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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 languages are English and Chinese.
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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 websites 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.
In 1991, the conference changed its focus in several ways. It
created an organization known as the International Association
for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) that is housed
with the Intercultural Studies Institute at Trinity University
in San Antonio, Texas. It also established its own journal of
Intercultural Communication Studies (ICS) with Bates L. Hoffer
(Trinity University) as its General Editor. Currently, Guo-Ming
Chen (University of Rhode Island), L. Brooks Hill (Trinity University),
Nobuyuki Honna (Aoyama University, Japan), and Robert N. St.
Clair (University of Louisville) are the other members of that
editorial team. In addition to creating an organization, the
conference shifted its focus towards interdisciplinary models
of communication across languages and cultures.
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A History
of the International Association for Intercultural Communication
Studies (IAICS)
The International Association for Intercultural Communication
Studies (IAICS) originated from a series of Asian-American conferences
run by the late Dr. John Koo at the University of Alaska and
Arizona State University. In 1985, the first international conference
on “Cross-Cultural Communication: East and West” was
held in Seoul, Korea. The group met every two years, alternating
between North America and Asia. Asian conferences were held in
Harbin (China), Tainan (Taiwan), and Hong Kong (China). In North
America the conferences were held in San Antonio (Texas), Tempe
(Arizona), and Louisville (Kentucky). Since 2003, the conference
has been held on an annual basis. The following is the list of
the conferences sponsored by the association
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Seijong Hotel. Seoul, Korea. 1985
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA. 1989
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
Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan. 2005
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 2006
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. 2007
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Organizational Information
The current Board of Directors for the International
Association for Intercultural Communication Studies includes
Dr. L. Brooks Hill (Chair of Publications), Dr. Bates Hoffer
(President; Editor in Chief of ICS), Prof. Nobuyuki Honna (President
Elect), Dr. YuXin Jia (Chair, 2007 conference), and Dr. Robert
N. St. Clair (Executive Director).
Intercultural Communication Studies (ICS),
the journal sponsored by International Association for Intercultural
Communication Studies (IAICS), began in 1991 with the goal of
publishing research which is related to the study of intercultural
communication and which comes from the many areas involved in
the field. The interdisciplinary nature of the journal can be
seen in some of the fields represented in the first eight years
of ICS:
. . . art, communication, conflict resolution
in Chinese, history, Japanese language, Korean studies,, language
and culture education, language and linguistics in Holland, law,
linguistics, literature, nonverbal communication, philosophy,
religion, sociology, speech communication
In ICS, theoretical academic articles and
articles dealing with educational and other applications constitute
the majority of content. Progress reports on current research,
discussion papers on specific problems in the field, and book
reviews are also included. Articles that look across disciplinary
boundaries are encouraged. This is the 15th year for ICS to make
its contributions to the field of intercultural communication.
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