Category: Events

Taos Institute: Dialogic & Collaborative Practices 2024

EventsDialogic and Collaborative Practices, Taos Institute, 1-3 February 2024, 11:00am-2:00pm EST each day (New York time, online).

A 3-day online seminar with Taos Institute Vice-President Sheila McNamee and Taos Institute Board Member Harlene Anderson. Certificate of participation available upon request for CEUs.

Have you ever wondered how to engage with curiosity when faced with different views, beliefs, and ideas? If so, organizers invite you to join in February for a practical seminar embracing relational, dialogic, and collaborative resources for dealing with difference.

In this online, hands-on, intensive seminar (three hours each day), Harlene and Sheila introduce and discuss constructionist theory, dialogue, and collaborative practices. Given the challenges we confront globally, discussions will center specifically on the practical implications and applications of a dialogic and collaborative stance. In addition to demonstrations, there is ample space for everyone to share, interact, collaborate and support one another as participants explore ways to bring these practices into their own projects and personal or professional contexts.

Whether you are familiar with social construction and relational practices or new to these ideas, this intimate, intensive seminar is sure to make you feel welcomed and inspired. The small-group, virtual environment offers an opportunity to be in conversation with a diverse group of individuals from around the globe, who are working or who would like to work in relational ways. Three group meetings as well as a private group discussion forum gives you a chance to forge deep connections and to practice relational approaches — resulting in a transformational experience.

AIEA Workshops on Internationalization 2024 (USA)

EventsAssociation of International Education Administrators Workshops, 23-25 January 2024 (some also available online).

Before their annual conference (the deadline for submission is unfortunately long past), the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) is holding a series of workshops, some of which are virtual and open to non-members, though at a cost.

Virtual workshops:

  • ​Navigating the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Landscape: Strategies for Senior International Officers (SIOs)
    Tuesday, January 23; 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
  • Becoming an SIO: What You Need to Know
    Tuesday, January 23; 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
  • ​Internationalization as if the Planet Mattered: Strategy and Policy that Makes Programming and Global Learning Eco-literate and Sustainable
    Thursday, January 25; 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
  • Making the Case for Internationalization
    January 25, 2024; 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

On-site workshops will be held in Washington, DC.

2023 PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival (USA but Online)

Events2023 PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), New York, NY, USA, 15 December 2023, 3 pm EST (but also available online).

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival is a joint initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that invites the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos focusing on the themes of migration, diversity and social inclusion. By supporting the distribution of youth-produced media, PLURAL+ recognizes youth as powerful agents of positive social change in a world often characterized by intolerance, and cultural and religious divisions.

View videos from past years here, chosen by an international jury from thousands of submissions around the globe.

PLURAL+ is a youth video festival that encourages and empowers global youth to explore the issues of migration, diversity, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia and to share their creative vision with the world.

Digital Tools to Support Minoritised Languages (Austria but Online)

EventsHow to Use Digital Tools to Support Minoritised Languages, RISE UP, 6 Nov 2023 08:00 – 10:00 EST (based in Vienna, Austria but the workshop is online).

The first RISE UP Workshop on digital tools to support minoritised languages will take place online on November 6th, 2023. During the two-hour workshop, different actors working with digital tools for lesser used languages (Global Rising Voices, F´ora de Mapa, Anveatsã Armãneashti) will present their work, experiences and best practices. Afterwards, workshop sessions for different topics such as digital media for minoritised languages and digital language activism will take place in breakout rooms to foster discussions and an exchange of experiences. The workshop is free.

RISE UP (HORIZON EUROPE project on Revitalising Languages and Safeguarding Cultural Diversity) aims to empower endangered language communities by building connections between relevant actors, identifying good practices and developing methods through a multi-disciplinary approach. Furthermore, RISE UP will foster the self-confidence of these communities, including learners, new speakers, people who have not yet had the chance to learn their heritage language, supporters, and more. Through the collection and analysis of context information and policies for endangered languages in Europe, the creation of a tool set for communities, the connection of relevant actors and the involvement of young people, specifically, RISE UP aims to provide support and empowerment to endangered language communities in Europe.

7th LRI Workshop: Language & Belonging (Italy)

ConferencesCFP 7th Annual Language, Region, Identity Workshop for Early Career Researchers: Language & Belonging, Academy of German-Italian Studies, Villa San Marco, Merano, Italy, 6-7 June 2024. Application deadline: 15 January 2024.

Following the successful workshops in Merano/Meran (Italy) in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and in Innsbruck (Austria) in 2016, the 7th workshop for early-career researchers of the linguistic colloquium Language, Region, Identity (LRI) will be hosted again at the Villa San Marco, Merano/Meran (Italy). The workshop, jointly organised by a team from six universities and research centres in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, aims to foster scientific exchanges within the Alpine region and beyond by offering a forum for discussing current and recently concluded projects. The workshop will feature oral presentations of 20 minutes with a subsequent discussion time of 20 min.

Each Linguistic Colloquium workshop has a specific topic of interest. The 7th edition will address the topic of language and belonging. Despite often being equated with the notions of identity and citizenship, the notion of belonging can capture various different ways in which people may belong and form emotional attachments. For several decades now, different fields of linguistic research have tackled issues in relation to belonging with different theoretical and methodological orientations. From variationist sociolinguistics, which has attempted to work out how certain linguistic features pattern around people’s belonging to certain places, social classes or genders, research on language and belonging received important contributions from orientations such as Sociolinguistic Ethnography or Discourse Analysis that have conceived of belonging as a resource that people employ strategically to construct, claim or resist forms of social inclusion or exclusion.

Organizers welcome contributions that deal with language and belonging in relation to various intertwined social categories and groups (genders, social status, (sub)cultural groups, nationalities, professional groups, etc.) and investigate:

  • how belonging is expressed, perceived, negotiated, resisted and contested,
  • how categories and groups of belonging form, change and dissolve over time and in different spaces,
  • how belonging links to authority, ownership and power,
  • how the relation between language and belonging can be conceptualised and tackled methodologically.

The workshop languages are German, Italian and English.

World Council for Intercultural & Global Competence: Assessing Intercultural Competence (USA but Online)

EventsWorld Council for Intercultural & Global Competence: Assessing Intercultural Competence Across Disciplines, 30-31 October 2023,  online.

The 2023 Annual Global Symposium will be held virtually 30 October 2023 on the topic of Assessing Intercultural Competence. The theme will be “Assessing Intercultural Competence across Disciplines” Days and times: Monday, October 30, 16:00 – 19:00 EST / Tuesday, October 31st, 5:00 – 8:00 JST. This event is being organized by the ICC Assessment Working Group of the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence.

Intersect Virtual Conference 2023 (Canada but Online)

EventsIntersect: 2nd Annual Graduate Students Virtual Conference, Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, 26-27 October 2023.

INTERSECT is the annual virtual conference of the Master of Arts in Intercultural and International Communication (MAIIC) program at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada. The conference brings together experts, researchers, and students from different parts of the world to explore and discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in intercultural and international communication. Join and register for free to be part of this exciting conference.

The keynote speakers are:
Dr. Rogério Miguel Puga (Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal)
Dr. Merelda Fiddler-Potter (First Nations University of Canada, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Dr. Brad Anderson (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada)
Ms. Delphine Schrank M.A. (Investigative Journalist and Author, Mexico City, Mexico)

DIVERSAS: Dialogue Between Portuguese and Chinese (Macau)

EventsDIVERSAS: Diversity in Portuguese and Chinese Translation, St. Joseph University, Macau, 27 September-20 October 2023.

The exhibition “DIVERSAS – Diversity in Portuguese-Chinese Translation,” organized by at the University of Saint Joseph, is a multifaceted display of intercultural and linguistic dialogue between Portuguese and Chinese. This exhibition showcases student projects prepared during the prior academic year. Each work reflects the diversity of these two very different languages, exploring the translation and interpretation of texts, covering various genres, themes, and fields of knowledge.  DIVERSAS invites visitors to explore and discover the plurality of meanings and perspectives that arise throughout the process of teaching and learning languages. Each piece in the exhibition is a testimony to the challenge of translating not only words but also contexts, ideas, and feelings between such rich cultures and traditions.

This event is an opportunity to see the work and creativity of the students, and to reflect on the importance of intercultural dialogue in building a more inclusive and harmonious world.

The exhibition is an invitation to reflect on the role of translation in bringing worlds closer together, in understanding other cultures, and in building bridges between people and nations. It would serve well as a model to other similar programs.

 

Media Literacy Week 2023

EventsMedia Literacy Week,  Sponsored by the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) , 23-27 October 2023.

US Media Literacy Week Logo

U.S. Media Literacy Week is the celebration of Media Literacy across the United States, held in conjunction with UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week. The mission is to highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education all across the country. U.S. Media Literacy Week calls attention to media literacy education by bringing together hundreds of partners for events and activities around the country.

NAMLE defines media literacy as, “the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, CREATE, and ACT using all forms of communication.” So each day will focus on one of those words and we encourage participants to organize events, teach a lesson, or create media related to the day’s theme. Learn more about this year’s theme here. each day: Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, and Act.

What does media literacy have to do with intercultural dialogue?

…media literacy deals with the study of cultures and looks at the problems relating to hybridization, interconnection and cross-cultural issues between societies and peoples. In other words, media literacy is all about intercultural dialogue.

Source: Tornero, J. M. P. (2014). Media literacy: The cultural heritage of our time. In J. M. P. Tornero (Ed.), Media literacy and intercultural dialogue: Strategies, debates and good practices (p. 5). Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Sehen.

The long list of activities includes the 3rd Annual Media Literacy Week Film Festival and Productive Conversations without Confrontation.

 

A Linguistic Landscapes Approach to Learning Environments (Finland & Online)

EventsA linguistic landscapes approach to learning environments,  Speaker: Tamás Péter Szabó , University of Jyväskylä, Seminaarinmäki, B 349 Suvanto and Zoom, 7 November 2023 14:15–15:45 EET.

Welcome to think about the origins and use of the concepts linguistic landscape and schoolscape that help us understand discourses, policies and educational practices in public spaces. The workshop is part of the ongoing FORTHEM Campus period hosted by the University of Jyväskylä. Open to students, researchers, teachers and anyone interested, this workshop demonstrates the concepts of linguistic landscapes and schoolscapes through some main conceptualizations of language and language learning in educational contexts. Examples from ethnographic research invite participants to reflect on their own lived experiences and (envisioned) pedagogical practices.

The term linguistic landscape originates in Geography research that first focused on the presence of various languages in commercial signs in the 1970s. Expanding an early focus on written signs in public spaces, current definitions take a multimodal and multisensory approach. The concept of schoolscape in turn encompasses physical, institutional, societal, and virtual spaces of education. Schoolscape studies look beyond policy and language practices and frame language and educational practices as spatialized and embodied.

Tamás Péter Szabó (PhD) is Senior Lecturer of multilingualism and the internationalisation of teacher education in the Department of Teacher Education as well as Adjunct Professor of Linguistic Landscape studies in the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä. In his schoolscape studies, he focuses on multilingual pedagogies and methodological innovations. Further, he develops pre- and in-service teacher education courses for the creative renewal of learning environments. In the FORTHEM Alliance, Tamás is Alliance level coordinator of Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab and co-chair of the Labs and Co-creation Mission Board.

This workshop is a joint session of the FORTHEM Campus course Approaches to Multilingualism and the FORTHEM Digital Academy course Multilingual Learning Environments, both developed by contributors of Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab.

FORTHEM Alliance aims to transform and shape the future of the European higher education and research area. The nine universities have therefore established an education, research, innovation and transfer connecting, student-centred and inclusive European University with a strong regional anchoring. FORTHEM is an alliance of nine public universities with a well-balanced geographical distribution in Europe.