Category: Conferences

CFP Middle East Dialogue 2024 (USA & Hybrid)

ConferencesCall for proposals: Middle East Dialogue, 5 April 2024, Villanova University, Villanova, PA (and hybrid). Deadline: 15 March 2024.

The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) invites you to submit a proposal for the upcoming hybrid conference, accepting both in-person and remote participants. This year PSO is partnering with Villanova University, where the in-person portion of the event will be hosted. You may join either in person or remotely. The event is co-sponsored by the PSO’s Digest of Middle East Studies journal, edited by Professor Catherine Warrick, Phd, from the Department of Political Science at Villanova University. Presenters are encouraged to submit full papers for consideration to the journal.

The Middle East Dialogue is for policy makers, scholars, business and social leaders to discuss current issues. Its purpose is to promote multidisciplinary conversation about topics that include but are not limited to:

  • Education Initiatives
  • Social, Political, Economic Reforms
  • Interfaith Dialogue
  • Peace Initiatives
  • Israel-Palestine Conflict
  • Nuclear Proliferation
  • Women’s Rights
  • Terrorism
  • Geopolitics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Environmental Challenges
  • Addressing the Biden Administration
    The conference embraces a spectrum of political and religious persuasions to discuss issues in a spirit of tolerance and free discourse.

ReDICo 2024 Encounters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Interculturality (Germany but Online)

ConferencesReDICo 2024 Encounters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Interculturality, ReDICo, Germany but online, February-March 2024.

(Participation in the Encounters is free of charge.)

Digital practices have been defined as assemblages of actions and digital technologies connected to social goals and social identities. Apart from being ‘digital’, these practices are also often intercultural, as the online worlds of video-streaming platforms, social media, and micro-blogging, to mention some concrete contexts, are replete with cultural diversities of many kinds. Yet, if our object of research is digital intercultural communication, can we expect the existing definitions of interculturality, originally conceived to describe situations of physical mobility and migration, to still hold true? Thus, the first aim of the ReDICo 2024 Encounters is to foster dialogue between the epistemologies of linguistics and intercultural communication that may benefit the study of digital interculturality. The second aim is to explore methodologies that can be adopted in empirical studies using digital intercultural data.

The ReDICo Encounters will bring together leading international researchers from intercultural communication and linguistic studies to introduce theoretical and/or empirical perspectives on digital intercultural practices and engage in dialogue surrounding possible points of theoretical and methodological synergy.

Overview of the Encounters:
Encounter 1: Feb. 16, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – ReDICo team
Encounter 2: Feb. 23, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – Dominic Busch & Rodney Jones
Encounter 3: March 1, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – Zhu Hua & Jannis Androutsopoulos
Encounter 4: March 4 (evening) & March 5 (all day), Friedrich Schiller University Jena – Ben Rampton, IKS & ReDICo team
Encounter 5: March 7, from 4 to 6 pm (CET), online – Adam Brandt & Alexandra Georgakopoulou-Nunes
Encounter 6: March 15, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – Çiğdem Bozdağ & Daniel Nascimento Silva
Encounter 7: March 22, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – ReDICo team

CFP World Anthropological Union (South Africa)

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Call for papers: World Anthropological Union, 11-15 November 2024, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (in person). Deadline: 31 January 2024.

Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Join others in Johannesburg, South Africa, from November 11th to 15th, 2024, for a transformative exploration of anthropological knowledge under the theme: “Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power.” Organizers invite you to contribute your insights to this groundbreaking event organized by Anthropology Southern Africa and hosted by the University of Johannesburg.

Key Themes for Panel Proposals:
– Changing fields of anthropological subdisciplines
– Politics of producing social, cultural, linguistic, biological, and paleo-anthropological knowledge
– Post-covid practices in anthropological knowledge-making
– Digital worlds and the role of new technologies in fieldwork
– Legitimacy of museums and collections as knowledge repositories
– Truth and/or post-truth in knowledge-making and representation
– Anthropology as the humbling practice of learning
– Tensions between local and academic knowledge production
– Disaggregating local knowledges in light of critical decolonial perspectives
– Challenges and successes of the decolonial imperative

CFP International Rhetoric Workshop: Borders & Crossroads 2024 (Croatia)

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Call for papers: International Rhetoric Workshop: Borders & Crossroads, 18-20 June 2024, University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia (in person). Deadline: 18 February 2024.

The Planning Committee for the 4th Biennial IRW invites international PhD students and emerging, early-career scholars to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making. Senior and more established scholars are also welcome to apply. This year’s theme, Borders and Crossroads, prompts us to examine the notions of 1) physical, cultural, and conceptual borders that delineate territories and boundaries, marking spaces of distinction, separation, and connection; and 2) crossroads that represent intersecting paths, encounters, confluences, and opportunities to confront and transcend restrictive boundaries. Borders and Crossroads are encountered across inter/national, political, identity, and cultural contexts, all amid widespread refugee, migratory, wartime, economic, racial, and environmental crises. Guided by this theme, the workshop seeks to explore how rhetoric can contribute to shaping novel responses, articulate new socio-political narratives, and cultivate human hopes and imaginaries for resolution, world-making, justice, possibility, sustainability, and reconciliation.

Held over the course of three days, the IRW consists of an opening keynote address each day from internationally renowned scholars, workshop sessions in which participants review and discuss drafts of ongoing research with faculty mentors and each other, and faculty discussion panels engaging topics relevant to the conference theme. This year’s keynote speakers include Lisa A. Flores and Karma Chávez.

CFP Multilingual & Multicultural Learning 2024 (Armenia)

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Call for papers: Multilingual and Multicultural Learning: Policies and Practices 3, 24-25 May 2024, Yerevan, Armenia. Deadline: 31 January 2024.

The conference considers all aspects of the linguistic and sociolinguistic competences and practices of bi-/multilingual speakers who cross existing social, cultural and linguistic boundaries, adopting or adapting themselves to new and overlapping linguistic spaces. Organizers invite papers in all areas of research in bi-/multilingualism, whether or not linked directly to the overarching conference theme, including, but not limited to, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, clinical linguistics, education, bi-/multilingual societies and multiculturalism.

The language of the conference is English.

CFP From Empirical Research to Foreign Language Classroom Practice and Vice-Versa (Switzerland)

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Call for papers: From empirical research to foreign language classroom practice and vice-versa, 6-7 September 2024, Fribourg, Switzerland. Deadline: 18 February 2024.

The conference aims to open a space of discourse that permits exchange and transfer of knowledge between teacher education, classroom practice, and research. Both second and foreign language education have developed in a dynamic environment that allows a certain flexibility when confronted with new challenges while, at the same time, the reception and diffusion of knowledge gained from research frequently progresses relatively slowly. Similarly, the questions and challenges teachers must face in their everyday practice take a long time to be investigated in research projects and, once this is achieved, the studies that are conducted often seem to be somewhat disconnected from local environments. In addition, empirical research must meet certain criteria if it is to become relevant for classroom practice. Nevertheless, the dialogue between the two domains remains extremely relevant in view of continuing efforts to improve second and foreign language education. Initiatives that encourage the building of networks between research knowledge and knowledge arising from classroom practice may contribute to such a dialogue.

Abstracts for contributions and posters may be submitted in German, English, French, or Italian.

CFP South Asia Communication Association at ICA: Communication & Global Human Rights 2024 (Australia)

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Call for Papers: South Asia Communication Association: Communication and Global Human Rights: Media Research on South Asia & Its Diaspora Worldwide, research session at International Communication Association, Goldcoast, Australia, 19-24 June 2024. Deadline: 20 January 2024.

Organizers invite you to present your research at the 2024 South Asia Communication Association (SACA)’s refereed-research session at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA),  in Gold Coast, Australia, Jun. 19-24, 2024. SACA will host an interactive research session, and the ICA 2024 conference program will feature the SACA session. The ICA 2024 conference promises to be an
innovative, interactive and engaging event.

You are invited to submit your research on media and communication
in South Asia or its diaspora worldwide. Organizers welcome a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Please feel free to email Dr. Jatin Srivastava if you have any questions about your research relating to the scope of the SACA research session.

CFP Promoting Human Rights, Building Peace, and Progressing Democracy (USA)

ConferencesCall for papers: Conference in Conjunction with 25th Anniversary of NATO Intervention in Kosovo: Promoting Human Rights, Building Peace, and Progressing Democracy, 26-28 March, 2024, Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, AK, USA. Deadline: 31 December 2023.

This conference will bring together practitioners, policy makers, and scholars to reflect on the lessons of the humanitarian intervention in Kosovo and the developments in the last 25 years that offer both challenges and opportunities for democracy, peace, and security not only in Southeastern Europe, but around the globe. Organizers envision conversations and activities that are above all practical in nature, in which practitioners, policy makers, and democracy scholars present, discuss and debate bold actions for promoting human rights, building peace, and progressing democracy globally based on lessons from taking just and necessary stands, such as the one taken in Kosovo, against genocide and the violation of human rights.

They specifically encourage proposals from those who work at the intersection of theory and practice in a variety of areas including but not limited to:

  • Political Theory & Practice
  • Political & Public Communication
  • Media Studies
  • International Relations
  • Public Policy Analysis
  • Conflict & Public Dispute Resolution
  • Peacemaking & Peacebuilding
  • Security Studies
  • Deliberative Democracy Practice
  • Collaborative Governance
  • Community Engagement

In keeping with the commitment to action from President Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Presidential Library, and the Clinton School of Public Service, the focus of the conference would be the on-going real-world work of people who have made a commitment to ensure safe places to learn, practice, and exercise democratic actions continue to not only exist but to strive and grow.

CFP International Listening Assoc 2024 (USA)

ConferencesCall for papers: International Listening Association: Sustaining Best Listening Practices, 13-16 March 2024, Bloomington, MN USA. Deadline: 10 December 2023.

The International Listening Association (ILA) is excited to announce the Call for Proposals for the 45th Annual Convention, March 13-16, 2024 in Bloomington, MN. Organizers are excited to hold this convention in the Minneapolis area, the birthplace of ILA at the University of Minnesota. They will be holding a special session on the history and progression of the ILA and listening and encourage past members, board members and any founding members, to attend.

The 45th ILA Convention provides several presentation opportunities including individual papers, discussion panels, or paper panels. Proposals are also accepted for practicums, workshops, or short courses. If you have questions about the submission type, please contact the ILA Convention Program Planner, Dr. Krishna Naineni.

CFP EACL 2024: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI (Malta)

ConferencesCall for papers: European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI:
Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights, 21-22 March 2024, Malta. Deadline: 18 December 2023.

Conversational language technologies (chatbots, voice assistants, and multimodal conversational interfaces) are becoming increasingly complex and common in everyday life. Various language theories (such as speech act theory, politeness theory, conversation analysis, and interaction theory) have started influencing their development. At the same time, the development of these technologies is often driven by technology-related concerns and tends to overlook users’ needs and socio-cultural contexts. This, combined with the scarcity of human rights regulation of AI, raises concerns about linguistic discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, and security risks. In addition, training data for conversational AI mostly comes from written rather than interaction-based language data sets and often does not include gestural, social, and emotional aspects that are fundamental to human interaction. In the same vein, Sign Language is rarely facilitated. To promote a positive impact of conversational technology on linguistic diversity and inclusion, it is imperative to strike a balance between technological concerns and socially relevant matters.

This workshop to be held at EACL aims at addressing these issues by using a holistic approach that involves dialogue and collaboration among technologists, linguists, policymakers, and communities involved in the development and commissioning of conversational AI systems.

Key Themes:

  • Holistic Approach: Bridging the gap between technology and socio-cultural context.
  • Ethical Development: Addressing concerns of linguistic discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, and security risks.
  • Inclusive Data Sets: Emphasizing the importance of interaction-based language data sets and inclusion of gestural, social, and emotional aspects.