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CFP Sociology of Communication, Knowledge & Culture (Austria)

Call for Papers
Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture (Rc14)
3rd ISA Forum of Sociology
July 10-14, 2016 (Vienna, Austria)

The abstract (300 words) must be submitted in English, French or Spanish.

Program Coordinators
Christiana CONSTANTOPOULOU, Panteion University, Greece, christiana.constantopoulou@panteion.gr
Luc BONNEVILLE, Ottawa University, Canada, luc.bonneville@uottawa.ca

Call for Abstracts
14 April 2015 – 30 September 2015 24:00 GMT

Anyone interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract on-line to a chosen session of RC/WG/TG.

CFP Cinema and History: Time, Memory, Identity in the Images of the New Millenium (Italy)

Call for Papers

CINEMA & HISTORY
Time, memory, identity in the images of the new millennium
26-27 November 2015
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo

The deadline has been extended to September 30, 2015

Conference convenors: Christian Uva and Vito Zagarrio

Institutional partners:
University of Leeds Centre for World Cinemas (UK)
Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
SISSCO (Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea)
CPA (Centro Produzione Audiovisivi) – Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Cinema e Storia. Rivista di studi interdisciplinari (Rubbettino Editore)

The 21^st annual international conference of the Dipartimento Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo (formerly Dipartimento Comunicazione e Spettacolo) of Università Roma Tre will consider the relationship between cinema and history, identifying new directions and contemporary approaches in the field.

This conference reprises a theme central to discussion in the 1980s, when a number of important symposia and publications in Italy responded to the translation of key French scholarship. Returning to the question of cinema and history after three decades implies the consideration of aspects and forms of knowledge absent from those earlier debates. Bringing the discussion right up to date, the aim of this conference is to employ a plurality of discourses to explore in greater depth the theme of cinema and history and to clarify a crucial relationship that has been essential to cinema since its inception.

Taking as its premise the fact that in our digital era the relationship between cinema and history is played out over a broad and complex terrain, the conference seeks to consider cinema in /hybrid /and /expanded /terms. This may require analysing cinema’s relationship with history within a broader mediatic context, taking into account – for instance – adjacent and tangential media such as television, videoart, internet and videogames. The convenors therefore warmly invite contributions that aim to problematize the relationship between cinema and history in ways not limited to the following:
-the use of cinema and history as a /method/ or lens through which to read a range of film categories beyond any historical film ‘genre’: films that, while setting their action in the present, suggest a dialectical and critical attitude towards the past, especially in order to address conceptions and perceptions of national, cultural, gender and political identity; films that are capable of addressing and affecting contemporary imaginaries and mentalities, thus becoming historical /agents/ in their own right; films that become precious primary sources for scholars, by embodying the customs and material habits of their time; films which, though set in the present, allow us to reflect on material and everyday “microhistories” in which the story “dissolves”
time and erupts into the present (Baudrillard);
-the rethinking and transcending of traditional film histories by seeing cinema and history in the light of a hybrid and global iconographic system that forces us to wonder whether we should thinking in terms distinct from the “longue durée” and allows us to avoid “textbook” slogans and stereotypes;
-history as critique, between ‘the end of history’ (Fukuyama) and its traumatic return following 9/11;
-history as /imaginary /(Ferro) and as /myth /(Rosen), but also as /atmosphere/;
-counter-factual history (“What if?”);
-history as /anti-history/: a form of projection into the past of scepticism and disillusion with present and future;
-history as /anachronistic/ configuration: according to Georges Didi-Huberman this is a ‘heretical’ approach to image and history; while it confirms the necessity to conceive of cinema and history as part of visual culture, Didi-Huberman’s perspective stresses the intimate ‘exuberance’, ‘complexity’ and ‘overdetermination’ (/Überdeterminierung/) of images, forcing a rethinking the cinema-history relationship within the context of the /construction of memory/;
-from ‘historical facts’ to ‘memory facts’ (Ricoeur): cinema as site of memory (both individual and/or collective); cinema as an ideal space in which to activate not the ‘time of dates’ (Bloch) but instead a dimension – often framed negatively as nostalgia (Boym) – that humanizes history and constantly reconfigures it;
-the digital imaginary between memory and history (Burgoyne);
-theoretical and practical reconsiderations of cinema through a feminist and gendered lens: analysing the dynamics of production and reception; the interaction between Foucauldian genealogical thought and feminist theories;
-from /‘official’ history/ to /‘popular’ history/, from /engagé /to escapist cinema: the cinema-history relationship as an opportunity to reframe works that have traditionally been excluded from the analysis of cinema and history, not least because of the enduring legacy and role of /engagement /in representing the past (Landy, O’Leary);
-the study of the experience and reception of the historical film, in all its possible variations;
-history in audio-visual contexts: from television to videoart;
-history in videogames;
-history and photography;
-the employment and potential of digital technology in quantitative methods to serve an expanded understanding of cinema and history.

We will consider every proposal (300-500 words), with 5 keywords, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a brief biography of the proponent, submitted via email before September 30th, 2015. Selections results will be announced before October 9th.

Official languages of the Conference: English, French, Italian.

During the conference will be held the following workshops:
Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories
Organizer and chair: Alan O’Leary (University of Leeds)

How have Italians used films to negotiate their histories and interrogate their identities over more than a century of Italian cinema? This workshop will discuss the aims and research methods of a major
project intended to reconfigure the understanding of the relationship between Italian cinema and history.

Cinema and the Construction of the Nation: Italian Identities Between History and Memory
Organizers and chairs: Sally Hill (Victoria University of Wellington),
Giacomo Lichtner (Victoria University of Wellington)

Focusing on Italy as a case study that is both emblematic and anomalous, the workshop’s starting point is the hypothesis that the Italian case is emblematic, because Italian cinema has traditionally made effective and widespread use of stereotype to construct a sanitised and homogeneous narrative of national identity, but also an anomalous one, because it has dealt ambiguously with the nation’s historical contradictions. While every nation’s history is contested, Italy’s inability to construct a shared narrative of its recent past suggests that the peculiarity of Italian ‘memory’ lies in the coexistence of ‘divided memories’ (Foot, 2009).

Conference website: http://uniromatre.wix.com/cinemaestoria#!home/c17ca

The Language-Gesture Connection (Finland)

Invitation to the international seminar

Dates: 22-24 October 2015
Time: The seminar begins on Thursday at 9AM and ends on Saturday at 12.30PM.
Location: University of Oulu, Finland (LeaForum Research Space)

Invited guests:
•Professor Jürgen Streeck, University of Texas, Austin, USA
•Dr. Silva Ladewig, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany
•Dr. Tommi Jantunen, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandOrganisers:
• Eudaimonia Research Centre for Human Sciences (University of Oulu)
• EUDA-DP Doctoral Programme (University of Oulu)
• Langnet Doctoral Programme
• COACT research community

Seminar language: English

Theme: Gesture is not an add-on to language. Rather, language and gesture are integrated and synchronised elements of everyday interaction; they represent two sides of the same communicative process. This seminar is prompted by the recent emergence of interdisciplinary research focusing on the connection between language and gesture. It focuses on the connection between language and gesture in social interaction, and in particular on how linguistic forms and gestures are integrated in speech production, and how utterance and interaction meanings are derived from speech-gesture combinations.This international seminar is open to all scholars, researchers and Ph.D. students interested in language, interaction and gesture. We encourage scholars working with less-researched languages to participate in and bring their video data to the seminar.There is no participation fee. Langnet covers the travel and accommodation expenses to those doctoral students who are currently members of the Langnet doctoral programme. Other participants are responsible for covering their own travel and accommodation costs.

Workshop activities:
• Plenaries by the invited guests.
• Data sessions in which participants have the opportunity to present their video data to be discussed and analysed together. The aim of data sessions is to help presenters progress their research or to identify and discuss potential new findings. Therefore, it is not necessary to present final results or special research foci in data sessions.
• Collaborative article workshops in which the participants discuss and work together on the basis of four pre-assigned articles on the seminar theme. Participants are expected to actively take part in the workshop activities. Doctoral students receive 4 study points by participating in the workshop, presenting their data in a data session and reading the pre-assigned articles.

Registration: Register to the workshop by sending an email to Joonas Råman by Friday, 25 September 2015. Include in your email your name, affiliation and contact information. If you plan to present your video data, add a short description (100-150 word) of your research project and the data you plan to present. Finally, let us know if you are a member of the Langnet Doctoral Programme.

Organising committee:
Professor Pentti Haddington
Antti Kamunen
Stefano Rezzonico
Joonas Råman
Pauliina Siitonen

CFP Indonesia International Conference on Communication 2015

Call for papers

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION
2015 Indonesia International Conference on Communication (IndoICC)
Thursday-Friday, 10-11 December 2015
Abstract Deadline: 14 September 2015

The way in which human beings communicate have gone through drastic transformation since the innovation and adoption of digital media. The increase in interconnectivity that this technology has enabled disrupts in power structures and relations, which can be seen in recent spectacles of global terrorism and the toppling of authoritarian regimes. These developments pressure researchers and academics to rethink the role of media and communications in these settings of rapid social transformations.

There seems to be an unnecessary dichotomy in the Asia Pacific media and communication scholarship between ‘old and new media’, ‘structuration and agency’, as well as between paradigms. The theme ‘Communication and Collaboration’ attempts to explicate this paradox, and better understand what might seem as developments heading in contradictory directions.

A vast array of issues may fall within this concern, and participants are encouraged to send in panel abstracts that fall within the theme. As the conference theme deals with fluid concepts of communication as well as the media’s role within different power relations, panels will be developed based on emerging themes of the papers submitted by participants.

The 3rd IndoICC will take place in Universitas Indonesia, West Java, 10 km from Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta. Scholars studying issues on communication and media, coming from various fields of discipline and countries across Asia Pacific is invited. We stand firm on the principle that media and communications is an academic field crucial in our understanding of larger socio-political and economic context. It is a field inseparable from the intermingling of the local and the global, and informs us on our contemporary position in the current world order. Therefore, IndoICC is aimed to accommodate a multidisciplinary approach towards understanding the role of media in our contemporary regional society.

Through IndoICC 2015, there will be two streams: International and National. In the ‘International’ stream, participants are invited to submit and present papers for a global academe, while the ‘National’ stream facilitates Indonesian professional researchers and academics to submit and present papers for an Indonesian audience. IndoICC2015 participants from both streams come from different academic disciplines such as media studies, communication science, international relations, political science, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, psychology, economics, architecture, and many others.

We believe that the theme of the conference, Universitas Indonesia as the institution hosting it, and Indonesia as one of the largest countries in the region, provide significant benefits for diplomatic and non-profit institutions to be part of the event. Through IndoICC 2015, the Department of Communications is keen in building longstanding and sustainable cooperation that could extend beyond the event.

Key Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: 14 September 2015
Selected Paper Announcement: September 28th 2015
Early Registration: September 28th – October 11th 2015
Late Registration: October 12th – November 3rd 2015

Links:
Paper Submission Guidelines
Speakers
Registration
Contact
Sponsors

CFP Network for International & Intercultural Communication (Germany)

8th annual conference of the Network for International and Intercultural Communication in Dortmund (Germany)
January 14-16, 2016

“Entangled History from a Media Perspective: International and Transcultural Communication History”

Our upcoming event will be a joint conference of the divisions for International and Intercultural Communication and Communication History of the German Association for Communication Studies (DGPuK). The conference will take place in the Institute for Newspaper Research, Dortmund.

Abstracts for presentations are expected to be submitted no later than August 31, 2015 and should be send to niik@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Submissions for the following areas of research are welcome:

1. Contributions to the theory and methodology of transcultural communication and media history as well as to the transformation of media systems and structures in a historical perspective.

2. Research on transnational and transcultural communication history and its phenomena, which can be described as “histoire croisée” or “entangled history”. These can, for example, concern:
•Communication and media in exile and / or in the diaspora
•Cross-border media communication during certain periods or relating to a certain event (“Media Events”)
•Cross-border media production and reception (this also includes issues of cultural homogenization or hybridization)
•Media, communication and migration
•Memory and the media

3. Research on entangled developments of and in various national media systems, such as cross-border implications of digital media and new forms of participation in public media or in terms of political transformation processes. This includes questions of cross-border media and communication policy and regulation.

4. Research on various forms of per se international and transcultural communication in a historical perspective such as
•Public Diplomacy
•International news flows and foreign reporting
•Development communication and development journalism
•Global and translocal protest communication

5. International comparative research on historical media developments that explains differences and similarities in the history of media systems and communication processes, elaborates on relevant contextual factors and discusses appropriate methods.

ICADA-SSIS 2016 (Bangkok, Thailand)

Call for Abstracts/Full Papers, the 5th ICADA-SSIS 2016

The National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) organizes the Fifth International Conference on Advancement of Development Administration-Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies 2016 (the 5th ICADA-SSIS 2016) at NIDA, Bangkok Campus, Thailand, on May 26-28, 2016. The major theme is “ASEAN and Globalization: New Paradigm, Interdependency, Democracy, and Accountability (N.I.D.A.).”

At the conference, scholars in social sciences and interdisciplinary studies and those who have worked in the area of social and economic development will present their research/review articles related to the
major theme. This will be beneficial to academia and professionals, both nationally and internationally.

We would like to extend our invitation to scholars, university instructors and students, and independent researchers to submit their abstracts/full papers of their research/review articles for presentation at the conference and/or inclusion in the Proceedings. Please visit our website or contact us via email for the deadlines and other information.

Ebenezer Soola Conference on Communication (Nigeria) postponed

Dear colleagues,

You will recall that on February 26, 2015, the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) Nigeria Chapter sent out its Call for Papers for its 17th National Conference and AGM scheduled to hold from October 20 to 23, 2015 at the International Conference Centre, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.

Then on May 16, 2015, the conveners of the Ebenezer Soola Conference on Communication sent out its Call for Papers for the 3rd edition of the Ebenezer Soola Conference on Communication scheduled to hold from September 27 to 30, 2015 at the Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

This was followed on May 28, 2015 by the Call for Papers of the Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN) for its 2nd Annual Conference scheduled to hold from September 2–3, 2015 at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.

Then on June 10, 2015, the organizers of the Idowu Sobowale Conference sent out its Call for Papers for the 3rd edition of the Idowu Sobowale Conference scheduled to hold from October 26 to 29, 2015 at Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.

We, the Conveners of the Ebenezer Soola Conference on Communication are of the strong opinion that this rash of communication conferences in Nigeria all scheduled for between September and October 2015, and all targeting the same community of communication scholars and professionals is unnecessary and unwarranted. Things can be better managed than this obvious show of non-consultation and insensitivity. Since we cannot get the organizers of the other conferences to do something to correct this anomaly by shifting and re-scheduling their conferences, we have decided to re-schedule ours.

Consequently, we have, painfully but with all sense of maturity, decided to shift the 3rd Ebenezer Soola Conference on Communication from September this year to sometime in 2016. The new date will be announced shortly but the theme of the conference remains as earlier announced “Communication, Change Management and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century”.

We sincerely apologise to all patrons, friends, well-wishers, and all of you who have either sent in abstracts and full papers or who have marked the date in their diaries for this shift. Be rest assured that your abstracts and papers will be stored in our e-library till the new date of the conference. The theme of the conference is as relevant today as it will be next year.

Meanwhile, we will be pleased to receive your comments and suggestions.

We thank you all for your understanding and patience.
Thank you and God Bless you.
Dr. Eserinune McCarty Mojaye
Secretary, Conveners Committee
July 30, 2015

CFP Time, Memory & Identity in the Images of the New Millennium (Italy)

CINEMA & HISTORY: Time, memory and identity in the images of the new millennium
26-27 November 2015

Conference convenors
Christian Uva and Vito Zagarrio

Institutional partners
University of Leeds Centre for World Cinemas (UK)
Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
SISSCO (SocietÃ Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea)
CPA (Centro Produzione Audiovisivi) – Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Cinema e Storia. Rivista di studi interdisciplinari (Rubbettino Editore)

Call for Papers
The 21st annual international conference of the Dipartimento Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo (formerly Dipartimento Comunicazione e Spettacolo) of Università Roma Tre will consider the relationship between cinema and history, identifying new directions and contemporary approaches in the field. This conference reprises a theme central to discussion in the 1980s, when a number of important symposia and publications in Italy responded to the translation of key French scholarship. Returning to the question of cinema and history after three decades implies the consideration of aspects and forms of knowledge absent from those earlier debates. Bringing the discussion right up to date, the aim of this conference is to employ a plurality of discourses to explore in greater depth the theme of cinema and history and to clarify a crucial relationship that has been essential to cinema since its inception.

Taking as its premise the fact that in our digital era the relationship between cinema and history is played out over a broad and complex terrain, the conference seeks to consider cinema in /hybrid /and /expanded /terms. This may require analysing cinema’s relationship with history within a broader mediatic context, taking into account – for instance – adjacent and tangential media such as television, videoart, internet and videogames. The convenors therefore warmly invite contributions that aim to problematize the relationship between cinema and history in ways not limited to the following:
• the use of cinema and history as a /method/ or lens through which to read a range of film categories beyond any historical film ‘genre’: films that, while setting their action in the present, suggest a dialectical and critical attitude towards the past, especially in order to address conceptions and perceptions of national, cultural, gender and political identity; films that are capable of addressing and affecting contemporary imaginaries and mentalities, thus becoming historical /agents/ in their own right; films that become valuable primary sources for scholars, by embodying the customs and material habits of their time; films which, though set in the present, allow us to reflect on material and everyday “microhistories” in which the story “dissolves” time and erupts into the present (Baudrillard);
• the rethinking and transcending of traditional film histories by seeing cinema and history in the light of a hybrid and global iconographic system that forces us to wonder whether we should thinking in terms distinct from the “longue durée” and allows us to avoid “textbook” slogans and stereotypes;
• history as critique, between ‘the end of history’ (Fukuyama) and its traumatic return following 9/11;
• history as /imaginary /(Ferro) and as /myth /(Rosen), but also as /atmosphere/;
• counter-factual history (“What if?”);
• history as /anti-history/: a form of projection into the past of scepticism and disillusion with present and future;
• history as /anachronistic/ configuration — for Georges Didi-Huberman a ‘heretical’ approach to image and history: while it confirms the necessity to conceive of cinema and history as part of visual culture, Didi-Huberman’s perspective stresses the intimate ‘exuberance’, ‘complexity’ and ‘overdetermination’ (/Überdeterminierung/) of images, forcing a rethinking of the cinema-history relationship within the context of the /construction of memory/;
• from ‘historical facts’ to ‘memory facts’ (Ricoeur): cinema as site of memory (both individual and/or collective); cinema as an ideal space in which to activate not the ‘time of dates’ (Bloch) but instead a dimension — often framed negatively as nostalgia (Boym) — that humanizes history and constantly reconfigures it;
• the digital imaginary between memory and history (Burgoyne);
• theoretical and practical reconsiderations of cinema through a feminist and gendered lens: analysing the dynamics of production and reception; the interaction between Foucauldian genealogical thought and feminist theories;
• from /‘official’ history/ to /‘popular’ history/, from /engagé /to escapist cinema: the cinema-history relationship as an opportunity to reframe works that have traditionally been excluded from the analysis of cinema and history, not least because of the enduring legacy and role of /engagement /in representing the past (Landy);
• the study of the experience and reception of the historical film, in all its possible variations;
• history in audio-visual contexts: from television to videoart; history in videogames; history and photography;
• the employment and potential of digital technology and quantitative methods to serve an expanded understanding of cinema and history.

We will consider every proposal (300-500 words), with 5 keywords, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a brief biography of the proponent, sent before September 7th, 2015, by email. The selection results will be announced before September 30th. Official languages of the Conference: English, French, Italian.

Conference fees
Until 15 October 2015: 50 € (Faculty member), 30 € (Student)
From 15 October 2015 (late payment): 70 € (Faculty member), 50 € (Student)
(details of the conference website and of methods of payment will be provided in due course)

CFP NCA Seminar: Critical Discourse Studies in Communication: Embracing Opportunities for Research and Pedagogy

CFP NCA Seminar: Critical Discourse Studies in Communication: Embracing Opportunities for Research and Pedagogy
November 18th, 2015, 9:00 am-4:30 pm
Rio Conference Center

Co-chairs:
Susana Martinez Guillem, University of New Mexico
Christopher M. Toula, Georgia State University

Presenters
Mariaelena Bartesaghi, University of South Florida; M. Lane Bruner, Georgia State University; Theresa Castor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; Susana Martinez Guillem, University of New Mexico; Craig Stewart, University of Memphis; Christopher M. Toula, Georgia State University; Bernadette Barker-Plummer, University of San Francisco

Description
This seminar will focus on Critical Discourse Studies-also known as Critical Discourse Analysis, or CDA-as a theory/method in Communication, and more specifically on the opportunities it presents for scholars throughout our discipline to engage in social justice-oriented research and pedagogy. Our primary goal is to create space for collaboration among communication scholars as we discuss theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical issues related to Critical Discourse Studies, as well as the opportunities that this approach presents for ongoing studies of different practices/artifacts/texts across NCA’s interest groups.

Requirements
We invite submissions for both roundtables and workshops.
For those interested in participating in the roundtables: please send a short position paper (7-10 pages) to Susana Martínez Guillem (susanam@unm.edu) and Christopher Michael Toula (ctoula1@mygsu.onmicrosoft.com) focusing on “Critical Discourse Studies’ Theoretical Legacies and Futures in Communication Studies,” or “Methodological and Pedagogical Considerations for Critical Discourse Studies in/across Communication Areas.” Please indicate the roundtable that best fits your proposal. Your email subject heading should read NCA SEMINAR APPLICATION and your submission should include your name, title, institution, and email address at the top.

Those interested in participating in the workshops: please send a short description of your text(s) (1000 words maximum) to Susana Martínez Guillem and Christopher Michael Toula, and briefly discuss the initial questions you are trying to tackle in your analysis. The questions should be open-ended to allow for flee-floating feedback and discussion. Your email subject heading should read NCA SEMINAR APPLICATION and your submission should include your name, title, institution, and email address at the top.

The final number and focus of the workshops will depend on the number and quality of the submissions, as well as the overarching themes emerging out of the proposals.

The deadline to submit all materials is October 1, 2015. This is an exciting opportunity to learn about nuances within CDS, discuss ongoing and potential research applications in different communication areas, and engage in hands-on analysis of your own texts with immediate feedback to help you move your project forward.

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