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The International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) was founded in 1997 as a result of deliberations by the Organizing Forum for an Intercultural
Academy. These deliberations were co-sponsored by the Intercultural Communications Institute and the International
Journal of Intercultural Relations. The aim of the Academy is to provide a forum where senior intercultural researchers, academics, and trainers can exchange ideas,
theories, research and successful training approaches. In this way, the Academy fosters high level research and scholarship on intercultural issues. All disciplines are welcome in the Academy.
Membership ("Fellows" and "Associate Fellows") is by election and based on demonstrated contributions to the understanding of intercultural relations. Application
procedures are summarized on a succeeding page ("Application") of this website.
The organizing conference of the Academy was hosted in April of 1998 by California State University at Fullerton. The second (and first biennial) conference was held
at Kent State University in April of 1999. The second biennial conference occured in April of 2001 on the campus of the University of Mississippi. The Third Biennial Conference was hosted by the
National Taiwan Normal University in May of 2004. The fourth Biennial Conference will be held on the campus of Kent State University on May 4-7, 2005.
Officers of the Academy are:
President and Treasurer: Dan Landis, University of Hawaii at Hilo
Vice-President : Janet Bennett, Intercultural Communication
Institute, Portland, OR.
Secretary: Kenneth Cushner, Kent State University.
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