Announcement & CFP: Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

Thu Jan 21 03:54:30 UTC 2010

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From: Carl, Daniela <D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:39 AM
Subject: [LING-ETHNOG] Announcement & CFP_Travelling Languages:
Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World
To: LING-ETHNOG at jiscmail.ac.uk

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Dear List-members,

We are pleased to announce the following forthcoming conference and
call for papers:

Travelling Languages:

Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Languages
and Intercultural Communication

In association with

School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds

and

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University

03-05 December 2010, Leeds, United Kingdom

The world is ever ‘on the move’. The opportunities and challenges of
both real and virtual travel are very much at the heart of the
emergent interdisciplinary field of ‘mobilities’, which deals with the
movement of peoples, objects, capital, information and cultures across
an increasingly globalised and apparently borderless world. In the
practices, processes and performances of moving – whether for
voluntary leisure, forced migration or economic pragmatism – we are
faced with the negotiation and re-negotiation of identities and
meaning relating to places and pasts.

Within the increasing complexities of global flows and encounters,
intercultural skills and competencies are being challenged and and
re-imagined. The vital role of languages and the intricacies of
intercultural dialogue have largely remained implicit in the
discourses surrounding mobilities. This Conference seeks to
interrogate the role of intercultural communication and of languages
in the inevitable moments of encounter which arise from all forms of
‘motion’.

This international and interdisciplinary event is the 10th anniversary
conference of the International Association of Languages and
Intercultural Communication (IALIC) and is being organised in
association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Through
this event we aim to bring together many of the sub-themes of previous
IALIC conferences and focus upon the issues of culture, communication
and translation in a mobile world, including: languages and
intercultural communication in local and global education, tourism,
hospitality, migration, translation, real and virtual
border-crossings.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to receive 20 –minute research papers or descriptions
of pedagogical practice which address or go beyond the following
themes:

·         Moving languages - continuities and change;

·         Real and virtual border crossings;

·         Tourist encounters and communicating with the ‘other’;

·         Tourism’s role in inter-cultural dialogue;

·         The languages of diasporas and diasporic languages;

·         Dealing with dialects and the evolution/dissolution of communities;

·         Hospitality and languages of welcome;

·         Learning the languages of migration;

·         Lingusitic boundaries and socio-cultural inclusions and exclusions;

·         ‘Located’ and ‘dislocated’ languages and identities;

·         Practices and performances of translation.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words including title
and full contact details as an electronic file to Jane Wilkinson at
IALIC2010 at leeds.ac.uk. You may submit your abstract as soon as
possible but no later than 1st June 2010.

For further details on the conference please visit:

www.leeds.ac.uk/german/ialic_conference_2010.htm or email to
IALIC2010 at leeds.ac.uk.

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Daniela Carl

Research Officer

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds LS1 3ED

UK

phone +44 (0)113- 812 8541

fax +44 (0)113- 812 8544

www.tourism-culture.com

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Forthcoming Events

International Conferences:

Journeys of Expression VIII: Celebrating through Times of Crisis:
Prospects and Potentials for Tourism, Festivals and Cultural Events

20-21 April, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and Local

2-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada

Tourism and Seductions of Difference: 1st Tourism-Contact-Culture
Research Network Conference

10-12 September 2010, Lisbon, Portugal

Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

(10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Languages
and Intercultural Communication)

03-05 December 2010, Leeds, United Kingdom

CTCC Guest Lecture Series 2009/ 2010:

The Trajectories of three East African Museums

28 January 2010, 4:30-5:30pm, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic
Quarter, Lecture Theatre B3

by Sarah Longair (University of London and the British Museum)

Cultural Tourism Agenda from a Social Marketing Perspective

25 February 2010, 4:30-5:30pm, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic
Quarter, Lecture Theatre B3

by Gonzalo Diaz Meneses (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)

Tourism and the Commodification of Language

18 March 2010, 4:30-5:30pm, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic
Quarter, Room: TBA

by Professor Joan C. Beal (National Centre for English Cultural
Tradition, University of Sheffield)

New MA Course

MA Cultural Tourism

For more information please go to www.tourism-culture.com

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--
David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Colorado, 270 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0270, USA
Web: http://comm.colorado.edu/people.php?id=103

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