Category: Miscellaneous news etc

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 […]

  On this achievement, we wish you hearty congratulations, great success and happiness. Well done!                 

For those interested in the area of English as Lingua Franca, there is a new book worth reading. See details bellow. The Routledge Handbook of English as Lingua Franca, by Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker and Martin Dewey.

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, […]

Thank you very much to Min and Nahielly for organising today’s A.maze.ing event for our LANTERN community. I not only thoroughly enjoyed myself making piñatas, drawing batik patterns, and responding to different images, but was also encouraged through Min’s mountain activity, and given much food for thought in the other presentations. Khwan spoke of how important our LANTERN community has been for her, and I think many of […]

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 […]

What are the reasons that students gave for wanting to begin a PhD? What are supervisors’ opinions on why a student might consider PhD study? Please click HERE to view our leaflet which summarises the findings of the project ‘Real Talk: PGR Wellbeing’! Real Talk (2017)

International Conference, University of Manchester, 26-27 June 2017 ISLAMIC PSYCHOANALYSIS / PSYCHOANALYTIC ISLAM This international conference brings together scholars – including in critical psychology, cultural studies and political theory – and practitioners of psychoanalytic and group-analytic approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. We will explore the relationship between the clinic and culture in the contemporary world focusing on the challenge that […]

  Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in TESOL Manchester Metropolitan University – Languages, Information and Communications Location: Manchester Salary: £33,943 to £46,924 Grade 8/9 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 21st March 2017 Closes: 15th April 2017 Job Ref: T2-80309327-02 Average weekly working hours: 37.00 Department Manchester Metropolitan University is one of the UK’s largest and most popular Universities. We are currently placed […]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Intercultural Competence and Mobility: Virtual and Physical   Sixth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence January 25-28, 2018 Tucson, Arizona   Keynote Presentation Robert O’Dowd (University of León) Moving from Intercultural Contact to Intercultural Learning in Virtual Exchange   Plenary Presentations Alvino Fantini (SIT Graduate Institute) Exploring Intercultural Communicative Competence: Concepts, Components and […]

The 50th Anniversary Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics will be hosted by the Centre for Language Education Research, University of Leeds, on 31 August – 2 September 2017. CALL FOR PAPERS Conference theme: Diversity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, Questions 2017 is the 50th anniversary of the first annual meeting of BAAL. The theme of the conference […]