We are pleased to invite you to attend an event to celebrate International Mother Language Day on 21 February 2017. ‘Manchester Talks Many Languages’ will take place at Central Library, 5:30pm-7pm. Please find an invitation with further details here: http://mlm.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/invitation.png We would be delighted if you could join us there (RSVP to charlotte.jones@manchester.ac.uk by 8 February).
The Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication (ALC), Birkbeck College, University of London invites applications for a lectureship with a track record and relatively extensive experience in the research area of Sociolinguistics. We would welcome applicants with expertise in the study of sociolinguistics in multilingual and intercultural contexts, particularly, in one or more of the following Read More …
Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in Spanish Language Studies – School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Contract Type: Permanent Department: Spanish & Latin American Studies Closing Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017 Reference: Lec_Spanish Position Open To: All The Role Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals Read More …
Call for papers for the Special Issue 18.1 LAIC Due for publication February 2018 Editors: Melinda Dooly & Claudia Vallejo Working Title: Bridging across languages and cultures in everyday lives: new roles for changing scenarios We are accepting two types of submissions: • Full research articles (8000 words maximum, all inclusive). Up to eight articles Read More …
Kaleidoscope is an annual two-day conference hosted by research students at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. This year, on the 1st-2nd of June, join us for the 14th Kaleidoscope conference! Share your research (at any stage), exchange ideas, find inspiration and food for thought! This year’s theme is “Spread the world: Steps Read More …
Language Education across Borders Graz, 8th – 10th December 2017 Call for Papers We would like to invite proposals for individual papers (20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion), symposia (90 minutes), workshops (90 minutes), and posters focusing on the theme of borders in language education. Submissions can have a theoretical, empirical and/or practical focus. Read More …
Innovative Approaches to Education for Democratic Culture and Inclusive Societies May 18-19, 2017 Rijeka, Croatia The 2017 conference will be in many ways the continuation of a series inaugurated by Siena Italian Studies in May 2011, with each conference exploring in various ways themes of service-learning, community engagement and intercultural education. The following subthemes are Read More …
Call for Chapters Interculturality and the Political Eds. Ashley Simpson & Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki, Finland Deadline for abstracts: 1st March 2017 Purpose of the book The notion of the ‘intercultural’ dates back to the 1950s – although many of the ideas that it discusses have, of course, a much longer history. In over 70 years Read More …
Mindfulness and the ethics of intercultural knowledge-work Zhuo Min Huang, Richard Fay & Ross White Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication Volume 17, 2017 – Issue 1: Dialogical Perspectives on Intercultural Communication as Social Practice Abstract Mindfulness, or 念 (niàn) in Chinese, is a concept and set of related practices which have both ancient Eastern Read More …
The 17th International Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication Interrogating the ‘Third Space’: Negotiating meaning and performing ‘culture’ Edinburgh Napier University, UK 19 – 20 June 2017 This conference invites both theoretical contributions and empirical insights which contest the notion of ‘third space’ and enrich this area of inquiry. Abstracts are Read More …
Summer School: Research on research (GLOCADEMICS): ‘Glocal languages’, interculturalidade and ‘Intercultural Responsibility’ in transnational South/North research projects Symposium: Researchers’ Science Diplomacy: North-South reciprocal intercultural responsibility Faculty (confirmed): – Dr. Manuela Guilherme (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra) – Professor Lynn Mario de Souza (Universidade de S. Paulo) – Professor Charbel El-Hani (Universidade Federal da Read More …