There is, I think, very little point on trying to complete or complete with Lou’s comprehensive and engaging narrative on the Jyväskylä conference, so I will confine myself to reporting on a few papers that were of particular interest to me. The theme which links these papers is that they are all informed by complexity thinking, which involves -in brief- […]
Read moreWe gave the following paper this week: Leah Davcheva and Richard Fay —– “Linguistic Identity-Play Amongst Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria: A Narrative Study”. Paper presented at the Language, Identity, and Intercultural Communication joint conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group and The Annual Bloomsbury Round Table, 9th -10th June, 2011, Birkbeck College, University of […]
Read moreFamilies, relationships and societies Journal: Call for papers Families, Relationships and Societies An international journal of research and debate Joint Managing Editors: Tess Ridge, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath and Brid Featherstone, National University of Ireland, Galway Publisher: The Policy Press Aims and scope Starting in 2012, with 3 issues per annum, Families, Relationships and Societies […]
Read moreLou Harvey writes: Half a day back from Finland, exhausted but happy, and readjusting to dark nights, rainy days and a vegetarian diet, I post a link to my blog with a reflection on my first conference experience: http://louharvey-phd.blogspot.com/2011/06/finland-finland-finland.html
Read moreDear Narrative Matters 2010 Participant, We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 1, Issue 1, of Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions, the new online, peer-reviewed journal published by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. We invite you to visit the Narrative Works website to view the articles included […]
Read moreAs the first poster, I would like to thank Richard and Eljee for making this conference happen, and express my appreciation of Mariam and Peter’s technological wizardry which enabled Magdalena to join us remotely from Uruguay! It was great too, to finally meet Achilleas and Magda, having read so much of their writing here on this blog… I very much enjoyed all […]
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Read more…and after my third outing, I feel no less excited, engaged and exhilarated by the ideas expressed, the connections made in conversation and the potent sense of purpose that pervades everything at the Congress. Here is a body of scholars actively striving for a better world, for social justice in all its forms and for an education that is both […]
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Read moreSo, as the event fast approaches, it’s time to decide a runing order. We’ll be in C2.18 unless there is last minute change (so go there first) …. First Session: 9.30 – 11.00 Paper 1 (9.30-9.50 + Qs) — Mariam Attia Paper 2 (10.00 – 10.20 + Qs) — Eljee Javier Paper 3 (10.30 – 10.50 + Qs) — Paul V […]
Read moreAchilleas Kostoulas in his neat piece “English as a Lingua Franca and Methodological Tension: Attitudes and Practices at a Language School in Greece” considers the case of a language school in Greece… Thus wrote the editor of in esse, where my article appears. One does feel rather nice about oneself today… Achilleas
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Read moreSome reflections on our experience of the following recently given paper: Zhou, X. and Fay, R. (April, 2011). Using a Small-Culture Narrative Approach to Explore Intercultural Communication: A Departmental Approach and a Chinese-focused Case study. Paper presented at the “Linguistics Salon” at Peking University, Beijing, China, April 25th 2011. Richard: For me, one thing about this seminar paper was that, despite […]
Read moreOur fearless Tanya and Eljee are now setting off the US of A and the joys of QI …. I’m looking forward to their reflections on this experience 🙂
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