--- Forwarded Message from Marybeth Lavrakas <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:08:30 -0500 >From: Marybeth Lavrakas <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: CIBER >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: call for papers/CIBER 2002 The organizers of this conference are particularly interested in presentations ad/or workshops focusing on the use of technology in teaching foreign languages. ---- Global Interdependence and Language, Culture, and Business (CIBER 2002) Chapel Hill, North Carolina: March 13-16, 2002 * Conference themes: The conference seeks to bring together business and language professionals and academics to discuss the juncture of foreign language, culture, and business in education today. Global interdependence demands an educational milieu to match reality. U.S. students must be able to take advantage of new opportunities, environments, organizations, and technologies that are shaping the world. Business/language/literature faculties possess untapped opportunities to join their respective disciplines to create curricula, pedagogies, educational materials, and technologies relevant for students' futures as part of an interdependent global economy. * Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, and Posters: We welcome submissions exploring theoretical, empirical, and practical approaches to integrating foreign language instruction, cross-cultural studies, and international business education to prepare for a globally interdependent world. Presentations on the following topics may focus on the K-12, undergraduate, post-graduate, or professional levels. * Business for Language Classes or Language for Business Classes? Cross disciplinary Approaches to Global Education * Business in International Literature and International Literature in Business * The Cultural Dimensions of Globalization and Equity (e.g., how do culture and language reflect profound economic changes) * Language for Specialized Uses: Educating for New Career Options Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Send 1-2 page proposals via email attachment to [log in to unmask], with cc: [log in to unmask] Deadline for receipt: 1/4/2002. Invitations to participate in the program will be issued by 1/18/02. Call for Pre Conference Workshops: March 13th will be devoted to pre conference workshops exploring computer technologies for teaching foreign languages, cross-cultural negotiations, and other managerial skills for a globally interdependent world. Workshop sessions will last 1.5 hours. Submissions welcome from both academics and commercial sources. Send workshop proposals via email attachment to [log in to unmask], with cc: [log in to unmask] Deadline for receipt: 1/4/2002. Invitations to participate in the program will be issued by 1/18/02. Organized and hosted by the Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cosponsored by the CIBERs at Brigham Young University, Florida International University, Michigan State University, Purdue University, San Diego State University, The Ohio State University, Thunderbird-The American Graduate School of International Management, University of Kansas, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Carolina, University of Texas-Austin, University of Utah, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.