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What’s (the) News? Values, Viruses and Vectors of Newsworthiness.

Third biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) Department of Applied Linguistics / Faculty of Arts & Philosophy Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium Plenary speakers Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney, Australia) Tony Harcup (University of Sheffield, UK) We invite participants to engage in a critical discussion of newsworthiness.

What crisis? Representations of migration, Europe and the role of museums. (EASA 2010 Panel)

CfP deadline: 01 March 2010

With regard to the place of migration in museums, ethics of representation come to the fore. What are the critical/ambivalent relationships between museal space and (clandestine) migrants? How are migration museums, state policy, migrant rights groups and imaginaries of migrants past and present linked?

The 4th ENIEDA Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education

The European Network for Intercultural Education Activities (ENIEDA)
in cooperation with
The Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University, Sweden,
The Teacher Training College, Vršac, Serbia

are organising

The 4th ENIEDA Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education: Negotiating and constructing European identities across languages and cultures

Negotiating Ideologies II: Inclusion and Exclusion in Russian Language and Culture

Negotiating Ideologies II: Inclusion and Exclusion in Russian Language and Culture

Call for Papers

Following the first Negotiating Ideologies conference in 2010, we are pleased to announce a second one-day conference for postgraduates in the field of Russian Studies, to be held at the Princess Dashkova Centre, University of Edinburgh, on the 5th of October, 2012.

12th IALIC: Language and Intercultural Communication in the Workplace: Critical Approaches to Theory and Practice

The 12th Annual Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication
Lam Woo International Conference Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University

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17th Warwick International Postgraduate Conference

The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce its 17th Postgraduate Conference on Tuesday, 24th and Wednesday, 25th June 2014. The postgraduate conference covers a wide range of topics including language teaching, intercultural communication, and academic or political discourse. The aim of the conference is to provide postgraduate students with the opportunity to present their research, to attend experts’ keynote presentations, to meet peers who engage in similar research activities and to get valuable feedback on their research.

The Structural Transformation of Higher Education: Between Market Logic and Neo-Feudal Hierarchies

Across the globe, the higher education and research sector is changing rapidly. As it continues to expand along the elite-mass-universal trajectory described by Martin Trow, it is subject to unprecedented structural reforms and transformations. These changes are often captured in a framework variously labelled ‘academic capitalism’, ‘marketization’ or ‘entrepreneurialism’, with the common denominator that the market is the new central principle of academic practice.