The Tennessee Communication Association’s Interpersonal and Small Group Interest Group invites submissions of papers and panel proposals for inclusion in the 2018 TCA Conference.

The 2018 Conference theme is Communicating Peace and Calm to a World in Crisis.  All paper and/or  panel proposals should be emailed to tcollard@utm.edu .

Here are the guidelines:

Papers/Presentation must include the following:

1. A title page with the name of the author and his or her complete contact information (including department affiliation, complete school address, email address, and telephone number). If it is a student submission, please indicate so on the title page.
2. A 100-200 word abstract.

Panel proposals much include the following:

1. A panel title.
2. A 75 word description of the panel for the convention program.
3. Names and information for all participants (including department affiliation, complete school address, email address, and telephone number for each participant).
4. A rationale for the panel (500 words maximum) adequately justifying the significance of the proposed panel theme.

DEADLINE MAY 31, 2018

If you have any questions, please let me know

Thank you. We look forward to seeing you at the conference.

Teresa Collard, Ed.D.

Associate Professor of Communications

University of Tennessee at Martin

Email: tcollard@utm.edu