[EDLING:1117] CFP: Academic mobility: crossed perspectives

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Message 1: Academic mobility: Crossed Perspectives
Date: 08-Dec-2005
From: Fred Dervin <frederutu.fi>
Subject: Academic mobility: Crossed Perspectives



Full Title: Academic mobility: crossed perspectives

Date: 21-Sep-2006 - 23-Sep-2006
Location: University of Turku, Finland
Contact Person: Fred Dervin
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.hum.utu.fi/ranskakk/fran.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): English

Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

Target audience:
Teaching staff involved in student mobility, researchers in 
higher/international education, graduate/postgraduate students, 
international educators, administrators in charge of mobility 
programmes, policy makers, directors and staff in international offices, 
Erasmus/Socrates offices.

Aim of the conference:
The main aim of the conference is to provide a multidisciplinary forum 
for discussing the actors of academic mobility. Papers are welcomed from 
linguistics, education, anthropology, sociology, psychology, geography 
and educational policy, among others.


Keynote speaker:
-Mike Byram, School of Education, University of Durham, UK

Plenary speakers:

-Martine Abdallah-Pretceille, Universities of Paris III & Paris VIII, 
France
-Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune, Department of French, Saint Patrick’s 
College, Dublin, Ireland
-Vassiliki Papatsiba, Open University, UK
-Eija Suomela-Salmi, Department of French Studies, University of Turku,
Finland
-Geneviève Zarate, INALCO, France

Call for Proposals
Submissions will be invited in the following categories in English or in
French :

(1) Research papers (20 minutes + 15 minutes for questions)
These papers should document established results, and be written 
according to highest academic standards.

(2) Presentations on work in progress (20 minutes + 10 minutes for 
questions and comments from audience)
These papers may address issues still being worked upon. However, 
academic rigour is expected.

The author(s) should submit one 200-word abstract with the Proposal Form 
below. It should include:
- the title;
- the name, institution phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of each author;
- objectives or purposes;
- perspective(s) or theoretical framework;
- methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry;
- data sources or evidence;
- results and/or conclusions/point of view.

Complete all sections of the Proposal Form on our website and include 
your abstract on the form. Send one copy embedded within an e-mail to 
mobilityutu.fi by 10.3.2006.

If you do not have electronic access, you may send your abstract to 
Academic Mobility, C/O F. Dervin, Department of French Studies, 
Henrikinkatu 2, 20014 Turun Yliopisto, Finland

Conference description:
Academic mobility is growing year after year. University staff, 
students, researchers and officers in higher education are increasingly 
travelling Europe and the world as part of their work or studies. In 
Europe, several EU programmes have proved to be successful within the 
European countries and are now extending to the whole world (ex: Erasmus 
Mundus). Yet, few studies are available on the ''hypermodern'' mobile 
academic individuals. What is known of the lives of these ''new 
strangers'' (Murphy-Lejeune)? How do they deal with their daily lives? 
What sort of relationships do they develop? What about the competences 
they develop while abroad? Do they alter their views on their own 
''foreignness'' and that of the others? In what way do their experiences 
differ from those of ''normal migrants''? Aim of the conference: The 
main aim of the conference is to provide a multidisciplinary forum for 
discussing the actors of academic mobility. Papers are welcomed from 
linguistics, education, anthropology, sociology, psychology, geography 
and educational policy, among others.

Other aims include:
- To promote debate and reflection in the existing information and 
research in
academic mobility and related fields;
- To raise awareness within higher education regarding academic mobility;
- To identify needs inhome and host institutions;
- To improve administrative, intercultural and teaching experiences of 
staff;
- To support academic mobility;
- To establish research networks on academic mobility.

Conference themes:
- Categories of mobile / non-mobile individuals in higher education
- Daily lives
- Identification (ex: national, European, Erasmus identities)
- Mobile academics' representations (of themselves, the EU, of their 
home countries, their hosts, etc.)
- Learning (foreign language acquisition, intercultural competence...)
- Challenges (student support)
- Virtual academic mobility
- Long-term effects of academic mobility
- Representations on academicmobility (in the media, with ''locals''...)

Partner Institutions:
- Department of French, University of Turku, Finland
- International Office, University of Turku, Finland
- Escola Súperior de Educaçaõ Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Centre Culturel Français de Helsinki, Finlande
-Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, 
Sweden

Scientific Committee:
- Fred Dervin, Department of French Studies, University of Turku, Finland
- Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune, Department of French, Saint Patrick's 
College, Dublin, Ireland
- Vassiliki Papatsiba, Open University, UK
- Esmeralda Lopes Rosa, Escola Súperior de Educaçaõ Universidade do 
Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Eija Suomela-Salmi, Department of French Studies, University of Turku, 
Turku, Finland
- Matti Taajamo, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
- Ioannis Tsoukalas, Department of Social Anthropology, University of 
Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden