Category: Conferences

CFP WSCA Intercultural Communication (USA)

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Call for papers: Intercultural Communication Interest Group, Western States Communication Association, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2025. Deadline: 2 September 2024.

The Intercultural Communication Interest Group (ICIG) invites submissions from intercultural communication teachers, scholars, and practitioners who examine different cultural phenomenon within trans/national contexts that can provide us with a nuanced understanding of the world we live in. ICIG also supports co-sponsored programs with other interest groups that consider the conference theme.

The 2025 convention theme is support. “Support” encompasses critical ideologies, acts, practices, and sites of inquiry for us to carefully examine how we view, understand, and make sense of the meaning and capacity of communicating through differences. Specifically, interrogating the role of support in challenging the historical continuum of power and envisioning the equitable and accessible care for marginalized communities is particularly urgent in today’s world more than ever, given ongoing institutional barriers such as #CommunicationSoWhite, restriction on academic freedom, anti-DEI and anti-trans legislatures, and policed anti-war protests. Therefore, ICIG asks members to critically engage with the role of support (in its various forms) in intercultural communication in order to foster constructive academic conversations and actions, advocating for social (in)justices and creating inclusive and equal space.

CFP STAR Global Conference 2024 (Nepal)

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Call for papers: Society of Transnational Academic Researchers (STAR), 12-14 December 2024, Kathmandu, Nepal. Deadline: 31 August 2024.

The 2024 STAR Global Conference promises a diverse and enriching program featuring keynotes, plenaries, paper presentations, panel discussions, workshops, arts-based performances, and a book talk series. Organizers warmly invite researchers, practitioners, community leaders, educational leaders, activists, students, representatives of universities, educational and research institutions, government organizations, United Nations agencies, NGOs, and INGOs to join this knowledge community at this esteemed conference. This year’s conference will take place at Kathmandu University (KU) in Nepal from December 12-14, 2024.

STAR’s mission statement: “We leverage the power of transnational connections to build communities that support the advancement of new generations of scholars working across borders.”

CFP 10th Explorations in Ethnography Language and Communication (Denmark)

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Call for papers: 10th Explorations in Ethnography Language and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-19 August 2025. Deadline: 18 November 2024. Deadline extended to 18 January 2025.

At the 10th Anniversary EELC conference, organizers invite scholars working at the interface between linguistics and ethnography to interrogate and explore the affordances and challenges in today’s academic landscape. Linguistic ethnographers, as other human and social scientists, contribute to the understanding of important and difficult societal developments such as AI, digital technology, political instabilities and war, climate change and increasing demographic diversity. The EELC10 will be an occasion to take stock of the present research and the future potentials.

The plenary speakers all work with pertinent societal questions:
Charles Briggs (US) continues to advance our understanding of e.g. inequality, health, and the politics of knowledge.
Adrienne Lo (US) interrogates diversity, racialization and ideologies of multilingualism.
Caroline Tagg (UK) uncovers how language, digital technologies and digital
communication practices are deeply embedded into individuals’ wider social, economic, and political lives.
Line Møller Daugaard (DK) illuminates the challenges and possibilities of cultural diversity and multilingualism in education.

CFP ICA 2025: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research (USA)

ConferencesCall for papers: ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research, Denver, Colorado, USA, 12-16 June 2025. Deadline: 1 November 2024.

Addressing the International Communication Association’s 75th anniversary, the 2025 conference theme is an invitation to critically reflect on communication studies as a discipline and ICA as an agent and site of disciplinary development. Theme sessions will take stock of our past, critically review present developments, and chart out future avenues for communication research. Organizers particularly welcome contributions speaking to three important aspects of the theme: communication scholarship as a transformative and stabilizing force in society, as a research practice that can be both revolutionary and consolidating, and communication studies as a disrupted and resilient discipline. In all these contexts, elements of disruption and consolidation are not necessarily antithetical but may productively be framed as a dialectical relationship.

ICA has made significant strides in amplifying the visibility of communication scholarship beyond academia. From democratic backsliding to climate change and conflict transformation, our discipline is poised to provide relevant answers to many burning questions of our time. Through public scholarship, communication scholars can make themselves useful by addressing the problems of the world’s current polycrisis. They may act as a transformative voice in society (by advocating social change) and as a stabilizing force (by maintaining democracy or social justice). A key issue in this context is the sometimes troubled relationship between scholarship and advocacy.

The public impact of scholarship is typically connected to a discipline’s ability to generate original knowledge. During the past 75 years, communication research has exponentially grown in terms of quantity. However, across a variety of disciplines and academic fields, such expansion is mostly attributed to the growth in studies that consolidate existing knowledge, pushing aside disruptive and revolutionary scholarship that forges new directions and breaks existing paradigms. The progressive fragmentation of the discipline may have contributed to this trend, along with persisting social and global inequalities in academia as well as a publication and review culture that tends to disadvantage certain types of research and scholarly communities, including those from the Global South.

Communication research is facing these issues while itself being disrupted on multiple fronts and, perhaps, with unprecedented consequences. AI-based technologies have started revolutionizing scholarly practice with vast implications for the way we conduct and evaluate scholarship. In addition to high levels of insecurity and precarity, researchers face growing demands to publish in prestigious venues, obtain large grants, and participate in reviewing and evaluations, all putting heavy mental strain on scholars. Through this call, we encourage the discipline to think about possible ways to consolidate our research environment by growing resilience and developing effective coping strategies.

In this spirit, organizers invite submissions for papers and panel proposals that address the conference theme along the lines of the outlined three areas. Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following issues and topics:

  • Strategies to increase the visibility and impact of communication scholarship addressing the problems of our time
  • The relationship between scholarship and advocacy as well as obstacles to public scholarship and ways to overcome them
  • Research-based disruptions of dominant theories guiding communication inquiry
  • Historical trajectories of communication scholarship that have disrupted other fields of research and where communication studies has been disrupted by other disciplines
  • The cross-fertilization of communication research through disruptions originating from within
  • Research-based disruptions of dominant modes of communication inquiry from the Global South
  • The impact of AI on the conduct and evaluation of communication scholarship
  • The political economy of scholarship for the discipline’s ability to generate original knowledge
  • Assessments of growing academic demands and the resulting mental toll
  • Strategies to grow resilience and cultivate solidarity networks among various academic communities

CFP: Family Language Policy Conference (Ireland)

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Call for papers: Family Language Policy Conference: Reimagining the Field, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland, 22-23 October 2024. Deadline: 31 July 2024.

In their 2008 paper, King et al. laid the foundation for the emergence of the field that came to be recognised as Family Language Policy (FLP). Since then, this field of inquiry has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention and has evolved into a burgeoning field over the last decade. In this short time span, the core interests of FLP have shifted: While it initially attempted “to draw direct causal links across ideologies, practices, and outcomes”, it moved on to examining “how families are constructed through multilingual language practices, and how language functions as a resource for this process of family making and meaning making” (King 2016: 728). Recent FLP scholarship has pointed to the necessity of putting under scrutiny the central concepts of family, language, and language policy and not departing from taken-for-granted notions in order to produce situated accounts of FLP (Lanza & Lomeu Gomes 2020). A recent proposal even suggests reimagining the field “under the more all-encompassing label of family multilingualism” (Léglise 2023: 288), arguing that the institutionalisation of FLP as a field has marginalised different kinds of knowledges pertinent to family multilingualism.

Encouraged by the impetus of these and other reflections on the foundations of research on family language policy and family multilingualism, this Hybrid International Conference on Family Language Policy is being organised under the theme of Reimagining the Field. The aim is to provide a forum for discussing epistemological, theoretical and methodological considerations around FLP and family multilingualism (FM), for setting future research agendas and for exploring possibilities for establishing regular venues for such exchange.

Contributions in the form of papers and symposia are welcomed on the following issues:
• Epistemological foundations of FLP/FM
• Key theoretical concepts in FLP/FM
• Nexus of FLP/FM and the wider community
• Interaction between FLP/FM and educational institutions
• Children’s agency
• Digital and multimodal interaction in the family
• Affect and emotion in FLP/FM
• FLP/FM and political economy
• Participatory approaches in FLP/FM

CFP: Institute of General Semantics Symposium on Communication, Consciousness, and Culture (USA)

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Call for papers and proposals for Communication, Consciousness, and Culture: A Symposium Sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics, co-sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, Media Ecology Association, International Bateson Institute, Tomkins Institute, and the 404 Festival of Art and Technology, September 20-22, 2024, The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. Deadline: 18 August 2024.

Organizers welcome papers and proposals that fit the symposium theme or that otherwise relate to the topics of general semantics, linguistics and semiotics, media ecology, communication and culture, science and the empirical method, epistemology and phenomenology, cybernetics and systems theory, technology and society, art and perception, cognition and consciousness, evolution and emergence, health and human potential, etc.

 

CFP: IN SITU Horizons of Sustainability (Croatia)

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Call for papers, IN SITU: Horizons of Sustainability: The Power of Creative Innovation for Transformation of Rural and Non-urban Futures, Šibenik, Croatia, 25-27 September 2024. Deadline: 8 July 2024.

IN SITU is a four-year project that combines research and experimental actions to advance the innovation-related practices, capacities, and potentials of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) based in non-urban and rural areas of the EU. The project aims to better understand their forms, processes, and governance needs and to advance the ability of non-urban and rural CCIs to act as drivers of innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability. Ultimately, the aim is to contribute to a more informed and sustainable future for practitioners in cultural and creative industries based in non-urban and rural areas.

This first international conference of the IN SITU project will explore the transformative power of innovative approaches of cultural and creative agents in forging more equitable and sustainable communities beyond urban centres.

In this event, organizers wish to inspire new ways of learning from one another. They aim to create an intimate environment that enables meaningful discussions and networking opportunities across research, culture-based creative practice, and planning and policy-making spheres. Therefore, within the conference, they will create different spaces and opportunities to foster exchange and dialogue with non-conventional approaches that fully place participants in the context of the place where the event is located. This also means that the number of presentations will be limited to allow for these other approaches.

They invite proposals for presentations of papers and projects from scholars, researchers, artists, cultural practitioners, activists, policymakers and decision-makers from across the world and a broad range of disciplines. All proposals should make an original contribution to the topic of place-based innovation and the transformative power of the creative and cultural sector in forging more equitable and sustainable communities in rural and non-urban areas.

Call for Signatures for NCA African Communication Division (USA)

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Call for signatures for a new African Communication Division, National Communication Association, USA.

NCA Members Godfried Asante, Ph.D. (San Diego State University), Chrindo Kundai, Ph.D. (Lewis and Clark University), Nana Kwame Fordjour, Ph.D. (University of Maryland College Park), Eric Karikari, Ph.D. (Towson University), and Jenna Hanchey, Ph.D. (Arizona State University), Prisca Ngongo Ph.D (Texas State University) and Anna Klyueva Ph.D (University of Houston, Clear-Lake) are leading an effort to propose a new African Communication Studies Division at NCA.

A division focused on communication topics in the diverse African continent is timely and relevant. Such a division can help further NCA’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity, as well as centralize and advance the study of communication topics on and about the African continent. While providing an academic center to those conducting research and teaching about the African continent, a new African Communication Studies Division will highlight the value of scholarship in this region and cultivate more academic interest. This Division will serve as a dedicated space to share and promote the African communication scholarship covering a range of communication subfields. Organizers seek 300 signatures from current NCA members in support of the effort. Please sign using this link.

CFP 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (Spain)

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Call for papers: 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism: The Different Faces of Bilingualism, San Sebastián, Spain, 9-13 June 2025. Deadline: for Symposium Submission: deadline extended to 13 November 2024.

“The Different Faces of Bilingualism” is a deliberately broad theme for ISB15, aimed at meeting ISB’s mission to create a space for researchers with a diverse range of interests to share their knowledge and gain new perspectives, and to foster meaningful cross-disciplinary collaborations. We hope to bring together researchers working on different faces of bilingualism, including different research areas, methodological approaches, and populations. In line with this aim, we have invited plenary speakers who represent different faces of bilingualism, from sociolinguistics to education, psycholinguistics to translation. This broad theme reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the organizing committee, based in a center of excellence for neuroscientific research into language and bilingualism. To capitalize on this expertise, ISB15 will feature The Bilingual Brain Day, which is intended to share the core insights of the field with researchers of other areas and to discuss the state-of-the-art with researchers in the field. The conference theme also aims to promote inclusivity, inspired by its location in the Spanish Basque Country, one of the few regions in the world that has successfully revived its bilingual heritage across all aspects of society.

Note that this is a call specifically for symposium proposals. Symposia are 120-minute blocks that allow for extended, interactive discussion on a specific topic, focusing on a cluster of independent yet related papers. Each symposium consists of four slots, and should consist either of four presentations, or of three presentations and a discussion. Abstract submission for individual papers will be possible starting 18 September 2024. For any inquiries, please reach out to isb2025@bcbl.eu

CFP South Asia Communication Association @ AEJMC 2024 (USA)

ConferencesCall for papers: South Asia Communication Association @ AEJMC, Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 8-11, 2024. Deadline: 28 April 2024.

Submissions are invited for “Representation and Voice — The Future of Democracy: Media
Research on South Asia & Its Diaspora Worldwide,” the 2024 South Asia Communication Association (SACA)’s refereed-research session at the 107th annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), which will be held in Philadelphia, PA, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. There will be two interactive research sessions, August 8 and August 9. Organizers invite you to submit your research on media and communication in South Asia or its diaspora worldwide across a wide range of perspectives and approaches.