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 […]
Registration is required to attend this event. This webinar will offer insight into truth and reconciliation as a tool of transitional justice required for social change. Dr. Amber Johnson will focus on the recent history of the communication discipline's racial climate leading up to #communicationsowhite, #rhetoricsowhite, and the scholar strike of 2020, what we can […]
Want to become the next editor of NCA’s Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Journal or the Text and Performance Quarterly? Nominations are due by 1/31/23. All editors receive an annual stipend. To see the full list of journals that are accepting editor submissions, click HERE
Members are invited to submit nominations for the following awards. Nominations, unless specified, must be submitted through the NCA nomination portal. Please read the applicable call for more information. Deadline for all nominations is May 15. Award descriptions, nomination criteria, and submission information can be found by clicking on the name of award below. All […]
The Western States Communication Association is hosting its 93rd Annual Convention in Phoenix, AZ, February 18-February 20. The theme is "Well-Being." Learn more and register HERE.
NCA Members are invited to submit resolution proposals for consideration by the Resolutions Committee by June 30. All proposed resolutions submitted by the June 30 deadline shall be published on the website prior to September 1. All resolutions are reviewed by the Resolutions Committee for its recommendation to the Legislative Assembly, who will review, deliberate, and vote on approval.. Please review […]