Dear AoIR Members This may be of interest to some of you or your advisees/students. If you have questions about the event, please email Dr. Rahul Mitra, rahul.mitra@wayne.edu. Best regards Dr. Eckert CFP Wayne State University 2017 Summer Doctoral Student Seminar, June 5-7 Deadline: March 1, 2017 Paid travel, lodging and meals for accepted participants We invite applicants for the 2017 Summer Doctoral Seminar, to be held June 5-7, 2017, at Wayne State University. The seminar will accept 12-15 doctoral students from around the country/world, with travel, boarding and lodging expenses paid for. Over 3-4 days, doctoral students will work with guest scholar Patrice M Buzzanell of Purdue University, to hone their research agendas. The theme of the 2017 seminar is "Constructing Resilience in Career." Applications are due to Dr. Rahul Mitra, at rahul.mitra@wayne.edu by March 1, 2017. You should send: 1) a copy of your latest CV 2) a letter of support from your academic adviser 3) a 500 word statement of how attending this seminar fits with your research goals. BIO: Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Distinguished Professor of Communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and in the School of Engineering Education by courtesy at Purdue University. She serves as the Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her scholarly interests center on career, praxis, and resilience. Editor or co-editor of four books: Case Studies in Organizational and Managerial Communication: Stretching Boundaries (in press), Distinctive Qualities in Communication (2010), Gender in Applied Communication Contexts (2004), and Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives (2000), she has authored more than 175 articles and chapters plus encyclopedia entries and numerous proceedings in engineering education and other disciplines. She currently serves on 16 editorial boards and has edited Management Communication Quarterly and other journals as associate or special issues editor. Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), she has served as ICA President as well as President of the Council of Communication Associations (CCA) and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG). Most recently, she has been awarded the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award from ICA and Distinguished Scholar from the National Communication Association. Her NSF funded projects involve construct development and validation of engineering ethics scales, the everyday constitution of ethics in engineering design teams, and design thinking to engage in diversity and inclusion, socio-technical intersections, and formation of engineering professionals. Cultivating Resilience in Career The ways in which individuals and communities communicatively constitute resilience has garnered increasing attention from scholars and practitioners seeking to help themselves and others construct a “new normal” after disaster and loss. No longer reserved for major events and trauma, resilience has come to be understood as an ongoing process cultivated by and with others for difficulties on different levels. In this seminar we examine how communication offers a distinctive vantage point for understanding resilience. In organizing resilience in career, we consider both reintegration and transformation—in work-life, professional/occupational challenges, risk, safety, resilience labor, difference, policy, and network ties. Through resilience, we can design communicative spaces, processes, and possibilities for more socially just and sustainable systems of career, work, and personal life. More details on the seminar theme "Constructing Resilience in Career": The ways in which individuals and communities communicatively constitute resilience has garnered increasing attention from scholars and practitioners seeking to help themselves and others construct a “new normal” after disaster and loss. No longer reserved for major events and trauma, resilience has come to be understood as an ongoing process cultivated by and with others for difficulties on different levels. In this seminar we examine how communication offers a distinctive vantage point for understanding resilience. In organizing resilience in career, we consider both reintegration and transformation—in work-life, professional/occupational challenges, risk, safety, resilience labor, difference, policy, and network ties. Through resilience, we can design communicative spaces, processes, and possibilities for more socially just and sustainable systems of career, work, and personal life. About guest scholar Patrice M Buzzanell: Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Distinguished Professor of Communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and in the School of Engineering Education by courtesy at Purdue University. She serves as the Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her scholarly interests center on career, praxis, and resilience. Editor or co-editor of four books, she has authored more than 175 articles and chapters plus encyclopedia entries and numerous proceedings in engineering education and other disciplines. She currently serves on 16 editorial boards, and has edited Management Communication Quarterly and other journals as associate or special issues editor. Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), she has served as ICA President as well as President of the Council of Communication Associations (CCA) and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG). Most recently, she has been awarded the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award from ICA and Distinguished Scholar from the National Communication Association. Stine Eckert, Ph.D. Vice-Chair Feminist Scholarship Division, ICA Assistant Professor Department of Communication 571 Manoogian Hall Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48201 @stineeckert http://stineeckert.com/ https://wikidgrrls.wordpress.com/