Sustainability is the new God term of this century. The term is pervasive, perplexing and persuasive. Sustainability appears in speeches, conversations, slogans, books, articles, ads, blogs,scripts, and songs. Environmentalists advocate for a sustainable planet. Business professionals want to know how to create a sustainable work environment and economy. Interpersonal scholars may wonder how sustainable relationships are created and maintained. Protesters demand it, politicians debate it, and advertisers sell it. It is a global term. No matter what continent, no matter what country, we talk about sustainability.
SUSTAINABILITY is the 2010 theme. As is the tradition at the Northwest Communication Association Conference, we encourage scholars to examine the conference theme using a variety of lenses. As with all terms of this type, sustainability has no concrete referent. It is an elusive term, fraught with possibilities and multiple meanings. Sustainability seems to have mystifying symbolic powers. We are drawn to its seemingly invisible
power. We as Communication scholars have and should continue to examine, explore, and explain these single, seemingly magical words.
While you consider submitting your completed papers (25 pages max.), panel proposals, and workshops, please note that attention will be paid to those who support conference theme. Unrelated submissions however, are also encouraged. While in the recent past we’ve seen many valuable student panels, and we wish to continue to promote
student scholarship, this year we would like to make a special call for faculty contributions. As is always the case we also welcome a combination of faculty and student endeavors.
Submissions are due to the division chairs by 5 p.m. on Monday, February 1, 2010. Electronic copies will be accepted by the division chairs. If you are sending hard copy texts please submit three copies. Please do not FAX your submissions.
Those authors whose panels and papers have been accepted will be notified as soon as possible. A program schedule with details will be available in early March.
Media and Cultural Studies
Submissions to this division should address issues related to mass media, popular culture or technology. Essays and panels may also address cultural and intercultural communication.
Send submissions to:
Dr. Nick Backus
Communication Studies
Western Oregon University
345 N. Monmouth Ave.
Monmouth OR 97361
Submissions regarding the theory and practice of rhetoric in diverse artifacts, practices and traditions, or intersections with legal, political, historical, religious, gendered, philosophical, ethnic, poetic, and other cultural contexts will be considered.
Send submissions to:
Heather Crandell
Communication and Leadership Studies
Gonzaga University
502 East Boone Avenue
Spokane, WA 99258-0102
Submission to this division should describe human interpersonal communication, or explore, develop, test, critique and/or refine one or more of the many theories of human communication. Theoretical essays and empirical research papers using any accepted qualitative or quantitative methodology will be considered.
Send submissions to:
Mary Jean Williams
Communication Studies
Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver, WA 98663
This division, now in its second year, encourages scholarship concerning educational practices in communication including the practice of competitive speech and debate. Papers that explore practices in teaching communication or participation in forensics are welcomed. Panels which present G.I.F.T.S – Great Ideas for Teaching Speech – are especially encouraged.
Send submissions to:
Dr. Brian Simmons
Communication Studies
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Portland, OR 97203
Submissions that explore organizational and educational contexts will be considered in this division. This may include group or management communication, public relations, crisis response, and other topics relating to organizational criticism, as well as research that explores classroom communication or the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Send submissions to:
Dr. Renee Heath
Communication Studies
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Portland, OR 97203
The Environmental Communication Division (ECD) is a multidisciplinary effort to support a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners in the sharing and building of theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts.
The ECD encourages all forms scholarship and pedagogy that promotes our understanding of the production, reception, contexts, or processes of human communication regarding environmental issues. Our interest area is broad. They include, “but are not limited to: environmental participatory processes, environmental representations and discourses circulated through media, rhetorical analyses of environmental controversies and advocacy in public culture, cultural studies approaches to popular “green” or “eco-” practices, historical case studies of environmental events, organizational analyses of environmental and anti-environmental institutions, interpersonal/relational dimensions shaping human and non-human relations, risk communication about environmental decision-making, and psychological/cognitive research regarding environmental attitudes and behaviors” (from NCA Environmental Communication Division).
Send submissions to:
Dr. Michael Salvador
Edward R. Murrow College of Communication
Washington State University
101 Communication Addition
P.O. Box 642520
Pullman WA 99164-0000,
Call for Papers & Presentations
Sustainability is the new God term of this century. The term is pervasive, perplexing and persuasive. Sustainability appears in speeches, conversations, slogans, books, articles, ads, blogs,scripts, and songs. Environmentalists advocate for a sustainable planet. Business professionals want to know how to create a sustainable work environment and economy. Interpersonal scholars may wonder how sustainable relationships are created and maintained. Protesters demand it, politicians debate it, and advertisers sell it. It is a global term. No matter what continent, no matter what country, we talk about sustainability.
SUSTAINABILITY is the 2010 theme. As is the tradition at the Northwest Communication Association Conference, we encourage scholars to examine the conference theme using a variety of lenses. As with all terms of this type, sustainability has no concrete referent. It is an elusive term, fraught with possibilities and multiple meanings. Sustainability seems to have mystifying symbolic powers. We are drawn to its seemingly invisible
power. We as Communication scholars have and should continue to examine, explore, and explain these single, seemingly magical words.
While you consider submitting your completed papers (25 pages max.), panel proposals, and workshops, please note that attention will be paid to those who support conference theme. Unrelated submissions however, are also encouraged. While in the recent past we’ve seen many valuable student panels, and we wish to continue to promote
student scholarship, this year we would like to make a special call for faculty contributions. As is always the case we also welcome a combination of faculty and student endeavors.
Submissions are due to the division chairs by 5 p.m. on Monday, February 1, 2010. Electronic copies will be accepted by the division chairs. If you are sending hard copy texts please submit three copies. Please do not FAX your submissions.
Those authors whose panels and papers have been accepted will be notified as soon as possible. A program schedule with details will be available in early March.
Media and Cultural Studies
Submissions to this division should address issues related to mass media, popular culture or technology. Essays and panels may also address cultural and intercultural communication.
Send submissions to:
Dr. Nick Backus
Communication Studies
Western Oregon University
345 N. Monmouth Ave.
Monmouth OR 97361
backusj@wou.edu
(877) 877-1593
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
Submissions regarding the theory and practice of rhetoric in diverse artifacts, practices and traditions, or intersections with legal, political, historical, religious, gendered, philosophical, ethnic, poetic, and other cultural contexts will be considered.
Send submissions to:
Heather Crandell
Communication and Leadership Studies
Gonzaga University
502 East Boone Avenue
Spokane, WA 99258-0102
crandallm@gonzaga.edu
(509) 313-6491
Interpersonal & Communication Theory
Submission to this division should describe human interpersonal communication, or explore, develop, test, critique and/or refine one or more of the many theories of human communication. Theoretical essays and empirical research papers using any accepted qualitative or quantitative methodology will be considered.
Send submissions to:
Mary Jean Williams
Communication Studies
Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver, WA 98663
mwilliams@clark.edu
(360) 992-2931
Instructional and Forensics Division
This division, now in its second year, encourages scholarship concerning educational practices in communication including the practice of competitive speech and debate. Papers that explore practices in teaching communication or participation in forensics are welcomed. Panels which present G.I.F.T.S – Great Ideas for Teaching Speech – are especially encouraged.
Send submissions to:
Dr. Brian Simmons
Communication Studies
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Portland, OR 97203
simmonsb@up.edu
(503) 943-8025
Organizational & Instructional Division
Submissions that explore organizational and educational contexts will be considered in this division. This may include group or management communication, public relations, crisis response, and other topics relating to organizational criticism, as well as research that explores classroom communication or the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Send submissions to:
Dr. Renee Heath
Communication Studies
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Portland, OR 97203
heath@up.edu
(503) 943-7181
Environmental Communication Division
The Environmental Communication Division (ECD) is a multidisciplinary effort to support a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners in the sharing and building of theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts.
The ECD encourages all forms scholarship and pedagogy that promotes our understanding of the production, reception, contexts, or processes of human communication regarding environmental issues. Our interest area is broad. They include, “but are not limited to: environmental participatory processes, environmental representations and discourses circulated through media, rhetorical analyses of environmental controversies and advocacy in public culture, cultural studies approaches to popular “green” or “eco-” practices, historical case studies of environmental events, organizational analyses of environmental and anti-environmental institutions, interpersonal/relational dimensions shaping human and non-human relations, risk communication about environmental decision-making, and psychological/cognitive research regarding environmental attitudes and behaviors” (from NCA Environmental Communication Division).
Send submissions to:
Dr. Michael Salvador
Edward R. Murrow College of Communication
Washington State University
101 Communication Addition
P.O. Box 642520
Pullman WA 99164-0000,
msalvador@wsu.edu