Bloomsbury Round Table on Language, Identity, and Intercultural Communication
This is an annual, international event, jointly hosted by adjacent colleges of the University of London, especially Birkbeck and the Institute of Education.
At the Round Table, researchers at different stages of their career are invited to present the latest work in the broad fields of Language, Communication and Cognition.
Each year, the event will have a specific focus, but the general theme will remain on the cultural dimensions of human communication and cognition.
PAST EVENT - 9-10 June 2011
Room B04, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, London WC1
Language, Identity, and Intercultural Communication
A joint conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group and The Annual Bloomsbury Round Table.
9 -10 June, 2011, Birkbeck College, University of London
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
- Professor Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley
- Professor Celia Roberts, King’s College, London
(Please click here for abstracts)
This two-day conference aims to encourage multi- and inter-disciplinary exchanges on the relationship between language, identity and intercultural communication. We welcome both critical and empirical studies that examine language and identity issues in intercultural communicative contexts, e.g. study abroad, travel and tourism, workplace, family, diasporic communities, language classrooms, business and different media, e.g. speech, writing, technology-mediated, sign. Studies with methodological innovations are particularly welcome.
Participants are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words for paper presentations by email as a Word attachment (please save in Word 97-2003) to roundtable@bbk.ac.uk by Friday 18 March 2011.
A selection of papers from the conference will be invited to apply for consideration for publication in the Applied Linguistics Review (Mouton De Gruyter, http://www.degruyter.de/cont/imp/mouton/moutonMbwEn.cfm?rc=42772).
Registration for the conference (including refreshments and lunch):
BAAL member/full-time students: £75.00
Non BAAL members: £85.00
Registration is now closed.
Send enquires to Dr Zhu, Hua at zhu.hua@bbk.ac.uk
Event Coordinator:
Dr Zhu, Hua, Birkbeck College, University of London
With assistance from the BAAL-IC-SIG Executive Committee (Convener Dr Tony Young, Newcastle University) and the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck College.
