{"id":9283,"date":"2016-05-04T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=9283"},"modified":"2016-05-04T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:40:41","slug":"ialic-2016-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=9283","title":{"rendered":"IALIC 2016 Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 16th IALIC conference on &#8216;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ialic2016bcn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bridging across Language and Cultures in Everyday Lives: New Roles for Changing Scenarios<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;\u00a0will be held in Barcelona, Spain in November 2016. The deadline for call for presentation proposals is 15 May.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u7923-6\"><span id=\"u7923-3\">In a world of transcultural \u2018mash-ups\u2019, multilingual rap and multi-party videoconferencing apps for cellphones, there is a need for a theoretical shift towards an understanding of \u2018languaging\u2019 and \u2018culturing\u2019 as transformative practices involving social activities that go between and beyond \u2018fixed\u2019 and separate systems; practices that take place in the interstices of languages and cultures where new meanings and new understandings can emerge. Given the importance that language and culture mediators can play in today\u2019s increasingly interconnected world,<\/span><span id=\"u7923-4\"> <\/span><span id=\"u7923-5\">the <strong>aims<\/strong> of this conference are<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"u7923-9\" class=\"list0 nls-None\">\n<li id=\"u7923-8\">to promote critical engagement with the notion of mediating between cultures and languages;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u7923-20\" class=\"list0 nls-None\">\n<li id=\"u7923-11\">\u00a0to explore the role of technology in bridging between diverse languages and cultures;<\/li>\n<li id=\"u7923-13\">to explore the role of \u2018broker\u2019 in cross-cultural situations, including growing instances of \u2018child language brokers\u2019;<\/li>\n<li id=\"u7923-15\">to promote understanding of how language brokering is perceived by researchers and practitioners from cross-cultural situations;<\/li>\n<li id=\"u7923-17\">to provide a forum for a critique of existing analytical models of culture and language mediating practices that integrate current theories of language and intercultural communication;<\/li>\n<li id=\"u7923-19\">to provide a forum on ways in which research into language and culture mediation can inform teachers\u2019 praxis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find more information at <a href=\"http:\/\/ialic2016bcn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ialic2016bcn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th IALIC conference on &#8216;Bridging across Language and Cultures in Everyday Lives: New Roles for Changing Scenarios&#8216;\u00a0will be held in Barcelona, Spain in November 2016. The deadline for call for presentation proposals is 15 May. In a world of transcultural \u2018mash-ups\u2019, multilingual rap and multi-party videoconferencing apps for cellphones, there is a need for a theoretical shift towards an [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}