NCA Intercultural Division Newsletter, October 201

 October 15, 2014 NEWSLETTER

Inside this issue:

Welcome to the Newsletter by Jennifer Willis-Rivera.......................................................................... 2         

Registration Information for NCA Chicago 2014................................................................................. 2

Message from the Chair by Yoshitaka Miike…………………………………………………… 3-4

IICD Slate Chicago 2014 by Chair Yoshitaka Miike    …………………………………………. 4-9

Unit Planner’s Report NCA Chicago by Chair Amy Heuman …………………………….…..10-13 

Reception at NCA and IICD Honors Graduate Student Seminar by Bob Shuter ………….  14

IICD Officers 2014…..…………………………………………………...………………...…….  15

Next Newsletter Information…………………………………………………………………….. 15

WELCOME TO OUR FALL E-NEWSLETTER! 

In this issue, we include information about the Convention in Chicago, IICD top papers, and scholarly opportunities. Is there anything you would like to have included in subsequent newsletters?  Do you know of anyone who did not receive his or her newsletter?  Any feedback you have may be directed to the newsletter editor: Jennifer Willis-Rivera, Publications Chair (jennifer.willis-rivera@uwrf.edu)

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR, Yoshitaka Miike

 NCA Chicago 2014: IICD and the “World on Fire”

Recent controversies over the cases of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown reminded me of the Los Angeles riot and the Yoshihiro Hattori incident in 1992. I remember Professor Yoshihiro Tsurumi in Baruch College at the City University of New York (the first Japanese citizen who received a DBA from Harvard University and taught President George W. Bush at Harvard Business School) speaking about the question of race and human rights in the mainstream U.S. media. Every Japanese who was planning to study in the United States at that time learned a new English-language word freeze. Internationally as well as domestically, to borrow Amy Chua’s words from the title of her book (Anchor Books, 2004), we are living in the “world on fire.” There is much to talk about at the upcoming NCA 100th Annual Meeting in Chicago next month. How can our division and the fields of international and intercultural communication play a vital role in putting off this fire and bring more peace to the world?

Some answers may be found in this year’s exciting IICD conference programs that Dr. Amy Heuman, our most capable and caring Vice Chair and Unit Planner, prepared for us with the assistance of many of you who submitted your papers/proposals to the IICD and/or served as reviewers for the division. For you convenience, Amy included below all the paper and panel-discussion sessions sponsored by our division (see Amy’s report on pp. 10-13). I hope you will be able to attend many IICD sessions. It is truly amazing that Amy had done all the program planning work while taking care of her new baby—Eliana! On a special note, I would especially like to encourage you to support our division’s first Honors Graduate Student Seminar by being present and participating there. As always, with his wonderful sense of humor, extraordinary organizing ability, and exceptional interpersonal skills, Dr. Robert Shuter coordinated two fascinating seminar sessions with outstanding graduate students and prominent senior scholars. The seminar is scheduled in Palmer House Hilton (Crystal, 3rd Floor) from 2:00 pm to 4:45 pm on November 22 (Saturday) (see Bob’s report on p. 14).

Please plan to attend the IICD Business Meeting, which will be held in Palmer House Hilton (Crystal 3rd Floor) from 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm on November 21 (Friday). At this business meeting, there will be elections for two IICD executive officers: Vice Chair-Elect and Secretary. A new nominating committee (three slots) will be elected as well. You can read the bios and statements of all the candidates for these positions (see pp. 4-9). This year’s nominating committee—consisting of Dr. Ioana Cionea (University of Oklahoma), Dr. Hairong Feng (University of Minnesota at Duluth), and Dr. Sachi Sekimoto (Minnesota State University at Mankato)—did a terrific job in developing a slate of excellent candidates for the elections. In addition to the slate as presented, we will accept additional nominations from the floor. The 2014 IICD Distinguished Scholarship Awards will also be presented by Dr. Sara DeTurk, our Vice Chair-Elect, at the business meeting. As Chair of this year’s awards nomination and selection committees, Sara did the most careful, thoughtful, and fair-minded job. Like Amy, both intellectually and institutionally, she is one of the most desirable and sought-after leaders in the fields of international and intercultural communication.

With the sponsorship of Sage Publications, our division will host the Annual IICD Reception for all division members and their guests (Palmer House Hilton, Crystal, 3rd Floor, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm on November 22, Saturday). Complimentary wine and snacks will be served. At this reception, the 2014 Ralph Cooley Awards will be presented to the author(s) of the highest rated paper submitted to the IICD. Also presented will be the awards and checks to those graduate students whose papers were competitively selected for our division’s first Honors Graduate Student Seminar. So please reserve this date and time and have lots of fun!

Kiyoshi Miki (1897-1945), a Japanese philosopher, made a perceptive observation: “Loneliness resides not in the mountains but in the cities. Loneliness lies not within one person but between many people” (The translation from Japanese to English is mine). What he meant is that we feel lonely, not when we are physically alone, but when we think that people do not understand us and accept us. Thus, loneliness is not an individual and non-interaction problem, but a communal and communication issue. Interpersonal, intercultural, and international conflict and violence in the “world on fire” can be approached from this perspective of the ecology of communication and the public health of human connections. It is my sincere hope that NCA in Chicago will be an important step to lessen such communicative loneliness first among IICD members and NCA members and then in the local community and the global society.

As you can see, there is much in store for our division at the NCA 100th Annual Convention. I look forward to seeing all of you in Chicago next month!

NCA IIC DIVISION SLATE FOR CHICAGO 2014

VICE CHAIR-ELECT CANDIDATES

1) Mark C. Hopson (George Mason University)

 Mark C. Hopson (Ph.D., Ohio University) is associate professor of communication at George Mason University. His research interests include issues in critical intercultural communication; African American rhetorical traditions; and the communication of violence prevention. Mark’s recent academic articles interrogate intercultural and interracial responsibility. His books include Notes from the Talking Drum: Exploring Black Communication and Critical Memory in Intercultural Communication Contexts (Hampton Press); and (co-edited with Ronald L. Jackson) Masculinity in the Black Imagination: Politics of Communicating Race and Manhood (Peter Lang). Mark has demonstrated leadership within the National Communication Association. In 2008 he served as chair of the African American Communication and Culture Division. In 2010 he served as secretary for the International and Intercultural Communication Division. Mark worked with the GMU Presidential Taskforce to examine the relationship between the university police department and the university community. He also served as the primary communication expert for an international research project to reduce violent crime in Trinidad and Tobago. Currently he is co-chair for the George Mason University Campus Climate Committee to create safer environments for discourse about cultural difference. Mark is a facilitator for “Changing Lives Through Literature,” a nationally recognized alternative sentencing program for juvenile offenders. In addition to numerous professional presentations, he has conducted workshops on relationship abuse and sexual assault prevention for more than 5,000 youth and young adults. In 2013 he received the “Community Service Award” from the Dulles-Leesburg (VA) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. In 2011 he received the “Spirit of Martin Luther King Award” from University Life, George Mason University, Fairfax.

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2) Ann Neville Miller (University of Central Florida)

Dr. Ann Neville Miller has actively taught, researched, and served in the field of intercultural communication for over ten years. Graduating from the University of Georgia in 2005, she won the Gerald R. Miller dissertation award for her research on self-disclosure of positive diagnosis of HIV in Kenya. She has since established research programs on intercultural factors in health communication, and scholarly productivity of communication faculty in sub-Saharan Africa. She has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, AIDS and Behavior, and Communication Education, and co-edited a scholarly volume. At Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya, and now at the University of Central Florida, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, persuasion, and health communication, receiving teaching awards from both institutions. A member of the IICD for over a decade, Dr. Miller has served as a paper reviewer for the division and been a member of the editorial board for the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. She is convinced that disciplinary knowledge can be effectively enlarged only when a multitude of standpoints are brought to bear on our subject area, and that the dominance of a single cultural paradigm in communication theory is a loss to all. A major part of her vision for the IICD division, therefore, focuses on developing mechanisms to strengthen support for young scholars from low and middle income nations to contribute to the global scholarly conversation.  

SECRETARY CANDIDATES

1) Melissa L. Curtin (University of California at Santa Barbara)

Melissa L. Curtin (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2007). I currently hold an interdisciplinary appointment at the University of California, Santa Barbara as Researcher & Coordinator of Special Projects in Language, Culture and Communication. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor, I also teach in the Departments of Linguistics, Communication, and Global Studies. My critical ethnographic research integrates theorizations of language, identity, globalization and intercultural communication and has been published in several edited volumes (Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication; Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader; Seeking Identity: Language in Society; Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery; Conflict, Exclusion, and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape) and peer-reviewed journals (International Journal of Sociology of Language; Social Semiotics). I’ve been an active member of IICD since 2004. During this time I’ve received a few awards from IICD (Top Four Competitive Scholar Papers, 2014; Dissertation of the Year Award, 2008; and Top Student Paper, 2007).  In addition to presenting papers, I’ve had the privilege of regularly serving as a reviewer, chair, and respondent and I also served for two years on the Awards Nominating Committee (2009; 2010).  I’ve benefited greatly from participating in IICD and would very much like the opportunity to further support its efforts by serving as the division’s secretary

2) Bing Han (University of South Carolina at Aiken)

 I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at University of South Carolina-Aiken. My dissertation examines cross-culturally empathy’s effect on the moral conflict between care and justice. A co-authored article with Dale Hample, and David Payne, “The Aggressiveness of Playful Arguments,” won the Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award offered by NCA’s American Forensics Association and was published in Argumentation. The article co-authored with Edward Fink, “How do Statistical and Narrative Evidence Affect Persuasion? The Role of Evidentiary Features,” was published in Argumentation and Advocacy. Another article co-authored with Deborah Cai, “Face Goals in Apology: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Chinese and U.S. Americans,” was published in Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. I consider professional service as an important part of my academic career and a great opportunity to give back to an intellectual community that I love. I have strived to contribute to this community by serving as Chair of the Nominating Committee for NCA’s Association of Chinese Communication Scholars, volunteering to review conference submissions, guest reviewing for journals, and giving guest talks on intercultural communication. If elected Secretary of IICD, I will serve with integrity and fulfill my duties by working enthusiastically to help advance IICD’s mission. I sincerely appreciate this opportunity and your consideration of my candidacy. Thank you.

3) Elizabeth Root (Oregon State University)

 Let me introduce myself: I began my career as an English as a second/foreign language teacher and spent a total of six years teaching English in China and South Korea. These experiences prompted my interest to formally study intercultural communication, so I pursued a doctoral degree at the University of New Mexico. Currently, I am an Associate Professor in Speech Communication at Oregon State University. My research focuses on issues of university internationalization, cultural identity, and intercultural communication pedagogy. I would be happy to serve the division as secretary. Previously, I have served as a reviewer and have chaired panels for the division, and it would be an honor to step up to a more official role to support the division.

SECRETARY CANDIDATES

1) Bo Feng (University of California at Davis)

Bo Feng (Ph.D., Purdue University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at University of California, Davis. Dr. Feng’s primary research interests lie in the area of supportive communication. She has published work that examines the processes through which people seek, provide, and respond to various forms of support, especially comforting and advice, and how these processes are similar and different for people from different cultural backgrounds.

2) Brandi Lawless (University of San Francisco)

 I am an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of San Francisco. I have been an active member of the IICD for 7 years. I define my research as critical intercultural communication and have a particular interest in the intersections of race and class, the hegemonic (re)production of poverty, and intercultural alliance building. Much of my research explores these issues within nonprofit contexts. I am currently co-editing a special issue of our division’s journal, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, on intercultural communication with/in nonprofit contexts. If elected, I would be honored to serve our division in this capacity.

3) Jieyoung Kong (Western Kentucky University)

 Jieyoung Kong is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication at Western Kentucky University where she teaches courses in intercultural communication and research methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research interest focuses on intercultural and international communication, transculturation, communities of practice and epistemology/ontology. As a third culture kid (or global nomad), she has always been fascinated by cultures and intercultural dynamics. She received her B.A. in Russian Language from Wellesley College, her M.A. from Korea University in International Area Studies and Language Testing, and Ph.D. in Communication from Arizona State University (2012). Her dissertation was an ethnographic study on the transculturation process of a Japanese martial art practice in the U.S.

4) Diana Trebig (Saginaw Valley State University)

 Diana Trebing is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Saginaw Valley State University where she teaches courses in Intercultural Communication, Identity and Culture, and Nonverbal Communication. Her research interests are in intercultural communication, multicultural pedagogy, and identity development within and across cultures

5) Shuo Yao (Radford University)

 Dr. Shuo Yao is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Radford University. She earned her Master’s degree at Peking University, China, in International Relations and then obtained her doctoral degree at University of Maryland in Intercultural Communication. Her teaching and research interests include communication theories, research methods, persuasion, conflict management, and international and intercultural communication. Currently she serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator at Radford University and the Chair of the research committee at the Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS). 

6) Qin Zhang (Fairfield University)

  Qin Zhang (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2005) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Fairfield University. Her research interests span across intercultural, instructional, and interpersonal communication. She has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Human Communication Research, Communication Education, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Communication Quarterly, Western Journal of Communication, Communication Research Reports, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations. She serves on the editorial board of Communication Education, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and Communication Teacher. She was the 2012-2013 President of the Association for Chinese Communication Scholars affiliated with the NCA. She has been an IICD member since 2004 and she is very excited to serve the division.

7) Lin Zhu (University of Massachusetts at Boston)

  Lin Zhu (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is an assistant professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has extensive research and teaching experience in the U.S. and in China. She specializes in intercultural communication and negotiation and conflict management. Her dissertation research examined how mental models of sojourning students converge to the host nationals’ mental models as a result of intercultural communication, and how such convergence of mental models is related to sojourners’ psychological health. In addition, she conducted cross-cultural tests on the influence of negotiators’ emotions on their own and their partner’s behavior and outcomes. She has taught a variety of communication courses, including intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, research methods, and public speaking. She is also actively involved in study abroad and other educational exchange programs.

Unit Planner’s Report: IICD/NCA 2012

                                                            

Amy Heuman, Vice Chair 

Hello all! We have an exciting IICD program for you during the NCA 100th Anniversary Convention. Please plan to support the 33 program offerings that we have scheduled for our division as well as additional programming sponsored through other caucuses & divisions. We look forward to your attendance at the IICD Business Meeting on Friday, 12:30pm-1:45pm, at the Palmer House Hilton (Crystal – 3rd Floor) and our reception on Saturday, 6:30-8:00 pm, at the Palmer House Hilton (Location). Our division program schedule and additional co-sponsored panels are as follows:

International and Intercultural Communication Division Program

Thursday, November 20th

8:00am- 9:15am Drawing from Our Past(s), Shaping Our Future(s): Developing a Working Definition of Transnational Communication , Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

8:00 am -9:15 am The Impact of the Global on Local Cultural Practice, Price Room - 5th Floor, Palmer House Hilton

9:30 am -10:45 am Illuminating Cultural Identity Negotiation Strategies in the 21st Century: From Identity Negotiation Theory, to Communication Theory of Identity, to Co-Cultural Theory, Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00 am -12:15 pm Challenging and Resisting the Normative in Intercultural Communication Studies, Salon 7 - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00 am -12:15 pm Perpetuating Racism Online and Countering Prejudice and Racism via Institutional Responses and Celebrity Counter-Stereotypes, Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00 am -12:15 pm Uncanny Presence/Absence: The figure of “Comfort Women” in Contemporary Japanese Public Discourses, Room 4B - 4th Floor, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with Asian/Pacific Island Caucus, APAC Division, & GLBTQ Division

12:30 pm -1:45 pm Cultural Adjustment, Acculturation, and Accommodation Experiences of International Students and Expatriates, Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

2:00 pm -3:15 pm Media, Technologies, and Cultural Practice in the Global Age, Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

2:00 pm -3:15 pm Pedagogy of Intersectionality Room 4J - 4th Floor, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with Asian/Pacific American Caucus, APAC Division, GLBTQ Division

2:00 pm -3:15 pm The Presence of Foreign Experiences: (Re)locating Transnational Identity Performances Price Room - 5th Floor, Palmer House Hilton, Co-Sponsored with Performance Studies Division

3:30 pm -4:45 pm Intercultural Dialogue: A Theoretical Rationale and Four Studies from Different Parts of Asia Salon 12 - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

Friday, November 21st

8:00 am - 9:15 am 100 Years of Postcoloniality: Intersections of Communication Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Digital Humanities and Affective Labor , Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton, Co-sponsored with Critical and Cultural Studies Division

8:00 am -9:15 am Popping Japan: Media Reification and Identity Co-optation Room 4B - 4th Floor, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with Asian/Pacific American Caucus, APAC Division

8:00 am -9:15 am Representing Politics and Political Discord in International Contexts PDR 1 - 3rd Floor, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with Mass Communication Division & Political Communication Division

9:30 am -10:45 am Subjectivity and Agency: Exploring Sites of Resignation and Resistance Salon 7 - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

9:30 am -10:45 am Top Four Competitive Student Papers in International and Intercultural Communication Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00 am- 12:15 pm Other/ed Voices, Other/ed Spaces, and Cultural Be/Longing Price Room, 5th Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00 am- 12:15 Top Four Competitive Scholar Papers in International and Intercultural Communication Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

12:30 pm- 1:45 pm International and Intercultural Communication Division Business Meeting Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

2:00 pm -3:15 pm The International and Intercultural Communication Division: Past Challenges-Present Victories Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

3:30 pm -4:45 pm A Culture of Tough Jews: Rhetorical Regeneration and the Politics of Identity Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

3:30 pm -4:45 pm Virtual Cosmopolitanism and Intercultural New Media: (Re)Imagining Past Cosmopolitanisms within Present Scholarship Salon 7 - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

Saturday, November 22nd

8:00am - 9:15am Arguing Goals, Cultural Communication Tendencies, and Communication Socialization Agents Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

8:00am -9:15am Rearticulating "Asian" and "Pacific" (American) Identities and Spaces Room 4B - 4th Floor, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with Asian/Pacific American Caucus, APAC Division

8:00am -9:15am The Presence of Our Voices: Continuing the Project of Inclusion in International and Intercultural Communication Research Price Room - 5th Floor, Palmer House Hilton

9:30am -10:45am Global Politics, Media, and Immigration Policy Salon 7 - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

9:30am -10:45am Ireland, France, Brazil, China, India, and the U.S.: News Media Coverage and Framing of Crisis Events Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00am -12:15pm College Students, Classroom Contexts, and What the Communication Teacher Needs to Know about Teaching in Globally Diverse Classrooms Salon 7 - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00am - 12:15pm Non-Governmental Organizations in a Globalizing World: Communication Networks, Culture, Opportunities and Challenges Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00am -12:15pm Scholar to Scholar: Constructing a Communicative World Salon C - Lower Level, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with Communication as Social Construction Division, Environmental Communication Division, Peace and Conflict Communication Division, & Scholar to Scholar

11:00am -12:15pm Who are we? Who am I? Exploring Auto/Ethnography and Asian/American Experiences Room 4J - 4th Floor, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with Asian/Pacific American Caucus, APAC Division, GLBTQ Division

12:30pm -1:45pm Negotiations of (Im)migrant and Citizenship Struggles Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

2:00pm -3:15pm Diaspora and Beyond: South Asian Perspectives on Identity, Community and Culture in Transnational Landscapes Room 4B - 4th Floor, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with the Asian/Pacific American Caucus, APAC Division

2:00pm -3:15pm IICD Honors Graduate Student Seminar, Part I Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton, Co-Sponsored with the NCA First Vice President

3:30pm -4:45pm IICD Honors Graduate Student Seminar, Part II Crystal - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton, Co-Sponsored with the NCA First Vice President

3:30pm -4:45pm Theorizing Cultural Identity and Negotiation in Asian/American Spaces Room 4B - 4th Floor, Hilton Chicago, Co-Sponsored with the Asian/Pacific American Caucus, APAC Division

Sunday, November 23rd

8:00am - 9:15am Articulation of Intercultural Pedagogies: Our Past and Future Salon 12 - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

8:00am -9:15am Communication for Development and Social Change Salon 2 - 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

8:00am - 9:15am Globalizing Intercultural Communication: Case Studies and Personal Narratives for the 21st Century Price Room - 5th Floor, Palmer House Hilton

9:30am -10:45am Critical Inter/Cultural and Feminist Critiques of Organized Social Change Movements Salon 12 – 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton, Co-Sponsored with Feminist & Women's Studies Division International, Women's Caucus

11:00am -12:15pm Social Media and College Students of Color: Utilizing Technology for the Classroom, Careers and Social Change Salon 12 – 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton

11:00am -12:15pm The Presence of Queer Intercultural Studies: Emerging Gender/Sexuality/Cultural Performances in Japan Salon 2 – 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hilton, Co-Sponsored with APAC Division & Performance Studies Division

IICD NCA WINE RECEPTION AND HONORS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR SET FOR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, PALMER HOUSE HILTON, CRYSTAL ROOM

From Bob Shuter, Arizona State University/Marquette University

Coordinator, New Initiatives IICD

IICD NCA WINE RECEPTION SET FOR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22!

Marriot, Delaware B

The NCA IICD Reception is set for Saturday, November 22, 6:30-8:00 PM, Palmer House Hilton, Crystal Room (third floor). This is a wine reception provided with the compliments of our new partner, Sage Publications, and our division! Attendance has been excellent the past three years – a wonderful opportunity to socialize with IICD colleagues and enjoy complimentary wine, beverages, and snacks. Awards will be presented to the 6 graduate student finalists from the division’s Honors Graduate Student seminar! The Ralph Cooley Award, the division’s highest honor, will also be presented at the reception. Please plan to attend!!

Also, please attend the IICD very first Honors Graduate Student Seminar on Saturday, November 22, 2-4:45PM, Palmer House Hilton, Crystal Room (third floor). This event is also sponsored by IICD in conjunction with our new partner, Sage Publications! The seminar will feature the competitively selected research of six graduate students who will be critiqued in an open session by seven top ICC scholars! For more details, see the NCA convention program. The seminar is open to the public

I look forward to seeing you at both events!

 

IICD OFFICERS 2014…

Executive Committee

Chair: Yoshitaka Miike (ymiike@hawaii.edu)

Vice Chair: Amy Heuman (a.heuman@ttu.edu)

Vice Chair Elect: Sara DeTurk (Sara.DeTurk@utsa.edu)

Secretary: Ahmet Atay (aatay@wooster.edu)

Publications Chair: Jennifer Willis-Rivera (jennifer.willis-rivera@uwrf.edu)

New initiatives/Past Chair: Robert Shuter (shuter@execpc.com)

Immediate Past Chair: S. Lily Mendoza (mendoza@oakland.edu)

 

THE IICD CONFERENCE GUIDE AND THE NEXT NEWSLETTER. . .

We are trying something new this year!  Approximately 1 week before NCA, you will receive an IICD Conference Guide from us (via email).  This guide will have a reminder of the different panels sponsored by IICD and the election slate, but it will also have suggestions of area places to eat in Chicago. So print it out, or keep it on your phone for quick reference during the conference! The next full edition of the newsletter will arrive in December.  If you have any notices, announcements, or other information that should go in the newsletter, please email your information to the Publications Chair:  Jennifer Willis-Rivera at jennifer.willis-rivera@uwrf.edu.

See you in Chicago!!