International Conference: Identity and Intercultural Communication

Venue: Bucharest (Romania)
Period: Sep. 26 - 27, 2011

This conference aims to address issues such as the role of media in creating and enhancing local, regional, national, or transnational identities based on cultural, ethnic, and racial relationships, and the impact of the new communication technologies on the identity and strategies of professional organizations. Based on this perspective of intercultural communication, we are interested in what are the entities that are involved in the dialog, the dynamics of multicultural environment and the social discourses, and the changes in the construction of self-identity in the relationship with the Other.

We seek contributions that might help in locating proper ways to think about the concept of identity in intercultural contexts. We encourage the presentation of new research by scholars, policy makers, or advertisers, with the aim of providing an international forum for these important topic. We accept contributions in the following forms:

– theoretical presentation adding new insights to the debate in the literature;
– original empirical research;
– case studies.

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Keynote Speaker

Hans-Jörg Trenz – ARENA Center for European Studies, Norway

Hans-Jörg Trenz is a research professor at ARENA Center for European Studies, in Oslo. He has previously been senior researcher at Humboldt-University of Berlin, post-doctoral fellow in the graduate school 'The New Europe' at Humboldt University/Freie University of Berlin, researcher at Münchner Projektgruppe Sozialforschung, Munich.

Trenz studied sociology, political science, criminology and Romance languages at the University of Saarbrücken/Germany, University of Bari, Italy, University of Barcelona and Middlesex University in London. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. In January 2005 Hans-Jörg Trenz concluded his 'Habilitationsverfahren' at Humboldt University in Berlin.

This conference is open to anyone who submits a paper, and pays the conference fee by September 1.

Important Deadlines

June 25, 2011: abstract submission;
July 10, 2011: abstract acceptance (notification of authors);
August 15, 2011: full paper submission;

Abstracts

The abstracts (max. 500 words followed by 3-5 keywords) will be submitted for review in electronic MS Word format. Please provide the full names, affiliations, mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of all authors, indicating the contact author. There will be accepted only one paper for each participant as a first author. Abstracts will be submitted online to the following e-mail address: iic-conference-2011@univ-lyon2.fr . The official languages of the conference are English and French.

Selected papers will be published, after the conference, in the conference volume. To this end, full papers will be re-submitted to peer-review process. The authors will receive confirmation via email.

The Conference fee is 100 euro per participant. For PhD and MA candidates the conference fee is 50 euro per participant. The fee will have to be paid no later than September 1st, 2011.

e-mail: iic-conference-2011@univ-lyon2.fr