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Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2016)
Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2016) Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts WU Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business) July 19-22, 2016 General Information WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) is calling for proposals for papers and posters for the conference ALA 2016. The submission deadline for both is 15 November 2015. We welcome abstracts that address […]
Read moreGaza online seminar series?
As reported in recent blog postings, PhD Education alumnus (from 1993), Professor Nazmi Al-Masri, from the Islamic University of Gaza, recently visited us as part of his UK trip to connect with colleagues (me included) from the AHRC-funded Researching Multilingually at Borders project – http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com One idea that arose during Nazmi’s visit was that of our doctoral community developing a […]
Read moreNews from Gaza – PhD alumnus Prof. Nazmi Al-Masri visits ….
Exciting opportunity to hear Professor Nazmi Al-Masri from the Islamic University Gaza. Nazmi is an alumnus of the University of Manchester and is working ‘under siege’ in Gaza, developing amongst other things an online teacher education programme for Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL). The event will take the form of a conversation on ‘Developing education in challenging contexts’, […]
Read morePedagogies: International Journal — call for papers
Mother-tongue – a multi-ethnic counselling service with publication
Mothertongue -is a culturally sensitive, professional counselling and listening service where people are heard with respect in their chosen language. The charity offers holistic support to people and professional development to staff and volunteers from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. It has just launched the anthology of interpreters’ writing: In Other Words, which was a great success. Details: If […]
Read moreLiving intercultural lives ….
Building on our earlier work (on Ladino and intercultural identity and ‘competence’), am pleased to say that the following contribution by Leah Davcheva and myself has now been accepted for the ‘Identities, Relationships and Languages in Migration’ conference taking place 25th – 27th September, 2015 in Cagliari, Sardinia. “Living Intercultural Lives: Identity Performance and Zones of Interculturality” The Sephardim in […]
Read moreUsing the creative arts in the research process
I fly to Brussels later today for the 3rd Symposium of our AHRC-funded “Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State” project. On this occasion, rather than giving a formal paper, I will form part of an 8-strong team of performers (including our colleague Mariam Attia) presenting a piece, collaboratively explored and then wonderfully ‘scriptified’ […]
Read moreCongratulations to our colleague Maria Reraki on yesterday’s successful viva :-)
IALIC Conference in November in Beijing
I am a long-standing member of IALIC and contributor at its conferences but this time, for the Beijing conference, I decided to go for something a bit different: Ethnomusicological bridges and social engagement through klezmer: interdisciplinary dialogues and intercultural performances Richard Fay, Ros Hawley and Elinor Sherwood (Music Department, The University of Manchester) ABSTRACT Whilst the concept of ‘culture’ has […]
Read moreIndonesia: Exploring the improbable nation (Elizabeth Pisani, 2014)
As part of a new resolution to learn more about the contexts of each (of my) doctoral researcher(s), I am now reading Pisani’s account of travelling around Indonesia in 2011-2012. As I do so, I am mindful of everything Fitri has told me about her professional and personal world over the years. And I am aware that I am responding […]
Read moreRM-ly encouragement to branch out towards (appropriate methodology considerations in/for) Global Mental Health
As led by Ross White (Glasgow), and together with colleagues from Uganda (Rosco Kasujja and Ponsiano Okalo), our following conference paper has been accepted. In it, we use our experiences (for the AHRC project, Case Study 1) in Lira in northern Uganda (see the researching-multilingually-at-borders.com website for more on this case study) as a stimulus to think more about appropriate […]
Read moreNewsletter #7 (May 2015)
Where has the time flown since my last effort (October 2013) towards a newsletter? What on earth has kept me so busy that I left this Newsletter to one side? Back then Fitri and Khwan were heading for Panel in January 2014 (successfully completed) with Susan and Volha following that summer (successfully completed). Back then, too, I was hoping to […]
Read moreNew Multilingual Matters volumes (2015)
www.multilingual-matters.com Some new volumes here that might be of interest, including: “Second language students in English-medium classrooms” (Coreen Sears) — of interest maybe Fitri? “Emerging self-identities and emotion in foreign language education- a narrative-oriented approach” (Masuko Miyahara) — of interest Lou? “Sociocultural theory in second language acquisition: an introduction through narratives” (2nd edn) (Merrill Swain, Penny Kinnear, and Linda Steinman) […]
Read moreCongratulations ….
…. to Min and Fida for successfully negotiating the “Progression to Main Study rite of passage … now the joy of ethics forms awaits 🙂 … and to Khwan for getting to the Finals of the 3-Minute Thesis and acquitting herself so well in them.
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