[ecrea] 6th International RCA Conference - Communication-2012 “Communication in a Changing Society”

Russian Communication Association
Siberian Federal University
Institute of Philology and Language Communication

6th International RCA Conference
Communication-2012
"Communication in a Changing Society"

You must be the change you wish to see in the world
(Mahatma Gandhi)

First Call for Papers

Russian Communication Association (RCA) in collaboration with Eurasian 
Communication Association of North America (ECANA) and the Institute of 
Philology and Language Communication at Siberian Federal University are 
happy to announce the forthcoming 6th International RCA Conference: 
"Communication in a Changing Society".
The Conference is convened in partnership with National Communication 
Association (NCA), International Communication Association (ICA), 
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), 
Polish Communication Association (Polskie Towarzystwo Komunikacji 
Spo?ecznej, PTKS), International Federation of Communication 
Associations (IFCA), World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA), Russian 
Association for Film and Media Education (RAFM) and Kazakhstan 
Communication Association (KazCA).

Venue and Dates: Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian 
Federation, September 27-29, 2012.

Today's global society is on its path of rapid development due to the 
interplay of global and local factors. Communication processes are 
crucial to the solution of multiple problems the globalized humanity 
faces nowadays. Communication helps the world's nations to understand 
the differences and unite the potentials to achieve common goals. The 
forthcoming 6th RCA Conference is also aimed at uniting researchers from 
different countries and various domains, of various genres and types of 
human communication to form a multidisciplinary paradigm of contemporary 
communication studies. This time the Conference participants are invited 
to convene in the very heart of Russia, in Siberia, with the aim of 
integrating their knowledge, competencies and approaches to promote the 
study of communication in the whole world.

The discussion will follow the following relevant topics:
? philosophy of communication
? research methods in communication
? speech communication
? interpersonal communication
? organizational communication
? political communication
? mass communication
? intercultural communication
? computer-mediated communication
? educational communication
? communications law
? health communication
? gender communication
? communication education
? communication design
? media education

Submissions from researchers of various aspects of communication are 
welcome starting from December 20, 2011. Deadline for submissions is 
April 1, 2012.

Working languages: Russian, English, German.

The Conference will feature plenary lectures and panel presentations, 
poster papers and round-table discussions, and workshops. Researchers 
who are interested in organizing focused round-tables, specialized 
workshops are encouraged to submit their topics.

Prospective participants and workshop/round-table organizers are kindly 
requested to submit and register at the Conference Website: 
http://conf.sfu-kras.ru/conf/communication-2012?locale=en. The 
submissions are subject to blind review. The Website will publish all 
the relevant information (participant's submission status, preparatory 
stages of the conference, participation conditions, publication 
guidelines, etc.). A special webpage of the RCA Website and a Facebook 
group (in Russian) will also publish the information related to the 
Conference (in Russian): http://russcomm.ru/rca_projects/rca-conf2012/ 
and http://www.facebook.com/groups/208406532572509/.

Conference materials (the authors' versions) will be digital published 
by the start of the Conference. Selected papers will be published in the 
refereed Journal of Siberian Federal University (Humanities and Social 
Sciences), ISSN 1997-1370: http://journal.sfu-kras.ru/home and the 
Russian Journal of Communication.

Conference fee will be announced later, and there will be a discount for 
graduate and post-graduate students, as well as for members of RCA and 
partnership organizations.
Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the participants. A 
wide choice of hotels or on-campus accommodation options will also be 
announced later.

Detailed information about the former conferences and other RCA projects 
can be found at:  http://www.russcomm.ru/rca_projects/ You can also find 
more about the Siberian Federal University and the Institute of 
Philology and Language Communication at: 
http://language.institute.sfu-kras.ru/en

Organizing Committee:
Lyudmila V. Kulikova, professor, Dr of Philology, Director of the 
Institute of Philology and Language Communication, Siberian Federal 
University, Krasnoyarsk, President of the Organizing Committee
Irina N. Rozina, RCA President, Dr of Education, professor at the 
Department of Information Technologies, Institute of Management, 
Business and Law (Rostov-on-Don), Vice-President of the Organizing Committee
David C. Williams, ECANA Executive Director, Ph.D., professor at Florida 
Atlantic University, USA, Foreign participants Coordinator

Program Committee:
Olga A. Leontovich, Dr of Linguistics, professor and head of the 
Department of Intercultural Communication and Translation at Volgograd 
State Social and Pedagogical University, Co-Chairman of the Program 
Committee
Viacheslav B. Kashkin, Dr of Linguistics, professor and head of the 
Department of Translatology and Intercultural Communication at Voronezh 
State University, Co-Chairman of the Program Committee
Michael D. Hazen, ECANA President, Ph.D., professor at Wake Forest 
University, USA, the Program Committee's Foreign participants Coordinator

Major Conference Dates:
December 20, 2011 - submissions and abstracts are welcome
April 1, 2012 - deadline for submissions and abstracts
June 1, 2012 - notification of acceptance
July 1, 2012 - Abstracts and Final Program
September 27-29, 2012 - Conference
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