*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, NEXT ISSUE, INTERAÇÕES JOURNAL

Submissions for the new issue of the Interações Journal published by Instituto Superior Miguel are now open. The journal welcomes original articles that present research results and/or theoretical reflection in the different fields of Social and Human Sciences.

From an interdisciplinary editorial perspective, Interações' primary objective is to foster the reflection and diffusion of knowledge in the areas of Social and Human Sciences. The journal accepts articles of scientific investigation, reviews and critical essays, in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Interações is ruled by the double-blind review standard, ensuring the anonymity of reviewers and authors throughout the review process.

 

Deadline for submission of articles: October 10

*CFP* "DESARROLLOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS SOBRE MEDIOS, CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD: ARGENTINA Y AMÉRICA LATINA", CONGRESO MESO 2021

MESO invita a la contribución de artículos inéditos para la conferencia “Desarrollos Contemporáneos Sobre Medios, Cultura y Sociedad: Argentina y América Latina”. La conferencia, organizada por el Centro de Estudios sobre Medios y Sociedad en Argentina, tendrá lugar los días viernes 26 y sábado 27 de noviembre de 2021. La modalidad de esta edición será híbrida.

Este será el séptimo Congreso Anual que MESO organiza con el propósito de intercambiar conocimiento de investigación sobre las interacciones entre medios, cultura y sociedad. Para ver más información sobre los Congresos anteriores puede visitar nuestro sitio web. Contamos con el auspicio del Center for Global Culture and Communication de Northwestern University y del Center for Latinx Digital Media.

Se solicitan artículos que contribuyan a la discusión sobre medios, cultura y sociedad de manera empírica, teórica o metodológica, y que amplíen el conocimiento sobre esta temática en el ámbito nacional y regional. Los artículos podrán referirse a distintos aspectos de la comunicación, los medios y los bienes y servicios culturales expresados a través del periodismo, el entretenimiento–cine, teatro, televisión, música, etc.– la publicidad y el marketing, las relaciones públicas, las redes sociales, y los videojuegos, entre otros.

*CFP* "PANDEMEDIA. HOW COVID-19 HAS AFFECTED THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN SOCIETY", SPECIAL ISSUE, MEDIEKULTUR JOURNAL

Fundamentally, media technologies facilitate communication between two parties or more across vast distances - synchronously and asynchronously. During the Covid-19 pandemic era, these properties have proven important towards organizing mass testing as well as providing news, updates, and information. In addition to this, the many facets of digital communication in the modern workplace have become even more important. Aside from the many practical aspects where media technologies have proven valuable or necessary, social lives have been mediated as well through familiar social media platforms, message apps, and video conference software. 

 

Moreover, the Covid-19 era has highlighted debates over misinformation, conspiracy theories, fringe online cultures, and the role of surveillance technologies in society. None of these practices represent entirely new forms of media use, but due to the pandemic they have become necessary and apparent in new ways. In summation, this special issue will be open to a wide range of topics within the scope of media culture through the prism of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Suggested topics:

*CFP* "RHETORIC AS STRATEGIC THINKING", RHETORIC IN SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2021

8th Rhetoric in Society Conference

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26th–28th May 2021

Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany

We are very happy to announce that proposals are now invited for panels, papers, roundtables, and other forms of presentation to be delivered at Rhetoric in Society 8, which is the biannual conference organized by the Rhetoric Society of Europe. 

The incalculable nature of the COVID-19 pandemic obliges us to remain precautious. As the safety of our conference participants is of highest concern, we ought to point out that in an event of the pandemic extending into the late spring of 2021, the conference will be postponed. However, we remain optimistic and encourage you to submit your papers and panels and are looking forward to welcoming you in Tübingen. 

*CFP* "LIVING THE TEACHING LIFE IN A TIME OF COVID-19", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE CEA CRITIC

“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."

Carl Sandburg

Along with almost every organization that was planning to meet this year, the College English Association (CEA) eagerly awaited its annual national conference, in its particular case to beautiful Hilton Head Island. Then, the "black swan event" (many of us had never even heard of the term) occurred: the COVID-19 crisis. For many of us as annual pilgrims to the CEA Conference, the moment meant canceled flights and, even more jarringly, the sudden reality that our classes would go online. This moment gives new meaning to the term familiar to restaurant servers, "on the fly."

For our part as editors of The CEA Critic, what we anticipated as the good fun in assembling the conference's Proceedings issue became as moot as the indefinite suspension of the NBA season. Meanwhile, teachers and citizens alike have been forced to ponder the same root question: how do we proceed day to day? Obviously, there's lots to consider. So, instead of our Proceedings, we at The CEA Critic will assemble a special issue composed of conference-length essays (plus whatever other forms: see below) addressing how you as teachers and scholars are coping with the COVID-19's "new normal."

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y LOS EFECTOS DE LA PANDEMIA EN LA REALIDAD SOCIAL, EN LAS ORGANIZACIONES E INSTITUCIONES, EN LOS GOBIERNOS, Y EN LAS REPRESENTACIONES DE LA GLOBALIZACIÓN", SPECIAL ISSUE, SINTAXIS JOURNAL

En una sociedad acostumbrada a dar por hecho que la libertad de movimiento, la continuidad de las actividades y el libre albedrío de las personas en todo el mundo están asegurados y que su continuidad era un hecho irrefutable, el surgimiento de la pandemia más grande en la historia moderna puso en entredicho lo que realmente significa el margen de libertad que se tiene como ser humano antes las grandes circunstancias de la naturaleza. Las certezas que se tenían hasta antes de esta crisis sanitaria se vinieron abajo. El Covid-19 representa un baño de agua fría sobre la fragilidad de la condición humana. La pandemia saca a relucir los temores más profundos que aquejan desde siempre a la humanidad: el miedo a la muerte en aislamiento. La llamada Sopa de Wuhan (elaborada en una cocina o en un laboratorio, para el caso es lo mismo) revela la crisis de conciencia sobre insensatez del maltrato y abuso indiscriminado a la naturaleza.

La aparición aparentemente repentina del Covid-19 no es un acto aislado. Como se sabe, en 1918 murieron 60 millones de personas y el 25% de la población se vio afectada por la irrupción de la llamada Gripe española, que demostró ser más letal que las dos grandes Guerras Mundiales juntas. Se trata de la madre de todas las pandemias, más mortífera que las Peste del Peloponesio, que la Plaga Antonina, la Plaga de Justiniano y la Peste Negra.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, SPECIAL ISSUE, REVISTA EMPRESA Y HUMANISMO

The Revista Empresa y Humanismo invites the research community to submit their work for a special issue dedicated to the increase in life expectancy (longevity). Under this term we include all the changes that this increase will cause in all aspects of life:

• In the demographic structure. Greater life expectancy, fewer births
• In the labor market, which will change in line with demographic changes: fewer births, less poultry farmers, pediatricians, teachers and more geriatricians, nursing homes. New productive and service sectors
• Sustainability of the welfare state: pensions, disabilities, degenerative diseases...
• Legislative changes to adapt to these new situations
• New types of leisure. Demand for activities to fill the time of that third age still young and wanting to travel, learn, etc.
• Education: how to prepare a generation that will face so many changes: geographical mobility, adaptation to company changes New models of continuing education are necessary
• Impact of new technologies and their adaptation to all age groups
• What can companies contribute to this new scenario?

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y SEMIÓTICA", EDICIÓN 2021, REVISTA COMUNICACIÓN Y SOCIEDAD

Sin duda alguna, la revolución tecnológica de las últimas décadas ha trastocado las relaciones comunicativas de la sociedad; desde sus niveles íntimos y locales, hasta los procesos de comunicación públicos y globales. Consecuentemente, se requiere de un conocimiento de vanguardia y transdisciplinario que explique los profundos cambios en la sociedad contemporánea. Los nuevos objetos de mediación social nos obligan a repensar las consecuencias que tienen este tipo interacciones en nuestro entendimiento. Los medios masivos de comunicación no centralizados son una realidad nueva que ha comenzado a ser explorada en los estudios de la comunicación desde diversas miradas. No obstante, hay una de ellas que ha sido poco explorada y es la que paradójicamente ha estado históricamente asociada a los cambios de la cultura, su evolución tecnológica y la producción de sentido: la semiótica.

Canónicamente, la ciencia de la semiótica ha estudiado la semiosis y sus procesos de significación desde un enfoque teórico-práctico. Los estudios de caso abarcan desde la producción de contenidos y los objetos del diseño, así como una infinidad de entidades que comunican, evocan o generan semiosis; hasta el desarrollo conceptual de soportes para el significado, como es el caso de los medios masivos de interacción cotidiana, comunicación política o comercio digital. Si bien no es la única mirada conceptual de la comunicación y del lenguaje que se enfoca en la producción de sentido y significado, sí es la única que lo hace desde la semiosis. Debido a esto es una de las tradiciones intelectuales que ha migrado rápidamente desde la filosofía de la ciencia a las ciencias sociales, las humanidades, las ciencias de la vida, la ingeniería, la ciencia de sistemas y las ciencias cognitivas entre muchas otras. En menos de un siglo ha expandido su horizonte conceptual y con esto el horizonte conceptual de los estudios de la comunicación.

*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* CALL FOR ARTICLES, JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA, MEMORY AND SOCIETY

The Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society (JEMMS) explores the knowledge and understanding of past and present societies as constituted and conveyed via formal and nonformal educational media, within and beyond schools. Its focus is on various types of texts and images found in textbooks, museums, memorials, films and digital media. Of particular interest are conceptions of time and space, image formation, forms of representation, as well as the construction of meaning and identity (ethnic, national, regional, religious, institutional and gendered).

The contents of educational media may also be examined in relation to their production and appropriation in institutional, sociocultural, political, economic and historical contexts. The journal is international and interdisciplinary and welcomes empirically based contributions from the humanities, social sciences, STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), as well as theoretical and methodological studies.