Author: Zhuomin Huang

A big congratulation to Nahielly who just passed her viva with a minor correction!

International Conference Another Brick in the Wall: Rethinking Education Amsterdam, November 11-15, 2019   Another Brick in the Wall: Transforming Education focuses on sharing insights pertaining to the fields of Intercultural Education, Multicultural Education, Human Rights Education, Citizenship Education, and Education for Democracy and Global Education, when it comes to addressing present day diversity issues. The international conference will allow teachers, […]

The Nineteenth IALIC Conference: TRANSLATING CULTURES. THE CULTURE OF TRANSLATING 21-23 November, 2019 University Of Valencia, Valencia, Spain   CALL FOR PAPERS (PDF)   The 2019 Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) will be held at the Universitat de València (Spain), 20-22 November, 2019, with the aim of providing a forum for research in the field. The conference theme, Translating Cultures, […]

We have a MA TESOL party on Monday (10th Dec. 2018), 6-8 pm, at EW AG 3/4. There will also be wonderful music played by Richard Fay, Gary Motteram and Susan Dawson. All LANTERN members are welcomed to join us. If you are interested in, could you please email Zenep(Zeynep.Onat-stelma@manchester.ac.uk) for the details? Thank you!

You are invited to submit a proposal for an edited collection. International Perspectives on Interculturality in English Language Teaching Eds. Mabel Victoria (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Chittima Sangiamchit (University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Thailand) Deadline for Abstracts: 15 October 2018 The interest in the role that interculturality plays in English language teaching (ELT) has grown in momentum as […]

  Where: University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (Ellen Wilkinson Building) When: 8 November 2018, 11.00 am – 5.00 pm Submissions 1. Abstracts of 300 words and full author details (name, position, institutional affiliation(s), email address and telephone number) should be submitted by 1 October 2018. 2. Submissions should be sent via email to conference organisers at: tne.manchester@gmail.com 3. Contributors will […]

Please find below information about a forthcoming PhD scholarship at University of Leeds, on the evaluation of participatory arts in post-conflict settings. There would be scope for an applied linguistic / intercultural / education focus and I’d be very interested in talking to anyone who wants to develop an idea along these lines. I’d be grateful if you could circulate around […]

The ‘Good’ Interculturalist Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow: Everyday Life-Theory-Research-Policy-Practice 0  http://ialic.international/conference-2018/ 0 29-31 August, 2018   University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland     See the details of Call for papers: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ialic2018/call-for-papers-2/ Deadline: 15th March 2018 Decisions about the submitted proposals: 1st April 2018 Registration: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ialic2018/registration/   Key questions: What concepts and methodologies are/have been used in discussing the ‘good’ interculturalist? Who is/has been influential in developing […]

The 18th IALIC conference will be held at the University of Helsinki and hosted by Prof. Fred Dervin from 29-31 August 2018. As usual there will be a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication for publication of papers. The call for papers will be available soon on the IALIC website http://ialic.international/ We have recently launched our new website so do take […]

Interculturality in a New Global World: China’s One Belt, One Road as an Example University of Helsinki, Finland http://www.helsinkisummerschool.fi/courses/course/interculturality-new-global-world-chinas-one-belt-one-road-example/ Dates: 7.8.-23.8.2018 Target students Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. Students who have an interest in intercultural studies, intercultural / multicultural education and social justice, but also sociology and anthropology. No background in intercultural studies or Chinese language needed. Synopsis The world is […]

Language is all around us. We use it every day to express our thoughts, feelings and opinions, to communicate with other people, to convince them of our views, make them feel better or worse, manipulate them or even insult them. Language is a powerful tool which helps us perform our actions. There are more than 6,000 different languages spoken in […]

TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION EXPORTS AND IMPORTS THE SEARCH FOR THE CHINESE EL DORADO Eds. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), Xiangyun Du (Aalborg University) & Zhao Ke (SHUFE) Deadline for abstracts: 20th November 2017 Volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective (Eds. Dervin/Du) It has become a truism to say that […]

One-day seminar, Turku, Finland Meeting date: Tuesday 29th August 2017 Place: University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland, Turku University of Applied Sciences, ICT City, street address: Joukahaisenkatu 3A  Title of seminar: Criticality, interculturality and study abroad You can follow and take part in the event online at: https://connect.funet.fi/costcriticality/   Objectives:  This WP5 meeting will take place just before the international conference Criticality in Education (Research): Definitions, […]

1st International Conference on Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts: Community Development, Education and Policy 21-24th September 2017 Fukuoka and Saga, Japan This conference is co-organized by NPO Tiempo Iberoamericano in Fukuoka, and the Multicultural Fitness Community , which is based at Saga University, in Japan. It is supported by the Faculty of Art and Regional Design, and the Faculty of […]

ACAH 18 Friday, March 30, 2018 to Sunday, April 01, 2018 Kobe, Japan The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (ACAH) is calling for abstract submissions. Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams: Arts Teaching and Learning the Arts Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy Arts Theory and Criticism Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Visual Arts Practices […]