[ecrea] IAICS CfP, February 1st

CfP IAICS 2014 Providence, USA July 31-August 4
For more information, visit 
http://harrington.uri.edu/iaics/iaics-conference/call-for-submission/


“Enhancing Global Community, Resilience and Sustainability
Through Intercultural Communication”
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR 
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES (IAICS)
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, KINGSTON-PROVIDENCE, RI, USA
PROVIDENCE, RI, USA, JULY 31-AUGUST 4, 2014

People around the world are interconnected, interdependent and mobile. 
Scholars and practitioners are more aware of the necessity to develop 
strong intercultural relations, based on mutual understanding in the 
context of intercultural interaction. Intercultural Communication has 
become a dominant paradigm connecting a range of disciplines. 
Globalization and increased diversity heighten the risk of communication 
failures and misunderstandings due to ethnocentrism, prejudice, sexism 
and environmental, social, and technological issues. They include 
Climate Change; Pollution and Resource Depletion; Global Food and Water 
Supply; Impact of Information Technology and Social Media; Political 
Oppression, Conflict and War;
Poverty; Societal Security and Personal Safety.

Global communication plays a key role in solving these problems. 
Increasingly, we must learn to rely on each other, build resilience, 
resolve conflicts peacefully, and strive for social equity by enhancing 
intercultural communication.

The conference theme focuses on aspects of interpersonal, inter-group 
and international communication. We must address both theoretical and 
empirical studies, as well as develop new conceptual and methodological 
approaches to affirm the centrality of the discipline. Collaborative 
research needs to stress communication and embrace synergies by joining 
efforts with other disciplines, including environmental and health 
sciences, business, engineering and information systems.
THE GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE:

    * To provide scholars, educators and practitioners from different 
cultural communities with opportunities to interact, network and benefit 
from each other’s research and expertise related to intercultural 
communication issues;
    * To synthesize research perspectives and foster interdisciplinary 
scholarly dialogue for developing integrated approaches to complex 
problems of communication across cultures;
    * To advance the methodology for intercultural communication 
research and disseminate practical findings to facilitate understanding 
across cultures;
    * to foster the importance of global cultural awareness and involve 
educators, business professionals, students and other stakeholders 
worldwide in the discourse about diversity and intercultural 
communication issues.

The International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies is 
soliciting submissions for the 20th International Conference on 
Cross-Cultural Communication to be held at the
University of Rhode Island, USA, July 31-August 4, 2014. Topic areas are 
broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following:

- Advertising and marketing
- Business communication
- Climate change and pollution
- Conflict, mediation and negotiation
- Corporate culture and management
- Communication failures
- Communication pedagogy
- Crisis/risk communication
- Critical cultural awareness
- Cross-cultural adaptation
- Cultural identity
- Culture and diplomacy
- Diversity of languages and cultures
- Ethnocentrism and stereotypes
- Environmental communication
- Ethnic studies
- Gender issues
- Global community
- Global food and water supply
- Group/Organizational communication
- Health communication
- Immigration and mobility
- Intercultural communication competence
- Intercultural communication in global context
- Intercultural communication and politics
- Intercultural conflict
- Intercultural education practices
- Intercultural interaction in science
- International journalism
- Interpersonal communication and relations
- Linguistics and intercultural communication
- Localization and globalization
- Media and social research
- Multiple cultures and interculturality
- New media and visual communication
- Philosophy and human behavior patterns
- Poverty
- Power in intercultural communication
- Psychological communication studies
- Public opinions and public policy
- Public relations
- Racial discrimination and ethnic relations
- Resource depletion
- Religion/spiritual communication
- Resilience among cultures
- Rhetorical communication
- Social equity
- Stereotypes and stereotyping
- Sustainability and globalization
- Translation studies
- Understanding across cultures
- Verbal and nonverbal communication
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Categories: Abstract, panel proposal, and workshop proposal may be accepted.

    * Abstract, 150-250 words in English, including position, 
affiliations, email addresses and mailing addresses for all authors. See 
the sample format of the abstract below.
    * Panel proposals reflecting the conference theme may be submitted. 
All panel proposals should provide a 100-word rationale and a 100-200 
word abstract of each panelist’s paper; include affiliation and email 
addresses for each panelist.
    * Workshop proposals relevant to the conference theme may be 
submitted. Proposal is expected to be 3-5 pages in length, single spaced

Deadline: Abstracts by February 15, 2014.

Complete panel proposals and roundtables by March 1, 2014

All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Submission to: (iaics2014uri /at/ gmail.com)

Conference hosts: International Association for Intercultural 
Communication Studies and the Harrington School of Communication and 
Media, University of Rhode Island.

Conference languages: English

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A SAMPLE ABSTRACT

The Development and Validation of the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale

Guo-Ming Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Communication Studies
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881, USA
Email: (gmchen /at/ uri.edu)

The present study developed and assessed reliability and validity of a 
new instrument, the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS). Based on a 
review of the literature, 44 items thought to be important for 
intercultural sensitivity were generated. A sample of 414 college 
students rated these items and generated a 24-item final version of the 
instrument which contains five factors. An assessment of concurrent 
validity from 162 participants indicated that the ISS was significantly 
correlated with other related scales, including interaction 
attentiveness, impression rewarding, self-esteem, self-monitoring, and 
perspective taking. In addition, the predicted validity test from 174 
participants showed that individuals with high ISS scores also scored 
high in intercultural effectiveness and intercultural communication 
attitude scales. Potential limitations and future direction of the study 
were discussed as well.

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