International Academy for Conversation Analysis (The Netherlands)

International Academy for CA (IACA16) July 2016
With the support of ISCA (the International Society for Conversation Analysis), the Language and Social Interaction group of the University of Groningen will organize the first International Academy for Conversation Analysis (IACA16)
July 11 – 14, 2016, in Groningen, The Netherlands

IACA16 will take place in between two ICCA-conferences (2014 and 2018) and will focus on the research process rather than on research output. The academy is meant for CA researchers in all career stages, including PhD students. It will offer members of the CA community an environment to learn from each other about analytical choices, modes of analytical reasoning, and the different technologies that may support CA research.

The programme comprises four 4-day workshops on the following topics:
(i) ‘Interaction Organization’: Geoffrey Raymond on sequence organization
(ii) ‘Actions and Activities’: Paul Drew & Merran Toerien on action formation
(iii) ‘Practices’: Lorenza Mondada on embodiment
(iv) ‘Contexts’: Jeffrey Robinson on medical interaction
and two plenary lectures:
Elisabeth Couper-Kuhlen on Interactional Linguistics: its Achievements and its Future
Anita Pomerantz on some Methodological Issues in Conversation Analysis: Starting and Moving Forward

Registration will open on October 1 and close on October 15, 2015.

Çiğdem Bozdağ Profile

ProfilesÇiğdem Bozdağ is an assistant professor in the department of New Media at the Kadir Has University, Istanbul. Bozdağ’s research and teaching focus on digital media, intercultural communication, migration, globalization, and education and media technologies.

Cigdem BozdagHer recent research was about online intercultural school networks between Germany and Turkey. Bozdağ completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bremen in January 2013. In her thesis, she analyzed the websites of the Moroccan and Turkish diaspora and their role in ethnic community building, within a mediated emerging social space. From 2008 to 2010, she worked at the same university in the research project “Communicative Connectivity of Ethnic Minorities: The Integrative and Segregative Potential of Digital Media for Diasporas.” Moreover, she worked on an EU-funded research project, entitled “ICT and Cultural Diversity.” After the Ph.D., Bozdağ worked as a Mercator-IPC fellow at the Sabanci University, Istanbul. She received her M.A. degree from the University of Bremen, in the field of media culture. Her bachelor degree is from Boğaziçi University, in the field of political science and international relation.

Bozdağ recently wrote a report on Intercultural Learning In Education Through Information And Communication Technologies (Istanbul Policy Center, 2014), is the co-author of the book Mediale Migranten: Mediatisierung und die kommunikative Vernetzung der Diaspora (Springer, 2011) and author of the book Aneignung von Diasporawebsites (Springer, 2013). Her recent papers appear in the Journal of Global Media and Communication (2014), in Case Studies in Intercultural Dialogue (Edited by Nazan Haydari and Prue Holmes, 2014) and in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture (2014).

Korean Adoption Studies Research Symposium (Seoul)

Call for Papers
Fourth International Korean Adoption Studies Research Symposium
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Planned location: IKAA Gathering 2016, Seoul, Korea.
Symposium Sponsor: IKAA (International Korean Adoptee Associations). 

Submissions Due by: December 1, 2015
Submit to: ISKAS2016@gmail.com

Questions? Please contact the Symposium organizers Sara Docan-Morgan, Tobias Hübinette, Kimberly McKee, and Elizabeth Raleigh at ISKAS2016@gmail.com.

The International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA) will convene the Fourth International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies as part of the IKAA Gathering 2016. The field of Korean adoption studies is specifically concerned with international adoption from Korea including the experiences of overseas adopted Koreans, birth families, adoptive families, and the families of adoptees. We recognize and celebrate the interdisciplinary nature of Korean adoption studies. These scholars work at the intersections of Asian and Korean studies, postcolonial and cultural studies, and social and behavioral sciences. Their research is also engaged with issues of race and ethnicity, migration and diaspora, gender and family, and globalization and transnationalism.

The day-long symposium will bring together scholars from around the world who are conducting research in the field of Korean adoption studies. We also welcome submissions from scholars creating linkages between transnational adoptions from Korea and other sending countries such as China, Ethiopia, and Ukraine. By bringing together a diverse group of scholars from multiple fields, we hope to build on the momentum of the previous Research Symposiums to further academic inquiry and strengthen the network of scholars tackling questions surrounding international adoption.

We encourage submissions from everyone, but will prioritize academic papers from those who have completed or are currently enrolled in a terminal master’s or Ph.D. program. All studies involving human subjects must abide by IKAA’s Rules and Guidelines for Conducting Scholarly Research. We seek presentations/papers on a range of topics that represent as many of the current research approaches on Korean adoption as possible. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
–       Research related to the theme of the IKAA Gathering 2016: Connecting Communities & Looking Towards the Future
–       Links in adoption policy, history, ideology and/or adoption cultures between South Korea and other sending nations
–       Ethics and positionality in Korean adoption research, imagining and researching adoption, including methodologies, disciplines and the politics of criticism
–       The lifelong processes of Korean adoptee identity: Genealogies, long-term mental health issues in Korean adoptee populations, intimacy, sexuality, and family formation
–       Korean adoption aesthetics, representation and affectivity
–       Korean adoptee experiences in the context of the larger Korean diaspora

Submission Deadline and Instructions
Submissions are due December 1, 2015. No late proposals will be accepted. We will accept proposals via email only. A cover page submitted without attached proposal or CV is NOT considered complete. The cover page can be found online. We will not accept or consider submissions that are lacking information. Selection notifications will be made by e-mail by the end of January.

ACCS Dr. D.Ray Heisey Graduate Student Scholarship

Call for application:
Dr. D.Ray Heisey Graduate Student Scholarship
Association for Chinese Communication Studies

Dr. D. Ray Heisey (1932-2011) was Director (1983-1996) and Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Kent State University. He was a renowned intercultural communication scholar who served as Advisor on many Chinese students’ dissertation committees. He had facilitated research collaborations between scholars and students in the US and from the Far East, Middle East, Europe, and North America. He loved traveling and experiencing other cultures, having lived in or visited over 40 countries. Dr. Heisey had taught in Chinese universities and published a great number of research works on Chinese communication studies with Chinese students and scholars. Dr. Heisey was a long term ACCS member. His enthusiasm, dedication to education, and personal and scholarly integrity continue to impact ACCS scholars. In honor of Dr. D. Ray Heisey’s contribution to Chinese Communication Studies, the ACCS has decided to establish a Dr. D. Ray Heisey Scholarship each year. The award amount is $400.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
–       You must be a current ACCS member
–       You must be a second-year, or above, graduate student majoring in the area focusing on Chinese Communication Studies, enrolled full-time at a university.
–       You must complete an application form and submit all required materials* to the Committee of Dr. D. Ray Heisey Scholarship.
*Required materials: personal statement, two recommendation letters, current transcript, curriculum vita, and a writing sample.

CRITERIA FOR SCHOLARSHIP SELECTION
–       The scholarship is awarded to a graduate student who has enrolled in the major in second year or above for the semester in which the scholarship is received.
–       An above average academic record (3.2 on a 4.0 scale) verifiable by current school transcripts.
–       An expressed desire to enter the field of Chinese Communication Studies in a 1-3 page typewritten statement of application.
–       Leadership skills and research records, and active involvement in ACCS activities.

The scholarships will be awarded for the academic year (Fall 2015-Spring 2016). The deadline for accepting applications is October 30, 2015. The online application form is at http://www.uni.edu/commstudies/accs/scholarship/application_form.htm

Pink Tide: Media Access and Political Power in Latin America

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
The Pink Tide: Media Access and Political Power in Latin America

Often referred to as the “pink tide” in mainstream news reports and progressive magazines alike, the recognizable democratic political shift in Latin America is both opened by and opened to the actions of broad-based social movements: landless peasants and radical autoworkers in Brazil, indigenous movements in Bolivia and Ecuador, Bolivarian social missions in working class communities across Venezuela, and popular mobilizations for social reform in Uruguay and Paraguay. In each country, the rowdy entrance of labor, peasants, the unemployed, indigenous, women, students, and environmental movements has upset neoliberal plans and national elite control. In Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, radical leaderships instigated constituent assemblies, allowing citizens to revise national constitutions, which in every case, secured extensive democratic, civil, social, political, and economic rights for the popular classes.

These “moments of rupture” in societal political norms and capitalist cultural hegemony unearth the interconnections between media and society that are often obscured during periods of social stability or political repression. The organic links between media and social power are more apparent when the pluralist shell of “it’s just entertainment” is removed. Different internal political and media circumstances constrain and allow different responses to social crises and the possibilities for democratic media Community and public media in Venezuela have arguably progressed the furthest towards participatory access to communication. Other radical and left democratic-leaning governments from Nicaragua and Bolivia to Ecuador, Argentina, and Uruguay also have reflected and responded to working class interests and indigenous social movements.

To varying degrees, governments across Latin America have created or allowed openings for citizen access to media communication, reflecting disparate social relations of power. In each case, the social relations of power reflected in government policy have resulted in changes in media political economies and public access to communication. Political power has had complex impact on media structures, regulations, and practices, on how diverse media produce messages conveying ideological and cultural proposals for the retrenchment of elite power, the uneasy status quo, or a more democratic world. Across Latin American, democratic media reform depends on the political power of working classes and their allies. Contestations over political power across the continent carry manifestations of public media access opened by working class and indigenous movements for democratic rights and economic and social justice.

This Wiley-Blackwell edited book will feature scholarship, research, and accounts of the diverse and complex processes of media change in Latin America in 10-12 chapters assessing conditions of media structure, media relations, media programming, and public access to the media by diverse social groups.

Proposals for chapters should consist of an abstract outlining theme, topic, method, and expected, preliminary, or collected findings. Abstract proposals should be sent by November 15, 2015 to Lee Artz.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Ibero-America

CALL FOR CHAPTERS – Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance in Ibero-America: Concepts, perspectives, and future trendsChapter proposals due: November 15, 2015
Full chapters due: May 31, 2016

Edited by:
Lina M. Gómez, Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico
Lucely Vargas-Preciado, Johannes Kepler Universitat, Austria
David Crowther, De Montfort University, UK

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Group
Book series in Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility

RATIONALE
The practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been growing in attention, importance, significance, and acceptance in the last decades, not only in the corporate world but academia as well.  CSR has been included in multiple debates, comments, theories, studies and research around the world. In spite of this CSR awareness among different sectors, still there is not a shared definition of what CSR should be and include (Ihlen et al., 2011; Crowther & Aras, 2008; Dahlsrud, 2008; Garriga & Melé, 2004). In fact, CSR could mean different things to different people in different scenarios, eras, and regions (Pedersen, 2006). However, CSR is strongly view as a responsible management of economic, social, and environmental resources, that could affect (positively and negatively) the quality of life of different groups of stakeholders, and could also increase or decrease the creation of value for shareholders.  Moreover, thanks to social media and new communication technologies, society, consumers, employees, ONGs, and higher educational institutions are claiming more transparency and responsibility towards corporations.  Today there is more awareness regarding the importance of CSR practices that can benefit society and environment (Du et al., 2010; Schneider, Stieglitz & Lattemann, 2007).

In the last decade, Ibero-America (including Brazil, Portugal, and Spain), has growth in economic terms, and corporate responsible practices have play a key role. A CSR approach in community-based experience has emerged in the last years in this region. This is due to the support of multilateral agencies (Gutiérrez & Jones, 2004) that have served as a link between government, private sector and society (Calderón, 2011).  However, there are still many inequalities in this region. Therefore, this edited book will focus on how CSR and Corporate Governance in Ibero-America have been employed, analyzed, and examined in different sectors and scenarios (companies, NGOs, higher educational institutions, government) from theoretical (theory development), conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches. Submissions that are from an empirical approach must be cross-country studies or studies that analyze multiple projects from different sectors within a country. This is because most research in CSR in Latin America has been focused on studying specific initiatives or experiences in a particular country.

Some questions that can guide contributions and could serve as reflection for contributors on possible topics could include:
-How CSR in Ibero-America can be moved forward?
-What present and future trends in CSR and Corporate Governance are presented in Ibero-America?
-How the complex relationship between business and society in Ibero-America can help to advance the practice of CSR?
-How CSR in Ibero-America can be structured to promote compliance and therefore CSR efforts could be translate in actual results?
-Which are the views and input of different groups of stakeholders regarding CSR efforts in Ibero-America?
-What and how CSR is communicated in Ibero-America?
-What are the practical challenges of CSR practices and efforts in Ibero-America? How these can serve as opportunities for promoting creative and engaging responsible practices?

We accept contributions from academics, researchers, and practitioners from a variety of academic disciplines, such as (but not limited to): business management, finance, communication, economics, political science, psychology, cultural studies, health, law, and sociology.

The editors welcome chapters from theoretical, conceptual, and empirical approaches. Empirical studies should be based on quantitative and/or qualitative methods, including case of studies and best practices, particularly of cross-country studies.  Literature review papers are also welcome. Contributions must be in English.  We seek papers that address different aspects of CSR, Sustainability, Governance and Performance, among others; which could cover the following topics focused on Ibero-America (but not limited to):
1.      Corporate Social Responsibility (internal and external practices)
2.      Corporate Governance, policy private, and public sector
3.      Environmental issues
4.      Societal issues
5.      Corporate reporting
6.      Corporate  engagement and education
7.      Corporate  Social Responsibility and Governance:  Non-Financial and Financial Performance
8.      Sustainability
9.      Employee development and labor practices
10.      CSR strategy,  society, customers and suppliers
11.      Business ethics, social accounting  and governance
12.     CSR-Sustainability management
13.     CSR communication

Submission process
Authors are invited to submit, on or before November 15, 2015, a proposal (an abstract of 300-600 words) that clearly explains the purpose of the work proposed, methodology, expected results, and implications.  Proposals should be submitted via e-mail in a PDF attachment to Prof. Lina M. Gómez. The first page of the proposal should include the title of the proposed chapter, authors’ names, affiliation, and full contact details.

By December 15, 2015, potential authors will be notified about the status of their proposed chapter and receive further information regarding the submission process, including the formatting guidelines. Full chapters must be submitted via e-mail in an attached Word file to Prof. Lina M. Gómez  on or before May 31, 2016. Final submissions should be approximately 6,000–8,000 words in length, excluding references, figures, tables, and appendices. Chapters submitted must not have been published, accepted for publication, or under consideration for publication anywhere else.

Questions
Please address questions to Prof. Lina M. Gómez or Prof. Lucely Vargas-Preciado.

Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order

The Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order is given to those who have taken on issues of world importance and presented viewpoints that could lead to a more just and peaceful world. Each idea supports one noble cause: to inspire us all to work together for the common good.

The Award is presented annually to the winner of a competition designed to stimulate the recognition, dissemination and critical analysis of outstanding proposals for improving world order.

Prize Amount
The Grawemeyer Award in World Order is accompanied by a prize of $100,000, which is presented in full during the awards ceremony.

Eligibility
Submissions will be judged according to feasibility and potential impact, not by the cumulative record of the nominee. They may address a wide range of global concerns including foreign policy and its formation; the conduct of international relations or world politics; global economic issues, such as world trade and investment; resolution of regional, ethnic or racial conflicts; the proliferation of destructive technologies; global cooperation on environmental protection or other important issues; international law and organization; any combination or particular aspects of these, or any other suitable idea which could at least incrementally lead to a more just and peaceful world order.

Deadline
Entries must be submitted in four copies and accompanied by a nomination form, nominator’s letter, biographical sketch of nominee and agreement that the material will be placed in university archives. Non-English entries must be translated. All nominations for the 2017 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order should reach the University of Louisville by January 31, 2016 and all supporting materials (books, articles, speeches, reviews) are due by February 28, 2016. Nominated works must have appeared between January 2011 and December 2015.

For More Information
Nominations and requests for further information should be sent to:
Dr. Charles E. Ziegler
Faculty Director, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar
Director, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order
Department of Political Science
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
USA
Email: ceziegler@louisville.edu

ABC Cape Town Regional Conference (South Africa)

Association for Business Communication 2016 Cape Town Regional Conference
Dates: 6 to 8 January 2016
Host: Terri Grant, Head, Professional Communication Unit (PCU), School of Management Studies (SMS), University of Cape Town (UCT)
Location: University of Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town, on the tip of the African continent at the foot of the iconic World heritage site, Table Mountain, is proud to host the first ever Association for Business Communication (ABC) conference in Africa.

As a country with both first and third world conditions, characterised by pockets of world-class infrastructure and democratic institutions as well as huge inequality and poverty, South Africa grapples with the challenges faced by many developing nations.

The Professional Communication Unit in the School of Management Studies in the Commerce Faculty at the University of Cape Town is your official host. From the above, four major areas of interest emerge which underscore this conference: professional communication, management studies, business and commerce as well as education and scholarship.

With the advent of new media where, for instance, hundreds of YouTube videos and millions of tweets are posted every minute globally, companies and institutions struggle to control and manage their messages, both positive and negative. Viral communication allows every echelon of society access to environmental, social and financial data that in the past companies could control, gate keep and manage. Negative messages, in particular, could be delayed, re-scripted, even suppressed.

This so-called openness, however, did not warn many powerful constituents of the financial crash of 2008 (let alone contribute to its prevention), and the results of this meltdown are still being globally felt many years later. The conference seeks to be a meeting place for both scholars and workplace practitioners to discuss and debate a wide range of communicative and numerate topics.

FRAME MOOC on The EU and Human Rights

FRAME MOOC – The EU and Human Rights

“Whether you are an EU citizen or not, this course concerns you! The EU is a major global actor in the field of human rights. EU treaties state that human rights are a fundamental value of the Union, which must be a ‘silver thread’ in all its policies. The EU now acts within an impressive array of competences, and therefore has the potential to impact – positively or negatively – anyone’s human rights.

This EU and Human Rights course teaches the basics of human rights, placing the EU at the centre of investigation. The course will examine a number of key questions:
• What factors are key to making the EU a positive or a negative force for human rights? An example is the economic crisis: what impact has it had on people’s human rights in the EU and the world?
• Which actors, friends or foes, must the EU engage with to successfully promote human rights? Examples include NGOs, businesses, or other international organisations like the Council of Europe or the United Nations.
• In key policy sectors in which the EU is active, what is on balance the impact of the EU? Examples include trade, development, migration social policy or international crisis management.

All of the course activities aim to improve your understanding of how the EU, alone or in combination with other local or global, state or non-state actors, can better promote and uphold human rights worldwide.

The course is intended for anyone interested in human rights and the EU, human rights law, European law, European Studies, international relations, global governance, etc.

It is divided into four modules:
1: The EU and Human Rights: Value Promotion and Coherence
2: Promoting Human Rights inside the EU
3: Promoting Human Rights in EU External Action
4: Capitalising on Success and Remedying Flaws

This MOOC is based on the FRAME project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration. (Grant Agreement No. 320000)”

Source: http://www.eiuc.org/news-detail/items/frame-mooc-the-eu-and-human-rights.html

ABC Asia-Pacific Conference (China)

The 14th Association for Business Communication (ABC) Asia-Pacific Conference
November 27–29, 2015
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Guangzhou, China

We are living in the 21st Century of increased level of globalisation and internationalisation in which people of different countries, cultures and communities interact more frequently than ever. Along with this trend, communication across cultures also poses great challenges for both academics and practitioners alike in business and management contexts. The conference therefore aims to focus on the diversity and complexities of business communication across countries and cultures.

Click here for the full call for papers (submission deadline: June 30, 2015).