[ecrea] CfP IAICS 2019: East/West: New Divisions, New Connections in a Populist Political Reality

We kindly invite you to submit your abstracts to the 25th International 
Conference of the International Association for Intercultural 
Communication Studies (IAICS) to be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 12–15 
July 2019. The conference theme is “East/West: New Divisions, New 
Connections in a Populist Political Reality”.

*The 25th International Conference of the
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*/International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS)/
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*July 12–15, 2019
Brno, Czech Republic

Call for Papers*
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*East/West: New Divisions, New Connections in a Populist Political Reality*


*Theme:*
The rise of populism in the US and in Europe has been linked to a number 
of socio-cultural and political phenomena. Divisive migration policies 
and political discourses have resulted in an increase in racially 
motivated crime and racist attitudes and overall in less tolerance for 
difference, which applies to a broad range of countries from the US to 
the United Kingdom, and from Hungary to Austria. Far right and populist 
parties have enjoyed electoral success in some liberal democracies and 
the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán openly declared his goal of 
building an illiberal democracy.

2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with 
many of the central European countries that once formed part of the 
Soviet Bloc now being members of the European Union and NATO. However, 
the tensions surrounding deeply held attitudes that exist between the 
new "Eastern" and the old "Western" members keep re-surfacing, most 
recently in relation to the so-called refugee crisis that peaked in 2015.

The relationship between Russia and the European Union is at a critical 
low point, with some referring to the return of the Cold War era 
realpolitik. The US has declared a trade war on China as well as the EU, 
President Trump withdrew the country from the Paris Agreement and the UN 
Human Rights Council.

Concerns about the crushing of freedom of speech and stricter censorship 
have been raised in relation to a number of countries, including Egypt, 
Russia and Turkey.

*Conference Time:* July 12–15, 2019

*Conference Venue:* Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, 
Czech Republic

*Submissions:*
We seek proposals that aim to consider the following questions (though 
others that extend beyond what follows yet contribute meaningfully to 
our general call will also be considered):

  * How do cultural and communication scholars understand the shifting
    discourses around the “West” and its “Others”?
  * How have – fictional and non-fictional – representations of the
    relationship between the "West" and "Others" evolved?
  * How have the centre and the periphery been re-defined, re-imagined
    and re-negotiated?
  * What is the role of communication technologies in building
    connections/divisions in the current climate?
  * How have major policy interventions – such as China’s Belt and Road
    Initiative – affected intercultural divisions/connections?
  * How relevant are theories of communication/cultural integration
    developed in Western liberal democracies for understanding current
    developments?
  * What are the most challenging issues that scholars of intercultural
    communication face at the moment?
  * Are there historical lessons that can inform our understanding of
    the impact of technological change on intercultural communication
    and interaction?

Please send proposal abstracts for */individual papers/* and */posters/* 
(of no more than 500 words), clearly indicating whether the submission 
is for an individual paper or a poster and */panels/* (of no more than 
1,000 words) to the following email address:
(iaics2019 /at/ fss.muni.cz) <mailto:(iaics2019 /at/ fss.muni.cz)>.

Any questions can also be sent to the same email address, the organizing 
committee can, however, also be reached by sending an email to Lenka 
Waschkova Cisarova:
(cisarova /at/ fss.muni.cz) <mailto:(cisarova /at/ fss.muni.cz)>.

* For more about the conference please see iaics2019.fss.muni.cz 
<http://iaics2019.fss.muni.cz>

*Important dates:*
15. 11. 2018: Deadline for proposals
7. 1. 2019: Decisions on acceptance will be communicated
15. 1. 2019: Registration opens
15. 6. 2019: Registration for the conference closes
12.–15. 7. 2019: Conference

*Overview:*
The International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies 
consists of scholars from a range of the cultural sciences who are 
dedicated to doing research on communication across cultures. Its 
membership is made up of participants from over 32 countries. These 
participants meet annually at different locations around the world to 
discuss common research interests. The results of their investigations 
are published in the journal of the organization, Intercultural 
Communication Studies (ICS). For more about the organization please see 
https://web.uri.edu/iaics/


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