The successful international conferences on Multicultural
Discourses organized in China, Brazil, and the Netherlands, respectively, have
reinforced the importance of Cultural Discourse Studies in contemporary social
science and the humanities. The 7th International Conference on Multicultural
Discourses, under auspices of the
International Association of Multicultural Discourses, will
be co-organized by the English Department of the Faculty of Letters,
Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania and the School of Contemporary Chinese Communication
Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, China. The event will be hosted at the
Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
from October 24-26, 2020.
Mankind is witnessing yet again the centennial moment of
global transformation and the world is ridden with grave challenges and great
opportunities. To answer to these uncertain winds of change, scholars from
various fields such as communication, media, language, literature, society,
culture, international relations, etc. are encouraged to offer their insights
into topics including, though not restricted to, the following:
- Multicultural discourses of (anti)globalization,
diversity, connectivity, globalism
- Multicultural discourses of security, conflict, war, peace
- Multicultural discourses of protectionism, (in)tangible borders, immigration, racism
- Multicultural discourses of development, the Developing World,
the Global South
- Multicultural digital, multimodal, literary, cinematic discourses
- Multidisciplinary, multicultural approaches to human discourses
Contributions
Abstracts of about 250 words,
panel
proposals of about 500 words (of min 4 speakers with 250 words abstracts) should be sent to
the organizers at the following email address: multiculturaldiscourses7@gmail.com.
Deadline for submissions
Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel
proposals: April 2,
2020.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out not later
than April 30,
2020.
Conference fee
- 150 euros (coffee breaks, lunches and conference materials will be covered);
- 75 euros for doctoral students and young researchers (under 26);
- 75 euros for participants from Romanian universities;
- 30 euros for doctoral students from Romanian universities.
The conference fee can be paid on the spot or electronically. Details will be provided after the acceptance of the papers.
Registration
The participants will be notified of their proposal's acceptance / rejection.
Registration procedure to be added soon.
