October 24 - October 26, 2023 

Tallinn, Estonia 

Deadline: July 10, 2023

Accommodation options are available near the university, more information about hotels is on our website.

Registration fee: Early Bird 300 € /Standart 350 €, Early Bird Student 190 €/ Standart 220 € (PhD workshop included), Early Bird PhD workshop 50 €/ Standart 70 €

We are excited to announce our wonderful keynote speakers: Dr. Kristina Scharp (Associate Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, US) and Dr. Rudi Palmieri (Associate Professor, Strategic Communication, University of Liverpool, UK). These esteemed scholars will be sharing their expertise and their insight of the future prospects. Additionally, they will serve as mentors in the Young Scholars Workshop. More information about the keynote speakers below.

In this year’s conference we will be "Looking forward!". We want to look ahead after recent – even still ongoing – challenging and hard times in Europe. ICSI wants to provide a platform for wondering and visualizing the future and the solutions that we can provide as communication scholars.

We invite paper and panel proposals from all communication or communication-related disciplines that align with the section's themes. We encourage innovative ideas and proposals for future research. As part of our conference program, we will be providing a workshop specifically designed for young scholars, including doctoral students and early-career researchers.

For more information and submission instructions, please visit our website at: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/icsi  

Our keynotes

Kristina M. Scharp (Ph.D, University of Iowa) is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. She is also the Director of the Family Communication and Relationships Lab. Scharp's research focuses on interpersonal, family, and health communication. Her work examines marginalization and how people cope with major disruptions in their lives. She aims to expose institutionalized oppression, understand marginalized populations, and illuminate communication processes they use to cope with inequities. Scharp has over 90 publications in prestigious outlets and has received several awards, including the International Communication Association's Early Career Award and the Leslie A. Baxter Early Career Award in Family Communication. Her work on family estrangement has been featured in prominent media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Conversation, and NPR. Publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fi&user=TFUGv-YAAAAJ

Rudi Palmieri (PhD in Communication Sciences, USI Lugano) is an Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at the University of Liverpool (UK). His expertise lies in analyzing argumentation in strategic communication, focusing on areas such as financial communication, crisis communication, and entrepreneurial discourse. His research aims to understand how the complexities of communicative situations impact the design, delivery, and exchange of reasons by organizational leaders and stakeholders to influence opinions and decisions. Trust-oriented (crisis) communication is a key focus area, viewed as an inherently argumentative process. Dr. Palmieri's research takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining theories from argumentation, rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, strategic management, and corporate communications. He has published extensively in renowned journals and taught courses at various academic levels in the UK, Switzerland, and other European countries. His work involves identifying and examining argumentative strategies in genres like takeover documents, earnings calls, proxy fights, investor pitching, crowdfunding campaigns, and crisis responses. Publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fi&user=AoQOm9QAAAAJ

About

The ICSI Conference is the 7th bi-annual meeting of the Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction section of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association). This year’s conference is hosted by Baltic Film, Media and Art School, Tallinn University, Estonia: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/icsi

In this year’s conference we will be "Looking forward!". We want to look ahead after recent – even still ongoing – challenging and hard times in Europe. ICSI wants to provide a platform for wondering and visualizing the future and the solutions that we can provide as communication scholars. Each of the different sub-disciplines of interpersonal communication and social interaction has the capacity to provide an important contribution to the work for a sustainable society and well-being in relationships, families, communities, workplaces, and networks. This contribution may take place, for example, in the arenas of politics, health care, and intercultural encounters, in face-to-face, mediated, and digitalized environments, interpersonally and in interaction with AI. The City of Tallinn, the Green Capital in 2023 provides us a stimulating environment for discussing interpersonal and social aspects of ecological, societal, responsibility end sustainability questions. 

We are also “Looking forward!” to seeing all the ICSI scholars again after four years break, since due to the COVID19-pandemic, the section conference was cancelled two years ago. Now it is truly exciting to meet again in this active and intriguing section conference. The ICSI Conference 2023 provides an opportunity to share our ideas, theories and research about interpersonal communication and social interaction across our different specializations. Connecting our insights from different approaches will inform our own current research, provide creative ideas for future research, and help theory development. 

We call for paper and panel proposals from any communication or communication-related discipline that addresses the section's themes. Ideas and proposals for future research are highly encouraged. Please, submit your 500-word abstract by July 10 (Midnight CET) at the latest. 

We also invite young scholars to join us from the different sub-disciplines of interpersonal communication and social interaction, working with some section’s themes. As part of our conference program, we will provide a workshop for young scholars (doctoral students and early-career researchers). The workshop provides a great opportunity to receive feedback from senior mentors on the paper you submit, and to network with your international colleagues.

Please submit your 500-word proposal by July 10 (Midnight CET) at the latest. In the workshop, you can present either A) an article manuscript you are currently working on, B) an extended abstract of your doctoral dissertation, or C) a detailed research plan/dissertation proposal. During the workshop, participants and senior faculty members will discuss the papers submitted by the participants. Your participation will include submitting a paper (1300–1500 words) by September 30, giving a short (5–10 minutes) presentation of your work, and actively engaging in the workshop discussions. You will receive detailed instructions once accepted.

Submission deadline: July 10 (midnight CET). 

More information and submission website: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/icsi