Discerning Diverse Voices:
Communication & Information Symposium on Diversity

Call for Papers, Posters and Panels Presentations
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2017

Monday, March 27
205 Gorgas Library

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Clara Chu
Director, Mortensen Center for International Library Programs
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences’ Communication and Diversity Forum invites you to submit paper, panel or poster proposals for eighth annual Discerning Diverse Voices research symposium that addresses the communication and information needs of diverse populations. The purpose of the symposium is to encourage research about diversity and communication in all of its manifestations. Conference presentations are sought in all areas of diversity including, but not limited to the following:

• Organizations: leadership and management, recruitment and retention, mentoring, organizational culture, motivation and conflict in the workplace and community-based organizations.
  
• Knowledge: the educational, recreational, informational, political, medical and cultural needs of diverse populations.
  
• Mediated representations: communication and rhetorical strategies, communication effects, and historical and contemporary images of diverse populations.
  
• Cultural criticism and commentary (politics, social media, film)
  
• Intersectionality and identity (including, but not limited to studies of race, gender, LGBTQA+, social class, ability and age)
  
• Social Justice/Movements (i.e. Black Lives Matter, #bamasits, We Need Diverse Books)
  
• Popular Culture (reality television, sports, fashion, news, music)

This symposium is highly interdisciplinary and hopes to attract a wide range of topics and methodologies used in researching diversity in our society.

Proposals are encouraged from faculty, staff, community activists, graduate and undergraduate students. Please submit electronic submissions ONLY according to guidelines for papers, panels and posters to the submission site by February 15, 2017.

For: UA Faculty, Instructors and Graduate Teaching Assistants

How do we, as teachers, create a welcoming educational environment in diverse classrooms? The Inclusive Classrooms Workgroup, with generous support from the Office for Academic Affairs, is facilitating a series of four Spring 2017 teaching workshops on promoting diversity and inclusion in the classroom.

Register online through Skillport to attend one or all presentations by clicking this link Promoting Diversity and Inclusion to enroll in the presentation(s) of interest. You can also register for individual sessions by clicking the links below the workshops. Note:  Please help us manage seating, refreshments and the catering of meals by being timely with your registration. 

For questions on Skillport and registering, please see http://hr.ua.edu/learning-development/online-learning/skillport. For questions concerning login access in Skillport, please contact HR Learning & Development at 205-348-9700 or HRLearningandDevelopment@ua.edu.