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The 2022 NCA Nomination Committee solicits from any member of the Association names of possible nominees for NCA Second Vice President and At-Large Members of the Legislative Assembly and the Leadership Development Committee. The Nominating Committee will review and narrow the slate of nominees who will eventually appear on the general election ballot. The Nominating […]

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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a partnership approach to research that equitably involves community and academic partners in all aspects of the research process (e.g., defining the research question, designing data collection, interpreting data, disseminating and translating findings, developing and evaluating interventions) aimed at enhancing equity and well-being in the communities involved. This presentation will […]

The National Communication Association invites undergraduate college students to apply and compete for the NCA Legacy Scholarship award. The NCA Legacy Scholarship seeks to broaden the Communication discipline’s relevance to various publics by providing a $1,000 scholarship to a local college student pursuing a degree in Communication, Journalism, or related program within the host city/region […]

Registration is required to attend this event. This presentation will discuss how neurodecolonization and mindful decolonization frameworks can be used to decolonize and liberate the mind from the constraints of trauma, destructive rumination, and lead to pathways of freedom and well-being. Both traditional Indigenous and western knowledge and science are integrated into this presentation along […]

NCA Governance and Award Committee Members Call NCA seeks members to serve on a variety of governance and award selection committees. All nominations are reviewed by the NCA Leadership Development Committee. The recommendations of the Leadership Development Committee are then considered by the Legislative Assembly, which formally approves appointments. Nominations from traditionally under-represented groups are […]

Registration is required to attend this event. "Disability Art on Lockdown; or, Crip World-Making" attends to disabled ways of knowing that have been particularly useful for navigating the global economic, political, and health crisis we are facing. Building on the work I put forward in Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance, the title of this […]

Registration is required to attend this event. This presentation draws from my recent book, The Haunted Borderlands to consider the American Southwest as a geographical region hemmed by the mutually-reinforcing power of borders and frontiers, which represent and therefore produce and reproduce different social worlds of meaning. I draw on theories of place, space and […]

Registration is required to attend this event. In a very telling passage in his popularly acclaimed book, How to be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, the brilliant writer asked a question and makes statements in this vein, "What's the problem with being "not racist"? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: 'I am not a […]