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IAICS Conference 2026
Theme: Intercultural Communication Across Digitally Intertwined and Displaced Worlds and Words: Challenges and Opportunities.
July, 21 - 24, 2026
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Call For Proposals
The International Association of Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) invites proposals for papers, panels, workshops and creative formats that engage the theme: Intercultural Communication Across Digitally Intertwined and Displaced Worlds and 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
- 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. Please use Times New Roman 12-point font size, single spaced.
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. Please use Times New Roman 12-point font size, single spaced.
Workshops/Interactive Sessions: 250–300-word description outlining objectives and engagement. Please use Times New Roman 12-point font size, single spaced.
Deadline:
Please submit abstracts and panel proposals by April 15, 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 30, 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.
Lodging information
On Campus:
Academic Housing price is $35 per night. If linens are needed, please add an additional $15 per person per night.
Off Campus:
Holiday Inn Express and Suites Toledo West: A block of rooms is available for the dates of July 20-24 at the rate of $99 per night. This special rate is for IAICS Conference (group code IAI). This rate includes full, hot breakfast buffet. Please note that the cut-off date for reserving a room at this rate is June 20. Directly book with the hotel and guarantee your individual reservations.
