[ecrea] cfp - 3rd ESTIDIA Conference - Dialogue as Global Action: Interacting Voices and Visions across Cultures

Call for Papers

ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue)



3rd ESTIDIA Conference



Dialogue as Global Action: Interacting Voices and Visions across Cultures


25-26 September 2015

Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania



hosted by the Department of Modern Languages for Specific Purposes and  
Communication Sciences in partnership with University of Cyprus, 
Nicosia, University of Bucharest, Romania (Faculty of Journalism and 
Communication Sciences), ISA (International Sociological Association) 
and AISLF (Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française)



CONFERENCE THEME



As social human beings, we participate in a wide range of multi-layered 
dialogues in various contexts, in a shared search for increased 
understanding of issues and phenomena, for questioning ideas and 
actions, for joint problem-solving (Vygotsky 1978). These 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 reflection and self-reflection, for in-depth issue 
problematisation, for multi-voiced interpersonal resonance, for 
constructive polyphony of intersecting and/or 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. At the same time, having a 
voice is not enough (Couldry 2010): we need to know that our voice 
matters. 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.



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:

Multiple voices in online dialogue

Voicing standpoints in multimodal communication

Voices in dialogue across time and space

Gendering voices in public and/or private dialogue

Voices interacting in cross-cultural dialogue

Converging vs. diverging voices in dialogue

Public and private voices in sustainable dialogue

Trust-building in face-to-face and/or virtual dialogues

Competing and collaborative voices in dialogue

Polyphony of voices in harmonious or disharmonious dialogue

Intertextuality in multi-voiced dialogue



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 Roventa-Frumusani (University of Bucharest, Romania)



ABSTRACT SUBMISSION



We invite submissions of abstracts (ca 500 words) for paper 
presentations (20 minutes for presentation, and 10 minutes for questions).



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)



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 Constanta.



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.



For further details please contact Cornelia Ilie (cornelia.ilie /at/ gmail.com)



To download the CfP please visit the conference websites:

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



We are looking forward to seeing you in Constanta in September.







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