Conf/CfP - Culture and Communication in Anatolia: Past, Present and Future, 15 – 17 June 2016, Turkey

Call for Abstracts

The Public Relations and Advertising department at Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey, proudly presents an international symposium on culture and communication with distinguished international and national speakers that most of us can hardly ever have a chance to meet, listen to and talk with. Atılım University invites you to submit a research paper for the international symposium on “Culture and Communication in Anatolia: Past, Present and Future”. We welcome qualitative or quantitative research papers that critically explore any time period and subject in the history of Anatolia or Ankara, including interdisciplinary connections with social, economic, political, anthropological, and archeological areas. We are interested in presentations not only by graduate students, research assistants and academicians, but also by researchers, scholars, historians, museum staff and communication professionals with no affiliation with any university.

Theme of symposium

The symposium consists of three interrelated sections:

The main themes of first two sections are confined within the framework of historical and/or critical assessment of life in Anatolia in general and Ankara and surroundings in specific. There is no specified historical time limit on subject of presentations. It is expected that presentations establish connections with culture which is broadly defined as the way/mode of production of life and communication which is defined as the necessary condition of physical/biological and societal existence and survival of human beings.

The main theme of the third section is dedicated to “Culture and Communication: challenge of the Present and Future under Globalization.” There is no limit on historical time and place for presentations; however presentations are expected to establish global and local/glocal connections.

Based on the above basic themes, presentations are invited on topics including but not limited to the followings:

• Archeological, antropological, social, political and cultural expressions of life in Anatolia/Ankara (in any period or periods)
• Social structures and/or cultural and communicative interactions in Anatolia (e.g. Anatolia in general, Ankara and surroundings or central Anatolia in any historical period)
• Networks of economic and political transactions/communications (roads etc systems) and their aims and functions.
• Material and immaterial cultures and cultural artifacts/expressions
• Formation, maintenance, development/change and/or production relations within the organized social, economic and political structure(s).
• Transmission, diffusion, exchange, domination, struggle, appropriation, development, transformation, acculturation, hybridization, disappearance or elimination of cultures and communication.
• Critically assessing culture and communication within macro, meso or micro structures and structural relations, including ideology, domination and struggle
• Daily practices of reproduction of life
• Reproduction of organized relations and structures
• Reproduction of social and economic practices
• Reproduction of consciousness, ways of thinking, deciding and evaluation
• Nature of communicative actions at macro, meso or micro levels in order to reproduce prevailing modes of material and immaterial life
• Challenge of the present and future of the world in general and/or any geographical or political unit(s) in specific (e.g., Middle east, Anatolia, Ankara or any country such as Turkey)

Abstract of a research paper should be sent via email.

• A full paper is a formal presentation on original research by one or more authors.
• The length of abstract of individual paper should be at least 600 words that enable reviewers to make a sound decision.
• The abstract must include three main paragraphs:

(1) sufficient rationale for the study that leads to the specific subject matter to be studied,

(2) proper explanation of the method, and

(3) main conclusion(s) of the study only if it is completed.

• Abstract should also include name(s), affiliation(s) and email address(es) of author(s)
• Abstract should use 12pt Times New Roman, single-space and Microsoft word.
• It must be written in English or Turkish.
• The time limit of paper presentation is 20 minutes and it will be strictly adhered to.
• Authors will be notified of acceptance, revision or rejection of their abstracts and papers within three weeks of their mailing date.
• Important: Acceptance of abstract means only (a)presentation in the sympsoium and (b) placement in the online symposium abstracts at the Atilim University Public Relatons and Advertising Department web-page.
• Submitted papers must have minimum 3500 and maximum 7000 words. Exceeding the maximum length is allowed for only very special studies with highly significant contributions.
• Paper should adhere the correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing style.
• Paper must follow the strict guidelines of the APA6
• Important: Acceptance of an abstract does not mean automatic acceptance of the full paper for publishing in the symposium book or Atılım University Social Science Journal. The full papers will undergo scientific review.
• Presentations of guest speakers and accepted papers will be published in the symposium book.
• Plagiarized materials and materials with collections of existing literature are unacceptable and will be rejected.
• Submission deadline for abstracts is May 27, 2016.
• Submission deadline for the final paper is June 10, 2016
• You may submit your abstract and paper by email to symposium2016@atilim.edu.tr

• Please press here to download the abstract submission form - http://symposium2016.atilim.edu.tr/abstractform.docx
• Please submit your research paper as separate file to symposium2016@atilim.edu.tr

important note: Only the latest and revised conditions and rules of symposium Sempozyum is valid, not the previous one(s)

All abstracts and papers will be peer reviewed by the Symposium Scientific Committee.

The Committee may accept, reject, or offer an opportunity to revise the abstract and paper.

Symposium abstracts and papers will be assessed using the following criteria:

• Study/topic: Thematic relevance to the subject of the symposium
• Study/topic: Social meaning
• Methodology: Existence of a sound theoretical framework/structure
• Methodology: Proper study rationale, method, application and evaluation
• Scientific value: Significant contributions to the accumulated knowledge

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