CfP: IAICS Conference 2026 – Intercultural Communication Across Digitally Intertwined and Displaced Worlds & Words: Challenges and Opportunities27.3.2026 {en}
IAICS Conference 2026
Theme: Intercultural Communication Across Digitally Intertwined and Displaced
Worlds & Words: Challenges and Opportunities
IAICS Conference 2026 •University of Toledo• USA• July (21, 22, 23 and 24), 2026.
Call For Proposals
The International Association of Intercultural Communication Studie (IAICS) invites proposals for papers, panels, workshops, and creative formats that engage the theme: Intercultural Communication Across Digitally Intertwined and Displaced Worlds & Words: Challenges and Opportunities.
In today’s interconnected yet fragmented world, intercultural communication is negotiated across digitally intertwined platforms and within spaces and communities that are shaped by displacement, migration, and mobility. At the same time, interculturality unfolds through words, discourses, narratives, and translanguaging practices that both connect and divide us. By attending to worlds and words, this conference foregrounds the ways intercultural communication and identities, relationships, and power are reconfigured across technological, social, and linguistic boundaries. The conference seeks to highlight both the challenges and the opportunities that emerge in intercultural communication today.
While papers addressing the conference theme will be given priority, other submissions addressing other issues in the fields of intercultural communication, applied linguistics, and related disciplines are also warmly welcomed.
Submissions may engage with (but are not limited to) the following:
- Human–AI–Culture: Interculturality in AI-mediated communication, platform bias, algorithmic governance.
- Human–AI–Culture
- Interculturality in AI-mediated communication
- Platform bias
- Algorithms and minority groups.
- Communication during and post pandemics
- Intercultural communication in the healthcare systems
- Cosmopolitanism in culture
- Intercultural communication and cosmopolitanism
- Shifts in Linguistics
- Time and space in culture / literature
- Language and culture
- Intercultural communication and nationality
- Language and identity
- Comparative culture
- Cultural identity
- Interculturality in literature
- Cultural hybridity
- Diversity studies
- Intercultural communication and interculturality
- Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication
- Mediated intercultural communication
- Virtual intercultural communication
- Multi cultures and interculturality
- Intercultural communication competence
- Culture and travel
- Intercultural education
- Cross cultural encounters
- Indigenous cultures
- Comparative poetics
- Public policy
- Comparative literature
- Transnational enterprises and intercultural communication
- Social media and culture
- Cultural study theories
- Literature and religion
- Culture and diplomacy
- Literature and film
- Language planning and policy
- Translation studies
- Intercultural pragmatics
- Communication, stress and anxiety
- Communication and therapy
- Computer assisted learning and teaching
Submission Guidelines
Individual Papers: Abstract, 200-250 words in English, please include positions, affiliations, email addresses for all authors.
Panels (3-5) papers: Panel proposals should include title of panel, a 100-word describing the panel then 100–150-word abstract of each panelist’s paper (as above). Panel proposals must include positions, affiliations, email addresses for all authors. Panel allotted time will be dependent on number of papers per panel (A panel with 3 papers would be allowed 15 minutes per paper, 4 papers each will be allowed 12 minutes and so on).
Workshops/Interactive Sessions: 250–300-word description outlining objectives and engagement.
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Conference Registration (no payment; registration for logistics and program planning purposes)
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Pay Conference Registration: (Onsite: 60 dollars includes light breakfast, breaks and light lunch) (Online/Virtual: 25 dollars)
Conference email: IAICS[at]utoledo.edu
Deadline: Please submit abstracts and panel proposals by March 29, 2026.
Proposals acceptance: Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Authors will be notified of acceptance decisions as soon as the organizing committee receives reviewers’ recommendations, with all decisions communicated no later than April 15, 2026.
Conference program will be emailed and available online by or before (May 30, 2026)
Conference Working Language: Abstracts should be submitted using English. Oral presentations could be in the author’s language of choice. Please note that that presentations in languages other than English might impact audience attendance.
Papers Publishing: All presenting participants are invited to submit their papers to Intercultural Communication Studies (ICS), the journal of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS), after the conference.
Lodging and travel information: TBA
Conference Webpage: TBA
Further information at https://utoledo.questionpro.com/t/AawG7Z2mSj.
Source: CFP: IAICS Conference 2026 [University of Toledo• USA• July (21-24), 2026, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US.
