Call for Proposals CILS 10th Annual Symposium (May 9)
Second Call for Proposals
10th Annual Symposium
“Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward”
Friday, May 9, 2014
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
The University of British Columbia
We are accepting submissions for presentations (20 minutes) followed by discussion (10 minutes) on topics related to intercultural issues in higher education. The theme for this year, “Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward” is intentionally broadly-stated so as to provide a forum where multiple perspectives from across a spectrum of issues can be shared and discussed.
Reports on small/large-scale research projects, research proposals, preliminary results of ongoing work, or teaching workshops on topics that may deal with intercultural issues are welcome. While the working language of the Symposium is English, we encourage proposals that are written in French, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin.
Summaries of presentations and selected peer reviewed full papers will be published in the online 2014 CILS Symposium proceedings after the event.
Submit your proposal at cils.ubc@ubc.ca
Keynote address by Dr. Galina Elizarova [Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia]
“National Cultural Values and International Education in English: Conflict Resolution”
This talk will focus on a contrastive analysis of semantic interpretation of universals such as speakers’ attitudes toward the notion of time, responsibility, power, argumentation, plagiarism, among others, across different academic cultures from Russia and the US. Suggestions will be offered on how to deal with these intercultural differences in guided language learning.
Dr. Elizarova is a Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. She has been an active contributor in the development of new educational programs for training professional interpreters, translators, and foreign language educators in Russia. Her book “A Culture-Based Approach in Teaching Foreign Languages“ received an Honorable Mention from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
Dr. Elizarova has received numerous awards and distinctions for her diffusion of intercultural reality in the Russian educational system. Some of her professional affiliations include UCG (University Contact Group) and Tempus projects funded by the European Commission. She is a member of the editorial board of “Virtimo Studijos”, an international journal on interpretation and translation (Vilnius, Lithuania).
Important dates
· Submission deadline: April 25th, 2014
· Notification deadline: April 30th, 2014
· Registration deadline: May 6th, 2014
Registration is now open at: http://tinyurl.com/cils-10th-annual-symposium