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[ecrea] conference: The 17th International Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) - Interrogating the 'Third Space': Negotiating meaning and performing 'culture'
Fri Feb 03 18:52:07 GMT 2017
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conference
The 17th International Conference of the International Association for
Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) - Interrogating the
'Third Space': Negotiating meaning and performing 'culture'
19.06.2017-20.06.2017
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
The 17th International Conference of the International Association for
Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC)
Interrogating the 'Third Space': Negotiating meaning and performing
'culture'
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
19 - 20 June 2017
Keynote speakers:
Malcolm MacDonald, University of Warwick
Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow
Until the recent two decades or so, intercultural communication
research has focused on constructions of ‘cultural difference’ that tend
to fix communication behaviour to large-scale, monolithic
collectivities, such as nation, class, and race. This essentialist
tradition, which applies culture as an a priori explanatory framework,
is now giving way to a research paradigm that construes culture as a
complex, emergent phenomenon (Holliday, 2011) and highlights
individuals’ interactions in multicultural settings.
However, much of current intercultural research, policy and practice
following this trend tends to manifest a neo-essentialist position that
oscillates between a stated emphasis on ‘cultural diversity’ and an
underlying essentialist legacy that different ‘solid’ cultures (Dervin,
2016) exist, can co-exist peacefully, and may be fused into a ‘new
culture’ through equally negotiated compromises, e.g. in the form of
strategic conflict resolution or collaborative partnerships around
common tasks (Kramsch and Uryu, 2014). This liberal relativist
perspective (Rutherford, 1990) has been critiqued for its normative
stance and oblivion to the power asymmetries and political struggle
between dominant and marginalised groups, which were particularly
stressed in Homi Bhabha’s (1994) seminal work on the ‘location’ of cultures.
In the current scholarship of intercultural communication, concepts
developed for addressing the ‘location’ of cultures are increasingly
cited, such as ‘thirdness’, ‘hybridity’, ‘liminality’, ‘in-betweenness’,
and ‘interstices’. However, the ways in which these terms are used
sometimes reflect very different philosophical stances. Furthermore,
these terms are often mentioned to signpost the ontological and
epistemological positions underpinning the main inquiry, yet the very
phenomena denoted by the concepts themselves, i.e. the complexities of
the locales of intercultural communication, are less commonly studied as
the research focus (MacDonald and O’Regan, 2014).
This conference thus draws on Bhabha’s (1994) concept of ‘third space’
and foregrounds intercultural communication as a site of struggle, where
established orders become unstable and ambivalent. It aims to explore
how, in this site, ‘cultural difference’ is articulated, ‘culture’ and
‘cultures’ are performed, and the space for the creation of new meanings
opens up (or is suppressed).
The conference invites both theoretical contributions and empirical
insights which contest the notion of ‘third space’ and enrich this area
of inquiry. Abstracts are invited in relation (but not limited) to the
sub-themes suggested below:
· discursive / narrative constructions of Self and Other
· performance of linguistic and cultural resources
· ethnographic accounts of emergent patterns of meaning and
practice in the ‘third space’
· (re)conceptualisation of interculturality vis-à-vis the ‘third
space’
· current usage of ‘third space’ and related concepts in
intercultural communication theory and research
· possible implications of the ‘third space’ for social and
educational policies and practices
Proposals will be in the format of individual papers for 20-minute
presentations.
Please note that there will be two ‘Paper-for-Publication’ panel
sessions for doctoral students to present their working papers aimed for
publication and receive feedback from invited discussants.
Please submit your proposal in a single Word document to
(ialic2017edinburgh /at/ napier.ac.uk). Your proposal should include the following:
- a title
- abstract (no more than 300 words)
- five keywords
- one sentence indicating how your proposal fits with the conference
theme (for example, with reference to the sub-themes above)
- each author’s name, institution and a short bio (no more than 150 words)
- an email address for correspondence
- if you are a doctoral student and would like your abstract to be
considered for the Paper-for-Publication panel, include the words
‘Paper-for-Publication Panel’ in the subject line of your email
The deadline for submission is 12th Feb 2017.
Notifications of result will be sent out by 19th Mar 2017.
We also invite doctoral students to present an overview or slice of
their research in the form of posters. If you intend to bring a poster,
please inform Min at (zhuomin.huang /at/ manchester.ac.uk) by 19th Mar and
provide your name, email address, affiliation and the title of your
poster (you do not need to submit an abstract). We will then arrange a
space for your poster to be displayed at the conference.
For more information about the conference, please visit the conference
website: staff.napier.ac.uk/ialic2017.
email: (ialic2017edinburgh /at/ napier.ac.uk)
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