Category: Conferences

CFP Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication Conference 2025 (Finland)

ConferencesNordic Network for Intercultural Communication, University of Helsinki, Finland, 13-15 August 2025. Deadline for abstract: 10 April 2025.

The 31st Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication Conference will be arranged in Helsinki on 13–15 August 2025. The NIC 2025 conference theme is “Evolutions in intercultural communication: New concepts and methodologies”. With this theme, we wish to encourage discussion of conceptual and methodological development in the field of intercultural communication, drawing connections between research, teaching and practice.

In addition to those addressing the theme, we also welcome proposals that explore related aspects of intercultural communication. These are, for example:

  • Critical evaluations of theories of intercultural communication, education, or management
  • Migration and new or alternative forms of language, interaction, and communication
  • Challenges of trans/poly/cross/intercultural encounters and relationships
  • Decolonization and the knowledge on culture and communication
  • Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in different spaces and settings
  • New questions on education and learning in multicultural societies

Intercultural communication is an interest to and researched by scholars in a wide variety of fields and disciplines such as language, media and communication, multilingual and/or multicultural education, sociolinguistics, social interaction, international management, discourse studies, cultural studies, ethnic relations, and cross-cultural psychology. We welcome submissions from all.

Abstract submission

Please submit your max 250-word abstract using the abstract form below. The abstracts will be anonymously peer reviewed. Note that all submissions should be in English and those submitting the abstract should be prepared to attend the conference in person. The deadline for submitting your abstract is April 10th, 2025. If the abstract includes citations, please provide the appropriate references (the list of references is not included in the word count).

Organizing committee: Saila Poutiainen (Chair), Mélanie Buchart, Yoonjoo Cho, Niina Hynninen, Janne Niinivaara

CFP Communication as Social Construction Division for NCA 2025

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Call for submissions: Communication as Social Construction Division, National Communication Association, 20-23 November 2025, Denver, CO, USA. Deadline: 31 March 2025.

 The Communication as Social Construction (CASC) Division invites inquiries that explicitly cite social construction literature and use social construction approaches to study face-to-face, cultural, and mediated communication. Referencing foundational texts of social construction is highly encouraged. Some influential scholars may include, but are not limited to the following: Burr, V.; Blumer, H.; Chen, V.; Davis, K.E.; Galanes, G.; Gergen, K.J.; Gergen, M.; Leeds-Hurwitz, W.; Littlejohn, S.W.; Pearce, W.B.; Spano, S.; and Tomm, K.

The Communication as Social Construction division encourages submissions that explore how we communicate in ways that may elevate (1) the communicative construction of identity and relationships within any socially significant context; (2) the communicative construction of context itself; (3) the social construction of discord and the potential of communication to transform conflict into more harmonious relationships; (4) the social construction of regard, concern and esteem; (5) metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological developments relevant to constructionist research, teaching, and application; (6) examinations of similarities and differences between social construction and other approaches to communication studies and practices, and (7) comparative analyses of approaches to communication as social construction across cultures or across levels of analysis.

Members of the Communication as Social Construction (CASC) Division are committed to promoting conversation and community among scholars whose work advances the idea that we create and recreate social worlds through interaction. CASC scholars take a Communication Perspective to acknowledge communication processes as central to academic inquiry and practice with recognition of the transformative potential of communication teaching and research. The division is interested in topics related to social constructions of identity and relationships, discord and transformative conflict, and social constructions of the contexts we live in today. Examples of socially constructed contexts to examine may include relationships, media, technology, health, organizations, the classroom, and culture.

CFP International & Intercultural Communication Division for NCA 2025

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Call for submissions: International and Intercultural Communication Division, National Communication Association, 20-23 November 2025, Denver, CO, USA. Deadline: 31 March 2025.

The International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association is committed to promoting works that explore different issues using intercultural communication frameworks. We understand culture broadly, not as a preexisting phenomenon but as a contested terrain of meaning-making, making it central to social interactions and human existence itself.

The year 2025 has brought severe sociopolitical turmoil in its wake. Given this context, the division seeks submissions from scholars, teachers, practitioners, and performers, among others, that related to the 2025 convention theme, “Communicate to Elevate,” introduced by NCA’s First Vice-President, Dr. Tina Harris. Specifically, they invite works that engage this theme in ways that illuminate the theoretical and political potential of intercultural communication in being an agent of social change. Which voices, projects, analytics, and geopolitical contexts and perspectives, among others, are elevated in communication studies in general and intercultural communication in particular? Conversely, which issues remain elided and to what effect? Are there voices that remain subdued despite (performative) attempts to the contrary and why? Furthermore, when is it prudent to not elevate certain voices or analytics (as their strength derives from their ability to evade mainstream attention)? What are the implications of trying to “communicate” and “elevate” in times of rampant misinformation and in a political context that is hostile to investigations of socioeconomic and other inequities? Is it possible to elevate historically marginalized voices without hoping for substantial structural changes? What trends or interdisciplinary collaborations are emergent in intercultural communication that help elevate human well-being? These are a few provocations offered for your consideration.

CFP 8th International Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Conference (Hong Kong)

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Call for papers: 8th International Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Conference , 11-13 December 2025,  City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Deadline: 31 March 2025.

The conference theme, “Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact: Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds,” reflects the growing complexity in the social context of Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Practices. Developments in technology, including the recent rise of generative artificial intelligence and more long-standing ubiquity of social media communications, continue to have a profound effect on the communicative practices of academics and professionals alike. At the same time, society is increasingly face with a range of “wicked problems” that demand collaborative and innovative responses from stakeholders in the academy, the professions, and in industry. Issues of communication frequently play an important role in determining whether effective solutions can be found, and, to engage with these issues, collaboration and innovation is essential. Against this backdrop, this conference aims to provide a platform for academies, students, industry partners, and institutions to discuss changing professional communication practices, identify synergies, and facilitate the collaboration and innovation needed to generate impact.

CFP NCA Peace & Conflict Division High Density Panel 2025

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Call for submissions: Healing Divides and Elevating Connections Within Conflict & Peacebuilding, National Communication Association, 20-23 November 2025, Denver, CO, USA. Deadline: 15 March 2025.

In 2024, the Peace and Conflict Communication Division came together and explored how to find a balance between self-regard and greater regard in conflict. They welcomed nearly 20 scholars and many more audience participants to engage in this discussion as part of our 12th annual high-density panel. Last year’s theme encouraged us to examine the balance between empathy and compromise for others (greater regard) and maintaining self-regard, fostering meaningful dialogue and reconciliation through an awareness of individual, social, and cultural positionalities. By addressing these complexities, they highlighted pathways for navigating conflicts with both authenticity and mutual respect.

Building upon our conversations last year, they are excited to introduce the 13th annual high-density panel theme for the 2025 National Communication Association annual Conference: Healing Divides and Elevating Connections Within Conflict & Peacebuilding. Conflict presents a significant challenge to the stability of interpersonal, intergroup, and international relationships. A central concern lies in understanding how individuals and groups can navigate the often difficult, sensitive, and inherently unpleasant dynamics of conflict while preserving their shared connections. This inquiry calls for a reimagining of conflict, not merely as a problem-solving process aimed at achieving mutual agreement but as an opportunity to restore and heal relationships. Furthermore, this perspective emphasizes the potential for conflict to serve as a transformative process, fostering the elevation and deepening of shared connections across interpersonal, organizational, and international contexts.

Aligned with this year’s thematic focus—Communication to Elevate—this exploration seeks to illuminate the role of communication in healing and strengthening relational bonds during the conflict process. Specifically, we aim to examine how conflict and communication can transcend its traditional functions and become a vehicle for fostering relational resilience, growth, and elevated connection.

Several overarching questions emerge from this endeavor, cutting across diverse conflict scenarios: How can communication serve to elevate and deepen shared connections during moments of conflict? What communicative patterns and strategies threaten the stability and integrity of these connections? Lastly, how can stakeholders across various domains be encouraged to reconceptualize conflict in ways that prioritize and value the preservation and enrichment of shared relational bonds? By addressing these critical questions, we aim to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the interplay between communication and conflict, highlighting pathways for relational healing, elevation, and transformation.

NOTE: There is also a call for general submissions to this division; these often explore topics in conflict management, negotiation, mediation, and bullying. Peace and Conflict Communication scholars study processes and effects of communication using a variety of research methods, concepts, and pedagogical or andragogical approaches to understand and promote peace in personal, organizational, local community, national, and global contexts. They ask that submissions to the PCCD closely align with the overarching conference theme. The deadline for general submissions is 31 March 2025.

ReDICo 2025: Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality (Germany but Online)

ConferencesDigital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality, ReDICo, Germany but online, 23-24 June 2025. Deadline for abstract: 28 February 2025.

Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality – The Fourth ReDICo Conference Online, 23-24 June 2025. In this conference organizers would like to bring together scholars who engage with internet histories, digital futures and digital interculturality so as to initiate a discussion regarding the reimagining of digitality, not least its relationship to interculturality. They are, thus, interested in wide and interdisciplinary approaches that go beyond the presentism that often marks media and communication studies, while also engaging with alternative visions of how digitality can be construed, not least from an intercultural perspective.

It is intended that a selection of the papers presented will be published following a peer review process in book form, funding pending, with the transcript Publishing House in the Series “Studies in Digital Interculturality”. The conference is without fees, completely online and is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Keynote speakers that have already been confirmed include Prof. Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg), Associate Prof. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University), Prof. Ethan Zuckerman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles).

CFP ICA Virtual Preconference: Media and Communication in Global Latinidades

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Call for extended abstracts: Media and Communication in Global Latinidades, International Communication Association VIRTUAL Preconference, 11 June 2025. Deadline: 15 February 2025.

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, and 2024 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, 2023 and 2024.

In this seventh edition, we 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 access issues, practices, representations, markets, technologies, and more.

Organizers think it is important to provide a platform that incentivizes community, the flow of information and scholarship, and equitable participation across the globe. As such, and in recognition of the often unsurmountable structural differences that exist among different national contexts concerning resources for traveling to international academic conferences, organizers will again hold the edition of the preconference virtually with a social in-person component that will be determined in due time.

Media and communication issues have increasingly featured more prominently in the global experiences of Latinidad. Thus, it is critical to inquire into the experience of these communities, which tend to be understudied and underrepresented, and to examine whether the specificity of Latinx and Latin American experiences might entail differences from those of other communities.

CFP 5th International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration (Italy)

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Call for papers: 5th International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration, 16-17 June 2025, Sestri Levante, Italy. Deadline: 31 January 2025.

This conference addresses the complexities of migration research amidst global challenges such as economic disparities, climate change, and displacement. The event aims to foster dialogue on reflexivity, ethics, and arts-based methodologies in migration studies. The language of the conference is English.

Participants will explore:

  • Representation and power dynamics.
  • Researchers’ responsibilities when working with vulnerable populations.
  • Innovative, interdisciplinary methods to amplify migrants’ voices.

CFP Communication Institute of Greece: 2 Conferences 2025 (Greece)

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Call for papers: Two overlapping conferences, Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG), Athens, Greece. Deadline: 11 February 2025.

9th International Conference on Communication and Management by Communication Institute of GreeceThe 9th International Conference on Communication and Management (ICCM2025), Reimagining Leadership: Exploring Innovative Pathways For Business and Communication, 30 June – 4 July 2025,  in Athens, Greece.

 

5th International Conference on Education - COMING EDU2025The 5th International Conference on Education (EDU2025), Reimagining Education and Nurturing Learner Wellbeing, 30 June – 04 July 2025, in Athens, Greece.

CFP ECREA: Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Reflexive Approaches to Migration, Media, and Intercultural Dialogue (Estonia)

ConferencesCall for submissions: Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Reflexive Approaches to Migration, Media, and Intercultural Dialogue, ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media – International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference, 16-18 September 2025, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia. Deadline: 1 Febuary 2025.

Recent global challenges and the rise of far-right governments worldwide have intensified the persecution of migrants, transforming borders into harsh zones of exclusion and surveillance. In this climate, migration is increasingly criminalized, and those seeking safety and opportunity are often met with hostility, reinforcing narrow nationalist ideologies. This environment has posed new methodological challenges for research in migration contexts, as well as prompted reflexive considerations on how knowledge is generated, how participants are cared for, and how spaces are created to support human dignity and mobility.

This conference invites researchers to propose abstracts that address methodological and reflexive perspectives in the exploration of multifaceted migration experiences and intercultural communication in the context of migration persecution and border closing. Creative methods, such as digital storytelling, participatory media projects, ethnographic film, and arts-based research, offer rich and nuanced perspectives that address current challenges in migration criminalization. These methods not only capture the complexities of diasporic lives, but also empower communities to express their own narratives and co-create knowledge. Organizers encourage contributions that reflect on these innovative approaches to migration and media studies, as they have the potential to deepen our understanding of how identities, relationships, and cultural dialogues are shaped and redefined through media. Beyond methodological approaches, they also encourage researchers to explore more broadly a reflexive analysis of the dynamic intersection of migration, media, and communication.