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Greetings from CERCLL!</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are excited to invite you to the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81);"><b>10th International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
</b>- <i>Intercultural Competence in a Rapidly Changing World: Supporting Sustainable Futures for All.</i></span></div>
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After <b>20 years </b>of bringing together researchers and practitioners across languages, levels, and settings to foster meaningful dialogue on intercultural competence,
<b>ICC 2026 will be the final iteration of this event!</b></div>
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This conferemce will feature three distinguished plenary speakers: <b>Vanessa de Oliveira</b> (University of Victoria),
<b>Irina Golubeva</b> (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), and<b> Ricardo Römhild,</b> along with presenters from around the globe.</div>
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Presentations will explore critical questions including: What role might intercultural communicative language education play in promoting a more sustainable world? What might this education look like in practice? And what are the implications for teachers and
learners?</div>
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ICC 2026 is an invitation for educators to reflect on how they could re-envision what they teach and how they teach it to meaningfully address global crises with the goal of building a sustainable future for all.</div>
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<b>Dates:</b> Friday, February 27 - Sunday, March 1, 2026, MST</div>
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<b>Conference Location:</b> This is a HYBRID conference hosted both online and in-person at: Environment and Natural Resources 2 building (ENR2) - University of Arizona </div>
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<b>Lodging Location:</b> Marriott University Park Hotel</div>
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<b>Important Dates:</b></div>
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Registration scholarship deadline: December 12, 2025</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; line-height: normal;">
Early Bird registration rate ends: January 5, 2026 (at midnight Pacific time)</li></ul>
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<b>Scholarship Opportunity:</b> K-12 educators and graduate students may be eligible for a scholarship to attend the conference. Full details are available at
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Visit our website for more information and to register: <b><a data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://icc.cercll.arizona.edu/register/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAce209fe6-4c32-eda0-b385-dafa227e3658" href="https://icc.cercll.arizona.edu/register/">ICC.CERCLL.ARIZONA.EDU/REGISTER</a></b></div>
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Don't miss this historic opportunity! If you have any questions, please contact us at
<b>cercll@arizona.edu</b>.</div>
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<i>ICC 2026 is cosponsored by the College of Humanities and is supported by the University of Arizona’s Provost’s Investment Fund, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program, Center for Latin American
Studies (CLAS), and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of Arizona; and by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota, and the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at
the University of Hawaii at Manoa.</i></div>
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We hope to see you there, </div>
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CERCLL Staff</div>
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