Joint 10th ABC Europe convention + 2nd GABC conference
27-29 May 2010

ABC, the Association for Business Communication, is an international organization committed to fostering excellence in business communication scholarship, research, education, and practice. 

ABC Europe was established in November 1996 and has been organizing conventions on a regular basis. The 10th edition is organized by Lessius University College. The first time that Antwerp hosted the European Convention of the Association for Business Communication was in 2000. The organisers were the then Katholieke Vlaamse Hogeschool (now Lessius University College) and the Handelshogeschool. In 2007 Lessius started up a Masters programme in business communication (‘Master in multilingual communication’). As this Masters course is now in full flow, we think the time is ripe to host the convention once more, and we are looking forward to welcoming colleagues from all over the world in 2010.

GABC is a Tricontinental Rotating Conference series focusing on Global Advances in Business Communication and Practices. GABC is affiliated with ABC and is co-organized by the University of Antwerp, Eastern Michigan University and Universiti teknologi Malaysia. For more information about GABC: click here.

Theme: Researching business communication: perspectives from scholarship, education and practice

Conference dates

Thursday May 27th, 2010 – Saturday May 29th, 2010
(registration on Wednesday May 26th, 2010)

Location

Since the conference is a joint effort of Lessius University College and the University of Antwerp, it will take place at two locations. All sessions, panels and plenary lectures will take place at Lessius, Campus Sint-Andries (directions: click here), while the conference dinner will be held at the University of Antwerp, City Campus (directions: click here).

Organizing committee

- Sylvain Dieltjens (Lessius University College)

- Paul Gillaerts (Lessius University College)

- Priscilla Heynderickx (Lessius University College)

- Geert Jacobs (Ghent University & Vice president of ABC Europe)

- Diana Phillips (University of Antwerp)

- Dorien Van De Mieroop (Lessius University College)

- Paul Verluyten (University of Antwerp)

Contact: abc2010@lessius.eu

General information about Antwerp: click here

Download the conference leaflet! Click here

The conference is financially supported by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).