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Global Issues in Language Education Special Interest Group of JALT





Upcoming Conferences/Calls for Papers


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LANGUAGE EDUCATION CONFERENCES
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The World in Crisis & the Language Industry
November 13-14, 2009 Geneva (Switzerland)
Website: www.ialb-astti.org/en/index.html

PAC 8 Leadership in Lg Education in Asia
December 3 - 5, 2009 Manila (Philippines)
Website: http://paltonline.org/

Re-Orienting English: Paradigms of Crisis
December 5, 2009 Taipei (Taiwan)
www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/act/news.php?Sn=46

TEFLIN Responding to Global Challenges
Dec. 8 - 10, 2009 East Java (Indonesia)
Website: www.teflin-indonesia.org

GloCALL Globalization and Localization
Dec. 8 - 11, 2009 Chiang Mai (Thailand)
Website: http://glocall.org/

Empire & English: Pedagogy and Activism
Dec. 11 - 12, 2009 Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Website: www.ewu.edu.bd/ewu/

CamTESOL Conference <www.camtesol.org>
Feb. 27 - 28, 2010 Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

Building Bridges: New Competences in EFL
March 12 - 14, 2010 Lleida (Spain)
Website: www.tesol-spain.org/convention2010/

Global Language Convention
April 8 - 11, 2010 Melbourne (Australia)
Web: www.wesleycollege.net/convention.cfm

Who Needs Languages?
June 7 - 10, 2010 Jyvaskyla (Finland)
Website: www.jyu.fi/kieliverkosto


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GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCES
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2010 Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking
Oct. 23 - 25, 2009 Memphis, Tennessee (USA)
Web: www.gandhikingconference.org

Peace Education in Canada Conference
“Living Schools: Sharing Paths to Peace”
Nov. 12 - 15, 2009 Hamilton (Ontario)
Website: www.peace-education.ca/pec-2009

Higher Education & Sustainable Development
November 20 - 22, 2009 Penang (Malaysia)
Website: www.hesd09.org/

World Forum on Education and Culture
“Crossing Borders and Building Bridges”
December 3 - 4, 2009 Rome (Italy)
Website: www.theworldwideforum.org/

Teacher Education & Social Justice
December 5 - 6, 2009 Chicago (USA)
Website: http://antioppressiveeducation.org/

Intercultural Competence Conference
Jan. 29 - 31, 2010 Tucson, Arizona (USA)
Website: www.cercll.arizona.edu/icc_2010.php

Going Global 4: International Education
“World Potential: Meeting the Challenge”
March 24 - 26, 2010 London (UK)
Website: www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal

IPRA: International Peace Research Association
Conference theme: Communicating Peace
July 6 - 10, 2010 Sydney (Australia)
Website: www.iprasydney2010.org

More global education events listed at: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/PeaceEd/newsletter/61.htm

 

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Updated November 9, 2009
Kip A. Cates, Tottori University, Koyama, Tottori City, JAPAN 680-8551
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