Category: Conferences

CFP International Association for Media & History (Paris)

July 10-13, 2017 – PARIS, FRANCE
International Association for Media & History (IAMHIST)

Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of the Media (CARISM) and the French Press Institute, Panthéon-Assas University, Paris (France), the conference marks the 40th anniversary of IAMHIST as well as the 80th anniversary of the French Press Institute.

THEME:
MEDIA AND HISTORY: CRIME, VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE is the main topic of the conference and a special section will also deal with international and comparative approaches to media history. Workshops for younger scholars will be organized.

The relations between media and the acts or representations of crime, violence and justice are evolving through history. The openness of this call for papers is voluntary chosen in order to receive diverse and critical proposals dealing with this broad topic. Most of the time, it is through media that we encounter conflicts and violence; from news formats to fictional accounts; from traditional media such as newspapers, film, radio and television to ‘newer’ interactive media. Such media coverage is very frequently linked to debates on law and order. How can an open society react to crime and violence? Often, the relationship between conflict and crime and their representation can cause various conflicts.

First, media can become tools of propaganda, war and discrimination. They are then not only ways to communicate information but they are also part of performativity and action.  Second, media can become a target of violence themselves, whether or not in totalitarian states or countries where the freedom of speech is restricted. Third, in each historical context, ‘new’ media inventions can produce an atmosphere of fear and violent contest or censorship, especially when they disturb existing (political) power patterns or structures. Fourth, media and communication technologies are also an essential part of social movements and political activism by offering spaces of visibility and instruments of contestation aimed at social change that can lead to situations of conflict and confrontations within the public sphere.

These various relations of media to crime, violence and justice are not new. Numerous scholars work or have worked on this topic by focusing on media and law, politics, journalism, media activism, war, (cultural) diplomacy or likewise the narration and mediatization of war, conflicts, punishment, violence, crime and justice. The latter are not only an essential part of news and the journalistic, political agenda, but they are also essential when it comes to fictional formats such as film or television series. Depending on historical, political and cultural premises, the signification and definition of crime and violence in media and law texts ask the question of the circulation and understanding of these concepts in society. This conference aims to (re)think the historical relations between media, crime, violence and justice also in order to offer new insights into more recent forms of this very complex interplay.

TOPICS:
Scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and approaches (history – media and communication studies – law – politics, gender, queer and feminist studies – sociology – anthropology – economy etc.) are welcome to submit papers and panel proposals that deal critically with the following topics:

Historical representation/mediatization/definitions of crime, violence and justice in news or informational formats, film, documentaries, television drama or radio plays
Historical approaches to media events related to crime, violence and justice
The production and reception of news and fiction dealing with crime, violence and justice
Media historical approaches to symbolic and physical violence
The crime scene, the criminal and the victims in news and fiction
Historical (media-) constructions of the judge, the lawyer or secret service agents
‘New’ media inventions as aggregators of fear, conflict or censorship
The historical role of media and technologies in social and political protest, movements and activism, leading sometimes to conflicts and violence
The historical (international) relations of legal public entities, diplomacy, the police and the military with journalists and media institutions
Media as targets of violence and crime
The role of media archives for the historiography and memory of crime, violence and justice
Media, history and criminology
The history of cybercrime
Legal actions attacking or protecting media content and their producers or audiences/users
There is also one special area dedicated to the question of international approaches to media history. Panel and paper proposals in this field are warmly welcome. The idea is to have space for epistemological, theoretical, practical and also comparative discussions on how media history is thought and experienced in different cultural areas: what kinds of archives are accessible, in creation or needed, the place of media history in academia etc.

SUBMITTING A PAPER OR PANEL PROPOSALS:
Please send your proposal to the iamhist2017[at]gmail.com until December 15th by inserting your text directly in the body of the mail or by attaching a WORD-file. PDF documents will NOT be accepted. Members of the scientific committee will peer-review the proposals anonymously.

Panel proposals: three paper presentations for each panel (a general outline of max. 400 words and a 500 words-abstract with title for each paper, a short biography)

Individual paper proposals: a title, an abstract of 500 words, a short biography

Proposals for presentations of artistic or (multi-)media projects are also welcomed.

SCHEDULE:
September 15th: Launch call for abstracts for papers and panels
December 15th, 2016: Last day to submit abstracts for papers and panels
February 15th, 2017: notification of panel and abstract decisions
End of February, 2017: registration period begins

REGISTRATION:
Registration fees for conference speakers and participants
iamhist members (students): 130 Euros
iamhist members:  150 Euros

The fees include breakfast (Tuesday – Thursday), coffee breaks, lunch, the Monday evening reception and the conference package.

Registration fees for non Iamhist members:
students: 165 Euros
others:  195 Euros

The fees include a one-year iamhist membership , breakfast Tuesday – Thursday, breaks, lunch, the  Monday evening reception and the conference package.

Contact Info:
Please send your proposal to the iamhist2017@gmail.com until December 15th by inserting your text directly in the body of the mail or by attaching a WORD-file. PDF documents will NOT be accepted. Members of the scientific committee will peer-review the proposals anonymously.

CFP Deep South in the Global South (Louisiana)

THE DEEP SOUTH IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
An Interdisciplinary Conference
April 6-8, 2017 // The University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana

CALL FOR PAPERS:
“Nothing important can come from the South. The axis of history starts in Moscow, goes to Bonn, crosses over to Washington, and then goes to Tokyo. What happens in the South is of no importance.”
–HENRY KISSINGER, 1969

On a fundamental level, The Deep South in the Global South (DSGS) conference argues, first and foremost, that the South, in all its various manifestations, plays a vital role in any global conversation. The South is more than place. It is a point of connection, a nexus of ideas transcending both geographical and ideological boundaries.

The DSGS conference is a three-day, interdisciplinary conference that aims to explore these connections. We invite all scholars and graduate students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to submit critical and creative proposals that explore humanity’s interactions with and responses to an increasingly globalized world. Here are some possible approaches to this conference theme:
*Relations between the North and the South
*(Re)defining or challenging the notion of “Global South”/”Deep South”
*The language of a global identity (Cross-linguistic/multilingual perceptions)
*Conceptualizations of passing; ethnic hybridity
*Interethnic influences and cultural appropriations
*The politics of food
*Capitalism and academia
*Labor politics in the Global South
*Knowledge production and dissemination
*Creative pedagogies for generating/transforming learning
*Citizenship and Transnationalism
*Global feminisms; Women and nation building
*Gender equality
*World development and the environment; global warming
*International trade and finance
*The role of social media in revolution/resistance
*Urban development and gentrification
*Imperialism and subalternity
*Health and disease; Global epidemics (Zika Virus, H1N1, Bird Flu, SARS, etc)
*Commodification of place; the World Tourism Organization and poverty
*Peace and Globalism; Global Terrorism

The conference organizers welcome and encourage complete session submissions as well as individual paper abstract submissions. Deadline for individual papers and complete panel submissions: December 9th, 2016. Submit all proposals to globalsouth2017[at]gmail.com

CFP China Association for Intercultural Communication 2017 (China)

Call for Papers for the 12th Annual International Conference of the China Association for Intercultural Communication (CAFIC), to be held 22-23 June 2017 at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.

Hosted by the School of English in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, the conference will bring together scholars working in different strands of Intercultural Communication research from across China and abroad for two days of interdisciplinary exchange in an international environment.

You are welcome to submit abstracts of 300 words maximum (a second call will contain important dates and web-links for the submission of abstract, full paper and attendance form), reporting empirical research into areas of Intercultural Communication, particularly welcoming those with a focus around any of four main conference themes:
*Intercultural Communication research and practices in education and social sciences
*The teaching and learning of Intercultural Communication in courses for English majors and College English
*Teaching and practice of Intercultural Communication for Business English, English for Academic Purposes and other languages
*Intercultural Communication and media studies

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
*Sun Youzhong, Vice President of Beijing Foreign Studies University, Chair of China Association for Intercultural Communication (CAFIC)
*Eli Hinkel, Seattle University (USA), renowned scholar in Second Language Acquisition and English Language Teaching (http://www.elihinkel.org/default.htm)
*Prue Holmes, Durham University, UK, the current chairperson of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication
*Hiro Tanaka, Meisei University (Tokyo), specializing in intercultural business communication research and training (https://meisei-u.academia.edu/HiroTanaka )
*Shan Bo, Wuhan University, specializing in media and intercultural communication

Special Guests (more to be confirmed):
*Rosemary Arnott (OBE), UNICEF in Pakistan.
*An Ran, South China University of Technology, China

Contact
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences UNNC for enquiries: fhss[at]nottingham.edu.cn

Further Information:
Chinese Association for Intercultural Communication
University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

CFP Culture, Sustainability & Place (Azores, Portugal)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Interdisciplinary Conference
Culture, Sustainability, and Place: Innovative Approaches for Tourism Development
11-13 October 2017
Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal

Deadline for proposals: 16 December 2016

OVERVIEW
The United Nations has designated 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. In this context, this conference will explore the place and roles of culture within sustainable tourism and local sustainable development.

The conference follows from transdisciplinary work on investigating cultural sustainability across Europe and other international efforts to highlight and understand the roles of culture in sustainable development, and to develop and strengthen our cultural bridges to nature.

It aims to bring together artists working with ecological and sustainability issues, cultural heritage and cultural sustainability researchers, local development actors, and tourism practitioners. It will shine a spotlight on issues and approaches to operationalize the inclusion of culture in sustainable tourism for local and regional development, within a co-learning interdisciplinary context.

We invite proposals for a wide range of papers and workshops addressing the topic of innovative approaches to culture in sustainable tourism for local and regional development.

KEY THEMES
*Culture–nature connections
*Relationships between cultural sustainability and environmental sustainability
*Cultural trends in sustainable tourism
*Tourism as a vehicle to explore cultural landscapes and heritage
*Tourism experiences and the sustainable representation of authenticity
*Cultural mapping and deep mapping as tools for sustainable tourism development
*Artistic inquiry into issues of sustainable culture and tourism
*Understanding place through creative activities and expressions
*Representations of heritage through a cultural tourism lens
*The relationship between sustainable tourism and local development
*Cultural sustainability and tourism
*Relationships between artistic practice, audience development, and tourism
*Linking cultural/creative and environmental tourism initiatives
*Gastronomy, culture, and place

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
The event website, including an online form, is available for proposal submissions.

LANGUAGE
The primary language of the event will be English, but proposals for presentations in Portuguese are also welcome. We will try to arrange for ‘informal’ translation support for Portuguese-language sessions, as possible.

PUBLICATION
We are planning to publish an international book with selected papers from the conference.

CF: Global Studies Conference (Singapore)

Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Tenth Global Studies Conference, held 8–9 June 2017 at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.

Founded in 2008, the conference is held annually in different locations around the world, each selected for its particular place in the dynamics of globalization. Intellectually, the conference takes three steps: the first is a “this-worldly” step, mapping the details and extrapolating to big picture analyses in order to interpret what is at times challenging, dangerous, and excitingly positive about the “New Globalization.” The second step is to set this New Globalization in the context of earlier globalizations—what are the continuities, and what is genuinely new? The third step is to re-examine and redefine the very concept of globalization—in theoretical, anthropological, and philosophical terms. The conference works between the most fastidiously empirical and profoundly generalizing modes of engagement with one of the central phenomena of our contemporary existence.

We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2017 Special Focus: “Global Mobilities.”

For more information regarding the conference, use the links below to explore our conference website.

Call for Papers Themes
Plenary Speakers  Presentation Types
Conference Hotel Scope & Concerns
Submit a Proposal

Submit your proposal by 8 November 2016.

We welcome the submission of proposals to the conference at any time of the year before the final submission deadline. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission.

If you are unable to attend the conference in person, you may present in a Virtual Poster session or a Virtual Lightning Talk. Virtual Sessions enable participants to present work to a body of peers and to engage with colleagues from afar.

As virtual participants, presenters are scheduled in the formal program, have access to select conference content, can submit an article for peer review and possible publication, may upload an online presentation, and can enjoy Annual Membership to the community and subscriber access to The Global Studies Journal.

CFP International Association for Dialogue Analysis 2017 (Italy)

Dialogue, interaction and culture: Multidisciplinary perspectives on language use in everyday life
International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference
Bologna, Italy, 11-14 October 2017

The 2017 International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) conference will be held from October 11-14, 2017 at the University of Bologna (Department of Education) and is sponsored by the School of Psychology and Education, the FAM (Fondazione Alma Mater), and the International Association for Dialogue Analysis.

The conference focuses on the role of dialogue or interaction in displaying, maintaining, creating yet also defying the crucial dimensions of the world we live in. This process is particularly at play – although not necessarily noticed – in everyday life. Rather than a context, this phenomenological notion indicates the obvious, routine, quasi-natural quality of most human practices taking place in ordinary as well as institutional contexts. Quoting a well-known formula by John Heritage (1984) yet applying it beyond the micro-level of the hic et nunc discursive environment, we propose to conceive dialogue as “context shaped and context renewing”. Overcoming the “interactional reductionism” (Levinson, 2005) implied in focusing solely on the emergent properties of language use, as well as any simplistic return to sociocultural, psychological an even material determinism, dialogue and interaction are seen as an “intermediate variable” (Ibidem) or faits d’interface (Descola, 2016) connecting the micro-order of everyday life and the macro-order of shared culture and social structure. As Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is “the skeleton” or “the architecture of intersubjectivity” (1976).

The conference welcomes empirical and methodological papers from different disciplinary perspectives that focus on dialogue and interaction as carriers of, and tools for culture, social organization, moral horizons, identities and change. Theoretical papers are more than welcome insofar as they provide some empirical illustration of the paper’s theoretical point(s).

The conference includes but it is not limited to, the following sub themes:
*   Dialogue and Health (e.g. dialogue as therapy; dialogue in clinical settings; medical interaction; dialogue in multilingual-multicultural healthcare contexts; dialogue in social work).
*   Dialogue, Justice and Social Change (e.g. dialogue in policing including interrogations, citizen calls; criminal, civil and administrative law; transidioma and asylum; intercultural institutional talk; social conflicts and Alternative Dispute Resolution practices; family and social mediation; restorative justice).
*   Dialogue and Materiality (e.g. inter-objectivity; Actor-Network-Theory; things as dialogic entities; humans and non-humans interaction; socio-semiotics; dialogue and technologically saturated environment; the object’s affordances and the user’s agenda).
*   Dialogue and Organization (e.g. dialogue as an organizing phenomenon; leadership and dialogue; expert-novice interaction; authority and power in organizational communication).
*   Dialogue, Socialization and Education (e.g. dialogue in friendship and peer culture; family everyday talk; language socialization; classroom talk; dialogue in everyday school-life; assessment as a dialogic practice; teachers-parents conference; L2 learning activities; coaching and training).
*   Dialogue, Text and Language (e.g. dialogue as text; dialogue in literary texts, CMC and audiovisual texts; text and reader dialogue; textual representations of dialogues; dialogue in advertising, advertising as dialogue; dialogue in propaganda and political speech; grammar, lexicon and cultural norms in everyday talk).

Deadline: 30 November 2016.

SUBMISSION
We invite extended abstracts (500 to 700 words) or full papers of a maximum of 30 pages, including references. Any citation style is permitted (e.g., MLA, APA, Chicago). Submission opens on June 30th 2016, and closes on November 30th 2016 at 23:59 local time in Italy. Notification of acceptance in March 2017.

Contacts:
For any inquiry concerning the extended abstract/paper submission please contact:
paper.iadaconference2017[at]unibo.it

For any inquiry concerning the conference organization please contact:
info.iadaconference2017[at]unibo.it

CFP Britain, Canada & the Arts (London)

Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal
15-17 June 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for a major international, interdisciplinary conference to be held at Senate House, London, in collaboration with ENCAP (Cardiff University) and the University of Westminster. Coinciding with and celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, this conference will focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence, and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War II.

The immediate post-war decades saw both countries look to the arts and cultural institutions as a means to address and redress contemporary post-war realities. Central to the concerns of the moment was the increasing emergence of the United States as a dominant cultural as well as political power. In 1951, the Massey Commission gave formal voice in Canada to a growing instinct, amongst both artists and politicians, simultaneously to recognize a national tradition of cultural excellence and to encourage its development and perpetuation through national institutions. This moment complemented a similar post-war engagement with social and cultural renewal in Britain that was in many respects formalized through the establishment of the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was further developed in the founding of such cultural institutions as the Royal Opera, Sadler’s Wells Ballet, the Design Council and later the National Theatre, and in the diversity and expansion of television and
film.

While these various initiatives were often instigated by a strong national if not nationalist instinct, they were also informed by an established dynamic of social, political, and cultural dialogue. In the years before the war, that dynamic had been marked primarily by the prominent, indisputably anglophile voices of such influential Canadians in Britain as Beverly Baxter and Lord Beaverbrook. In English-speaking Canada, an established recognition of Britain as a dominant, if not originating, influence on definitions of cultural excellence continued to predominate. In the years following the war, however, that dynamic was to change, and an increased movement of artists, intellectuals, and artistic policy-makers between the two countries saw the reciprocal development of an emphatically modern, confident, and progressive definition of contemporary cultural activity.

This conference aims to expose and explore the breadth of this exchange of social and cultural ideals, artistic talent, intellectual traditions, and aesthetic formulations. We invite papers from a variety of critical and disciplinary perspectives — and particularly encourage contributions from scholars and practitioners working in theatre, history, literature, politics, music, film and television, cultural studies, design, and visual art.

Some indicative post-war cultural figures and areas of influence:
Henry Moore and the Art Gallery of Ontario
John Grierson at the National Film Board
Leonard Brockington and the CBC
Sydney Newman, Alvin Rakoff and British and Canadian television drama
Tyrone Guthrie, Barry Morse, Tanya Moiseiwitch, Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, John Neville, Christopher Newton, Robin Phillips, Barry Morse, Brian Bedford, Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland, and others: developments in staging, acting, repertoire, and theatre-design at the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, the Old Vic, the Chichester Festival Theatre, the National Theatre
Powys Thomas at the CBC, the Stratford Festival, and the National Theatre School of Canada
Celia Franca, Gweneth Lloyd, and national ballet
Robertson Davies as novelist, actor, cultural critic in Britain and Canada; at the Stratford Festival; at the University of Toronto’s Massey College
Yousuf Karsh and the iconography of the mid-twentieth century
Intellectual exchange and influence: Northrop Frye, Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, John Kenneth Galbraith
Elizabeth Smart and the London literary scene
Ronald Bryden and theatre criticism in London
Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett: Canadian tours and compositions
Glenn Gould as musical interpreter, recording artist, celebrity personality, documentarian
Mordecai Richler, the cultural scene in London, and the dramatization of Anglophone Quebec
Mazo de la Roche and Lucy Maud Montgomery: literary influence and adaptations
Ben Wicks as cartoonist, journalist, and post-war memoirist

Other areas of exploration include (but are certainly not limited to):
Quebec and ‘French Canada’ in the British artistic scene
The cultural presence and influence of the Governor General
Publishers and publishing networks
Newspapers, media magnates, and editorialists from Beaverbrook to Black
Universities and the ‘modernisation’ of higher education
Popular culture and popular music
Cultural policy-making
Traditions of humour and satire
‘Distinct cultures’ within the larger nation
Constructions of indigeneity and native culture
National culture as anti-Americanism
Definitions of diversity, audience, and national identity
Architecture and urban development
More recent and contemporary exchanges in literature, art, politics, theatre, film, design, television, and the media

Proposals (max. 250 words) for papers of 20 minutes can be sent to the organizers, Irene Morra (Cardiff University) and John Wyver (University of Westminster), at canbritconference[at]gmail.com (mailto:canbritconference[at]gmail.com) by 1 November 2016.

CFP Translanguaging: Researchers & Practitioners in Dialogue (Sweden)

Translanguaging – researchers and practitioners in dialogue is a two-day international conference on translanguaging to be hosted by The School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (HumUS) at Örebro University, Sweden, on 28 and 29 March, 2017.

Planning information
Abstract submission deadline: 30 November, 2016
Conference registration for all participants: 1 December, 2016
Conference registration deadline: 31 January, 2017

Translanguaging describes both multilingual communication competence and pedagogical practice. The concept highlights the capacity of bi- and multilinguals to make themselves understood and produce nuanced meanings by gliding between languages on the basis of their whole linguistic repertoires. In bilingual education, translanguaging foregrounds a flexible juxtaposition of different ‘languages’ for meaningful learning with others in instructional processes.

Translanguaging has introduced progressive perspectives and theoretical claims which have given distinction to the place of the concept within sociolinguistics, multilingualism and visually-oriented research. Translanguaging theory moves beyond the autonomous linguistic systems of traditional bilingualism and even the view that bilingual performance is supported by the interdependence of two (or more) linguistic systems. It proposes a view of bilingualism as resourced by a single repertoire of language features from which translinguals draw strategically to meet multilingual demands and goals. Bilingual as dual competence is reconceptualized as the capacity to communicate with a single, integrated, set of both signed and spoken language assets. Consonant with this claim, is the notion that multilinguals operate communicatively on the basis of their own idiolects rather than with primary orientation to the structures of named languages which are viewed not as linguistic entities, but as socially and politically defined. Thus translanguaging challenges traditional school practices of assessing communicative proficiency and offers new ways of perceiving and promoting the linguistic and intellectual development of bilingual students.

While translanguaging scholarship multiplies, a growing number of educational leaders and teachers express interest in in the potential pedagogical prospects of translanguaging for content and language integrated learning. However, the development of scholarly thinking has not always lent itself to educational application. Canagarajah (2014), for example, mentions a romanticization of translanguaging and a cognitive, individualistic, orientation to translanguaging competence at the expense of social and interactional issues. Theoretical imbalance, in effect, hinders the pedagogical currency of translanguaging. The conference title emphasizes the vision to bring researchers and practitioners from different educational arenas into dialogue around the opportunities and challenges of translanguaging as enabling both communicative and pedagogical participation in classrooms. The aim is also for participants to engage critically and constructively with the theoretical and methodological challenges arising from the use of translanguaging in multilingual analysis and educational approaches.

Keynote speakers confirmed for the conference are:
• Deborah Chen-Pichler, Linguistics Gallaudet University, USA.
• Maaike Hajer, Dutch language arts and applied linguistics, Nijmegen University, NL.
• Holly Link, Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

In addition to the perspectives and inspirations from the keynote speakers, the conference platforms 18 presentation and discussion sessions with the purpose of displaying a variety of current research and educational projects which make strategic use of translanguaging (see Preliminary programme). The sessions are planned as arenas for presentation, discussion and interactive engagement with topics which provide focus on the conference theme.

Abstract submission for these sessions is now open. An abstract of maximum 820 words is required which is structured by a form that you can download here. On completion, this form should be sent to Kicki Ekberg, the conference administrator (kicki.ekberg[at]oru.se). The deadline for submitting abstracts is 31 October, 2016. After this a ‘blind’ two-reviewer procedure will ‘select’ the 18 conference presentations and presenters will be informed about the result of their submission at the end of November or beginning of December.

Each present and discuss session will be allocated 25 minutes. We strongly recommend that you plan a 15-minute presentation to allow for 10 minutes of discussion. Since we are requiring a relatively long abstract, we will not be inviting the selected presenters to submit a longer paper. A longer paper version of your presentation for distribution at the session could be a good strategy for homing rapidly in what is central or crucial in your contribution and supplying further information for those who are interested.

Nordic Intercultural Communication Conference 2016 (Norway)

NLA University College
in cooperation with University of Agder
Hotel Scandic Bergen City
24th-26th of November 2016

We hereby invite you to the 23rd NIC (Nordic Intercultural Communication Conference) conference which will take place in Bergen, Norway on Thursday 24. – Saturday 26. November 2016. The main theme of this year’s conference is «Communicating knowledge and values in multicultural settings». The conference language is English.

Keynote speakers:
Dr. Sharam Alghasi
Stop building Bridges!

Sharam Alghasi is a media sociologist from the University in Oslo and is associate professor at the University of Kristiania. In his research he examines the relationship between media and society particularly media’s interaction with the multi- ethnic, cultural and religious Norway and his research includes media’s representation of migration and migrant, as well as migrant’s reception of media’ representations. His doctorate from 2009 addresses the relationship Norwegian-Iranians have towards media and the impact of this relationship on issues such as of belonging, community and identity. His areas of interest include analysis of news, debate, documentaries, and current affairs programs.

Dr. Khanna Omarkhali
Transformations of the ‘Mechanisms’ of Transmission of the Yezidi Religious Knowledge: The Effects of Multiculturalism and Literacy.

Khanna Omarkhali is the Assistant Professor at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany. She is deeply involved in the issues of Kurdish Studies, Religious Minorities in Kurdistan, Kurdish Language and Literature. She has published widely in the field of Kurdish Studies; mainly on different aspects of Yezidi religious tradition. Her publications include Yezidism in Europe: Different Generations Speak about their Religion (with Ph.G. Kreyenbroek et al., 2009), Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream (ed., 2014) This year she has completed her Habilitationsschrift The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written. Categories, Transmission, Scripturalisation and Canonisation of the Yezidi Oral Religious Texts (forthcoming).

Dr. Frédérique Brossard Børhaug
Values and Knowledge Education: How can we raise critical awareness about privilege reproduction intercultural higher education?

Frédérique Brossard Børhaug is Associate Professor of Education at NLA University College, Norway. Her field of specialization is ethics and anti-racist education in French and Norwegian multicultural school contexts, and on Human development and Capability Approach and the VaKE- Values and Knowledge Education – didactical approach in intercultural educational settings.

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CFP Global Communication Association

Call for Papers
Global Communication Association

The Global Communication Association invites you to submit your abstracts for the 12th annual convention to be held in Greensboro, NC, USA, on April 7-9, 2017. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and you should receive a notification of acceptance or denial within 35 days.

The conference theme and topics are: Changing Global Discourse and Discord: Education, Communication, Media, and Social Responsibility

The GCA invites research papers exploring any aspect of issues related to global communication including, but not limited, to the following broad topics.
–         Issues related to the convention theme of Global Discourse and Discord
–         Diverse media and communication methodologies, theories, and perspectives
–         Media, power, and politics
–         The Intersection between theory and practice
–         Issues related to policy makers, corporate executives, representatives from NGO’s, and media professionals
–         Challenges and opportunities in teaching and learning
–         The Internet and social media
All methodologies are welcome and encouraged.

A 400-word abstract of the paper or panel proposal should be sent ELECTRONICALLY to Dr. Sojung Kim, at skim[at]highpoint.edu. All submissions must be received by October 24, 2016 in order to be considered. Acceptance of a paper or panel proposal obligates authors to attend the conference and present the paper. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed by at least two scholars. Authors of the abstracts will be notified of acceptance by November 28, 2016. Full-length papers must be submitted by January 30, 2017.

Paper Submission guidelines
–         All submissions should include two separate attachments in either Word or PDF format.
–         A 400-word abstract of the paper should be sent as an email attachment by October 24, 2016. The abstract should include research objectives, methodology, and significance followed by keywords.
–         A separate document including the name, academic institution, mailing address, phone number, email address, and brief author’s profile must be submitted for each author.
–         If accepted the full-length paper should be 4000-5000 words (not to exceed 25-pages excluding references and tables) and must be submitted by January 30, 2017. The paper should adhere to The American Psychological Association (APA) style including 2.0 line spacing, Times New Roman 12-point font size, 1.0″ margins on all sides, and standard 8.5 X 11 paper size.

Where appropriate, put “STUDENT” in the upper right-hand corner of the title page; indicate whether the paper comes from a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral student. All authors must be students to be considered as a student paper.

For APA style details please see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01.

Important dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 24, 2016
Acceptance Notification: November 28, 2016
Full-Length paper Submission: January 30, 2017
Last Date for Registration: February 15, 2017
Conference Reception: Thursday Evening, April 6, 2017
Conference Panels: Friday & Saturday, April 7-8, 2017
Cultural Tour/Program (optional): Sunday, April 9, 2017

Questions, abstracts and papers should be emailed to:
Dr. Sojung Kim
Assistant Professor of Communication
High Point University
skim[at]highpoint.edu