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ACCS Call for Submissions, NCA 2008 21-24, November, San Diego

Joint Conference in Sichuan, China, May 31 - June 1, 2007
Chinese Communication Studies: West China and Globalization

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ACCS Call for Submissions
NCA 2008, November 21-24, San Diego
(Please click here for downloding submission information)

The Association for Chinese Communication Studies welcomes completed papers and proposed panel discussions for submission to the 2008 NCA Conference in San Diego. The submission deadline is February 13, 2008. Submissions may employ a range of epistemological, theoretical, and conceptual approaches including rhetorical, critical, interpretive, and post-positive. Papers should include a title, 250-500 word abstract, be 25 pages or less, not including references, tables, and notes. Panel discussions should have a clear focus, include at least 4 presenters, and address topics of interest to Chinese communication studies. Panels may involve the presentation of papers on a common theme or a roundtable discussion. Submissions which address theoretical or conceptual issues (e.g., How can "communication" be best translated into Chinese?) are welcome. Furthermore, submissions may address, but are not limited to, topics that have a geographical focus, e.g., issues in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, etc., or focus on "Chinese" people, e.g., the identity of Chinese who live in the US and other overseas communities, what it means to be Chinese, etc.

Following previous practice papers will be submitted to blind review. Please remove all author-identifying information from your paper. Student-authored papers should be noted on the title page. Authors who do not have a completed paper by the submission deadline are encouraged to contact others interested in the same topic and submit a panel proposal.

Finally, note that to promote the theme of unCONVENTIONal!, NCA has set aside a budget (maximum $500 per panel) to help defray the costs of an invited guest who is a representative of an allied association of prominence. You may consider proposing a panel which features this guest. If so, please include relevant information about this guest, the rationale of the program, the role he or she would play in the panel, and a budget listing the amount of funding and how funds will be spent.

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Report: Joint Conference in Sichuan, China
Chinese Communication Studies: West China and Globalization
(Please click here to read Todd Sandel's reflection on the conference)

In May, 2007, the ACCS co-sponsored the conference in China, held in the beautiful city Chengdu and hosted by Sichuan University. Todd Sandel, Yun Xia, Hong Wang, Shuming Lu, Canchu Lin, Tom Preston, and Joyce Chen attended the conference. ACCS members not only presented their papers but also served as chairs and respondents in multiple sessions. It was a great success with several hundred participants representing universities from across China, and a substantial number of international participants from the US and other countries. A special word of thanks should go to Xia Yun for his tireless efforts in coordinating and planning this conference. There is hope that such a conference will be held in the near future.
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