Book launch event: Crossing Boundaries and Weaving Intercultural Work, Life, and Scholarship in Globalising Universities, University of London, February 2016

Crossing Boundaries

Jointly hosted by SIETAR UK and CMMR (Centre for Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, Birkbeck, University of London) on the 8^th February 2016, 1800-2000.

If you wish to attend you must register for a place on the Event Website.

Event Description

Globalization is a compelling force in universities worldwide. In striving to achieve the ideal of a truly international university, hiring the best scholars and educators in their fields regardless of nationality is a central objective at most top-flight institutions. What are the experiences of scholars who work in the field of intercultural communication in navigating their interpersonal relationships at the transnational workplace? How do they negotiate their multiple aspects of identities? What adjustments do they make at linguistic and interactional levels? How do these experience impact on their approach to researching intercultural communication and vice versa? And above all, what advice do they provide for those who aspire to work and live abroad? These are the key questions to be addressed in the newly published book, Crossing Boundaries and Weaving Intercultural Work, Life, and Scholarship in Globalizing Universities (Routledge, 2016). A link to the book’s web page may be found here.

In this book launch event jointly hosted by SIETAR UK and CMMR (Centre for Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, Birkbeck, University of London), the editors of the book, Professor Adam Komisarof (Reitaku University, Japan) and Professor Zhu Hua (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), will lead a panel of authors to discuss these questions. They will be joined by Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) and Dr Maryam Borjian (Rutgers, New Jersey State University, USA). There will be an interactive Q & A session. The event will be followed by a Reception.

About the speakers

Adam Komisarof is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Acculturation in Reitaku University’s Department of Economic Studies and Business Administration in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Zhu Hua is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Communication and Head of Department at Birkbeck, University of London. Jean-Marc Dewaele is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck, University of London. Maryam Borjian is an Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages Program at Rutgers, USA.