Conference Announcement "Globalization, Communication, and Cultural Identity" The 12th International Conference International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) San Antonio, TX (USA) 2-4 August 2006
Globalization enters a world in which people of different cultural backgrounds increasingly come to depend on one another. The advent of a new era of telecommunication and human interconnection especially brings with it questions of identity, competency, language, ethics, community, power, and social order in the process of global communication. Thus, to understand these questions and develop intercultural knowledge and skills becomes critical for a productive and successful life in the 21st century. Consequently, increasingly heated discussions among scholars in different disciplines have been focused on key issues and trends regarding globalization, communication, cultural identity, and their relationships. Topic areas are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following: Advertising Business communication across cultures Communication accommodation Communication and globalization Communication education Computer mediated communication Conflict and negotiation Crisis management Cross-cultural adaptation Cultural and linguistic diversity Cultural identity and globalization Digital communication Ethnicity and communication Group/organizational communication across cultures Health communication across cultures Information technology and culture Interpersonal/intercultural communication Intercultural/global communication competence Language and cultural Education Language and media Language and society Language attitude Language change and language stability Language policy Media and culture Media literacy Rhetoric studies Risk communication across cultures Translation theory Verbal/nonverbal communication across cultures Contact: Professor Guo-Ming Chen Department of Communication Studies University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 USA Tel: +1 (401) 874-4731 Fax: +1 (401) 874-4722 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.trinity.edu/org/ics/ _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
