[Socrates] FW: Event Opportunity: Live Streaming Intercultural Competence Conference 1/22/16

[Eva Fernandez]

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 at gc.cuny.edu).

Best,
Eva


Eva M. Fernández
Acting Assistant Provost
Queens College, City University of New York
http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu

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From: Wetmore, Danielle [mailto:dwetmore at 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 at gc.cuny.edu>
Cc: Gatti, Alberta <agatti at 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/Centers-and-Institutes/Institute-for-Language-Education-in-Transcultural-Context


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-- 
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 at gc.cuny.edu