Division and Interest Group News

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GLBT Studies Interest Group:

The GLBT Studies Interest Group would like to congratulate our two Top Paper Award winners.

• David Gudelunas, Fairfield U, "Generational Differences Among Gay Men and Lesbians: Social and Media Change"
• Elena Martinez, California State University, San Bernardino, "Sperm Stealers! …And other Representations of Lesbian Parenting across Television"

Both papers will be featured during our Extended Session "Coming Together: Online, Offline, and Transmedia Studies of GLBT/Q Politics and Representation"  Sunday, May 27, 10:30am-1:15pm, Phoenix Sheraton Downtown Hotel, Encanto B. They will also be available via the Virtual conference.

Updates from Ethnicity and Race in Communication

ERIC is pleased to invite all members to a number of important events organized and hosted by the division at the 2012 conference in Phoenix.

• ICA Preconference - Borders, Migration, Community: Arizona and Beyond/ Frontera, Migración, Communidad: Arizona y Más Allá
  Thursday, May 24, 2012, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
  Walter Cronkite School, ASU Downtown Phoenix, Cronkite Theater
  Co-sponsored by ERIC and five other ICA divisions, this daylong preconference features an international roster of scholars, artists, and filmmakers, and includes field trips (via chartered bus) to visit local border activist organizations in the Phoenix area. $100 registration fee (includes lunch) payable at the time you register for the 2012 ICA conference. Our poster announcing the preconference is now available for download on ERIC's blog, http://ericdivision.wordpress.com/2012-events/. Please help us spread the word by printing, posting, and sharing the announcement across your networks. The poster is printable on us 8.5x11 (letter) and european a4 (letter) sizes. Color copies will be better than b&w.
• ERIC Extended Session – Battleground Arizona
  Friday, May 25, 2012, 10:30 am – 1:15 pm
  Phoenix Sheraton Downtown, Encanto B
  ERIC's extended session at the 2012 conference features an international panel of ethnicity and race scholars from across the US/Mexico border in a discussion about ongoing struggles over citizenship, marginality, and community against the ravages of ethno-racial repression playing out in Arizona. Our flyer announcing the extended session is now available for download on ERIC's blog, http://ericdivision.wordpress.com/2012-events/. You are invited to print, post, and share it across your networks. The flyer is printable on us 8.5x11 (letter) and european a4 (letter) sizes. Color copies will be better than b&w.
• ICA Theme Extended Session – Precious Knowledge
  Sunday, May 27, 2012, 10:30 am - 1:15 pm
  Phoenix Sheraton Downtown, Cave Creek
  ICA’s theme extended session this year is sponsored by ERIC, and will feature a film screening and discussion of the new documentary, Precious Knowledge (Ari Palos and Eren McGinnis 2011, 75 min). The film follows students enrolled at Tucson high school as they mobilize against new state legislation that seeks to ban ethnic studies in Arizona high schools. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and several Tucson high school students featured in the film. Details about the screening are available on ERIC’s  blog, http://ericdivision.wordpress.com/2012-events/ and the ICA website, http://www.icahdq.org/conf/2012/preciousknowledge.asp.
• ERIC Business Meeting and Top Paper Awards
  Sunday, May 27, 2012, 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm
  Phoenix Sheraton Downtown, Encanto B
  Come celebrate ERIC's 2012 top paper winners. Student winners include: Rahul Mitra (Purdue U), Alfred Leonard Martin, Jr. (U of Texas – Austin), and Shepherd Mpofu (U of the Witwatersrand, South Africa). Faculty winners include: Choonghee Han (Hope College), Amber Lauren Johnson (Prairie View A and M U), and Christine Lohmeier (U of Munich).
• ERIC Joint Reception
  Sunday, May 27, 2012, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
  Bliss Rebar
  901 N 4th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 (8 minute walk from the Sheraton)
  Eat, drink, mingle. Talk shop or not. Come celebrate the work of the division at ERIC’s joint reception co-hosted with Comm History, Feminist Scholarship, GLBT Studies, Phil Comm, and Pop Comm.
• Renew your ERIC membership and register for the preconference we’re co-sponsoring (you can do this online when you register for the 2012 ICA conference).

We look forward to seeing you all in Phoenix.

Update from ICA Organizational Communication Division for 2012 Conference

The Organizational Communication Division is hosting its first in years Junior Scholar Workshop on Thursday May 24 adjacent to the ICA conference site.  The cast of mid-career and senior facilitators is stunning, including Boris Brummans, Noshir Contractor, Laurie Lewis, Scott Poole, Dave Seibold, Michele Shumate and Sarah Tracy, with organizers Janet Fulk and Karen Myers.  The activities are customized to requests previously received from a select panel of junior members of our field.  The topics include:

• Strategies to recruit organizations to participate in organizational communication research
• Selecting journals for submissions and managing revisions
• Strategies for mentoring and being mentored, and managing reviews (three-year, tenure)
• Securing external funding for research
• Balancing the demands of professional (research, teaching, service) and personal lives

The workshop is open to tenure-track and clinical faculty, post-docs and industry researchers.

Detailed information on the structure of the day is provided at the following link. 
http://www.icahdq.org/conf/2012/preconferences.asp

You can register for the preconference at the ICA registration site up until May 18.  If you are a junior scholar, we’d love to have you join.  If you are a senior scholar, we hope you will make your junior colleagues aware of this event and facilitate their attendance.  It should be a fun and enlightening day.

Questions?  Contact Janet Fulk, fulk@usc.edu or Karen Myers, myers@comm.ucsb.edu

Updates from Political Communication:

Our program for the upcoming Phoenix conference includes a variety of 26 exciting and interesting panels, high-density sessions, an  interactive poster session and (for the first time) an extended session  titled “what do we (really) know about online political participation?”.

Division members are invited to our Annual Business Meeting (to be held  on Sunday, May 27, 4:30-5:45 at Room Maryvale A at the conference  hotel). We will honor our award winners and discuss a variety of  division-related issues. The meeting will be followed by our annual  off-site reception (jointly with the Journalism Studies Division), which  will be held at The First Amendment Forum at the nearby Walter Cronkite  School of Journalism and Mass Communication.  The agenda for the  business meeting and directions to the reception will be emailed to  participants as the conference approaches.

Hoping to see you there,
Claes de Vreese and Yariv Tsfati