Announcements
Dear SIETAR Europa members,
We thought these SIETAR events, outside initiatives and news items might be of interest to you:
• International Conference of Intercultural Collaboration, August 19-20, 2010 in Copenhagen
• Transnational Dialogues in HE: Responding to the Needs of the Asian Learner in Higher Education, 17 September 2010, University of Portsmouth
• Coaching across Cultures seminars in Hong Kong and Amsterdam
• EAPRIL Conference, 24-26 November 2010 in Lisbon
• The 2010 SIETAR Congress, October 28th-30 in Lille, France
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International Conference of Intercultural Collaboration, (ICIC)
August 19-20, 2010
Copenhagen
The main theme of this conference is intercultural collaboration, from both technical and socio-cultural perspectives. Topics will include collaboration support (such as natural language processing, Web, and Internet technologies), social psychological analyses of intercultural interaction, and case studies from activists working to increase mutual understanding in our multicultural world.
Please visit http://langrid.nict.go.jp/icic2010/index.html for further details
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Transnational Dialogues in HE: Responding to the Needs of the Asian Learner in Higher Education
University of Portsmouth
17 September 2010
This is the sixth in a series of highly successful conferences focusing on the needs of Asian learners, following conferences since 2004 at the University of Portsmouth and Shandong University. The conference will have four strands:
• Language Issues for Asian Learners
• The Culture of Asian Learners
• Practical Approaches
• Institutional Issues
The conference will be of interest to colleagues working in universities who are practitioners or have an interest in issues arising from transnational higher education. Keynote speakers/plenary speakers Janette Ryan (Oxford Brookes University and HEA Teaching International Students Project) Martin Cortazzi (University of Warwick) and Lixian Jin (De Montfort University) Prof Jianwu Peng (Shandong University of Science and Technology) Dr Ganakumaran Subramaniam, (University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus) Booking and cost Fee £85.00. SIETAR members qualify for a 10% discount on the cost of the conference.
For further information, visit www.port.ac.uk/asianlearners
