Category: Conferences

CFP Int’l Conference on Communication and Media (Malaysia)

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA 2016 (i-COME’16): AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION REGIONAL CONFERENCE
EXPLORING COMMUNICATION: BEYOND NATIONAL CULTURAL ADAPTION, IMAGES, AND IDENTITIES
September 18-20, 2016
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Communication in the 21st century is transforming rapidly through the globalization of organizations and digital technologies. Communication not only shapes a nation’s image and identity but it also influences its populace’s ways of thinking. Because of these forces, the roles of communication must be explored in the context of culture, images and identity and its impact on society. The economic crisis in East Asian countries (e.g., Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea) just before the turn of the 21st century and in Europe a decade or so later has proven to be a transformative factor helping to create new images and identities of these nations (e.g., leadership transitions and uneven liberalization of global economic policies, among others) and creating new organizing processes, forcing once disparate countries together into closer interactions. These interactions manifest into pressures for conformity and adherence to institutional cultural norms. But, the basic clash between the conceptions of Western liberalism in economic regionalism and the mercantilism of Asian values has generated conflicts making future cooperation among nations more difficult.

We invite papers from various meta-theoretical perspectives that discuss crucial issues (and their potential solutions) related to these emergent, interconnected elements that influence our ways of thinking about meso or micro level phenomena related to nation’s cultures, images and identities. The conference will take place on 18 – 20 September, 2016 in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. The conference seeks to advance knowledge in the field of communication – knowledge that can then benefit various communities experiencing changes. We welcome paper submissions on a broad range of topics and from various sub-disciplines (e.g., interpersonal communication, media studies, organizational communication). Papers may address theoretical, methodological, or practical aspects of communication. We seek papers that go beyond prejudices and the stereotyping of other cultures, and those that can lead scholars to deliberate on applications of their findings to real-life settings.

Authors are invited to submit complete, original and unpublished research papers to the International Conference on Communication and Media 2016 (i-COME’16): An International Communication Association Regional Conference. The submission deadline is: March 1, 2016. Please submit papers electronically.

For further details, please contact:
Secretariat
i-COME’16: An ICA Regional Conference
School of Multimedia Technology and Communication, College of Art and Science, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah, MALAYSIA

CFP The Communication Histories Project (France and England)

The Communication Histories Project

Call for Papers
SFSIC Congress: 8th-10th June 2016, Metz, France
IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI Conference: 27th-31st July 2016, Leicester, England

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and the Société Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (SFSIC) will organize a series of events to encourage the building of international bridges between researchers across different communities.

The first workshop in this series will be dedicated to research in the histories of communication studies.

We invite contributions which are concerned with the ways in which contemporary social problems are addressed by our research into communication, information, and media.

We call for original historical analyses of the concepts, paradigms, methods, institutions, educational programmes, features and figures which have structured communication studies, and which are firmly located in the many contexts which have produced them.

Our aim is to gather a diversity of perspectives on the history of our field, that together will demonstrate its complexity and interdisciplinarity, as well as historical contestations and counter-narratives.

It is anticipated that there will be publications emerging from this project.

We call for interested colleagues to submit a 1,000-word proposal for presentation in a specific workshop at the SFSIC Congress (June 8-10th, 2016, in Metz, France) and/or IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI conference (July 27th-31st, 2016, in Leicester, UK). As these are separate workshop, the resulting papers will not be included in the conference proceedings.

Proposals will be accepted in English, French and Spanish, and should be sent for review by February 29th, 2016. Please make sure to specify if you are making a proposal for the SFSIC Congress, the IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI Conference, or for both events.

Send proposals to chp@iamcr.org, chp@sfsic.org

CFP Nation Branding & Creative Industries (Denmark)

Nation Branding and the Creative Industries: What nation? What people? What synergies?
22-23 September 2016
Aarhus University, Denmark

This colloquium is designed to provide an exploratory space where practitioners and researchers gather to map and talk about contemporary challenges and potential benefits in the practices and thinking of nation branding.

Details available from the flyer.

Co-convenors: Department of Business Communication; School of Communication and Culture; Department of Culture and Global Studies; Aarhus University.

CFP International Network for Group Research (Helsinki)

International Network for Group Research (INGRoup) Conference
Eleventh Annual Conference – First held in Europe!
14-16 July, 2016 (Preconference workshops July 14)
Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Helsinki, Finland

Submissions
Must be received by Sunday, February 1, 2016 (23:59:59, Eastern Standard Time). No extensions to the deadline will be granted.

Overview
Societies are dependent on the formation and utilization of groups and teams, making them relevant to countless aspects of life. Accordingly, scholars who study groups can be found across a wide array of disciplines (e.g., anthropology, communication, education, engineering, history, information systems, medicine, nursing, organizational behavior, philosophy, psychology, political science, public health, sociology). The Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) was created to provide a context for scholars to:
*       Promote communication about groups and teams research across fields and nations
*       Advance understanding about group dynamics through research
*       Advance theory and methods for understanding groups and teams
*       Promote interdisciplinary research

The 11th Annual INGRoup Conference will be held so scholars across disciplines can come together, share information, and learn from one another. The conference program will include paper, poster, symposia, and panel sessions, and a business meeting open to all members so the future of INGRoup can be collectively planned and shaped.

Questions? Contact Program Co-Chair, Ana Passos or Caterina Santos.

 

World Congress of Applied Linguistics (Brazil)

The 18th World Congress of Applied Linguistics invites proposals for presentations that are related to policy, research, theory and practice in any area of Applied Linguistics. Proposals may be for individual papers, posters, symposia or workshops (see below for information about submissions).

Theme: Innovation and Epistemological Challenges in Applied Linguistics.

Deadline for submissions: March 31 st, 2016.

Plenary speakers:
– Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University)
– Ben Rampton (King’s College London)
– Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel)
– Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
– Marilda Cavalcanti (Universidade de Campinas)
– Mary Bucholtz (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Host AILA affiliate: Association of Applied Linguistics of Brazil (ALAB)

From Monday 18 January 2016 all proposals should be submitted via the AILA 2017 website.

Detailed call for papers

Third Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (London)

Third Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)
London School of Economics and Political Science
3-4 June 2016

This two-day conference will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. It will provide a forum for the latest research on the cross-disciplinary history of the post-war social sciences, including but not limited to anthropology, economics, psychology, political science, and sociology as well as related fields like area studies, communication studies, history, international relations, law and linguistics. We are especially eager to receive submissions that treat themes, topics, and events that span the history of individual disciplines.

The conference aims to build upon the recent emergence of work and conversation on cross-disciplinary themes in the postwar history of the social sciences. A number of monographs, edited collections, special journal issues, and gatherings at the École normale supérieure de Cachan, Duke University, the London School of Economics, New York University, the University of Toronto and elsewhere testify to a growing interest in the developments spanning the social sciences in the early, late, and post-Cold War periods. Most history of social science scholarship, however, remains focused on the 19th and early 20th centuries, and attuned to the histories of individual disciplines. Though each of the major social science fields now has a community of disciplinary historians, research explicitly concerned with cross-disciplinary topics remains comparatively rare. The purpose of the conference is to further encourage the limited but fruitful cross-disciplinary conversations of recent years.

Submissions are welcome in areas such as:
– The uptake of social science concepts and figures in wider intellectual and popular discourses
– Comparative institutional histories of departments and programs
– Border disputes and boundary work between disciplines as well as academic cultures
– Themes and concepts developed in the history and sociology of natural and physical science, reconceptualized for the social science context
– Professional and applied training programs and schools, and the quasi-disciplinary fields (like business administration) that typically housed them
– The role of social science in post-colonial state-building governance
– Social science adaptations to the changing media landscape
– The role and prominence of disciplinary memory in a comparative context

The two-day conference, hosted by the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics, will be organized as a series of one-hour, single-paper sessions attended by all participants. Ample time will be set aside for intellectual exchange between presenters and attendees, as all participants are expected to read pre-circulated papers in advance.

Proposals should contain no more than 1000 words, indicating the originality of the paper. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 February 2016. Final notification will be given in late February after proposals have been reviewed. Completed papers will be expected by 15 May 2016.

The organizing committee consists of Craig Calhoun (London School of Economics), Jamie Cohen-Cole (George Washington University), Philippe Fontaine (École normale supérieure de Cachan), and Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College).

All proposals and requests for information should be submitted via email.

CFP Online Discourse, Talk & Interaction (UK)

Call for papers
ONLINE DISCOURSE, TALK AND INTERACTION
4th International, Interdisciplinary Symposium: Microanalysis Of Online Data (MOOD-S)
Media City UK, University of Salford, UK | 15th-16th September 2016

The Microanalysis Of Online Data (MOOD) network is an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of online discourse and interaction. In particular, we are interested in developing novel methods that are tailored towards multimodal environments, including talk, text, images, sound and video.

The two keynote speakers for the 2016 symposium are:
Professor William Housley, Cardiff University
Dr Janet Smithson, University of Exeter

We invite proposals for paper presentations that address theoretical and methodological issues related to the analysis of online discourse and interaction. We particularly encourage submissions related to the following topics:
• The application of conversation analysis and a range of discourse analyses, including – but not limited to – interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics, Foucauldian discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and ethnomethodology, to the study of online interaction
• Methodological challenges related to carrying out micro-analyses of online discourse and interaction in textual and multi-modal environments
• Theoretical and methodological considerations around analysing online talk, text and interaction e.g., addressing how video, audio and images can be analysed alongside more traditional forms of computer-mediated communication
• New and innovative ways of collecting online data suitable for micro-analysis
• Ethical dilemmas inherent to the study of online textual and visual interaction

Submission instructions:
Proposals (max. 500 words excl. references) for presentations (15 minutes) should be submitted as Word documents to mood.organizers@gmail.com by 29th February 2016. Please include the full title of your proposed paper, institutional affiliation, and contact information (including email). Decisions will be made by the end of April 2016.

We also invite proposals for data sessions using data from any online platform e.g., online forums, games, Wikipedia, Twitter. For proposals for data sessions please send a brief description of your data and some indication of your particular interest in this data (max 500 words). These should also be submitted as Word documents via email by 29th February 2016.

CFP IAICS Culture, Communication, and Cosmopolitanism (Shanghai)

IAICS-2016 Call for Submissions
Conference Theme: “Culture, Communication, and Cosmopolitanism”
July 1-3, 2016
Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

Topic areas are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following:
Comparative culture
Comparative literature
Comparative poetics
Cosmopolitanism in culture
Cosmopolitanism in literature
Cross-cultural encounters
Culture and diplomacy
Cultural study theories
Culture and travel writing
Foreign Language Teaching as Intercultural Communication
Imagology
Interculture and human resource management
Interculture and public policy
Intercultural communication and cosmopolitanism
Intercultural communication and interculturality
Intercultural communication and nationality
Intercultural communication competence
Intercultural education
Interculturality in literature
Intercultural pragmatics
Internet intercultural communication
Language and culture
Language and identity
Language planning and policy
Literature and film
Literature and religion
Media and interculture
Multi cultures and interculturality
Time and space in culture / literature
Translation studies
Transnational enterprises and intercultural communication

Guidelines for Submissions
Categories: Abstract, panel proposals, and workshop proposals may be accepted.
Abstract: 150-250 words in English, including positions, affiliations, email addresses and mailing addresses for all authors.
Panel proposals reflecting the conference theme may be submitted. All panel proposals should provide a 100-word rationale and a 100-200 word abstract of each panelist’s paper; include affiliation and email
addresses for each panelist.
Workshop proposals relevant to the conference theme may be submitted.
Proposals should be 3-5 pages in length, single spaced.
Deadline: Please submit abstracts, panel/workshop proposals, and roundtable discussion sessions by 10th March, 2016.

Conference Working Languages: English and Chinese
Conference host: School of English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University

CFP ICA regional conference (Kenya)

Call for Extended Abstracts

The International Communication Association (ICA) and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) hereby invite extended abstract paper proposals for the first ICA Africa Regional Conference to be held at Daystar University in Nairobi – Kenya.  The conference dates are 19th – 21st October 2016.

The conference will focus on the theme of Growing Communication Scholarship: Looking to the past with gratitude, the present with passion, the future with hope. The conference will bring together communication scholars and professionals from around the world to share research, exchange ideas, and stimulate dialogue on the past, present, and future of communication scholarship. The conference seeks to highlight relevant issues, trends, and future agendas for communication scholarship. Also included in the conference will be keynote and plenary sessions by notable communication scholars, practitioners, and policy makers.

Participants should submit extended abstracts of 1000 – 2000 words including the title, description, rationale, theoretical framework, and methodology of their proposed presentation. Panel proposals should consist of 1000-word description and rationale of the panel and 500-word description of each presentation on the panel.

The abstracts are to be submitted via the ICA paper management system on the ICA website on/by 1st March 2016.

Proposals may address subthemes including, but not limited to:
– Global Communication
– Media Use across the Lifespan
– Media Regulation, Ownership & Convergence
– New Media
– Religion and Media
– Development and Health Communication
– Communication, Regional Cooperation, Peace & Conflict Resolution
– Localizing Media (content generation & distribution)
– Children, Youth and Women in the Media
– Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing Communication
– Journalism in the Technological Age (e.g. convergence, training)
– Political Communication (e.g. electioneering, good governance)
– Crisis /Risk/Disaster Communication (e.g. terrorism, safety)
– Science Communication (e.g. environment and climate change, Sustainability)
– Dominant Cultural themes and Communication (e.g. cultural anthropology & communication)

For more information, please contact the Conference organizers by email or check out the Facebook group.

International Conference on Intercultural Management (Romania)

International Conference on Intercultural Management, Iasi, Romania, 2016

The Conference is organized by the Center for Socio-Economic Studies and Multiculturalism together with “Nutrigrup” Romania Association and other partners. The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners in order to support the dialogue between theory and practice in intercultural management and global leadership. The conference will combine academic and practitioner presentations with workshops. The conference will host 6 keynote speakers. Noted business, academic and community leaders are invited to use the conference as a forum to share their expertise, experience, and research in diverse areas. The conference is aimed at presenting current approaches to intercultural management and global leadership with emphasis on the new challenges for Eastern Europe.

The goals of the conference are:
• To draw attention to the new and important challenges of globalization for Eastern European countries
• To provide scholars, educators, business professionals and practitioners from different countries with opportunities to interact, network and benefit from each other’s research and expertise related to intercultural management and global leadership issues
• To share resources, ideas, and best practices for building intercultural management competence and engage in dialogue on how to tap into the positive sides of cultural diversity , and how companies and institutions can realize its potential.
• To synthesize research perspectives and foster interdisciplinary scholarly dialogues for developing integrated approaches to complex problems of communication and understanding across cultures
• To disseminate through volumes and websites the results of research and practice to other practitioners and professionals in the field of intercultural management
• To educate the general audience on intercultural issues and on the results of research and practice in intercultural management and leadership