09/05/2024

2025 CSCA Convention - Intercultural Communication Interest Group (ICIG) ... Reminder Call for Papers and Panels

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION INTEREST GROUP
Reminder Call for Papers and Panels
Central States Communication Association (CSCA)
Annual Convention-Cincinnati, OH 45202
April 1^st - 6^th, 2025

Widening the Scope

The Intercultural Communication Interest Group (ICIG) wants to remind you that we welcome the submission of competitive individual papers, panel proposals, and creative/interactive sessions. The purpose of ICIG is to promote the scholarship and practice of communication between, among, and within cultural groups. We encourage all forms of scholarship and research methodology in addressing this year’s theme: Widening the Scope.

The theme of widening the scope offers us meaningful space to consider future directions of IC scholarship, mentorship, and curriculum programming. Inviting us to ask (among other possible inquiries):

• How is our domain embodied by being, or interacting with, the stranger, the sojourner, the other? How are we widening the scope to address studies of diaspora, immigration, statelessness, or amongst refugee groups?
• How can we widen our scope to open avenues to understand environmental justice and environmental racism?
• How has our scope widened in addressing what it means to identify as an intercultural scholar today? How can widening our scope contribute to (re)building curricula that meet the needs of the next generation of intercultural scholars?
• How can widening the scope illuminate critical/intersectional paths that complicate static, certain, or transpicuous notions of culture? How can we widen our exploration to better understand the ways in which people negotiate multiracial identities in an increasingly transnational world?

Submission Deadline & Information

Submissions must be made via our CSCA online submission system site. A link will be available on the CSCA website (https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/callforpapers). Submissions must be received by 11:59 pm CDT, October 5, 2024, and any technology requests must also be made at the time of submission. Please be sure all potential presenters create a profile on the CSCA online submission system site. Any questions can be directed to ICIG program planner, Ahmet Aksoy at aaksoy@columbiasc.edu. For questions about the general call or the 2024 conference, contact Jeffrey T. Child, 2024 primary program planner jeffrey.child@unlv.edu.