International conference hosted by Roskilde University
Monday, December 15, 2008 - Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The conference was the first open conference arranged by the CALPIU network for the study of cultural and linguistic practices in international universities.

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>> Invited Speakers

>> Conference Chair

>> Conference Committee

>> Local Organizing Committee

>> Scientific Committee

>> Conference Language
>> Programme and abstracts

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The CALPIU network

The aim of the CALPIU network is to prepare an international Centre for Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University, and thereby to coordinate Danish, Nordic and international research into a new theoretical understanding of internationalization processes currently underway in universities and other institutions of higher education.
The network focuses on the function of language in social and cultural practice at the international university, especially the significance of language proficiency and language choice within a context marked by the development of power relations and hierarchies of influence. It also considers the significance of these power relations and hierarchies of influence vis-à-vis the organisation, didactics, learning processes and academic content of educational programmes in the humanities and social and natural sciences.
The CALPIU Network was initiated by a group of researchers within sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, discourse, and communication analysis at Roskilde University, Denmark. It now links more than 40 senior and junior researchers from 21 univer­sities and research centres in Denmark, other Nordic countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden), and beyond (Australia, Japan, India, China, UK, and Spain). The Network is funded by the Danish Research Council for Culture and Communication.

The Conference

The purpose of the conference is to discuss various aspects of the consequences of student mobility. Transnational student mobility makes adaptation and learning both necessary and possible; and involves cultural as well as linguistic accommodation and learning processes. In order to further theoretical understanding of these processes, we need to understand the consequences of

• the huge increase in the use of English as a lingua franca by academic teachers and students,
• the equally huge increase in learning and use of other languages, as well as
• the development of productive and receptive multilingualism and language alternation in interaction.

Invited Speakers

There will be three keynote lectures by:

• Johannes Wagner, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding and Maurice Nevile, Centre for Educational Development and Academic Methods (CEDAM), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  Title: Talking the international university into being
• Jennifer Jenkins, Department of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Title: ELF and the international university
• Masako K. Hiraga, Graduate School of Intercultural Communication of Rikkyo University, Tokyo
  Title: The Tao of Talk in Educational Pragmatics: A Case of Intercultural Tutorials in Britain

 

Conference Chair

Celia Roberts, King’s College, University of London and Bent Preisler, Roskilde University

Conference Committee

Hartmut Haberland, Ida Klitgård, Bent Preisler, Janus Mortensen, Anne Fabricius (Roskilde University)

Local Organizing Committee

Dennis Day (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
Karen-Margrete Frederiksen, Therese Hauge, Sarita Henriksen, Susanne Hvidtfeldt,  Iben Jensen, Susanne Kjærbeck, Karen Risager, (Roskilde University) 

 

Scientific Committee

Evangelos Afendras (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
Jens Allwood (Göteborg University, Sweden)
Tove Bull (University of Tromsø, Norway)
Josep Maria Cots (University of Lleida, Spain)
Florian Coulmas (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan)
Nikolas Coupland (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
Annjo K. Greenall (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Hu Xiaoqiong (China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China)
J. Normann Jørgensen (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Jacob Mey (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
Catherine Montgomery (Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom)
Arja Piirainen-Marsh (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Ben Rampton (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
Geneviève Zarate (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France)

Conference Language

The main working language of the conference will be English, for practical reasons, though we acknowledge the paradox in conducting the conference in a specific language, in contrast to the conference focus on issues of multilingualism, language contact and power.

Programme and abstracts

The programme and abstracts can now be downloaded as a single file here

This schedule is final except for changes made necessary by last-minute cancellations.

Printed versions of the brochure will be distributed at the conference.

Venue

The conference is hosted by Roskilde University (www.ruc.dk).

The venue is Comwell Conference Hotel in Roskilde, Denmark

Roskilde is situated about 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. The nearest international Airport is Copenhagen. For information about how to get to the conference venue, please see this page