Category: Conferences

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

ConferencesCall for proposals: Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture, and Communication, 30-31 July 2025, Manchester, UK. Deadline: 18 May 2025.

The first International Conference on Globalisation/Deglobalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2025) is going to be held 30-31 July, 2025, Manchester, UK., with pre-conference workshops on 29th July and post-conference cultural visits on 1st August.

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.

GLECC2025 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.

CFP FEL: The Missing SDG: Endangered Languages and Sustainable Development (Spain)

ConferencesCall for papers: The Missing SDG: Endangered Languages and Sustainable Development, 29th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, 22-25 October 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Deadline: 15 May 2025.

Why is world shouting everywhere about sustainability but is decidedly mute on language? Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, are, in the words of the UN, “the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”. They address “global challenges” which include eradicating poverty, ensuring good health and well-being, providing quality education, protecting the environment, upholding human rights, and promoting the rule of law, among others. However, languages are not explicitly mentioned, and the way in which culture is addressed remains very limited. As one linguist (Suzanne Romaine (2019: 41) put it, “language is the missing link in the global debate on sustainability”.

Without linguistic diversity and the promotion of multilingualism, many communities, particularly minority, indigenous and marginalized groups, are excluded from decision-making processes and denied equal access to vital resources. The endangerment or extinction of languages is often a consequence of this exclusion, but it also escalates it.

Main sub-themes include the topics below:

  • The conceptialisation of the links between the maintenance and revitalisation of minority, endangered and indigenous languages and sustainable development.

  • Practices of community-based and public institution initiatives that integrate both agendas.

  • Prospects of the 2030 agenda and the inclusion of the linguistic and cultural issue.

  • Proposal for a workable UN programme and document: Designing SDG 18

CFP ELAN: Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, Futures (Netherlands)

ConferencesCall for papers, inaugural ELAN conference: Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, Futures, Leiden University, 6-7 November 2025. Deadline: 15 May 2025, extended to 1 June 2025.

The goal of this first conference of ELAN, the Linguistic Anthropology Network of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), is to bring together a wide range of scholars interested in doing and defining linguistic anthropology in the European context, whether Europe is their fieldsite, institutional base, or European scholars are simply key interlocutors.

In this conference, organizers invite linguistic anthropologists, broadly defined, to come together to explore the range of theoretical and methodological approaches that have composed and now compose linguistic anthropological scholarship in Europe and to imagine future possibilities and directions for carrying out linguistic anthropological research in and on Europe. They welcome papers, panels, and roundtables that showcase scholars’ own linguistic anthropological scholarship, examine intersections and dialogues between different theoretical traditions, and/or reflect on the past, present and future of linguistic anthropology in Europe.

CFP History of Digital History between East and West (Luxembourg)

ConferencesHistory of Digital History between East and West, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 5-6 February 2026. Deadline for abstract: 29 May 2025.

In histories of digital history, as in digital humanities in general, much emphasis has been placed on the two commonly recognized centers of the development of historical computing since the 1950s: the United States and Western Europe. As a result, crucial developments elsewhere have been overlooked, including in the Nordic countries as well as the Soviet Union and the various states of the Eastern bloc. The consequence of this omission is not merely a lack of knowledge about specific countries and a skewed understanding of digital history’s manifold early trajectories. It also creates epistemological blind spots regarding the political dimensions of the development of early historical computing and, given the latter’s networked nature within a general context of ‘East-West’ scholarly exchange in the Cold War period, obscures the transnational dimensions of the early history of digital history.

This workshop will address these blind spots by focusing attention on the question of how the local and the transnational intersected in the technology-inflected reshaping of historical research practices and how political backgrounds, contexts and constraints fed into this process. Organizers therefore seek papers that focus on local case studies in a transnational ‘East-West’ context, as well as those that consider comparative perspectives. Papers that ask what resources are available to support research in this area are similarly welcome.

CFP Marginalized Identities and Change in SWANA Region (USA)

ConferencesCall for panelists: Marginalized Identities and Change in SWANA Region, South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) caucus, National Communication Association, 20-23 November 2025, Denver, CO, USA. Deadline for abstract: 29 March 2025.

The South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) caucus invites scholars and activists for a special discussion panel on how marginalized identities, such as expats, women, religious minorities, racial minorities, and LGBTQ+ communities, balance the social struggles for recognition within their communities and the broader national/regional/global context. We invite scholars and activists whose focus is one of the countries within the SWANA region, such as Iran, Cyprus, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc, to submit abstracts addressing one or more of the following questions for their specific country:

  • Given the socio-political constraints, how do marginalized groups communicate and mobilize within the region?
  • How do activists within marginalized communities strike a balance between advocating for change within their groups and fighting for broader rights and recognition within the mainstream in the region?
    In what ways can media professionals contribute to more accurate and nuanced representations of diversity within the region?
  • What are the effects of alternative media on shaping youth attitudes and beliefs in relation to diversity and inclusion in the region?
  • How do the region’s alternative and independent media outlets contribute to pluralism and diversity in news coverage?
  • How can communication strategies be developed to more effectively address sexual health and rights within culturally sensitive contexts in the region?

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.