Conferences and Papers

This page offers a look at conferences that may be of interest to CCT students. Competitive conference grant funding is available through both CCT and the Graduate School.

CCT conference grant application 

Graduate School conference grant application  (For academic year 2008-09, applications should be submitted to the Graduate School Dean's office by 5 p.m. on one of the following dates: Wednesday, October 1, 2008; or Friday, January 30, 2009)

Also keep in mind that there is funding available for papers and projects, as well as travel and education. Resources are below:
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
The Meyer Foundation

First Time Presenting experiences by Christine Quigley

Helpful Hints from CCT student Molly Moran

Creating Dynamic Presentations, Prof. Jeanine Turner's googlevideo presentation (also check out Prof. Turner's slides from the presentation)

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CCT-related CONFERENCES and CALLS FOR PAPERS
(by date within course cluster)

 Media and Politics

YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States

April 3 & 4, 2009

Amherst, Massachusetts

Technology, Business and the Economy

The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
March 30-April 2, 2008
Seattle, WA

8th Annual National Multicultural Business Conference
April 23 -25, 2008
Disney's BoardWalk Resorts, Orlando, Florida
Register Here

CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Communication Inquiry - Special issue on Media Reform and Public Policy

Deadline for submission is 31 October 2008.

Submissions should be made to the journal of communication inquiry online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcinquiry. Cover letters should indicate that the manuscript is for consideration in the special issue on media reform and public policy and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Intercultural Management Quarterly, a publication of the Intercultural Management Institute, American University
Intercultural Management Quarterly (IMQ) is dedicated to addressing the complex challenges that culture poses to the management of global organizations. IMQ contributions come from scholars, practitioners, industry professionals and students in the fields of intercultural communication, education, business, development and many others. IMQ continually welcomes submissions of articles related to intercultural communication and management issues.

IMQ is seeking submissions for its Winter 2008 issue. The deadline is February 18, 2008.

Possible topics include:

* Conflict/Post-Conflict Management Overseas
* Relationships Between Culture and Development
* Culture and Business
* Issues in International Human Resources
* Intercultural Training
* Culture and Technology
* Cross-Cultural Negotiation
* Intercultural Management Theory
* Book Reviews

Articles must be innovative and contribute to the knowledge in this field, but authors should avoid overly academic jargon or extensive footnotes or endnotes. Submissions should be no less than 1,000 words and no more than 2,000 words. Each submission is refereed by members of the IMQ editorial review board and accepted pieces are subject to editing.

You are encouraged to review past editions of IMQ; to do so, please visit our website at http://www.imi.american.edu/imq.htm

To submit an article or to subscribe, please contact IMQ Managing Editor Chris Saenger, at http://imqeditor@american.edu  

 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
September 26 - 28, 2008
George Mason University School of Law
Arlington, VA
Deadline for submissions is May 2.
Details available at: http://www.tprcweb.com/node/32

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Technology and Society

2008 Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium
The University of Chicago
DHCS Colloquium, November 1st - 3rd, 2008
Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Congress of Environmental Research

December 18-20, 2008; Goa, India

Deadline: September 18 2008

Sixth International Conference on the Book

October 25-27 2008

Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA

Deadline: Two weeks prior to the conference

ILLS 1: LOL (Illinois Language and Linguistics Society 1: Language On-Line)

Friday, May 29 - Sunday, May 31, 2009
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Deadline for papers: 12:00 Midnight, Jan 31 2009

Creating Second Lives: Reading and Writing Virtual Communities
Bangor University, England
Deadline for abstracts: 5 April 2008 (to be sent to a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk)

Media in Motion Symposium
The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage)
Research Alliance and MediaatMcGill
"The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age,"
Oct. 30-31, 2008
Deadline for proposals: May 31, 2008

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 Media, Art & Representation

Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission

April 24-26, 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Deadline for proposals: Friday, Jan. 9, 2009

Digital Mainstreams/Digital Undercurrents
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association San Francisco, CA - March 19-22, 2008.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Society for Textual Scholarship

Fourteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
March 18-21, 2009, New York University

Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2008

Mediascape: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2008 (DEADLINE EXTENSION)

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 Cultural Studies

Interrogating Diversity Annual Conference
American University
Friday and Saturday, March 21-22, 2008
Deadline for submission: January 21, 2008
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words. If your paper speaks specifically to one of our four themes, please indicate so in the subject line and/or include the session chair’s name.

quickanddirty IV: The DC Queer Studies
Graduate Symposium
April 17 & 18, 2008
The University of Maryland, College Park

Georgetown University Round Table on Language & Linguistics (GURT)
Telling Stories: Building bridges among Language, Narrative, Identity, Interaction, Society and Culture
Friday-Sunday, March 14-16

Digital Mainstreams/Digital Undercurrents
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association San Francisco, CA - March 19-22, 2008.

Interrogating Diversity Conference
March 21-22, 2008
American University
Washington, DC

Nebraska Digital Workshop
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
October 10-11, 2008
Lincoln, Nebraska

Web 2.0 (formerly Blogs and Wikis) at MPCA/ACA (Midwest Pop Culture Assn/American Culture Assn)

Octorber 3-5, 2008

Cincinatti, Ohio     

                                                                          

CALLS FOR PAPERS
quickanddirty IV: The DC Queer Studies
Graduate Symposium
Deadline for submission of materials: January 15, 2008
Submission must include: 250-word abstract, 1-2 page CV by e-mail attachment (Word or PDF only) to lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu. Put “quickanddirty” in the subject line of your message.

Nebraska Digital Workshop
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
October 10-11, 2008
Lincoln, Nebraska
Please send proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk on or before April 25, 2008 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, at kwalter1@unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100.

National Communication Association conference
Nov. 21-24, 2008
The due date for paper submissions is on Feb. 13.
There are dozens of call for papers in different areas of communication study.

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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

New technologies of the self, mobilities and (co-)construction of identity

Edited by:
Fred Dervin, Senior Lecturer,
Department of French Studies, University of Turku, Finland
(e-mail: freder@utu.fi)
&
Yasmine Abbas,
Doctor of Design, Harvard, USA
Independent scholar
(e-mail: abbas.yasmine@gmail.com)

The authors will explore aspects of the contributions of these new
technologies to the expression and (co-)construction of identitie(s) of
mobile individuals (physical and/or digital; short-term (expatriates,
businessmen, trainees, exchange students?) and long-term (migrants,
refugees, exiles?); inter-/intra- and/or transnational mobilities). Any of
the following issues can be addressed:

- The specificities of (co-)constructions of the self through new
technologies. How do they contribute to presenting the self?
- The potential differences between these technologies of the self and more
« traditional » ones.
- What is said about the self? How? How is it constructed or staged? With
whom? For whom? And why?
- Are there signs of manipulation of the self and identity collages?
- What myths related to identity seem to emerge?
- The position of the (real/fictive) interlocutor(s) and groups (cf.
peg-communities, Z. Bauman) in these constructions.
- How is the other constructed?
- What do visitors, readers, spectators or listeners seem to gain in terms
of reflections on their own identities?
- Problems in using but also researching the new technologies of the self
(ethics, psychological effects, in terms of relationships, interculturality?).

Submission procedure
Researchers and practitioners (from linguistics, sociology, anthropology,
psychology, education, IT?) are invited to submit a proposal (350 words)
clearly explaining the mission, concerns of their proposed chapter as well
as a short description of the corpus (if they plan on using one), the
method of analysis and a basic bibliography by March 1, 2008 to
freder@utu.fi & abbas.yasmine@gmail.com. The proposal can be in English or
French.
The followings will also be provided with the proposal: Name(s),
affiliation, a few lines about the author(s), and a list of major
publications.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 15, 2008.
Full chapters will be expected to be submitted by September 1st, 2008.