<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800; line-height: 16px; "><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">International conference, call for paper</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Intercultural Communication Between China</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <b>And the Rest of the World:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and Culturalism?</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">University of Helsinki, Finland</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">5-6.6.2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Website: <a href="http://blogs.helsinki.fi/iccrw2014/">http://blogs.helsinki.fi/iccrw2014/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Deadline for abstract submissions: 15<sup>th</sup> January 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></p></span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">***</font></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Plenary speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-anne-cheng/"><span style="color: rgb(34, 38, 144); ">Anne Cheng</span></a>, Professor at the Prestigious Collège de France in Paris (intellectual History of Chin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="http://adrianholliday.com/"><span style="color: rgb(34, 38, 144); ">Adrian Holliday</span></a>, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) in the Department of English & Language Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/education/staff/?id=8584"><span style="color: rgb(34, 38, 144); ">Prue Holmes</span></a>, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Durham (UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">This interdisciplinary conference aims at analysing but also counter-attacking essentialist and culturalist analyses of intercultural communication between China and the rest of the world. Papers on any of the following topics may be submitted. The approach can be diachronic or synchronic and deal with any context of intercultural communication involving the Chinese (study abroad, online interaction, tourism, business, diplomacy, the media, etc.). Researchers in the fields of (amongst others) sinology, education and pedagogy, communication, sociology, linguistics, (social) psychology, cultural studies but also economics and management are invited to submit a proposal…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Full CFP: <a href="http://blogs.helsinki.fi/iccrw2014/esimerkkisivu/">http://blogs.helsinki.fi/iccrw2014/esimerkkisivu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Organized by the <a href="http://blogs.helsinki.fi/e4diversities/"><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 38, 144); ">The Education for Diversities Research Group</span></b></a> (E4D, Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, Finland) and <b>The <a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/confucius/"><span style="color: rgb(34, 38, 144); text-decoration: none; ">Confucius Institute (University of Helsinki)</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Conference Chairs</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Professor Fred Dervin (Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki) &<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Dr Anja Lahtinen (Director of the Confucius Institute)</span></p></body></html>