Ethno/CA News: Conferences: Call for Papers
CALPIU’12: Higher education across borders: Transcultural interaction and
linguistic diversity
Sunday, April 1, 2012 – Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The second international conference hosted by CALPIU, Roskilde University,
Denmark
http://fanny.ruc.dk/ocs2331/index.php/calpiu/calpiu12
Keynote speakers
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François Grin, Université de Genève,
Switzerland
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Andy Kirkpatrick, Hong Kong Institute of Education,
China
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Joan Turner, Goldsmiths College, University of London,
Great Britain
Round table
In addition to the keynote speakers, the conference will feature a round
table of invited speakers who will present and discuss various approaches
to multilingualism in the international university. The panelists are:
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Hanne Leth Andersen, Roskilde University, Denmark (University
Vice President, Panel Chair)
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François Grin, Université de Genève,
Switzerland
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Peter Harder, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Andy Kirkpatrick, Hong Kong Institute of Education,
China
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Jan K. Lindström, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Jean-Jacques Weber, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Conference theme
CALPIU’12 is the second open conference organized by the CALPIU Research
Centre for the Study of Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International
University. The aim of CALPIU’12 is to discuss various aspects of the consequences
of transnational student mobility. Student mobility makes necessary both
cultural and linguistic accommodation and learning processes. We are witnessing
a huge increase in the learning of languages to be used as lingua francas
by academic teachers and students, not least English, ‘the language of
Globalization’. However, forces of ‘localization’, too, are manifest at
every university trying to adopt internationalization strategies, the tension
between the global and the local – uniformity and diversification – creating
a multidimensional space for new kinds of cultural and linguistic hybridity
to flourish in. There is a new open-mindedness regarding the roles and
identities of self and others, leading to new patterns of linguistic/interactive,
educational and social practices. We aim to further the theoretical understanding
of these processes, those of active and receptive multilingualism as well
as language alternation in interaction.
All these topics can be dealt with from the perspective of the four
fields of practice in the international university that CALPIU investigates:
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The communicative practice and self-conception of the
university as an actor in a multilingual world
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Student-teacher interactions
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Student-student interactions
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Student-Administrative staff interactions
Proposals for papers - deadline 16 August, 2011
More information can be found at: http://fanny.ruc.dk/ocs2331/index.php/calpiu/calpiu12
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