„HENRI COANDĂ” AIR FORCE ACADEMY BRASOV “HENRI COANDĂ” ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ascedu d henri coanda ASCEDU FACULTY OF AERONAUTICAL MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT 4 th I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E Redefining Community in Intercultural Context RCIC’15 FIRST CALL http://www.afahc.ro/Simpozion/index_simpozion.html BRAȘOV 21-23 MAY 2015 4th International Conference Redefining Community in Intercultural Context RCIC’15 ...a man of letters does not believe in words (J.L. Borges) The current edition of Redefining Community in Intercultural Context Conference will focus mainly on contemporary transformations of linguistics, facing the challenges of the multicultural world. So, the reality of the intercultural contact will be viewed through a word frame that should not limit the world perspective. Main goal. The main goal is an exchange of experience between teachers, researchers and practitioners in the field of community dynamics. Moreover, we look forward to putting into practice the new ideas that will result from the cross-fertilization of teaching activities and scientific research. Our end-goal is to improve the quality of education and, consequently, personal and intellectual development. Last but not least, we are eager to disseminate the results of our multicultural dialogue within the academic community and beyond. Participants. We welcome the participation of teachers, researchers, PhD students, Master’s students from Romania and abroad. Event Structure. RCIC’15 will consist of three main parts: plenary session; panels; socializing activities (promoting Romanian customs). Location. RCIC’15 will be held at the following venue: “Henri Coandă” Air Force Academy, 160, Mihai Viteazu Street, Brașov 500183, România. Proposed topics: - New Wor(l)ds (NEW); - Security and Intercultural Communication; - Communication and Identity; - Communication and the New Technologies; - Military Intercultural Communication; - Philosophy of Culture; - Intercultural Education; - Linguistics and Semiotics; - Discourse Analysis. After having submitted the conference papers in anticipation, the topics will be discussed in panels. All new ideas arising from these discussions will subsequently be used as a starting point for similar events. Deadlines: - submission of abstracts for review: March, 20th, 2015. All the abstracts should be submitted only as a unique Microsoft Word file, attached to an email sent to: [email protected] - notification of abstract acceptance: April, 3rd, 2015; - confirmation of payment fee: April, 10th, 2015; - submission of complete papers: extended to: May, 1st, 2015. Paper: Each author has the right to submit no more than 2 papers. Each paper must be submitted in English. Conference fee: 100 € The fee will cover the printed proceedings and proceedings on CD, the cocktail, the coffee breaks, the official dinner and the sightseeing activities. Details regarding the registration fee/payment will be sent via e-mail to those whose articles have been accepted. Keynote speakers: Profesor emeritus Lucija Čok, PhD – Science and research centre / University of Primorska, Slovenia; Member of the Council la Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA); Member of the Institutional Evaluation programme (EUA EIP), European University Association PhD, senior researcher in the field of multilingualism and full professor of multilingualism and intercultural communication was the first rector of the University of Primorska. Having held several important positions, including that of the Minister of Education, Science and Sport (2000-2002) in Slovene Government. As the Minister she has contributed to the establishment of higher education institutions in the Slovene region of Primorska. She collaborated in European Commission high expert panels that have formed linguistic policies and strategies of higher education and research. She has facilitated the preparation of the formal basis for Slovenia’s integration into the European Research Area (R&D Activities Act and the role of the EU accession countries). The R&D Activities Act was the first Slovenian low including quality assurance in research. She was president of Erasmus Mundus Master Expert Panel, European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture (2004- 2005). Her work focuses on the formation of models of bilingual education in areas of linguistic and cultural contact and of didactics of intercultural communication. She has received the high award from the President of the Republic of France (Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur) for her promotion of the French language and culture and the strategies for the encouragement of linguistic diversity. She was awarded also from the President of the Republic of Italy (Cavaliere della Repubblica d’Italia). She has taken part to the evaluations of universities within EUA IEP, now she is a member of the SQAA. In 2013 the University of Primorska nominated her professor emeritus. Professor Eva-Maria REMBERGER, PhD – Institut für Romanistik, Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Wien, Austria Eva-Maria Remberger is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Vienna, where she is Head of the Department of Romance Studies. She has edited volumes on syntax and modality in Romance and she is the author of numerous studies on syntaxrelated topics in Romance linguistics. She studied Romance philology, German and English at the universities of Cologne and Genova and German as a foreign language at the University of Bonn. In 2003, she completed her PhD in Romance philology at Freie Universität Berlin. For her doctoral thesis on auxiliary verb constructions in Italian and Sardinian she was awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize in 2004. From 2006 to 2013, she was Junior Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. For 2007 to 2008 she was awarded a Feodor-Lynen Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, which she spent at the University of Cambridge, at Clare Hall, where she has since become a Life Member. Associate professor Elena BUJA, PhD – Faculty of Letters at Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania Elena Buja got her BA in English and German from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and her PhD in linguistics from Eötvös-Loránd University in Budapest. She is currently a member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Letters at Transilvania University of Braşov, where she teaches courses in English linguistics, such as English phonetics and phonology, lexicology, semantics, and new Englishes, as well as a course in cultural differences in non-verbal communication. Her main research interests are in first language acquisition (the acquisition of phonology, vocabulary and grammar of Romanian as a first language, the acquisition of narrative skills) and in intercultural communication. Doctor Buja has published one monograph: Relating Events in Narrative: A Case Study of Romanian (2009), Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, a book which is based on her PhD dissertation. She has authored a number of course books for her students and co-edited 2 volumes with Stanca Mada: Structure, Use, and Meaning: Linguistic Studies (2012), Cluj-Napoca: Editura Cǎrţii de Ştiinţǎ, Structure, Use and Meaning in Intercultural Settings (2014), Braşov: Transilvania University Publishing House. Elena Buja’s articles related to her main research interests have appeared mainly in national, but prestigious publications and also in volumes published by prestigious publishing houses, such as Cambridge or Uppsala University Publishing House. President of the organizing committee: Adrian LESENCIUC - “Henri Coandă” Air Force Academy, Brașov, România The conference program will be available on website. Conference website: http://www.afahc.ro/Simpozion/index_simpozion.html For further details please contact: Adrian LESENCIUC +40 724 824 864 [email protected]