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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 examples of discussions we invite […]

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 and in the different fields […]

Hi everyone. In this post you will find a power point presentation as well as a pdf file of my  IALIC Barcelona 2016 paper. Many thanks, Nahie   Narratives of a professional sojourner pptx IALIC barcelona narratives-of-a-professional-sojourner

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 roots and current popularity (especially […]

The Hellenic Open University (HOU) is glad to announce the commencement of the Postgraduate Programme of Studies Language Education for Refugees and Migrants (LRM). Please see more details in lrm_announcement.

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 invited in relation (but not […]

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 Bahia) – Dr. Gunther Dietz […]

The CULTNET event will take place in the School of Education, Durham University, from 20-22 April 2017 (Thursday to Saturday). More information will be send out in the new year.    

Congratulations to Hussain Alenaizi!!! Thesis title: Disability and Kuwaiti Society: A Critical Realist Approach to Participatory Research in Contemporary Kuwaiti Society    

Dear Colleagues: It is with great pleasure that I announce the publication of our special issue,  Transdisciplinary Approaches toLanguage Learning and Teaching in Transnational Times, in Volume 8 Issue 4 of the L2 Journal. Special Issue: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language Learning and Teaching in Transnational Times Preface Kramsch, Claire Introduction to the Special Issue: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language Learning and […]