One Belt One Road Initiative, Multiculturalism & Intercultural Communication
The 9th International Conference on Intercultural Communication (ICIC2017)
Call for Papers
 
The International Conference on Intercultural Communication (ICIC) comes back in 2017! In the era when globalism coexists with anti-globalism and cultural pluralism with cultural separatism, we are looking forward to the debate between different thoughts and ideas and exploring the wisdom on peaceful coexistence and free communication.
 
Based on extensive discussions with scholars around the globe, the theme of the 9th ICIC is set as One Belt One Road Initiative, Multiculturalism & Intercultural Communication. We have all felt this historic moment: the negative impact of globalization is becoming stronger than ever before, which results in what Zygmunt Bauman has described: “the riches are global, the misery is local”. Meanwhile, multiculturalism has been distorted as cultural separatism. And intercultural communication has become fragile. Under this circumstance, China seeks to go beyond the limitations of globalization and has proposed the One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR), aiming to build the 2.0 version of globalization which appears to offer an imaginary space for intercultural communication practices.
 
Thus, the ICIC will focus on the concepts of “community of shared interests,” “community of common destiny,” and “people of shared thoughts” included in OBOR, seeking to resolve issues in intercultural interactions, intercultural conflicts and negotiations in multicultural practices. Starting from the needs of the interactions between different nations and civilizations, we hope to construct OBOR into reciprocal relationship between different cultures, reconstruct our cultural capability of openness, inclusiveness and complementarity, and explore the intercultural foundation of OBOR. Based on the principles of inter-subjectivity and interculturality, we look for effective approaches to easing intercultural conflicts and constructing the “community of common destiny”. We will also explore the ways for intercultural sensitivity, common perceptions, empathy and intercultural capability based on the perspective of “people of shared thoughts”.
 
We hope to attain an international understanding of OBOR from the perspective of intercultural communication, reconstruct multiculturalism on both the theoretical and practical levels, and release the Intercultural Communication Declaration on the One Belt One Road Initiative in the name of the community of intercultural communication academics.
 
Below is the detailed information regarding the ICIC2017conference:
 

1. Theme

One Belt One Road Initiative, Multiculturalism & Intercultural Communication
 
Topics include, but are not limited to:

1. One Belt One Road and the Reconstruction of Multiculturalism and Cultural Pluralism
2. The Intercultural Foundation, Obstacles and Approaches to One Belt One Road
3. Intercultural Communication Practices in Countries Along the One Belt One Road
4. Cultural Products and Intercultural Communication of Values
5. The Controversy of Multiculturalism in Network Society
6. Media Representation and Intercultural Issues of One Belt One Road
7. Managing Intercultural Conflicts in One Belt One Road
8. Corporate Reputation, Images of China and Intercultural Communication
9. Intercultural Communication Issues in Interactions Between Cities
10. Possibility of Multicultural Community of Common Destiny

 

2. Organizers

• Hosted by:

School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University
Center for studies of media development, Wuhan University

• Partners (being updated):

University Think Tank Union, Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education
The Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication
Journalism & Communication Research (XIN WEN YU CHUAN BO YAN JIU)
Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication (GUO JI XIN WEN JIE)
Journalism Bimonthly (XIN WEN DA XUE)
Modern Communication (XIAN DAI CHUAN BO)
Journalism and Communication Review (XIN WEN YU CHUAN BO PING LUN)

• Co-Organizers:

Intercultural Communication Research Center, Wuhan University
Research Report of China's Media Development (ZHONG GUO MEI TI FA ZHAN YAN JIU BAO GAO)

• Convener:

SHAN Bo, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Center for studies of media development, Wuhan University
 

3. Dates and Location

Nov. 24-26 (Friday-Sunday), 2017, Wuhan University, China
 

4. Requirements for Papers

1. Papers submitted should not have been presented in other conferences or published in paper collections or journals.
2. Papers written in Chinese or English are both welcome.
3. The abstract of the paper should be submitted before June 20. For papers written in Chinese, the abstract should be limited to 500 characters; for English papers, the abstract should be limited to 250 words. Please include your name, occupation, title, institution and contact information.
4. The papers will be anonymously reviewed. Decisions will be made before July 10 and the official letter of acceptance and invitation will be issued there after.
5. If you are invited, please submit the complete paper before September 10.
6. The official email of the conference: mediawhu@163.com
7. The contact information of the secretariat:

Email: mediawhu@163.com
Address: Room 330, School of Journalism of Communication, Wuhan University, 430072
Contact: ZHENG Zhongyuan or ZHANG Yang at (86) 027-68756969
Website: http://www.icchina.org