Intercultural meetings within institutional borders
Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication, 25.-27. November 2010
The conference will be held in Oslo, Norway, Thursday 25th to Saturday 27th November 2010 and is organized by the Centre for Educational Research and Development in cooperation with Intercult at Oslo University College.
Keynote speakers are:
- Post doc. Sharam Alghasi: "In the world between the mosque and the Wine-house - Past and present in Iranian-Norwegian subjective and collective constructions of identity and position"
- Professor Knut Aukrust: "Ghettocultures between holocaust and hip-hop"
- Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen: "Lost in translation: Languages in the culturally complex institution"
- Professor Knut Kjeldstadli: "Are contradictions destructive? The case for conflict"
- Mr. Lee/Chul Ho Lee & Journalist Irina Lee: "Noodle King of Norway"
- Dr. Claudia Lenz: "Council of Europe and Intercultural Dialogue - policies and practices"
- Associate Professor Anne Birgitte Leseth:"In search for culture within institutional borders"
- Associate Professor and Rector Sissel Østberg: "Cultural complexity and multicultural practices as a challenge to and part of higher education"
The main focus of the conference will be intercultural meetings that take place within the borders of an educational institution. In particular, we wish to raise the consciousness of academic staff in their meeting with a diverse student body. How do they adapt personally and pedagogically and how do they overcome the challenges of communication?
The aim of the conference is to encourage scholars and researchers with different theoretical and practical backgrounds to discuss the current issues and prospects of intercultural communication. Emphasis will be placed on the views which allow an exchange of ideas and interaction between various practitioners and researchers of intercultural communication.
In addition to the main theme Intercultural meetings within institutional borders, we therefore wish to invite papers addressing any of the following themes:
- Implications of the mass media and the world situation on intercultural communication
- Minority – majority communication issues
- Values in a multicultural society
- Cultural diversity and professional demands in vocational studies and professions
- Intercultural conflict handling
- Intercultural communication in different professions and areas of work
- Bilingualism as a social and professional asset
- Intercultural business communication
- Nordic identity and language attitudes within the Nordic countries
- The effect of internationalization through professional cooperation across national borders and through students’ and staffs’ exchange periods
The different themes will be divided into separate seminars as well as workshops.
If you have any questions related to the registration, please contact Mona F. Holmgren, + 47 22 45 22 55, leo@lui.hio.no
Further information on the conference can be obtained at NIC2010@hio.no .
The Conferance is sponsored by the Research Council of Norway.
