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

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.
You are welcome to register either as a presenting or non-presenting 
participant.

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. 
Submission guidelines and other information about the conference can be 
found on our site.
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

Conference details, submission guidelines and other information can be 
found on our site http://kfbl.edu.ba/kappa-phi-conference

We look forward to seeing you and talking to you at the Conference!


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