Call for papers: Global Interdependence and Language, Culture & Businesss -- DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 7 DECEMBER

[Scott McGinnis]

Global Interdependence and Language, Culture, and Business (CIBER 2002)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: March 13-16, 2002


Conference themes:
The conference seeks to bring together business and language
professionals and academics to discuss the juncture of foreign language,
culture, and business in education today. Global interdependence demands
an educational milieu to match reality. U.S. students must be able to
take advantage of new opportunities, environments, organizations, and
technologies that are shaping the world. Business/language/literature
faculties possess untapped opportunities to join their respective
disciplines to create curricula, pedagogies, educational materials, and
technologies relevant for students' futures as part of an interdependent
global economy.


Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, and Posters:
We welcome submissions exploring theoretical, empirical, and practical
approaches to integrating foreign language instruction, cross-cultural
studies, and international business education to prepare for a globally
interdependent world. Presentations on the following topics may focus on
the K-12, undergraduate, post-graduate, or professional levels.


*	Business for Language Classes or Language for Business Classes?
Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Global Education

*	Business in International Literature and International
Literature in Business

*	The Cultural Dimensions of Globalization and Equity (e.g., how
do culture and language reflect profound economic changes)

*	Language for Specialized Uses: Educating for New Career Options

Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Send proposals for papers
via email attachment to ciber at mail.duke.edu, with cc:
billiema at mail.duke.edu.  Deadline for receipt: 12/7/01. Invitations to
participate in the program will be issued by 1/11/02.

Call for Pre-Conference Workshops:
March 13th will be devoted to pre-conference workshops exploring
computer technologies for teaching foreign languages, cross-cultural
negotiations, and other managerial skills for a globally interdependent
world.   Workshop sessions will last 1.5 hours. Submissions welcome from
both academics and commercial sources. Send workshop proposals via email
attachment to ciber at mail.duke.edu, with cc: billiema at mail.duke.edu.
Deadline for receipt: 12/7/01.
Invitations to participate in the program will be issued by 1/11/02.



Organized and hosted by the Centers for International Business Education
and Research (CIBER) at Duke University and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Cosponsored by the CIBERs at Brigham Young University, Florida
International University, Purdue University, San Diego State University,
Thunderbird-The American Graduate School of International Management,
University of Kansas, University of Pittsburgh, University of South
Carolina, University of Texas-Austin, and University of Utah.