[ecrea] cfp 1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Communication in Professional Contexts

Call for PAPERS – ICDC1

Extended deadline for submission: April 1 2015



Organisational Communication – from Academic and Practical Perspectives

1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and 
Communication in Professional Contexts

http://www.discourse-communication.aau.dk

Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

August 18-21 2015



PLENARY SPEAKERS

Mats Alvesson (Lund University, Sweden)

Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Per Linell (Linköping University, Sweden)

Nana Balle (Arla Foods, Denmark)



PHD WORKSHOP WITH MATS ALVESSON ON AUGUST 18 2015

Reflexive Methodology – A Workshop 
(http://www.discourse-communication.aau.dk/phd-workshop/)



CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE AND THEMES

The key purpose of the conference is to explore and further develop 
organizational communication from different perspectives and address 
opportunities and limitations of the interaction between different 
social actors in professional contexts.

In an increasingly complex world, where groups with different interests 
and expectations are contesting dominant discourses, the adaptation of 
organizational communication constitutes a strategic, linguistic and 
communicative challenge. Where previously the primary concern of 
organizations would have been to communicate with a clearly defined and 
relatively small number of stakeholder groups (e.g. customers, 
investors, suppliers and employees) about issues that relate to the 
financial and commercial aspects of the business, they are now required 
to address and communicate with a much more diverse set of stakeholders 
about matters that involve social and environmental change from local as 
well as global perspectives.



In part, this development has arisen from the increasingly global nature 
of business and its concomitant imprint on natural and social 
environments across the world. However, the increased public awareness 
of the contestability of professional and expert knowledge has also led 
to intensified interaction among professionals and non-professionals, 
among other things as a result of new web based possibilities of making 
one’s voice heard, In this environment, communication becomes less 
predictable and less controllable, requiring that organizations adopt 
new modes of interaction. As an example, in recent years this has 
included focus on more dialogic forms of communication and the 
recognition of multiple and potentially conflicting identities among 
stakeholder groups.

By bringing practitioners and researchers together, the conference 
provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and sharing of interests 
across the field of organizational communication, highlighting the value 
of the Humanities to the analysis and solution of pertinent issues in 
business and society. The broadness of the conference theme supports 
this vision. Conference themes include, but are not restricted to, the 
following:

    * Stakeholder dialogue
    * Intercultural interaction
    * Organizational culture
    * Identity construction
    * Digital media

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

We invite you to submit abstracts for paper and poster sessions dealing 
with discourse and communication aspects relating to organizational 
communication. Papers may focus on empirical cases as well as conceptual 
or theoretical issues within the above or related themes:

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and should include title of paper, 
research topic, method, empirical data, theoretical approach, (expected) 
findings and references (max. 5 references).

English is the working language of the conference.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 1st 2015.

For more information, see 
http://www.discourse-communication.aau.dk/abstracts/



REGISTRATION

Details about the registration procedure and deadlines will be made 
available no later than around the time for abstract submission. There 
will be reduced registration fees for students as well as reduced 
early-bird fees.



CONFERENCE ORGANISERS

The conference is organized by the research group ‘Communication and 
Culture in Professional Settings’ at Aalborg University 
(http://www.en.cgs.aau.dk/research/research-groups/procom/



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: April 1 2015

Notification of acceptance: May 8 2015

PhD-workshop: August 18 2015

Sessions: August 18 – 21 2015 (Welcome reception on August 18)



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