, researchers and learners to come together to share our experiences with using CMM to make better social worlds and to advance our collective understanding of what is possible through CMM.

Creating is a central theme in a CMM framework: we create meanings, we create relationships, we create our social worlds. In this year’s Learning Exchange we want to pay particular attention to how we create our very own CMM communities of practice.”