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Call for Papers
10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC)
Leeds, UK, 3 - 5 December 2010

The 10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) will be held in Leeds, UK, on 3 - 5 December 2010, organized in association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University. The event aims to bring together many of the sub-themes of previous IALIC conferences and to focus upon the issues of culture, communication and translation in a mobile world, including: languages and intercultural communication in local and global education, tourism, hospitality, migration, translation, real and virtual border-crossings.

20–minute research papers or descriptions of pedagogical practice are invited, addressing or going beyond the following themes:

* Moving languages - continuities and change;
* Real and virtual border crossings;
* Tourist encounters and communicating with the other;
* Tourism's role in inter-cultural dialogue;
* The languages of diasporas and diasporic languages;
* Dealing with dialects and the evolution/dissolution of communities;
* Hospitality and languages of welcome;
* Learning the languages of migration;
* Lingusitic boundaries and socio-cultural inclusions and exclusions;
* Located and dislocated languages and identities;
* Practices and performances of translation.

The deadline for the submission of 500-word abstracts to Jane Wilkinson at IALIC2010@leeds.ac.uk is 1 June 2010.

Contact: Manuel Reichlin e-mail: IALIC2010@leeds.ac.uk; www.leeds.ac.uk/german/ialic_conference_2010.htm


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