UPDATE: Language - Communication - Culture (Portugal) (6/30/02 & 9/10/02; 11/27/02-11/30/02)

From: Alvaro Pina (ferpi@mail.telepac.pt)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 14:26:38 EST

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    Language - Communication - Culture
    Evora, Portugal, Nov. 27 30, 2002

    2nd Announcement and Cfp

    The =93English in the World: New Directions=94 team, at the University of=20
    Evora, and the English Culture Studies Group, at the University of Lisbon,=
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    decided earlier this year, after consultations which took place during and=
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    after the Fifth International English Culture Conference held in Lisbon on=
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    Nov. 28-30, 2001, to co-organise an International Conference that could=20
    combine, and give a wider scope to, their distinct but complementary=20
    projects - the Evora project with its focus on the role, developments and=20
    prospects of English in the world, both as the language of communication=20
    and culture in English-speaking nations and as a second and foreign=20
    language, the lingua franca of communication and culture in the major=20
    contemporary transnational flows; the Lisbon project with its focus on a=20
    social sciences and humanities approach to culture and major contemporary=20
    themes, problematics and theories.

    The theme chosen for this new International Conference, Language -=20
    Communication - Culture, accordingly plays a descriptive and a theoretical=
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    role. On the one hand, it brings the two projects together, opening the=20
    English language focus of one to wider interdisciplinary concerns, and=20
    grounding the other in the English language, its contexts and practices,=20
    its conditions and means (the Englishes of the English-speaking nations and=
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    the =93new englishes=94 of transnational communication). On the other hand,=
     the=20
    theme offers Communication as a theoretical linking term between language=20
    and culture.

    Different sessions are being prepared by members of the organising=20
    committee (names and e-mail addresses below) and their themes will be=20
    announced in the coming weeks

    Keynote speakers:
    Rosa GONZALEZ, University of Barcelona
    David MORLEY, Goldsmiths College, University of London
    Sally MUNT, University of Sussex
    Richard SMITH, University of Warwick

    Evora is a beautiful world heritage town in the heart of Alentejo, 131 km=20
    east of Lisbon, with easy access by Motorway (A2 or A12, and A 6) and with=
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    comfortable express-bus connections.

    Registration fees (including conference dinner, conference concert, guided
    tour of Evora, visits to wine cellars and excursions)

    'Early bird' fee: =80uro 100 (if paid by June 30, 2002)
    After that date: =80uro 120
    Graduate students: =80uro 60

    Cheques only, payable to
    Olga Gon=E7alves
    Casa Cordovil, Universidade de Evora
    Apartado 94, 7001 EVORA
    Portugal

    Inquiries and paper proposals, as well as panel proposals, to

    Ana Clara Birrento, University of Evora acbirrento@mail.telepac.pt
    Alvaro Pina, University of Lisbon ferpi@mail.telepac.pt
    Lu=EDs Guerra, University of Evora lspg@uevora.pt
    Teresa Malafaia, University of Lisbon tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt

    or to the other members of the organising committee:
    Olga Gon=E7alves, University of Evora
    J. Carlos Viana Ferreira, University of Lisbon cviana@esoterica.pt
    Adelaide Serras, University of Lisbon aserras@mail.telepac.pt
    Carlos A. M. Gouveia, University of Lisbon carlos.gouveia@mail.doc.fl.ul.pt
    Paulo Mendes, University of Evora pmendes@uevora.pt
    James Muncie, University of Evora jm@uevora.pt
    Fortunata Sarago=E7a, University of Evora fvss@uevora.pt

    Deadline for (120-min, five-paper) panel proposals: June 30, 2002

    Deadline for (20-min) paper proposals: September 10, 2002

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