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<div>The call for proposals deadline for the 5th Intercultural Competence Conference: Traditions and Transitions is approaching.</div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font><strong>Intercultural Competence: Traditions and Transitions</strong></font><strong><br>
Fifth International Conference on the </strong><strong><br>
Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence</strong><strong><br>
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January 21–24, 2016</strong><strong><br>
Tucson, Arizona</strong><strong style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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</strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Keynote Speaker</span></strong><strong><br>
Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland) </strong> <br>
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<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Plenary Speakers</span></strong></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Dwight Atkinson (University of Arizona, USA)</strong></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Paige Ware (Southern Methodist University, USA)</strong></div>
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Writing in 1997, Michael Byram describes intercultural communication as something that is historically continuous, albeit not constant, and as something that shifted importantly at the turn of the last century. In a world that is increasingly interconnected—virtually
through digital technologies as well as physically through global migrations—communicating across cultures and languages is an inevitability for many people. And yet, large-scale travel and tourism are hardly new to the Twenty-First Century and the extent
to which intercultural communication is a qualitatively new human phenomenon bears examination. At the same time, intercultural competence, as a theorizable, teachable, and assessable skill or set of skills, has been developed by scholars and practitioners
in a variety of fields over the past few decades and now carries its own conceptual traditions—as reflected in the presentations over the past four conferences on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence in Tucson, Arizona.</span></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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Straddling tradition and transition, this Fifth International Conference organized by the </span></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL)</strong></span></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> will
take stock of the histories that this field carries with it as well as the future directions it might take. This four-day event brings together scholars and educators in order to foster a conversation about what intercultural competence might mean to scholars
and educators now, and what theoretical models, best practices, and approaches are best suited to fostering this sensibility in various learners.</span></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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CERCLL invites proposals for individual papers, symposia, posters, and workshops (half-day/full-day) with preference given to topics related to the conference theme of </span></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><em>Intercultural
Competence: Traditions and Transitions</em></strong></span></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. Papers may be presented in person or online.</span></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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Priority will be given to proposals addressing one of these strands:</span></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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<li><strong>Assessment</strong></li><li><strong>Curriculum design and instruction</strong></li><li><strong>Theory and approaches</strong></li><li><strong>Technology and digital mediation</strong></li><li><strong>Study abroad and immersive environments</strong></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><strong>Teacher training and professional development</strong></font></li></ul>
<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">See the complete submission guidelines:<br>
<a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=92dec38b13&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank">http://cercll.arizona.edu/development/conferences/2016_icc</a><a href="http://cercll.arizona.edu/development/conferences/2016_icc" target="_blank"><br>
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</span></font></span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">All proposals must be submitted using the online form available on the conference website.<br>
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</span></font><font color="#FF6600" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proposal deadline:</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><font color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>11:59 pm (Pacific Standard
Time)</strong></span></font><font color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> on <strong>June 29</strong></span></font><font color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>, 2015</strong></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.
Confirmation of receipt will be sent via email. Presenters will be notified by email of the conference committee’s decision by </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>August 31, 2015</strong></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.
Presenters will need to confirm attendance by September 28, 2015.</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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</span></font><font color="#FF6600" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Questions?</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Please contact CERCLL at </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="mailto:coh-cercll@email.arizona.edu">coh-cercll@email.arizona.edu</a></strong></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">,
(520)626-8071</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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This conference is organized by the </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (<a href="http://cercll.arizona.edu">CERCLL</a>), </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">co-organized
by the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (</span></font><a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=c8c5e27ff0&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">SLAT</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">)
Program</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (</span></font><a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=e59ac9f5d3&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">LAS</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">),
Center for Middle Eastern Studies (</span></font><a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=3ac4ef6c31&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CMES</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">),
Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona (</span></font><a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=e01f4a4aa6&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CIUA</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">),
College of Humanities (</span></font><a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=1d462ca363&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">COH</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">),
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (</span></font><a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=cfc03a3942&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">SBS</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">),
all at the University of Arizona;</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (</span></font><a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=234ff5ce0f&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CALPER</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">)
at Pennsylvania State University; and Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (</span></font><a href="http://arizona.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=12f26b83017c8223bcb1241ee&id=fdd97406ff&e=a287b1d259" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">COERLL</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">)
at the University of Texas at Austin.</span></font></span></div>
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Beatrice Dupuy<br>
Professor of French/Applied Linguistics (<a href="http://french.arizona.edu">http://french.arizona.edu</a>)<br>
Co-Director, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (<a href="http://cercll.arizona.edu">http://cercll.arizona.edu</a>)</div>
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University of Arizona, Tucson<br>
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