[ecrea] Call for Papers for Kappa Phi’s 1st International Communication Conference “Communication between Domination and Emancipation”

Call for papers for Kappa Phi’s First International Conference
„Communication between Domination and Emancipation, “ Banja Luka College
of Communications Kappa Phi, June 24–26, 2016

Banja Luka College of Communications Kappa Phi is pleased to invite you
to participate in its First International Communication Conference
“Communication between Domination and Emancipation.” The conference will
be held in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June
24-26, 2016.

Organizer
Banja Luka College of Communications is a small, independent, non-profit
institution of higher education, founded in 2000. The founding idea of
the school was to introduce communication studies to higher education,
as well as to introduce dialogic communication to education in our
country. It was a long time ago that we kicked the podiums, desks and
benches out of our classrooms. We wanted to talk to each other. We
wanted to make knowledge achievable by other means. That is what our
school has stood and struggled for ever since. This conference is
organized in part to mark 15 years of communication education at our
school. Thus the theme of the conference also subsumes a major
educational dilemma. And 15 years on, it seems that the importance of
talking to each other has only become more germane, not only to education.

Participants
We expect to host participants from the region as well as from other
European countries, USA and elsewhere. Our keynote speakers, who are
leading scholars in the field, will provide an engaging forum for the
debate and opportunity to learn from the best about the current ideas in
communication studies and related disciplines.

Conference theme
The theme of the conference is communication between domination and
emancipation.

Communication can be viewed, analyzed and conceived of as a means or
even form of domination. Communicative domination can be operationalized
as control, persuasion, propaganda or influence, as well as other forms
of “strategic” communication. At macrosocial levels, domination can also
be viewed as hegemony.

Communicative emancipation, on the other hand, is often associated with
the liberating potential of communication. The liberating potential of
communication can be embodied in knowledge, truth, empathy, education,
ritual and, at macrosocial levels, in democracy.

These are vast areas of human experience and of corresponding
communication research. Thus, the idea of communication at the opposite
ends of the spectrum sometimes may seem as having few discernible common
features. The goal of the conference is to explore the various aspects
of the theoretical concept and practice of communication, as well as to
probe the middle ground and offer research that would shed more light on
the most defining feature of humanity, community and society.

In this context, language and other communication media are especially
important because they may often reflect various communicative intents
or contain specific features that can be identified and related to
different communicative intents, i.e., “dominational” or “emancipatory”,
for example, in communication analysis.

Especially interesting and potentially valuable research would also be
welcome in the area of identifying relationships of certain forms of
domination or emancipation with forms and content of communication, at
various communication levels, from interpersonal to mediated (public)
communication.

The question of relationship between communication and democracy being
perennial, here it would be interesting to explore the potential of
either dominational or emancipatory communication in bettering democracy.

Participants are welcome to explore the main theme within different
paradigms, from the functionalist and cognitive to the critical and
cultural one. Papers are welcome in, but not limited to, the following
communication clusters of traditional subfields and topics: 1) codes and
media (semiotics, language, visual and nonverbal communication, media
technologies); 2) levels and contexts (interpersonal/small group/speech/
mass communication – drama/film, journalism, public relations,
advertising; social media; organizational, political and educational
communication; (trans) cultural/ethnic/gender/group communication); 3)
topics (surveillance, privacy, defensive and violent communication,
conflict resolution and peacemaking, dialogic communication, democratic
communication, mediatization); 4) communication theory and philosophy.

We invite you to submit your abstracts and register for the conference!

Important Dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 31, 2016
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: April 15, 2016
Regular registration: February 1 – May 2, 2016

Keynote speakers, submission guidelines and other conference details can
be found on our site http://kapafi.com/kf/kappa-phi-conference.


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