The Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), Romania, is organizing the 12th annual international conference Synergies in Communication (SiC 2024), to be held in a hybrid format on 31 October- 1 November 2024. The event will be organized under the auspices of the Faculty of International Business and Economics in partnership with Université d'Artois, University of Zaragoza, Aix-Marseille Université, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University (SOA), Hiroshima University, Institutul de Filologie Română „B.P.-Hasdeu” al Ministerului Educației, Culturii și Cercetării al Republicii Moldova, “Ovidius” University of Constanta and QUEST Romania, PROSPER-ASE Language Centre, The Romanian Society for English and American Studies (RSEAS), a member of The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Romanian Association for American Studies (RAAS).

The conference is organized around 7 thematic areas:
SECTION 1: SYNERGIES IN LINGUISTICS, BUSINESS AND (INTER)CULTURAL COMMUNICATION.(ONLINE)

SECTION 2: INTERDEPENDENCES: ACADEMIC AND DIGITAL LITERACIES IN THE NEW EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT. REVISITING QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION(ONLINE)

SECTION 3: ROMANIAN CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES (ONLINE)

SECTION 4: BOUNDARY TRANSGRESSIONS IN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST (HYBRID)

SECTION 5: MINDSCAPES AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS IN FAR EASTERN STUDIES (ONLINE)

SECTION 6: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE (ONLINE)

SECTION 7: MIGRATION, DIASPORA(S), AND REFUGEES (ONLINE)