Greetings, colleagues! Some of you may be interested in the conference announced below, on intercultural competence. It is going to be streamed live from the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday, January 22. See below for all the details (RSVP is by January 11 --- tomorrow --- to Danielle Wetmore, dwetmore@gc.cuny.edu). Best, Eva Eva M. Fernández Acting Assistant Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu --------------------------------------- From: Wetmore, Danielle [mailto:dwetmore@gc.cuny.edu] On Behalf Of Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context Sent: Monday, January 4, 2016 4:17 PM To: Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context <iletc@gc.cuny.edu> Cc: Gatti, Alberta <agatti@gc.cuny.edu> Subject: Event Opportunity: Live Streaming Intercultural Competence Conference 1/22/16 ILETC would like to invite you to attend free streaming sessions of the Intercultural Competence Conference. The conference is organized by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy at the University of Arizona and ILETC has purchased remote attendee access for interested CUNY faculty and staff. Streaming will take place at the GC on Friday January 22nd (room TBD) If you would like to take advantage of the opportunity to listen to experts in the field of intercultural competence, please RSVP by January 11 to this email listing the session(s) you would like to attend. The sessions are listed below and space is limited so please do respond if you would like us to reserve a spot. Hope to see you there! Intercultural Competence Conference Friday, January 22nd Live Streaming from the University of Arizona @ the GC 9-11 am, Session 1 Chantal Crozet (RMIT University School of Global, Urban and Social Studies), Politicizing Intercultural LanguageTeaching Carl Blyth (University of Texas at Austin) and Dale Koike (University of Texas at Austin), Learner Self-Awareness and Intercultural Communication: A Metapragmatic Approach Anna-Leena Riitaoja (University of Helsinki), Intersectionality as a Tool for Intercultural Communication and Competence Friederike Fichtner (Washington University in St. Louis), Challenges to the Teachability of Intercultural Competence 11:15 am-12:15 pm, Keynote Presentation Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland), Intercultural Competence Beyond Orthodoxies 2-4 pm, Session 2 Glenn Levine (University of California, Irvine), The Conundrum of Intercultural Communicative Competence, Language Pedagogy, and Assessment Nicholas Ferdinandt (University of Arizona), Engaging Language Teachers in Intercultural Competence Development: Practice to Outcomes Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey), Nested Interculturality, Multiple Knowledges, and Situated Identities through Service-Learning in Language Education Laura Carreño Bolívar (Universidad de La Sabana), Why Interculturality? The Importance of Intercultural Competences in Higher Education 4:15-6:15 pm, Session 3 Neil Johnson (Kanda University of International Studies), Understanding Language and Culture through Multimodal Text Analysis Kristen Michelson (University of Oklahoma), Culture-teaching as a Relational Process Through a Multiliteracies-based Global Simulation Diane Richardson (University of Arizona) and Lydia Heiss (University of Arizona), A Multimodal Approach to Literature and Interculturality in the L2-Classroom Isabelle Drewelow (University of Alabama), Cultural Interplay: Engaging Cultural Sensitivity through Intercultural Explorations For more information about the conference: http://cercll.arizona.edu/development/conferences/2016_icc For more information about ILETC: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/... *If this message has reached you in error or at multiple e-mail addresses, please e-mail us at iletc@gc.cuny.edu with 'REMOVE' in the subject line, and we will remove the e-mail in question from future mailings* -- Danielle Wetmore College Assistant Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC) CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 (212) 817-2084 Dwetmore@gc.cuny.edu