Purpose of the Conference
Groups of scholars from a wide range of cultures and languages continue to come together to share and to learn from each other's experiences in intercultural communication. These groups have included Asians, native Americans, Hispanics, Africans, North Americans, and Europeans. They also represent a number of language-related disciplines: linguistics, language teaching, studies, sociology, psychology, history, political science, and communication. Papers from the conference are published in Intercultural Communication Studies and other conference-related books. The conference language is English.
The Goals of the Conference
* To bring together international educators and scholars to share ideas and experiences from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across cultures.
* To provide a forum for the exchange of scholarly research on issues relating to communication across language and culture.
* To disseminate through monographs, journals and web sites, recent research and thinking on emerging issues relating to language and culture.
* To bring different academic disciplines together to share theoretical insights and findings about communication across cultures.
The history of the conference
This conference is a colaboration between the IAICS and the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. What began ans an East West conference in Seoul, Korea in 1986, has grown into a Pacific Rim Conference on Cross Cultural Communication. These international conferences were scheduled biannually and begining with the Guadalajara Conference, it will be scheduled annually. The following is a listing of these interdisciplinary conferences of cross-cultural communication.
The Board of Directors for the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies includes Dr. Robert N. St. Clair (Executive Director), Dr. L. Brooks Hill (Chair of Publications), Prof. Nobuyuki Honna (Chair 2005 conference), Dr. YuXin Jia (Chair, 2007 conference), and Dr. Bates Hoffer (Editor in Chief of ICS).
The Goals of the Conference
* To bring together international educators and scholars to share ideas and experiences from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across cultures.
* To provide a forum for the exchange of scholarly research on issues relating to communication across language and culture.
* To disseminate through monographs, journals and web sites, recent research and thinking on emerging issues relating to language and culture.
* To bring different academic disciplines together to share theoretical insights and findings about communication across cultures.
The history of the conference
This conference is a colaboration between the IAICS and the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. What began ans an East West conference in Seoul, Korea in 1986, has grown into a Pacific Rim Conference on Cross Cultural Communication. These international conferences were scheduled biannually and begining with the Guadalajara Conference, it will be scheduled annually. The following is a listing of these interdisciplinary conferences of cross-cultural communication.
- Chejong Hotel. Seoul, Koea. 1986
- Chung King University. Tainan, Taiwan. 1991
- Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. USA. 1993
- Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. 1995
- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. USA 1997
- University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. USA 1999
- Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. 2001
- California State University at Fullerton, USA. 2003
- Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. 2004
- Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. 2005
- University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 2006
- Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. 2007
- Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea 2008.
The Board of Directors for the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies includes Dr. Robert N. St. Clair (Executive Director), Dr. L. Brooks Hill (Chair of Publications), Prof. Nobuyuki Honna (Chair 2005 conference), Dr. YuXin Jia (Chair, 2007 conference), and Dr. Bates Hoffer (Editor in Chief of ICS).
