Category: Conferences

CFP International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (Thailand)

Call for Submissions – International Conference on Language and Social Psychology

Now accepting paper and symposia/panel proposals for the 15th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP) which will be held in conjunction with the 5th Language in the Realm of Social Dynamics (LIROD) conference June 22-25th, 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Deadline: 15th February, 2016 (decision by 15th March); later submissions will be reviewed on ongoing basis

This conference will bring together international scholars from different disciplines who explore language and communication in their social contexts using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Papers and symposia that contribute to ongoing scholarship in language and social psychology are invited for submission. Please view our website for the full call for papers and details about registration and the beautiful venue – the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok.

Submissions will be accepted in three forms (see below). Please note that (i) all submissions and presentations need to be in English; (ii) by submitting a proposal for presentation at ICLASP15 you are agreeing to register for and attend the conference should your paper/symposia be accepted.

Send ALL Submissions via email with  “ICLASP LIROD submission” in subject line by 15th February, 2016.

1. Symposia/panel submission should be a single file containing:
(i)     Name(s) and complete contact information of the convener(s)
(ii)    A 250 word maximum introduction to the thematic content of the symposium with title
(iii)   A list of the individual papers, including titles and brief abstracts of each (250 words max.), the names, complete contact information for all authors, clearly indicating the presenter(s). A typical symposium is 3-4 presenters with an introduction and a discussant

2. Individual paper submissions should be a single file containing:
(i)     The names and complete contact information of all authors with a clear indication of who will present the paper
(ii)    A 250 word (maximum) abstract of the presentation that outlines research aims, methods, findings and implications clearly.

3. Student-authored paper submissions should be a single file containing:
(i)     The names and complete contact information of all authors with a clear indication of who will present the paper and which authors are students
(ii)    “Student paper” in the subject line
(iii)   A 250 word (maximum) abstract of the presentation that outlines research aims, methods, findings and implications clearly.

CFP International Association for Dialogue Analysis (Pittsburgh)

14th NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ETHICS & 2016 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DIALOGUE ANALYSIS CONFERENCE
Duquesne University – Pittsburgh, PA
June 1–4, 2016

The 14th National Communication Ethics and 2016 International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) conferences will be held June 1-4, 2016 at the Duquesne University Power Center in Pittsburgh, PA, sponsored by the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies, the Communication Ethics Institute, and the International Association for Dialogue Analysis.

We welcome papers and panel proposals addressed to each of the conference’s four content areas: (1) Dialogic Ethics; (2) Organizational Language and Dialogue; (3) Rhetoric and Dialogue; and (4) Semioethics.

The conference features invited speakers for each area:
• Dialogic Ethics: Lisbeth Lipari, Denison University, the recipient of the James A. Jaska Scholar in Residence Award in Communication Ethics
• Organizational Language and Dialogue: François Cooren, Université du Montréal
• Rhetoric and Dialogue: Scott Stroud, University of Texas at Austin
• Semioethics: Guest panel to be determined

Papers: We invite abstracts of 200–500 words or completed papers of a maximum of 30 pages, including references. Any citation style is permitted (e.g., MLA, APA, Chicago).

Panel Proposals: Panel proposals may include up to five participants. Please include a title page with a 500-word (maximum) rationale and 200-word abstract for each presentation.

Send all submissions to cec@duq.edu by April 30, 2016.

Registration:
Registration costs include three evening receptions with hors d’oeuvres, two lunches, a full breakfast buffet on Saturday, and a one-year IADA membership (including a subscription to Language and Dialogue and 30% off Dialogue Studies series by John Benjamins).
• Faculty—$280.00
• Graduate—$180.00
• Undergraduate—$110.00

For additional information, please contact conference directors (Ronald C. Arnett, Garnet Butchart, or Janie Harden Fritz) at the conference email.

CFP Language, Linguistics, Literature & Translation: Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World (Oman)

Conference Call
Third International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation: “Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World”
November 3-5, 2016
Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Call Deadline: 11 April 2016

Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World 2016 will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in the four main disciplines of language, linguistics, literature and translation. As the title for the conference suggests, the aim is to focus on the relationship between global themes and local practices, highlighting the under-examined interactions that occur as globalization takes on negotiated forms in different contexts. With an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies and methodologies, the conference will centralize both research that theorizes the links between the local and the global and research that shows, through practical evidence, how local and global interact. Proposals that aim to address either of these two areas, and which emphasize exploratory, experimental research or reconstructed concepts, frameworks of analysis, or approaches, are particularly welcome. Proposals may be situated within any of the four disciplines but research demonstrating an interdisciplinary focus or approach is highly encouraged.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
– Jan Blommaert (Linguistics): Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
– Michael Cronin (Translation): Dublin City University, Ireland.
– Ian Almond (Literature): Georgetown University, Qatar.
– Rani Rubdy (Language): Independent Scholar.

Sample conference themes include the following, but a wide range of proposals is invited:
Language
– Language, culture and globalization
– Global teaching policies and local norms
– Language commodification and ideologies
– Globalizing technologies and the language classroom
Linguistics
– Social media and identity
– Language acquisition and migrant populations
– Language change and the media
– Global/local language adaptation
Literature
– Localizing global literature
– Arabic and non-Western literature in a globalized world
– Literature from the diaspora
– The sociolinguistics of literature
Translation
– Issues in global and local translation
– Translating culturally remote literature
– Translation and multimodal texts
– Machine translation and the web

Submission Details:
Proposals are invited for papers (20 +10 minutes discussion) and poster presentations (with scheduled discussion times).

To submit your abstract, please send an email (with a Word attachment) by 11 April 2016. Please include ALL the following information, numbered:
1. Brief outline of the paper/presentation for inclusion in the conference program (100 words max)
2. Full abstract for the review committee (500 words max)
3. Name, title and affiliation (university/college/etc)
4. Full address (include country), email and telephone
5. Indicate if the proposal is for a Paper or a Poster presentation
6. Title of paper/presentation
7. Areas which the paper/presentation links (please be precise)
8. Please provide up to five relevant keywords

Conference Chairs: Najma Al Zidjaly and Andrew Littlejohn (Sultan Qaboos University)

Sultan Qaboos University, Oman’s largest and most prestigious institution of higher learning, is located 45km from Muscat. The University offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees to approx. 16,000 students.

Oman, a peaceful nation on the Arabian Gulf in the Middle East, is hailed as the jewel of Arabia. It has landscape covering desert, riverbed oases and long coastlines on the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. The capital city, Muscat, is home to the majestic Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Royal Opera House Muscat, and the old waterfront Muttrah quarter, with its labyrinthine traditional bazaar.

CFP Public Deliberation & Dialogue ICA16 Preconference (Japan)

ICA Preconference Call: Public Deliberation & Dialogue
Title: Pubic Deliberation and Dialogue: Building an International Network of Research, Pedagogy, and Service.
Date: Thursday June 9, 1:00-5:00pm
Place: Fukuoka, Japan (conference hotel)
Co-Chairs: Tim Steffensmeier, Kansas State University; Azirah Hashim, University of Malaya; Executive Director, Asia-Europe Institute; Leah Sprain, University of Colorado, Boulder; Soo-Hye Han, Kansas State University

Preconference registration cost: Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy is covering the registration cost for 25 participants

Participant Requirements: there are two ways to participate in this preconference

A. Submit a one-page Statement of Interest that addresses your interest in public deliberation and dialogue OR

B. Submit a 300 word abstract describing your current research focused on public deliberation or dialogue. Panelists will be selected to present their research and catalyze small group discussions.

Deadline: January 22, 2016. Send Statements of Interest to Tim Steffensmeier; successful applicants will be notified no later than Feb. 1.

Preconference Description:
Public deliberation and dialogue is above all a communicative process. Communication scholars are beginning to focus more of their teaching, research and service efforts in this area. In recent years, a number of communication scholars from various perspectives, including but not limited to political communication, media studies, small group communication studies, rhetorical studies, and conflict resolution have begun to connect around public deliberation and dialogue. For example, The Journal of Public Deliberation publishes scholarship in this area, and the National Communication Association (NCA) recently approved a new Public Deliberation and Dialogue division. To this point, however, communication scholars mostly have been working individually or within national boundaries. There has not been sufficient collaboration at the international level between the field of communication and public deliberation.

This preconference aims to bring together scholars already working on public deliberation and dialogue projects as well as those new to the field. The aim is to build a stronger international network of support and collaboration by sharing ideas in the areas of teaching, research, and service. Participants will provide presentations and summaries of connections between their work and pubic deliberation and dialogue. The preconference will focus on research connections, and it will also address connections to teaching and service. One of the particular benefits of this subject is the natural blending of the three typical responsibilities of faculty.

The target audience for this preconference includes two primary groups: 1) faculty and graduate students already involved in public deliberation and dialogue research and teaching, and 2) individuals interested in this area and wanting to learn more. For the first group, the preconference will provide a space to share ideas, receive feedback, and learn what other people are doing in the field. Furthermore, we will develop ways to work collaboratively after the conference. For the second group, we will provide background information and resources for scholars to start incorporating this work into their research, teaching and service.

CFP Cool Japan ICA16 Preconference (Japan)

CfP Cool Japan ICA16 Preconference
International Communication Association Preconference 2016
Communicating with Cool Japan: New International Perspectives on Japanese Popular Culture
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Location: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Sponsors: ERIC, Pop Comm, Waseda University
Keynote Speaker: Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash University)

More children around the world recognize Mario than they do Mickey Mouse, and Japanese popular culture, especially anime, manga, music, games, television, film, and street fashion, is among the most distinct and recognizable of any in the world. During a time of domestic economic malaise, these products of these creative industries have become increasingly important cultural exports. There is both intra-Asian cultural flow (e.g. between Japan and Korea), as well as “counter-flow” from East to West. Japan continues to be a subject of Orientalization, yet at the same time, Japan is one of the most well-developed, wealthy nations in its region, with its own history of colonialism.

This year’s International Communication Association Annual Conference theme is “Communicating with Power,” and it implies both speaking to the powerful and speech that is powerful in and of itself. Both are salient here because “Cool Japan” is a governmental catchphrase, and to a postcolonial country like Japan, which has renounced the “hard” military power of warmongering and violence, the “soft power” of cultural diplomacy and the global recognition of its powerhouse popular culture are especially important. What role should Japanese popular culture play on the twenty-first century international stage? What sorts of power are or ought to be vested in cultural producers? What can these media tell us about ourselves-and others? And what sorts of empowerment does Japanese popular culture make possible for consumers? We invite scholars who would explore some of the answers to these questions-as well as provide new ones-in order to better understand, ultimately, what it means to communicate with Cool Japan.

Papers and panels on topics related to any area of Japanese popular culture will be considered, including but not limited to:
-production processes and/or cultural workers
-political economy (including the role of the state and markets)
-media/cultural content (e.g. of anime, manga, fashion, videogames, film, music, television, etc.)
-the Internet, social/online media, cellular phones, or other technology
-uses of Japanese popular culture
-globalization or diaspora
-cultural policy/diplomacy
-consumption or media effects
-identity and the self
-otaku and fandom

Submissions from graduate students and junior scholars are especially welcome.
How to Submit:
We will accept both individual abstract submissions and fully-constituted panel submissions (of 4-5 participants).
Individual paper submissions should include:
-Title, name and affiliation, and email address of author(s).
-Abstract of 150-200 words that discusses the problem, research, methods and relevance.
-Use Microsoft Office or PDF format.

Panel proposal submissions should include:
-Title of panel and 100-word rationale.
-Titles, names and affiliations, and email addresses of panelists.
-Abstracts of 150-200 words for each presentation that discusses the problem, research, methods and relevance.
-Use Microsoft Office or PDF format.

Send all submissions via email. Please write “Communicating with Cool Japan Preconference” in the subject line.

Submission deadline is January 31, 2016.

Notification of acceptance will occur sometime in mid-February.

Please contact Casey Brienza or Anamik Saha with any inquiries.

CFP IAICS: Culture, Communication & Cosmopolitanism (Shanghai)

Call for Submissions
The 22nd International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS)

Conference Theme: “Culture, Communication, and Cosmopolitanism”
July1-3, 2016
Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai

Conference Goals:
*To provide scholars, educators and practitioners from different cultural communities with opportunities to interact, network and benefit from each other’s research and expertise related to intercultural communication issues;
*To synthesize research perspectives and foster interdisciplinary scholarly dialogues for developing integrated approaches to complex problems of communication across cultures;
*To advance the methodology for intercultural communication research and disseminate practical findings to facilitate understanding across cultures;
*To foster global intercultural sensitivity and involve educators, business professionals, students and other stakeholders worldwide in the discourse about diversity and transcultural communication issues.

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

Submission to: ses@shisu.edu.cn; iaics2016@shisu.edu.cn
Conference Working Languages: English and Chinese
Conference host: School of English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University

CFP Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication (Sweden)

6th conference on Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication (EELC)
Södertörn University (Sweden)
22-23 September 2016

The aim of the conference is to examine how linguistic ethnography can be used in order to capture cultural, gendered, linguistic and other kinds of diversity in today’s global societies. In line with Södertörn University’s intercultural profile, conference papers will explore the role of language in diverse settings: in the workplace, in education, in the community and at home. Today, with the development of technology, information and capital are transcending social and geographical barriers thus giving new forms to communication. The challenges of conducting ethnography in order to capture these new globalized yet diverse settings are larger than ever and in this conference we wish to explore new theories and methods and discuss research results from studies that have set out to achieve this.

The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation:
Jan Blommaert, Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University
Celia Roberts, Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at King’s College.
Rickard Jonsson, Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University

Forms of participation
We welcome participants to give a paper, present a poster, or hold a workshop. Paper presenters will be allowed 20 minutes, with a further 10 minutes for discussion. Poster presenters will be assigned a special session for brief presentations and discussions. Workshops may last 90 minutes to two hours and can be run by one organizer or a group of organizers with complementary projects. All workshop proposals should indicate a relevant thematic discussion and associated audience activity, such as critical questions on theory, issues of methodology, or exercises on data analysis.

Important dates and abstract submission
Deadline for abstract submission for papers and workshops: 1 April 2016
Notification of acceptance: 29 April 2016

CFP Literature, Culture & World Peace (India)

Call for papers
International Conference on Literature, Culture and World Peace
23rd and 24th September, 2016
Pune, India
Higher Education and Research Society, Navi Mumbai

Contact: Dr Sudhir Nikam

Last date of Abstract: 22nd September, 2016
Last date of Paper Submission: 23rd September, 2016

Sub Themes include:
Peace Studies
Peace Polemics
Philosophy of Peace
War and Peace
Role of Literature/s in Promoting Peace
Environment and Peace
Democracy and Peace
Immigration/Migration and Peace
Conflict Resolution and Disarmament
Literature and Human Rights
Cultural Integration and Fragmentation
Non-violence and Peace
Globalization and Peace
Inequality and Justice
Globalization and Geopolitical Polarization
Religion of War/Religion on War
Literatures of Underrepresented
Ethnocentrism in Literature
International Relations: Literary Depictions
Globalization, Media and Peace
Education/Teaching for Peace

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CFP Frontiers and borders of superdiversity (UK)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Frontiers and borders of superdiversity: theory, method and practice
International Conference, Birmingham 23-24 June 2016
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15 JANUARY 2016

The unprecedented speed, scale and spread of international migration and the global refugee crisis have firmly placed migration at the top of the political agenda in Europe and elsewhere and further increased the diversification of diversity that Vertovec describes as superdiversity. Researchers have an important role to play in producing empirically informed knowledge, unpacking discourses and narratives on migration and diversification, developing new methods and theories to advance understanding of a rapidly changing and increasingly complex society.

To date much academic research on superdiversity has been focusing on specific localities in which people of different backgrounds meet and interact. The concept of superdiversity needs to expand these earlier works on local social relations by way of looking at what kinds of categorical differences make a difference in varying contexts and scales.

The aim of the conference is to map the state of the art in knowledge on superdiversity and reflect on the analytical and heuristic uses of the concept, its potential and limits.
Invitation to submit

The Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham is organising the second international interdisciplinary conference on superdiversity. The conference will be held at University of Birmingham on the 23 -24 June 2016. It will feature keynote speeches, invited plenaries, academic panels, and a research/policy roundtable on topics at the forefront of the superdiversity research agenda.
We are inviting paper and panel submissions on the following themes:
• The migration and refugee crisis and changing demographies in Europe
• Diasporized and creolized worlds: superdiversity and transnationalism
• Urban complexity and experiences of place
• Axes of differentiation and politics of difference
• Private and public interactions and encounters
• Policy, rights, service delivery and citizenship
• Xenophobia, racism and social exclusion
• Identity, representations and belonging
• Researching and (re)presenting superdiversity
• Superdiversity, work and enterprise
• Gendering superdiversity

We welcome academics from a range of disciplines, including, but not exclusively, anthropology, sociology, social policy, geography, linguistics, history, psychology, economics, business, medicine, demography, politics, and development studies, policy makers and practitioners to submit innovative papers, and panel proposals.
Doctoral researchers are welcome to submit their work. The conference will be an opportunity for meeting early career researchers and senior academics working on superdiversity.

Submission Guidelines
Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the online submission system by 15th January 2016.
 Paper submissions should include an abstract (max 250 words) and short biographical note (100 words) about the author including his/her current position and relevant experience related to superdiversity. Submission form for Papers
 Panel submissions should include the names of three speakers and a chairperson, an overview abstract (250 words) and an abstract for each associated paper (250 words). Submission form for Panels
Acceptance decisions will be communicated at the beginning of March 2016.
Presentation Format: The selected papers will be grouped by themes in parallel sessions. Each presentation will last 20 minutes and followed by 10 minutes discussion.
Conference Publications: Delegates will be offered the opportunity after the conference to submit their papers for consideration to be included in an edited book and/or journal special edition.

Other: Travel and accommodation expenses should be covered by the participants. However, there will be a limited number of registration fee bursaries for participants under exceptional circumstances.

Further info: please contact Ann Bolstridge, IRiS manager.

CFP Translanguaging and Repertoires across Signed and Spoken Languages (Germany)

“Translanguaging and repertoires across signed and spoken languages: Insights from linguistic ethnographies in (super)diverse contexts”
20-21 June 2016
Göttingen (Germany)
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2015

Admission is free but registration is necessary

Confirmed presentations:
Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney
Adrian Blackledge, University of Birmingham
Angela Creese, University of Birmingham
Ulrike Zeshan, University of Central Lancashire
Annelies Kusters, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity
Massimiliano Spotti, Tilburg University
Ruth Swanwick, University of Leeds

The aim of this symposium is to foreground contributions based on linguistic ethnographies which were undertaken in educational settings and public/private/parochial settings in which people engage in the practice of translanguaging. With translanguaging we mean the linguistic practices in which people with diverse and multilingual backgrounds engage in order to make themselves understood by others. When doing so, they do not make use of separated languages but use elements/lexicon/grammar of (what might be regarded as) two or more different languages, hence the term ‘translanguaging’. In the process of translanguaging, people typically make use of a variety of channels or modalities: they may speak, point, gesture, sign, write, in a variety of combinations – ie multimodality.

When translanguaging, people draw upon linguistic repertoires, a term which denotes that people learn and use to speak, sign, write, read (parts of) different languages throughout their lives. Linguistic repertoires are typically multimodal, for example gestures are inherent part of spoken language production and mouthings are inherent part of many signed languages. In addition to biographic linguistic repertoires, there are spatial repertoires, linked to specific locations such as markets and repertoires linked with a certain culture and/or religion. Importantly, translanguaging not only draws on but also transforms repertoire.

Current works into spoken languages translanguaging include Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge’s ongoing AHRC project “Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating Linguistic and Cultural Transformations in Superdiverse Wards in Four UK Cities” (2014-2018). Alastair Pennycook is (with Emi Otsuji) the author of the recently published book “Metrolingualism: Language in the City”, which sheds light on the ordinariness of linguistic diversity as people go about their daily lives in the city and make use of diverse linguistic resources. Massimiliano Spotti’s research focuses on asylum seeking 2.0 where identity negotiation in spoken interaction is supplemented with online evidence that corroborates the discourse of suspicion used as standard by the authorities.

Current works into multilingualism/translanguaging in relation to signed languages and/or gesture include Ulrike Zeshan’s ongoing ERC (2011-2016) project “Multilingual Behaviours in Sign Language Users, focusing on “cross-signing”, “sign-speaking”, and “sign-switching”, breaking new ground with respect to a field of research that can be called “Sign Multilingualism Studies”. Ruth Swanwick’s British Academy project is titled “Deafness and bimodal bilingualism: A plurilingual language framework for education”. Annelies Kusters focuses on gestural interactions and multimodality between fluent deaf signers and hearing non-signers in customer interactions and public transport in Mumbai.

We invite/include contributions that are based on the study of translanguaging in practice: how do people make use of different languages and different modalities (signed/gestured, spoken, written) when drawing on different repertoires in order to make themselves understood? The fact that contributions about the full spectrum of human language use (including signed/gestured/spoken/written) are invited, exploring a common theme, is innovative because the study of signed and spoken languages sociolinguistics have developed rather separately from each other. The focus on language use in practice (in which gesture is an inherent element of spoken languages production and mouthed/spoken/written/fingerspelled language is used by people who use signed languages) will be instrumental in bridging these separate strands, which is a much needed development in order to understand human language production in general. The study of gesture has brought signed and spoken language researchers of theoretical linguistics together, but a parallel bridge has not yet been built in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Thus the symposium and the special issue will be cutting edge and highly competitive, as they extend concepts of translanguaging because of the unique ways in which signed and spoken languages are be used together. In short, the goal of the symposium is to create new knowledge, dialogue or transactions between studies of sign and spoken language diversity and plurality.

The languages of presentation will be International Sign and English, and English-IS interpretation will be organized.