{"id":9040,"date":"2016-02-29T08:10:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2016-02-29T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:11:33","slug":"call-for-papers-languages-and-cultures-in-21st-century-transnationality-cfp-sheffield-hallam-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=9040","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers: Languages and Cultures in 21st Century Transnationality CFP, Sheffield Hallam, September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A broadly defined conference for those looking for something more interdisciplinary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The concept of transnationality is increasingly common currency in the globalized world.<\/p>\n<div>Modern Languages, both implicitly or explicitly, deals with the transnational aspects of cultures and, as a discipline, it is hence ideally suited to have societal impact on the construction of transnational education. Intercultural citizenship, in particular, is becoming a sine qua non in the Twenty-First Century. Modern Languages poses multicultural and multilingual questions about identity, subjectivity and alterity of past, present and future. As academics we represent institutional power and theoretical knowledge; we are mediators between theoretical processes of conceptualization and practical moments of interpretation; information brokers and hence in the fortunate positions to bring about social change.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Studies and European Cultural Studies to create intercultural and interdisciplinary synergies that go beyond national borders, linguistic silos or academic canons, and thus echo practices of human mobility. Themes of particular interest in the three streams include, but are not limited to:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b><i>Applied Linguistics:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), technology-enhanced learning, film as teaching tool<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 language acquisition, language planning<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 learner autonomy, student engagement<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 multilingualism, translation<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 discourse analysis<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><i>Intercultural Studies:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 citizenship, identity, multiculturalism, nationhood, race<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 intercultural awareness, communication, competence, education, management<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 tourism, postcolonialism<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 international student migration<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i><b>European Cultural Studies:\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 the transnational currency of popular cultural products<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 translations, transpositions, transmediality<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 synergies\/dialogues across national cultures<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 intersections of culture with other fields\/disciplines (history, law, literature, sociology, technology)<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 dialogues across sociocultural strata (e.g. popular and elite cultures)<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 fluidity of identity<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September 2016<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Abstract deadline: 31 March 2016<\/b><\/div>\n<p>For full information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/my.shu.ac.uk\/languages-and-cultures-at-sheffield-hallam-university\/home\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A broadly defined conference for those looking for something more interdisciplinary. 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