[ecrea] Dialogue as Global Action: Interacting Voices and Visions across Cultures

status: CfP Call for papers
conference
Dialogue as Global Action: Interacting Voices and Visions across Cultures
25.09.2015-26.09.2015
Ovidius Univrsity, Constanta, Romania

Call for Papers
ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue)

3rd ESTIDIA Conference
Dialogue as Global Action:
Interacting Voices and Visions across Cultures

Conference Theme

Due to its engaging, emulating and exploratory nature, dialogue is an 
essential form of human communication, action and interaction. According 
to Vygotsky (1978), any true understanding is dialogic in nature. As 
social human beings, we participate in a wide range of dialogues in 
various contexts and at different levels, in a shared search for 
increased understanding of issues and phenomena, for questioning ideas 
and actions, for joint problem-solving. These multi-layered dialogues 
have dramatically increased with the widespread use of social media, 
which now enable members of any social, gender, ethnic, racial or 
cultural group to raise and make their voices heard while articulating 
current concerns and addressing critical issues of inequality, 
discrimination, socio-political underrepresentation and 
misrepresentation. The aim of this conference is to take the local and 
global dialogue to a higher level by extending its scope and empowering 
role as a springboard for critical
reflectio
 n and self-reflection, for in-depth issue problematisation, for 
multi-voiced interpersonal resonance, for constructive polyphony of 
intersecting, contradictory and complementary voices. In the Bakhtinian 
(1981) theoretical tradition, these social voices not only represent the 
world, they also convey societal norms and moral values. In other words, 
multiple voices express not only how people see the world, but also how 
they feel about it.

For a better understanding of how meaning is created through the 
mechanisms and strategies of dialogue, it is important to investigate 
how voices are woven in discourse, how themes and voices intermingle in 
a polyphonic way. One way of understanding the shifting qualities of 
individual voices as multiple agencies or roles is provided by Goffman's 
(1981) concept of participation framework (based on the distinction 
between author, animator and principal). At the same time, as has been 
pointed out by Couldry (2010), having a voice is not enough: we need to 
know that our voice matters, i.e. it has legitimacy. Hence, following 
Wertsch (1991), we need to realize that in internalizing forms of social 
interaction, the individual takes on and interrelates with the voices of 
others, which accounts for the complexity of -multivoiced' dialogues. 
While joining in a dialogic polyphony of voices, each voice shares a 
particular experience, viewpoint, or sets of attitudes to reality, all of
which are
  instrumental in shaping actions, interactions and relationships. As a 
result, dialogue is the locus where different beliefs, commitments, 
ideologies come into contact and confront each other through the 
intermediary of intersecting voices.
Authors are invited to present papers on a broad spectrum of research 
topics (both discipline-specific and multi-disciplinary) that include, 
but are not restricted to the following:

- Glocal voices in inclusive or exclusive dialogues
- Multiple voices crisscrossing in online dialogue
- Voicing viewpoints in multimodal communication
- Dialogue genres in multi-party interactions (debates, disputes, 
controversies)
- Voices in dialogue across time and space
- Converging vs. diverging voices in dialogue
- Gendering voices in public and/or private dialogue
- Voices shaping inter-ethnic dialogue
- Voices interacting in cross-cultural dialogue
- Voices that clash, dialogues that break down
- Voices in institutional and non-institutional dialogue
- Inclusive vs. non-inclusive dialogue across cultures and continents
- Public and private voices in sustained dialogue
- Face-to-face and/or virtual trust-building dialogues
- Speaker roles vs. listener roles in dialogic interactions
- Competing and collaborative voices in dialogue
- Legitimizing and delegitimizing voices in dialogue
- Polyphony of voices in harmonious or disharmonious dialogue
- Intertextuality in multi-voiced dialogue

We welcome contributions from diverse fields of enquiry, including 
linguistics, media studies, journalism, cultural studies, psychology, 
rhetoric, political science, sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and 
anthropology.

Keynote speakers

Prof. Cornelia Ilie, Zayed University, UAE, (cornelia.ilie /at/ gmail.com)

Prof. Jonathan Clifton, Université de Valenciennes, France, 
(jonathanclifton /at/ hotmail.fr)


Thematic Workshops

Workshop on "Multiple Visuals, Multiple Visions: Dialogue of signs and 
sign systems; Multimodality" (presentations in both English and French)

Chair: Prof. Daniela Roven?a-Frumu?ani (University of Bucharest, Romania)

Abstract Submission

We invite submissions of abstracts for paper presentations (20 minutes 
for presentation, to be followed by 10 minutes for questions) to be 
scheduled in parallel sessions.

The abstract should include the name, institutional affiliation and 
email address of the author(s), the paper title, and four-five keywords. 
The abstract should be approximately 500 words in length.
All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference scientific 
committee according to the following criteria: originality and/or 
importance of topic; clarity of research question and purpose; data 
sources; theoretical approach; analytical focus; relevance of findings 
if already available.


Workshop Proposal Submissions

In addition to paper presentations, thematic workshops are being planned 
within the framework of the ESTIDIA 2015 conference. Proposals for 
workshops are invited. They should cover a topic of relevance to the 
theme of the conference. Proposals should contain relevant information 
to enable evaluation on the basis of importance, quality, and expected 
output. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers. 
Proposals should be 1-2 pages long and include at least the following 
information:

- The workshop topic and goals, their significance, and their 
appropriateness for ESTIDIA 2015
- The intended audience, including the research areas from which 
participants may come, the likely number of participants (with some of 
their names, if known)
- Organizers' details: a description of the main organizers' research 
and publication background in the proposed topic; and complete addresses 
including webpages of the organizers

Important Dates

- Submission of abstracts                            March 29, 2015
- Submission of workshop proposals        April 10, 2015
- Notification of acceptance                         April 26, 2015
- Registration (early bird)                                July 31, 2015

Email submission to:
- Ana Maria Munteanu, (anamaria.munteanu /at/ univ-ovidius.ro)
- Olivia Chirobocea, (olivia.chirobocea /at/ univ-ovidius.ro)

Conference website: http://litere.univ-ovidius.ro/; http://www.estidia.eu/

Registration fee

The early bird registration fee (by 31 July 2015) is 70 EUR, late 
registration fee (after 31 July 2015) is 80 EUR. The ESTIDIA membership 
fee (10 EUR) will be paid at the conference venue. The conference fee 
includes the book of abstracts, the published conference proceedings, a 
conference bag, a welcome cocktail, refreshments/coffee breaks and a 
guided sightseeing tour of Constan?a.

Account holder: -Ovidius' University of Constan?a
Bank: BCR Sucursala CONSTAN?A, Train, 68, Constan?a, Romania
SWIFT Code: RNCBROBU
IBAN Code:
1.    RO28RNCB0114032053160001/ EUR
2.    RO71RNCB0114032053160003/ USD

Publication procedure

All accepted papers (following editorial review) will be included in the 
conference proceedings published in International Journal of 
Cross-cultural Studies and Environmental Communication (ISSN 2285 - 3324).
Authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit their 
papers for publication in Special Issues and regular issues of relevant 
high-impact international academic journals.

Scientific Committee

Fabienne Baider - Department of French Studies and Modern Languages, 
Cyprus University
Mihai Coman - Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences, 
University of Bucharest, Romania
Nicoleta Corbu - National School of Political Studies and Public 
Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Cornelia Ilie - Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 
President of ESTIDIA
Adrian Lesenciuc - "Henri Coanda" Air Force Academy, Bra?ov, Romania
John McKeown - MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey
Esther Pascual Olivé - Department of Communication Studies, Groningen 
University, The
Netherlands
Daniela Roventa-Frumu?ani - Faculty of Journalism and Communication 
Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania
Helen Spencer-Oatey - Centre for Applied Linguistics, Warwick 
University, U.K.
Ana Maria Munteanu - Centre for New Media and Transdisciplinary 
Dialogue, Ovidius University, Constan?a, Romania
Massimiliano Spotti - Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Organising Committee

Cristina Tamas, PhD, Associate professor, Dean of the Faculty of 
Letters, Ovidius University, (cristina.tamas /at/ univ-ovidius.ro)
Liliana Carmen M?run?elu, PhD, Associate professor, Director, Department 
of Modern Languages for Specific Purposes, Ovidius University, 
(carmen.maruntelu /at/ univ-ovidius.ro)
Aida Todi, Ovidius University, (aidatodi /at/ yahoo.com) (publications)
Raluca Petre, Ovidius University, (raluca.petre /at/ univ-ovidius.ro)
Alina Popescu, Ovidius University (alina.popescu /at/ univ-ovidius.ro)
Valentin Vanghelescu, University of Bucharest,  
(valentinvanghelescu /at/ yahoo.com)

Contact

Please check periodically the Conference website or send inquiries to:

        Ana Maria Munteanu, (anamaria.munteanu /at/ univ-ovidius.ro)
        Olivia Chirobocea, (olivia.chirobocea /at/ univ-ovidius.ro)

Contact person: Cornelia Ilie
email: (cornelia.ilie /at/ gmail.com)
Address: College of Business
Zayed University
Abu Dhabi, UAE



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