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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 […]

By Achilleas Kostoulas and Juup Stelma This article reports on a case study of a language school in Greece, with a view to putting forward an understanding of the drivers that sustain or delay curricular innovation. Key to this understanding is the construct of intentionality, defined as ‘purposes’ that drive teaching and learning activity. In the article, we describe three […]

The Discourse and Culture Group at Aston University invite you to a one day colloquium, 1st March 2017, which explores the different ways in which disciplines – such as linguistics, sociology, politics, management and organizational studies – use discourse analysis in analysing research data. The main purpose of the event is to see whether or not synergies can be found between […]

Congratulations to Susan Dawson who has just passed her viva (with an excellent achievement of A1)!! We are overjoyed with your success. Shine on, Dr Susan!

I am pleased to let you know that I have accepted a lectureship in International Teacher Education at the University of Sussex. I will start my new post on 3rd January 2017, and look forward to a new beginning. If you are ever in the South, please do stop by!

CASCA/IUAES2017 Conference in Ottawa International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) The Conference/InterCongress will be hosted at the University of Ottawa, on the unceded, traditional territory of the Algonquins of the Ottawa River Watershed. Canada’s capital city is built on the banks of the Kitchisippi, the Great River, the Ottawa River; the Sacred Chaudière […]

CALL FOR E-BOOK CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BIBAC 2016 lead presenters of papers or workshops who attended the 2016 conference. The E-Book will be  ‘Building Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Bridges: Where Practice Meets Research and Theory‘ (Eds) Pamela Burnard, Valerie Ross, Elizabeth Mackinlay, Kimberly Powell, Tatjana Dragovic and Helen Julia Minors (2017). The DEADLINE for receipt of submitted chapters for review is: 15 […]