Friday, November 22, 2013

Call For Papers: 7th Annual Undergraduate Symposium

Seventh Annual DePauw Undergraduate Ethics Symposium

Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw University
Greencastle, Indiana


On April 10 - 12, 2014, The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics will host the seventh annual DePauw Undergraduate Ethics Symposium, designed to encourage undergraduate scholarship and artistic work. The conference is shaped around a series of workshops in which student scholars, creative writers, filmmakers and photographers present their best work on a subject of ethical concern. This year the theme of the Symposium is "Virtue and Victory: Ethical Challenges in Competitive Life," but we welcome submissions on all issues of ethical concern.

This is an honors symposium, and all submissions will be read by a panel of DePauw faculty members. Those students whose works are received by the February 1, 2014, deadline and accepted for inclusion in the conference will have their expenses paid for travel (up to $400), lodging and food. The group will be relatively small. We prefer to have 20 to 30 students from a variety of colleges and universities to keep the seminar groups at seven to ten students each.

The students whose works are accepted for the symposium will benefit from the discussion of their ethics-related work by leading scholars and professionals in their fields and from their peers. Our goal is that each student who participates in the Symposium will have a polished piece of work which s/he can submit in a portfolio, a graduate school application, or a job application.

Please share this information with interested colleagues and encourage students to submit their work. If you would like further information about this year's symposium, please visit our website (http://www.depauw.edu/academics/centers/prindle/ues/2014/).

Call for papers--13th National Communication Ethics Conference

13th NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ETHICS CONFERENCE
“Rhetoric and Philosophy of Communication Ethics:
Social Justice in Organizations and History”
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
June 4–6, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS


Submission Deadline: March 1, 2014

The 13th National Communication Ethics Conference will be held June 4-6, 2014 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. The conference theme is “Rhetoric and Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Social Justice in Organizations and History.” The conference will consist of three distinct components.

1.      Six invited keynote speakers with one presenting in the morning and one in the evening on each day of the conference. The speakers are Briankle Chang (University of Massachusetts), François Cooren (Université de Montréal), Gail T. Fairhurst (University of Cincinnati), Annette Holba (Plymouth State University), Ramsey Eric Ramsey (Arizona State University), and Ingrid Volkmer (University of Melbourne).
2.      Panel presentations in the afternoon and early evening consisting of refereed submitted papers and panels.
3.      Evening conversation with the keynote speakers hosted by Pat Gehrke (University of South Carolina) and Gina Ercolini (University of South Carolina) each evening, accompanied by wine and cheese.

Scholars from all related disciplines are invited to submit papers and panel proposals. The conference encourages historical and contemporary questions of ethics in human communication. Papers may address a variety of communication ethics issues arising from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Of particular interest are papers relating to communication ethics in three conceptual threads to be led by visiting scholars:
  • Philosophy of communication/ethics
  • Communication theory/ethics
  • Communication ethics and social justice
  • Corporate communication/ethics

Papers: Submissions should be double-spaced, with a maximum of 30 pages, including references. Any citation style is permitted (e.g., MLA, APA, Chicago). Please indicate on the title page if the author is a graduate student and also if this presentation will be the author’s first at a professional conference (a debut presentation).  Send papers as attached files via email to cec@duq.edu.

Panel Proposals: Panel proposals may include up to five participants and a respondent. Please include one title page with a 500-word (maximum) abstract and rationale for the panel. Each presenter should include a title and 200-word abstract. Send the panel proposals as attached files to cec@duq.edu.

We encourage both graduate and undergraduate papers. Please designate them.

All papers and panel proposals must be received by midnight March 1, 2014, to be considered for inclusion in the conference.

Cost for the conference, which includes daily lunches and daily evening receptions with wine and cheese, is as follows:
$250.00 for Faculty
$125.00 for Graduate Students
$75.00 for Undergraduate Students

Housing will be available at two different locations: (1) Cambria Suites for $114.00 per night (with free shuttle service), and (2) on campus housing for $36.00 per night (single occupancy); $31.50 per person per night (double occupancy); and a one time charge of $7.50 for linens for both single and double occupancy.

For additional information, please contact the conference directors:


Department of Communication &
Rhetorical Studies
Duquesne University
600 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15282