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NCA 98th Annual Convention
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Thank you to the submitters who made a contribution to this year's NCA Annual Convention. Submissions are now
closed. You may visit NCA Submission Central to view and track your submission.
Orlando is a place synonymous with celebration. It is fitting that when the NCA meets in Orlando, we will celebrate the values, concepts, and principles that unite us as a communication association and discipline. The 2012 NCA convention theme, “Celebrate COMMunity,” seeks to affirm the ideas that unify the communication discipline, as well as celebrate the diverse community of scholars, educators, and practitioners that constitutes the National Communication Association.
As we approach the association’s centennial, the convention theme encourages conversations about the principles and ideas that provide coherence to what we study and teach. As the largest professional communication association in the world, NCA is a place where educators, scholars and practitioners with diverse methods and perspectives are welcomed home. The theme seeks to facilitate a sense of community by encouraging conversations that identify our common “home” within the community of ideas that constitute the communication discipline.
Although the NCA constitution describes the various units in the organization as divisions, select programs at the Orlando convention will focus on unity, exploring common intradisciplinary and cross-division connections among the various divisions, contexts, methods, and paradigms of communication study. But there would be no COMMunity to celebrate or unity to envision without the diverse people and paradigms that add richness to our common goal of “advancing all forms of human communication.” To celebrate COMMunity is also an opportunity to value the diversity of the association and the multiple disciplinary perspectives that are embedded in our past, resident in our present, and anticipated in our future. Please join us in Orlando for a celebration of what unites us as a communication community—“Celebrate COMMunity.”
Steven A. Beebe
NCA First Vice President
Texas State University-San Marcos
- NCA Submission Central Maintenance in February
February 22, 2012
The company that runs NCA Submission Central will be updating their servers between 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, February 26, 2012. NCA Submission Central may experience temporary down-time during this scheduled maintenance. - NCA Submission Central Maintenance in January
January 17, 2012
The company that runs NCA Submission Central will be updating their servers between 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, January 22, 2012. NCA Submission Central may experience temporary down-time during this scheduled maintenance. - Submissions Open January 16, 2012
January 13, 2012
Convention submissions for the NCA 98th Annual Convention will open on Monday, January, 16, 2012. Submissions must be made electronically through NCA Submission Central. Submitters may view calls for submissions for all NCA units and affiliate organizations accepting submissions at NCA Submission Central by clicking the View Calls tab. The deadline to submit proposals is Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. - How to Submit Webinars
January 04, 2012
NCA is offering “How to Submit” training webinars for the 98th Annual Convention. The webinar(s) will discuss how to successfully submit proposals to NCA Submission Central. The webinar information and schedule can be found in the Convention Resource Library.