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<strong style="font-size: 16pt;">BRIDGING ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN EVERYDAY LIVES:</strong></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><strong style="">NEW ROLES FOR CHANGING SCENARIOS</strong><br style="">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">2016 Annual Conference</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">November 25-27<span style="line-height: normal;">th</span>, 2016</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To submit proposals, go to the conference website:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">ialic2016bcn.com</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The deadline for submission is May 15th, 2016</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Invited Speakers:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Adrian Blackledge, University of Birmingham, UK</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">David Block, University of Lleida, Spain</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Angela Creese, University of Birmingham, UK</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sean Golden, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, Scotland</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this age of communication revolution and intense globalization there is a</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">growing expectation that everyone be conversant in more than one language</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and familiar and comfortable with multicultural contexts. As languages and</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">cultures come into contact -driven by conflicts, migration, media and the</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Internet, transnational capitalism and many other factors- more and more</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">individuals find themselves in the role of mediating between diverse languages</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and cultures in their daily lives. These may be professionals in fields as varied</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">as health services, travel agents, interpreters, shopkeepers, teachers, workers</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">at multinational companies or NGO workers as well as young, multilingual</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">children and youth acting as language and culture mediators between their</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">family and society (known as ‘language brokers’).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In a world of transcultural ‘mash-ups’, multilingual rap and multi-party</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">videoconferencing apps for cellphones, there is a need for a theoretical shift</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">towards an understanding of ‘languaging’ and ‘culturing’ as transformative</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">practices involving social activities that go between and beyond ‘fixed’ and</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">separate systems; practices that take place in the interstices of languages and</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">cultures where new meanings and new understandings can emerge. Given the</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">importance that language and culture mediators can play in today’s</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">increasingly interconnected world, the aims of this conference are:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• to promote critical engagement with the notion of mediating between</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">cultures and languages;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• to explore the role of technology in bridging between diverse languages</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and cultures;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• to explore the role of ‘broker’ in cross-cultural situations, including</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">growing instances of ‘child language brokers’;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• to promote understanding of how language brokering is perceived by</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">researchers and practitioners from cross-cultural situations;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• to provide a forum for a critique of existing analytical models of culture</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and language mediating practices that integrate current theories of</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">language and intercultural communication;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• to provide a forum on ways in which research into language and culture</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">mediation can inform teachers’ praxis.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The conference organizers welcome presentations on theory and practice that</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">look at language and culture mediation as transformative practices and from</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">many different perspectives, in particular in education but also in other formal</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and informal domains.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conference sub-themes include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• ‘Bridging’ of languages and cultures in the workplace</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• ‘Translanguaging’ practices</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• New approaches to analysing language and cultural mediation</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• Research models for language and culture brokering</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">• Language and culture brokering and technology</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proposals can be in the format of individual papers or symposia. Individual</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">communications consist of 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">discussion and 5 minutes for changing of rooms. Symposia proposals can</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">consist of three to six presentations on a similar topic, proposed and organised</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">by a chairperson, and should address the conference theme. Sessions last for</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">90 minutes, with NO changeover during the symposium. Proposals can be</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Format of proposals:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Individual papers: Maximum of 300 words. Proposals should include a title (no</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">more than 10 words), the names of the authors and should indicate which</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">organizers reserve the right to change the strand if deemed necessary). Each</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Symposia: The organizer of the symposium should send an abstract that</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">includes a general title (which should cover one of the themes of the</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">conference or be directly related to the interests of IALIC) and a short</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">justification of the symposium (relevance, objectives, etc.). Maximum for this is</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">100 words. This should be accompanied by a brief description of each</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">contribution (maximum 50 words each) and authors' names and affiliations for</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">each contribution. Only the panel organizer needs to submit contact details.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Symposia proposals should include five keywords and a short bio of no more</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To submit proposals, go to the conference website:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The deadline for submission is May 15th, 2016</span></p>
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