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68th Annual Conference New York State CommunicationAssociation October 22-24, 2010 Honor’s Haven Resort andSpa, Ellenville, NY (www.honorshaven.com)
Plannersfor the 68th annual conference invite conference participants to considerthe question of how, if at all, communication matters in interpersonal, digital/networked,organizational, intercultural and international communication contexts? (open as pdf )
Theword “matters” should be understood as having a dual meaning.One meaning (the more traditional one)of the proposed theme invites paper submissions, panels, demonstrations,roundtables and/or media screenings that deal with the topic of communicationin its myriad conceptualizations and circumstances.
Thesecond meaning invites the same kinds of participation in the conference asmentioned but with an eye to exploring how, when and why communication mattersin a variety of communication situations.
Forinstance, Twitter.When peoplehave the ability to tweet about the moment to moment activities of their lives…how,if at all, does this communication matter?When people are dealing with a health crisis/issue andtalking with others about their situation (e.g., doctors, neighbors, friends and/orother people dealing with the same health issue/crisis)…how, if at all, doesthis communication matter?When “packaged”messages become the message…how, ifat all, does this communication matter?
Itis the hope that the theme of CommunicationMatters (?) will open theoretical and ideological lines of communicationamong conference participants to engage in discussions about how communicationcan effect change and is effected by it.
Wehave two outstanding keynote speakers planned for the conference.Our Friday night keynote is Dr. Donal Carbaugh from the Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst.OurSaturday night keynote is Dr. Lawrence(Larry) Frey from the University of Colorado at Boulder.In addition, Dr. Kathleen Lebesco from Marymount Manhattan College will speak ata special lunchtime plenary session on Saturday.More information about each of these wonderful scholars isavailable on the NYSCA website at www.nyscanet.org.
Pleasesubmit 300 word abstracts or completed papers in word attachments only to BradCrownover:
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by June 1, 2010.
New York State Communication Association Conference,October 22-24, 2010
GIFTS Session-Call for Proposals
Chair, Dr. Cortney Moriarty, College of Mount SaintVincent
Do you have a teaching activity that you love to use?Would you like to share your activitywith others?
If so, please consider being a part of the Great Ideas for Teaching Speech/Communication (GIFTS) session for the New York State Communication Association Conference.
We want to learn about your teaching activity that helps you make your course materialinteresting, more accessible, memorable, or meaningful for students. If you have created a valuable, funand/or innovative college-level teaching activity that you use with yourcommunication students, you are the perfect panelist! Relevant teaching activities are those usedin or that can be adapted for a communication course such as interpersonal,media, public speaking, intercultural communication, organizational, rhetoric,etc.
Ideally, a GIFTS session takes place in a room with multiple tables. Eachpresenter is assigned a table. For 15 minutes the presenter discusses his orher activity with a small number of attendees. After 15 minutes, the audience forthe presenter rotates to other tables to learn about the ideas of a differentpresenter. A GIFTS session includesabout five 15 minute slots.Generallypresenters bring handouts describing their teaching activity that attendees cantake away with them.
The conference will be held at Honors Haven Resort and Spa in Ellenville, NewYork from October 22-24, 2010. If you are interested in participating, pleaseemail
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and include your name, institutional/organizational affiliation, and a title and brief description of your activity. Please contact Dr. Moriarty with thisinformation by August 15, 2010.
For more details about the conference and our terrifickeynotes, Dr. Donal Carbaugh from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst andDr. Lawrence (Larry) Frey from the University of Colorado at Boulder, please visitthe NYSCA website at nyscanet.org.
New York State Communication Association Conference, October22-24, 2010
Call for Panel Participants-NYSCA Administrators Workshop
For the past number of years, the Administrators Workshophas been a Saturday morning feature at the fall meeting of NYSCA. The workshop is designed for those inthe exalted or unfortunate position of President, Dean, Chair, ProgramCoordinator et. al. to discuss issues and problems among a group of sympatheticfellow travelers.It is anopportunity to learn and share from the experiences of others.
Past topics at the Administrators Workshop have included:tenure and promotion policies andprocedures, curriculum revision, working effectively with other departments,faculty evaluations, the role of adjuncts and graduate assistants, and teachingassignments.Because the workshopis facilitated as a roundtable discussion, what the workshop participantsdiscuss will largely emerge from topics of interest to the group.
The workshop facilitator is Dr. Gary Gumpert.Dr. Gumpert is Professor Emeritus ofCommunication Arts and Sciences at Queens College, City University of NewYork.He is co-founder and partnerin the consulting firm of Communication Landscapers as well as President of theUrban Communication Foundation.His work over the past thirty years has addressed the many nuances inour growing dependency upon mediated communication. Formerly a radio andtelevision producer/director, he is widely published in a variety of journalsand books which examine the intricate interconnection of social interaction,urbanization and media technology. He is the author of Talking Tombstonesand Other Tales of the Media Age (Oxford University Press, translation inJapanese, Japan UNI Agency Inc.). He is the co-editor (with Robert Cathcart) ofthree editions of Inter/Media: Interpersonal Communication in a Media World.Most recently he has co-edited Voices in the Street: Gender, Media andPublic Space and The Huddled Masses: Communication and Immigration and Real Law@ Virtual Space (Hampton Press).
To join this panel, please email Gary directly at:
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The deadline to contact Gary for inclusion on the panel isAugust 15, 2010.
