*CFP* "VISUALIDAD Y PODER", II COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL (ONLINE)

“Visualidad y Poder” II Coloquio Internacional

Del 30 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre de 2021

Formato online

 

La Maestría en Comunicación, mención Visualidad y Diversidades y URU Revista de Comunicación y Cultura convocan al II Coloquio Internacional «Visualidad y Poder», el cual se desarrollará en formato online a través de internet y redes sociales, del 30 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre en consideración del fenómeno de salud que atraviesa la humanidad.

El evento es un espacio de debate sobre problemas e innovaciones actuales de los estudios de visualidad que permita el diálogo interdisciplinar entre investigadores, académicos, creadores, docentes y estudiantes que tienen como objeto de investigación aspectos estéticos, tecnológicos, políticos y culturales de las imágenes. Igualmente se constituye en un espacio de referencia de los debates contemporáneos asociados a la visualidad dentro de América Latina.

*CFP* "SOCIEDAD E IDENTIDAD EN EL AUDIOVISUAL LATINOAMERICANO Y ESPAÑOL", NÚMERO ENERO 2022, MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

A lo largo del siglo XX, los medios audiovisuales han sido los constructores más potentes de imaginarios sociales e identitarios. En el siglo XXI, la realidad de la globalización, la generalización de Internet y de las redes sociales y el surgimiento de las plataformas de consumo online han impulsado exponencialmente el intercambio cultural de dichos imaginarios. Se ha conformado así una cultura global que aglutina de forma paradójica la homogeneidad y la diversidad.

Por este motivo, este monográfico intenta responder a algunas cuestiones que se plantean en torno a la construcción de los imaginarios audiovisuales y suscitar el análisis de esta realidad compleja, tanto en el pasado como en el presente. El espacio de debate propuesto establece como marco la producción audiovisual (cine, televisión y otros canales posibles) de España y de Latinoamérica, con el fin de centrarse en la evolución social de estos ámbitos geográficos a partir de su representación en los medios.

A continuación, se proponen algunas líneas generales, aunque no exclusivas en torno al tema propuesto para el monográfico

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 6TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT

The 6th Annual International Conference on Communication and Management

1st-5th August, 2021

Communication Institue of Greece, Athens, Greece

The 6th  Annual International Conference on Communication and Management (ICCM2021) aims to provide an opportunity for academics, professionals, and industry experts from various fields, with cross-disciplinary interests, to discuss the future directives and innovations in communication and management.

We seek to build bridges between academia and professionals in the domains treated by this interdisciplinary conference. As a result, in addition to traditional panels, we welcome ideas for laboratories, workshops, and seminars to demonstrate projects, exchange and discuss ideas, and share best practices in relation to the conference themes.

*CFP* "FRENCH THOUGHT IN DIALOGUE", VOL. 9.2, 2021 (II) ISSUE, CULTURE AND DIALOGUE JOURNAL

Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, the Journal seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator. Our second 2021 Issue (Vol. 9.2) will focus on the theme of French Thought in Dialogue

This Issue welcomes contributions from any areas of French philosophy or theory of culture that explore in one way or another one of the following topics:

• Dialogical or intercultural experience 
• French thought and otherness, which may relate to one or more particular cultural perspectives (Eastern, African, Western, Indian etc.) 
• Philosophical reflection on specific aspects of French thought (anthropological, social, religious, political, psychological, scientific etc.) 
• Critique of the idea of French thought from across the traditions of interpretive and analytic philosophies

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION, GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY", CHAPTER BOOK

The Rowman Series explores and complicates the interlinked notions of “local’ and “global,” by integrating global dependency thinking, world-system theory and local, grassroots, interpretative, participatory theory, and research on social change.

In the current world state, globalization and localization are seen as interlinked processes and this marks a radical change in thinking about change and development. It could integrate macro- and micro-theory. It also marks the arising of a new range of problems. One of the central problems is that the link between the global and the local is not always made clear.

The debates in the general field of ‘international and intercultural communication’ have shifted and broadened. They have shifted in the sense that they are now focusing on issues related to ‘global culture,’ ‘local culture,’ ‘(post)modernity’ and ‘multiculturalism’ instead of their previous concern with ‘modernization,’ ‘synchronization’ and ‘cultural imperialism.’ 

*CFP* CALL FOR ACADEMIC ESSAYS, EASTERN EUROPE, RUSSIA AND EAST ASIA SECTION, THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND COMMUNICATION

This is a call for the Eastern Europe, Russia and East Asia Section of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Communication.

Race and ethnicity as social categories and concepts continue to generate critical perceptions of differences that ultimately define who we are in local, national and international settings. 

We are looking for academic essays that provide an in-depth look at issues of race, ethnicity and communications from the Eastern European, Russian and East Asian perspectives. 

Contributions will not only identify the malaise of our times with regard to the topics of race and ethnicity, but will also provide a bridge to understanding our historical and political pasts that affect our present and will continue to have an impact on our future. 

*CFP* "ETHICAL PLURALISM AND INTERCULTURAL INFORMATION ETHICS IN ASIAN CONTEXTS", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EASTERN ASIA

The early 1990s and the Internet’s rise as an engine of globalization forced a central task upon emerging Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE): how to conceptualize and implement a global information and computing ethics conjoining (quasi-) universal ethical norms and principles with a robust defense of local, culturally variable identities and practices? Discourses pitting a homogenous imposition of Western values and norms against resistance to such homogenization for defending local cultural identities, but at the cost of potential fragmentation and isolation, first forced these issues. Increasing recognition of “computer-mediated colonization” – as Western-centric cultural norms and communicative preferences, embedded in ICT design, were imposed upon “target” cultures – made these concerns still more urgent.

In response, ethical pluralisms (EPs), as conceptualizing connections (such as shared norms) preserving irreducible local differences, were developed and successfully implemented in both Western and non-Western contexts. But Western-based EPs remain open to critique. In Asia, EP is integral to conceptions of resonance and harmony in Daoist, Confucian, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions. Furthermore, Chinese and Indian technological innovation hubs have also emerged, grounding further exploration of Asian-rooted conceptions of EP, resonance, and harmony, which remain central to an IIE opposing colonizing adaptation of Western values and norms in Non-western cultures. These are especially critical vis-à-vis the ongoing encroachment of advanced ICTs, e.g. AI, Big Data, the IoT, “surveillance capitalism” and the Chinese Social Credit System, as increasingly defining our cultural lives.

*CFP* "NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

"Narratives of Displacement" International Conference

6 November 2020 - Palma, Spain

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

The British and Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group (BRICCS), Unversity of the Balearic Islands, Spain

in collaboration with

Research Project RTI2018-097186-B-I00 and RED2018-102678-T (MCI/AEI/ERDF, EU)

The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will particularly focus on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. The subject of displacement will be regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”.

*CFP* "FROM #DIGITALREVOLUTION TO THE #NEWSILKROAD", 25TH DISCOURSENET CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL DISPOSITIVES

25th DiscourseNet Conference on Global Dispositives

From #DigitalRevolution to the #NewSilkRoad

12-15.11.2020

University of Tyumen

25th DiscourseNet Conference on Global Dispositives (#DN25, November 12-15 2020) deals with the processes of social change that are discursively driven and supported by technological infrastructures and new cultural, economic and political relations. In the context of globalization, they affect transformations in all social domains – from economy to culture, including media and education, (digital) technology, industry and environment, politics and governance.

Global Dispositives can be recognised in popular examples of social change. First of all, the global political and economic projects, i.e. the discourses evolving around the Belt and Road Initiative, new infrastructural development of the Arctic region, Eurasian Economic Union but also on small-scale and in semi-official or informal organisations such as the Three Seas Initiative, Visegrad Group or countries within the mini-Schengen integration project. Secondly, global dispositives can be tied to discourses of technology, security and warfare. Examples are not only projects such as the Internet itself (or rather the entire World Wide Web), but also discourses bound up to its structural changes like the implementation of 5G internet technology, balkanization of the internet, various concepts of IoT or surveillance etc. 

*CFP* "CHINESE AESTHETICS: TRADITIONAL AND TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES", SPECIAL VOLUME, THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS (JCLA)

China has a long and rich tradition of artistic practices and aesthetic theory, but this tradition has, in contemporary times, been underutilized in international philosophical aesthetics and transcultural theory. This issue of JCLA aims to address this problem by inviting papers that explore Chinese aesthetics, the role it has played in international and transcultural aesthetics, and the most promising ways it could contribute to these fields: 

• Chinese Aesthetic Theory (Traditional and Contemporary); 
• The “traveling” of Chinese art and aesthetics in the history, such as Chinoiserie; 
• Chinese aesthetics as inspirations for other aesthetic cultures or theoretical invention; 
• Comparative studies of aesthetics or artistic genres (poetry, painting, music, drama, calligraphy, etc) between Chinese and other cultural traditions. 

*CFP* “INTERCULTURAL TENSIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS”, SPECIAL ISSUE, COMMUNICATION & ORGANISATION JOURNAL

CFP for a special issue on Intercultural tensions in organizations in the French journal Communication & Organisation. Articles must be written in French. Abstracts are due by March, 1st. See full CFP on the journal website.


Summary

Although a large body of research on intercultural communication has adopted “liquid” approaches to the concept of culture, open to its plurality and endeavoring to go past national scales, these views seem to remain scarcely represented among francophone work conducted within the field of information and communication sciences and focusing on organizations. Volume 58 of the French journal Communication & Organisation will explore this dimension and invites contributions using a critical framework to interculturality with the aim of shedding light on the following issues, from theoretical, empirical and/or methodological viewpoints (the following list is not exhaustive):

*CFP* “HOW SHOULD WE LIVE IN CULTURAL DIVERSITY? BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN TIMES OF FEAR”, 26th NORDIC NETWORK FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION 2019 CONFERENCE

The 26th Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication 

How should we live in cultural diversity? Building sustainable communities in times of fear 

28-30 de Noviembre de 2019

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences 

Valmiera, Latvia 

Along with the extension of submission deadline till October 7, the NIC2019 Organizing team has an honour to announce the conference's first key-note speaker Prof. Dr. Dominic Busch -- a Professor of Intercultural Communication and Conflict Research at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany. The title of his keynote at the NIC 2019 will be Intercultural Sustainability: In Search for Ethical Foundations in Intercultural Communication Research.

In his studies, Dominic Busch explores how ethical orientations of society are reflected in the academic research of intercultural communication. Following a discourse approach, notions of intercultural communication in research and practice is seen as discursive constructions. Building on these insights, Dominic Busch argues for a stronger reflection of differing ethical orientations, which influence intercultural research. 

The 26th Nordic Intercultural Communication conference will be held in Valmiera - a more than 700 years old Hanseatic town located about 100km North-East of the capital Rīga. The conference language is English.

This time the overarching theme of the conference is centred on exploring cultural diversity and intercultural sustainability. The conference predominantly but not exclusively addresses the intercultural communication challenges and opportunities as illuminated, for instance, by international migration and diversity. Unfortunate by-products of these processes often are anger, fear, and societal division. The conference seeks to foreground the understanding of ways in which communities could be both diverse and integrated. The specific emphasis is on the notion of joint living in instead of merely with diversity in a variety of realms, including the practices of everyday interaction, education, policymaking, language and communication training, media, and so forth. Contributions from seasoned scholars as well as from students and practitioners interested in the various aspects of culture and communication are encouraged.

The potential forms of participation include individual presentations of either fully developed papers or work in progress, as well as panels and workshops. The participants are encouraged to submit their conference papers to the Journal of Intercultural Communication. This peer-reviewed publication is an outgrowth of the activities of the NIC.

This call for papers is addressed to scholars and practitioners focusing on but not limited to the following themes:

• Culture, communication and civic participation
• Building trust in societies
• Methods and practices of communicating, cultivating, and negotiating cultural diversity
• Cultural diversity in relation to education and pedagogy, training and management
• Intercultural aspects of migration and diasporic life
• Language training and cultural diversity
• Personal relationships across culturally diverse contexts
• Media, cultural diversity, and sustainable communities
• Social policy responses to the turbulence of the modern world - values, action, and communication

During the conference, the 3rd ESPAnet Baltics annual meeting will take place. More about the organization itself can be found at this site.

Individual paper proposals should follow the abstract format of approximately 500 words (including the title and reference information). Panel proposals should also be approximately 500 words, including rationale, a list of proposed participants as well as their individual contribution.

The submission system is available here. Submission deadline is extended till October 7, 2019. We look forward to seeing you in Valmiera!

The 26th NIC conference is organized by the Faculty of Society and Science at the Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Valmiera City Municipality and the Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation (LAPAS). For further inquiry, you are welcome to contact the chair of the organizing committee Liene Ločmele at liene.locmele[at]va.lv.  

*CFP* "COMPARATIVISM, IDENTITY, COMMUNICATION" (CIC2019), INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Comparativism, Identity, Communication (CIC2019) 

International Conference

International conference, Craiova, 11th-12th October, 2019. Twelfth edition.

By bringing the concepts of “comparativism”, “identity”, “communication” together, the conference will focus on the complex identities interactively engaged in the society conquered by communication.”

Transmodern globalized communication implies rapid, spectacular, misleading and ambivalent processes: communication can be seen as a means of emancipation of the individual/nations, but also as a means of controlling them. It is necessary, therefore, to rethink “human condition” in the context of interculturalism and “netocracy” and from the point of view of mutual conditioning and interactive feedback. The opening towards otherness, which accompanies the transgression of the borders of communication, supposes identity awareness.  Multicultural cohabitation is possible if individuals become aware of symbols of identity and of their value, if they consciously participate in the intercultural dialogue and operate with flexible concepts and, by all means, if they place themselves under the unifying sign of meaning.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION TO IMAGINE DESIRABLE FUTURES IN LATIN AMERICAN", SPECIAL ISSUE, CONTRATEXTO JOURNAL

Contratexto is an Open Access refereed academic journal published by the Faculty of Communication at the University of Lima every six months (two issues per year from 2015), with emphasis on the field of communication and related branches, designed for academics, professionals and students of communication, social sciences and humanities. It edits articles, research papers, essays and bibliographical reviews in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

The 33rd edition of Contratexto will address the questions and challenges in the field of research in communication in the short, medium and long term, from a Latin American perspective.

In the words of the Venezuelan researcher Antonio Pasquali, in his speech at the last biannual Congress of the Latin American Association of Researchers (ALAIC), on the field of communication, he considered that its future involves communicating in diverse societies with inclusion, equality and democracy, because "only diversity is fertile". A diversity that characterizes our continent and that, in terms Jesús Martín Barbero, represents the place from which to think about communication, "with one's own head, the experience of today's world". 

*CFP* "INNOVATIVE TEACHING PEDAGOGIES INTERCULTURALITY AND TRANSVERSAL SKILLS", 4TH INTERNATIONAL TEACHING FORUM

International Conference 4th International Teaching Forum

"Innovative teaching pedagogies interculturality and transversal skills”

Université Clermont Auvergne (France)

Communication et Sociétés (EA 4647) & Clermont Recherche en Management (CleRMa, EA 3849)

In association with Shanghai Normal University (China), Utah Valley University (United States)

Thursday 14th and Friday 15th November, 2019, Clermont-Ferrand (France)

According to the OECD, the internationalization of higher education has accelerated over the p past fifteen years. With nearly 4.6 million international students in 2015, higher education institutions place the mobility of students at the centre of their methodologies. Most often student mobility takes the form of semesters and internships abroad as immersion in intercultural environments appears to facilitate the development of academic and non-academic skills. Numerous studies have shown the relevance of this type of educational experience (Ballatore 2006, Teichler and Janson 2007, Brandenburg 2014, Tarrant et al 2014, Potts 2015). 

*CFP* "TRANSMEDIA AS A STRATEGY: CRITICAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE FOR TODAY'S MEDIA GALAXY", SPECIAL ISSUE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSMEDIA LITERACY

The International Journal of Transmedia Literacy has launched a new Call for Papers for its next issue 5 (2019), guest-edited by Dr Stefano Calzati (Tallinn University of Technology and Politecnico of Milan) and Prof. Asun López-Varela (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

The issue's focus is on "Transmedia as a Strategy: Critical and Technical Expertise for Today’s Media Galaxy" and it aims to highlight the heterogeneity of the transmedia galaxy: How to critically approach the communicative phenomena that are part of the transmedia galaxy? What are the skills and competences needed to create transmedia outputs?

The intersection of these questions characterises the middle-ground between theory and practice, which can be best explored by highlighting the operativity of transmediality as not much a descriptive term, but a strategy for better understanding (and teaching) transmedia phenomena.

*CFP* "CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, REPUTATION, AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT", SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL THEORY

In recent years, the issue of character assassination (CA) gained prominence mainly due to public interest to issues concerning incivility and the frequent use of aggressive communication by political actors following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Character assassination refers to the use of personal attack or another form of symbolic offense designed to reduce the credibility of the target or undermine his/her reputation in the evaluation of some third party audience. Essentially, character assassination is a communication process and an act of persuasion in which the attacker attempts to influence public opinion who plays the role of the judge or the evaluator of the target’s quality of character. The view of character assassination as an outcome is primarily concerned with the effectiveness of character attacks and the assessment of persuasive effects of negative engagement. The academic community has been working on this notion since years, preceding the boom of CA use by media and public figures, but this research never reached a broader public and in particular was never translated into a social theory debate.

*CFP* "ALTER/NATIVE SPACES", EASA CONFERENCE FRANCE

Alter/Native Spaces

EASA (European Association for Studies of Australia)

 Biennial Conference

18-20th September 2019

Université de Toulon, France

Recent events in Australia remind us that Australia is still caught in discourses on “nation”, “belonging” and “identity” in an environment that fails to produce new alternatives inthisso-called “postcolonial”, “multicultural” country. By proposing Alter/Native Spaces the 2019 EASA conference intends to go beyond the postcolonial to examine how the prefix “alter” is linked both to the notion of an alternative and to the notion of multiplicity, and how Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledges may interact and form new spacesto reframe the relationship between settler nation and Indigenous peoples by instating their presence in place of their absence.

*CFP* "NONVIOLENCE AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LONDON CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

“Nonviolence and Intercultural Dialogue” International Conference. 8-9 June, 2019 – London, UK. Organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research.

“We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed, but we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it” – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi. 

The principle of nonviolence, also known as nonviolent resistance, rejects the use of physical violence to achieve social or political change. History shows that the success of peaceful social transformation depends largely on individuals who are charismatic, knowledgeable, skilled in the strategies and methods of nonviolence (Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, Chavez, Walesa, Dalai Lama, Louise Patterson, Menchu and others). Gene Sharp coined the term revolutionary nonviolence in the 20th century and transformed the meaning of the nonviolence from the passive to an active agent as a framework for creating peace.

*CPF* CALL FOR PAPERS WORLD OF MEDIA JOURNAL

The journal World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies (shortened – World of Media) is affiliated with the National Association of Mass Media Researchers (NAMMI), established in 2011 as a professional association of media and communication researchers.

The journal has been published annually since 2009. Since 2018, the journal appears on a quaterly basis (4 times a year). It represents a review of original research in the field of media and journalism studies conducted by authors from diverse cities and institutions. World of Media is aimed at promoting the development of media and journalism studies in both national and global contexts, and stimulating a wider public interest in the journalism theories, methods, findings and applications generated by research in communication and allied fields.