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From: Aileen Pearson-Evans <[log in to unmask]>
Royal Irish Academy
CALL FOR PAPERS
National Committee for Modern Language Studies
30TH ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
in
Dublin City University, Friday and Saturday, 7 & 8 November, 2003
Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity
In today’s ‘Global Village’ the spaces we inhabit are becoming
increasingly intercultural. Both at home and abroad we find ourselves
in situations which involve interacting with and adapting to people
from cultures different from our own. Such intercultural contexts bring
about a range of new issues requiring the development of new awareness
and skills and have far-reaching consequences on personal and cultural
identities and their expression through language. This conference
addresses the question of how language, culture and identity are
expressed and transformed by intercultural contact, and will explore
the problems and benefits, conflicts and insights which can arise from
such encounters.
Papers are invited which focus on any of the intercultural dimensions
of language, culture and identity, from a variety of perspectives (e.g.
linguistic, educational, sociological, psychological,
artistic/literary, historical, theoretical, political, post-colonial)
as expressed in a variety of genres (e.g. academic research,
literature, autobiography, cinema, media). Topics could include, for
example: the intercultural classroom/workplace; culture shock,
adaptation, experiences of marginality; language and power/racism;
changing linguistic/cultural expressions of identity; intercultural
issues/ representations of alterity in literature, in media discourse
and in language mediation (translation, interpreting); intercultural
conflict in cinema, literature, media.
Abstracts (of 300 words maximum) should be sent to Dr. Aileen Pearson-
Evans to arrive no later than Friday, 23 May 2003.
Papers should be 20 minutes in length to allow for ten minutes
discussion.
Dr. Aileen Pearson-Evans
SALIS,
Dublin City University,
Dublin, Ireland
Tel: +353-1-700 5459 ;
Fax: +353-1-700 5527
Email: [log in to unmask]
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