Old Bridge on the Volga, Tver
The conference is organised Russian Communication Association (RCA)in collaboration with the North American Russian Communication Association (NARCA) and Tver State University (TvSU).
ECREA, the National Communication Association, the International Communication Association, and the Polish Communication Association are international partners of the Conference. ECREA and international partners members will be able to register at the concessionary rate of 1200 RUR (approx. $40), instead than the full fee (1500 RUR, approximately $50).
Aims of the Conference
The space metaphor in the conference title means approaching the field with multidisciplinary research tools. We suggest to structure discussion along the main components of the basic model of communication, or conceptual domains of communication process:
- Impact of the Author's personality on communication
- Problems of interpretation, or looking at communication with the Addressee's eyes
- Specifics, limits and advantages of various communication Channels
- Frames of reference and other linguistic aspects of the Message
- Communication Goals: affecting or interacting
- Sociocultural Contexts of communication process: philosophical, cultural, psychological, linguistic, political, sociological, mass-media, economic e.a. perspectives
- Communication in the multicultural environment
- New instruments, technology, web resources
Submission of Abstracts, Papers, and Proposals
Papers are invited in all the above-mentioned fields of multidisciplinary discussion. The Conference organizers also invite submissions for focused panels, round-table discussions, and master classes. Papers are welcome for the interactive poster session.
The deadline for conference registration and abstracts submission is March 30, 2010.
The Conference working languages are English and Russian.
All the submissions to the Conference have to be made via the conference website, where the necessary information on registration process, abstract guidelines, review process, location and accommodation will be published.
Organizers of the Conference plan to publish an electronic version of the Conference materials.
Registration and fees
The conference fee is 1500 RUR (approximately $50) to be paid in rubles at the arrival. This includes participants' package, coffee-breaks, a conference dinner and one excursion. The fee for students and members of the international partner organizations (including ECREA) is 1200 RUR (approx. $40).
Site information and accommodations
The Conference will be held in Tver, an old Russian city at the banks of the Volga river, 180 km from Moscow, at the Tver State University. Accommodations are available at the hotel Volga (5 minutes walking from the conference venue) at approx. $ 40-45 per person/per night in double, or $75 in single rooms.
For more details on previous RCA conferences and ongoing RCA activities
see the association's website in Russian or English.
Organizing Committee
Andrey Belotserkovsky, Rector of the Tver State University - Chair
Irina Rozina, RCA President, Institute of Management, Business, and Law, Rostov-on-Don, Deputy Chair
Natalia Komina, Tver State University - Deputy Chair
Program Committee
Mira Bergelson, Moscow State University, Chair
Marina Raskladkina, IREX, Moscow, Program Committee Coordinator
Steven Beebe, Texas State University, International Participants Coordinator
Key dates
March 30, 2010: Application deadline
May 15, 2010: Notification of acceptance
June 1, 2010: Collection of abstracts ready for print
September 5, 2010: Conference program published on the Conference website
September 7, 2010: Conference opening
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