LTE doctoral student Xiaowei Zhou (‘Vivien’) made the following presentation at the 2009 CAFIC conference (details below):
Zhou, X. and Fay, R. (2009). Exploring intercultural communication using Holliday’s small-culture approach: The case of (some) Chinese students in a particular English-speaking university context. Paper presented at the China Association for Intercultural Communication / Association for Chinese Communication Studies International Conference on Intercultural communication between China and the World: Interpersonal, organisational and mediated perspectives, June 11th – 14th, Beijing, China.
The 2010 Conference Call for Papers
http://www2.scut.edu.cn/interculture/IAICS2010/
The 2009 Conference Call for Papers:
China Association for Intercultural Communication &
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
International Conference on
Intercultural Communication between China and the World:
Interpersonal, Organizational and Mediated Perspectives
June 11-14, 2009, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
China Association for Intercultural Communication (CAFIC), International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) and Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS) are pleased to announce the forthcoming annual conference on “Intercultural Communication between China and the World: Interpersonal, Organizational and Mediated Perspectives”. The conference is to be held on June 11-14, 2009 in Beijing, China, hosted by the Intercultural Studies Center of the School of English and International Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing, China. High-quality papers for the conference are now invited for submission:
In the context of deepening globalization, China has increasingly involved itself in full-scale cooperation with the outside world and has now emerged as a member of the international community with growing national power and a rising international influence. Frequent contact and communication with the world is crucial to China’s development, and will surely encourage the intercultural dialogue. However, cultural differences and discrepancies in socio-economic development are now identified as major obstacles to China’s communication with the world, and the West in particular. Misunderstanding and stereotyping often give rise to conflict and hostility. Such a failure in communication, which permeates interpersonal, organizational as well as mass-mediated communication between China and the world, is a growing concern among researchers of intercultural communication and mass communication. Today China sees unprecedented levels of scale and depth in its exchanges with the world, with increasing cross-border cooperation carried out in the fields of tourism, business, education, sports and cultural activities, traditional mass communication and online communication, etc. Such a large variety of intercultural activities provide abundant opportunities for research into intercultural communication/mass communication. Hence the focus of this conference is on the intercultural communication issues between China and the world observed from interpersonal, organizational and mediated perspectives. The conference aims to encourage a meeting of theoretical and historical studies with empirical research, to broaden the horizon of intercultural communication studies and to contribute to the construction of a harmonious world.
