FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
This is to remind colleagues that the deadline for proposals for this year's IALIC conference is Friday, 8 September. We look forward to receiving your abstract, together with the Presenter Proposal & Registration Form (this can be accessed on http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/sections/lac/ialic) or by contacting Joy Kelly ([log in to unmask]).
Please return your Association Membership application and membership fee (£25 or £15) with your conference application to qualify for immediate member discounted fee of £180. (The membership form can be accessed on our webpages, or alternatively contact Joy Kelly.) Final date for conference registration is 27 October.
I can confirm that our Keynote Speakers are as follows:
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Saturday
Professor Jean Aitchison, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication, University of Oxford: Birdy Birds and Bubbles: Identifying and Evaluating Mental Models
Dr Celia Roberts, Senior Research Fellow, School of Education, King's College, University of London: Ethnography and Cultural Practices: Ways of Learning during Residence Abroad
Sunday
Professor Peter Cryle, Chair of French, University of Queensland: Should We Stop Worrying about Cultural 'Awareness'?
Robert Crawshaw, Director of Interculture Project, University of Lancaster: Intercultural Encounter and Identity Change
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For full details please see attachment at end of message. If you are unable to access attachment or would like more information, please contact Joy Kelly, Conference Administrator, Centre for Language Study, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park Campus, Leeds, LS6 3QS.
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International tel: +44 (113) 2837440
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Background
As the inaugural conference of the newly formed International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication, which has developed out of the series of annual cross-cultural capability conferences held at Leeds over the past four years, the conference will seek to further interdisciplinary debate in this important field through a programme which includes:
* plenary addresses from leading specialists representing different disciplinary perspectives
* seminars to further critical debate on new and ongoing research in the field
* workshops/poster sessions dedicated to the sharing of pedagogy
The Focus
At the preceding conferences debate has centred on the way in which encounters with the other and the crossing of linguistic, geographic and political spaces is leading to new modes of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world, and to the way in which these may influence and be reflected in our pedagogy. Increasing consideration is being given to the affective, psychological and expressive dimensions of language and intercultural learning, as new types of relationship are fostered by interactions on a global scale. The notion of consciousness, broad and interdisciplinary in scope, is emerging as one of our key concerns, and intrinsic to such questions as the negotiation of difference and similarity, the processing of meaning, and the shaping of identities.
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