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SIETAR Newsletter Committee
Axinia Samoilova,
Maria Jicheva

The 2nd International Conference on Globalization in Education: The Future of Learning

April 4 - April 8, 2005 at Hyatt Hotel Phoenix, Arizona
Presented by: American TransCultural Institute and Kharkov Polytechnic Institute

This conference is one of the first attempts to bring together educators from around the world to build the WORLD FEDERATION for EDUCATION, the umbrella organization that unites educational institutions, agencies, as well as individual educators.

Inevitably this leads onto questions around the generation and exploitation of knowledge. There is already a gaping divide between rich and poor nations. Today only those nations committed to learning society and lifelong learning will progress.

The conference is a continuation of the International conference held at Kharkov Polytechnic University (Ukraine) at 2004. This year’s conference is expected to provide 400 or more presentations to 1,000+ attendees in all academic fields from throughout the world.

The conference includes 20- and 40- minute presentations as well as poster sessions.

Who should attend
• Ministers of education
• Accreditation agencies staff
• Academic administrators
• Higher education faculty/teachers from all disciplines
• School counselors
• Corporative training/professional development staff
• Educational tools and technology providers.

We aim at creating a network of all those involved in the youth sector in Europe and the Mediterranean. We provide various networking facilities such as assistance in finding partners, financing of international projects, a Magazine in three languages, a FORUM for discussion, and profiles on the situation of young people in each country. You are welcome to visit our web-site.

You are also invited to join this growing family on of the web site.

We would also like to invite you to apply for the
Euro-Med Youth Platform 3rd Targeted Meeting.

The scope of Targeted Meetings is to bring together a group of countries facing a similar situation and try to find common solutions. This one aims at bringing together young people from European countries least represented in the Euro-Med Youth Programme with their Mediterranean counterparts in an increase their involvement and participation.

It will also be a chance for youth leaders from both sides to exchange information and reflect about the situation of young people in the respective countries. The Meeting will take place in Tunisia between the 25th of February (arrival) and 1st of March (departure) 2005 and is open to young people from Algeria, Denmark, Egypt, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. 2-3 participants from each country are expected.

Other such meetings with different groups of countries are being planned.

During the Meeting we shall be analysing the situation of young people and youth work in the different countries, learn about each other and about relevant skills, and propose concrete steps forward. This implies considerable preparation from applicants.

The Platform will pay board, lodging, all expenses related to the programme and 80% of international travel. You can find more information about it and application forms in our website. Deadline is the 3rd of January 2005.

Giovanni Buttigieg
Director
Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform
36 Triq Zekka, Valletta VLT 12, Malta
Tel +356 21227628
Fax +356 21227627
giovanni@euromedp.org
http://www.euromedp.or

14 Janvier 2005 de 9:30 à 10:30 L’achat-vente-location d’un logement
14 Janvier 2005 De 11:00 à 12:00 Assurances

17 Janvier 2005 De 9:30 à 11:30 Choc culturel

21 Janvier 2005 de 9:30 à 10: 30 les Services bancaires
21 Janvier 2005 De 11:00 à 12:00 Achat-vente de voiture, permis de conduire

24 Janvier 2005 de 9:30 à 10:30 Créer son entreprise
24 Janvier 2005 De 11:00 à 12:00 Placements, emprunts

28 Janvier 2005 de 9:30 à 10:30 Droit du travail
28 Janvier 2005 de11:00 à 12:00 Sécurité Sociale

31 Janvier 2005 de 9:30 à 10:30 Enseignement
31 Janvier 2005 de10:45 à 11:45 Crêche, Halte-garderie

28 Février 2005 de 9:30 à 11:30 Recherche d’emploi

4 Mars 2005 De 9:30 à 10:30 Impôts
4 Mars 2005 De 11:00 à 12:00 Droits de succession

7 Mars 2005 De 9:30 à 10:30 Conception du temps
7 Mars 2005 De 11:00 à 12:00 Relations amicales

11 Mars 2005 De 9:30 à 10:30 Vaccinations pour animaux …
11 Mars 2005 De 11:00 à 12:00 Relations dans le monde du travail

14 Mars 2005 De 9:30 à 10:30 Le bilinguisme
14 Mars 2005 De 11:00 à 12:00 Transports publics (trains, bus, avions)

18 Mars 2005 de 9:30 à 10:30 Blagues et expressions françaises : comment mieux les comprendre !
18 Mars 2005 de 11:00 à 12:00 Les médias

21 Mars 2005 de 9:30 à 11:30 Services (Electricité, Gaz, Eau, Téléphone)

25 Mars 2005 de 9:30 à 11:30 Bilan de compétences

Un ou plusieurs sujets vous intéressent, des questions non résolues subsistent, alors n’hésitez pas à nous consulter, nous vous apporterons des réponses.

Pour tout renseignement et /ou réservation, veuillez contacter:

Association Adapt in France, Sylvie KERMIN-COIFFIER,
Bâtiment Centre de Vie, place Méjane, Garbejaire, Sophia Antipolis
Tél 04 93 65 33 79 Email : adaptinfrance@club-internet.fr .
Site internet : www.adaptinfrance.org

SIETAR member Paul Pedersen
MANAGING CONFLICT IN A MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT
Mar 11-12 • Fri • 9:00am-12:00pm • and Sat • 9:00am-4:30pm • 2 mtgs
(9 class hours, assuming you take a 30-minute lunch break on Saturday)

I am hoping to visit Europe this next summer or fall and would like to do some workshop training programs there if possible. An example of a recently designed course is included below. Other examplesand a Curriculum Vita are on my website also indicated below.

• Learn how to avoid negative conflict, which destroys relationships, and promote positive conflict to strengthen relationships. By reframing conflict into a multicultural framework that separates common-ground positive goals from culturally different behaviors to achieve those goals, it becomes possible for two persons to disagree without either being wrong. A combination of brief presentations and interactive simulations enables participants to understand, practice, and evaluate the usefulness of culture in conflict management.

• A Cultural Grid is introduced to demonstrate the separation of expectations from behaviors. A Synthetic Cultural Lab provides the opportunity to rehearse conflict management. Participants learn to hear the positive and negative messages a culturally different client is thinking, but not saying. Indicators of multicultural competence assist participants in evaluating their own competence across careers, fields and cultures of human services.

Paul Pedersen, PhD, has been a visiting professor with the University of Hawai‘i Department of Psychology since 2001. His areas of expertise include cross-cultural psychology, constructive conflict management, communication, intercultural training, counselor education, alternative and complementary therapies, and educational development. His primary focus is the effect of group difference on interpersonal and intra-personal interaction between cultural and nationality identities in the educational setting, the community, multinational corporations, public and private sector.

In addition to teaching at the university level for more than 30 years, Pedersen has authored or edited 40 books, 74 chapters in books, 99 articles, and 19 other monograph-length published or circulated documents. His consulting activities have included work in over a dozen countries with public and private organizations. Consulting has included an average of ten or more training seminars a year on aspects of intercultural communication or mental health.

Pedersen was a senior Fulbright Scholar in 1999-2000, teaching at National Taiwan University. He is a fellow in the American Psychological Association's Society for the Study of Social Issues; as well as a fellow in American Psychological Association's Ethnic and Minority Issues; Counseling; and International Psychology divisions.

Pedersen's clients include, among others: The American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association; American CounselingAssociation ; The World Bank; Pan American Airlines; Northwest Airlines; EXXON Malaysia; American Field Service; Harvard University; Pace University; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fordham University; The National University of Malaysia; the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Agency for International Development; Stanford University; City University of New York; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and the Australian Ministry of Cultural Affairs, to name a few.

Paul Pedersen, Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University, Department of Counseling & Human Services; Visiting Faculty, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii
Email ppederse@hawaii.edu or pedersen_us@yahoo.compedersen_us@yahoo.com
Web page: http://soeweb.syr.edu/chs/pedersen

ICPT is featuring six different workshops with internationally
recognized experts in the intercultural field starting
April 25-30, 2005

Milton Bennett
‘’Ideas that work: Intercultural Theory for Practitioners’’
April 25th – 30th , 2005

Anita Rowe and Peter Stadler
‘’Working Effectively with Diversity: Developing Awareness and Essential Skills’’
April 25/26, 2005

Sivasailam ''Thiagi'' Thiagarajan and Samuel van den Bergh
Building High-performance Trans-cultural Teams’’
April 28, 2005

Sivasailam ''Thiagi'' Thiagarajan
Interactive Experiential Strategies for Cross-cultural Training’’
April 29/30, 2005

Lynn Witham
‘’Working with Asia’’
April 27/28, 2005

Janet Bennett
‘’Designing Intercultural Training: Skills and Tools for the Practitioner’’
April 29/30, 2005

Curios or anxious to get more information? Make yourself comfortable, lean back and click www.zhwin.ch/ICPT where you get the details and from where you can download the full course descriptions in PDF format.

Young SIETAR Intercultural Research Workshop
Nijmegen (Netherlands), 25-27 February 2005

The workshop starts Friday (25th) 9:30 am and lasts
until Sunday (27th) 4:30 pm.

Who are the facilitators?

Camilo Villa is an anthropologist of Colombian origin living in the Netherlands. He has broad experience in IC research (including business and development issues) and is a research methodology university teacher. He is also associated with the Institute of Social Sciences Hague. A firm believer in the value of a positive, constructive and interactive atmosphereshared by YS.

Jan Verhoeven is a cultural anthropologist and a trainer, co-founder and MD training and strategies of the Institute for Inter-Ethnic Management. He is mainly involved in IC management in organisations with immigrants. Among his clients were both non-profit (e.g., police forces, the Dutch tax authorities) and profit organisations (e.g., McDonalds or Philips).

Marinel Gerritsen is a professor of IC communication at Radboud University in Nijmegen. She specialises in sociolinguistics and has published several books in this area.

Who are the participants?

The workshop is aimed at anyone interested in intercultural research, YS member or not. If you intend to conduct research, if you are looking for
inspiration, evaluation or just want to share your experience.

Why participate?

Participating in the workshop:

• you will acquire/enhance intercultural research skills
• you will have a chance to meet and interact with other people interested in intercultural research
• you will present your paper or a research proposal and obtain constructive feedback on it
• you will get to know what other participants have researched or would like to research
• you will share experience
• you will have a lot of fun interacting and integrating with the group.

What is the timetable?

Every day will start with a session on intercultural research (the IC research process, writing/publishing good academic articles, IC research methodology). After lunch break, there will be time for presentation of papers, feedback and discussions. Then, dinner and integration.

How about the registration?

To register for the workshop send an email (title: YS research workshop for registration) to Johannes Oerter (y_sietar@oerterweb.de). You will be contacted as soon as possible, and the details on your participation will be provided.

What is required?

Every participant is required to present a paper (an essay) on intercultural research or a research proposal. The work should be emailed by January 15 to Marleen Dieleman (m.dieleman@lusm.leidenuniv.nl) who coordinates the event in .pdf or .doc format. It is expected to count between 10 and 15 pages. You will present your work during the workshop (a 15-minute presentation). In case someone is unable to (or simply doesn%u2019t wish to) prepare a paper there will be an alternative form of commitment announced soon (a questionnaire).

Moreover, everyone participating is expected to read in advance all the papers to be presented. Every participant will be also assigned one paper to read in depth. You will be expected to prepare constructive feedback on the work and present it during the workshop (10 minutes) after the authors presentation. It will be followed with a discussion.

How much will it cost?

Participation is 15 euro for Young SIETAR members, and will cost probably 50 euro for non-members. Nevertheless, you can become a YS member first, and then participate for 15 euro.

However, remember you will have to pay for your travel, accommodation and meals. Our logistics team in Nijmegen (Marian van Bakel and Assia Sand) are working to explore and publicise all Nijmegen accommodation/meals options. You can address them in case of questions concerning logistics.

Need more information?

If you have any other questions or comments, please email them to Jacek Hutyra. We will do our best to provide you with prompt answers.

Witness the birth of a new YS tradition! :-)

Welcome to the first SIETAR UK event of 2005
"The Business of Culture"

Saturday March 12, 2005
9am - 5pm, Regents College, London

We are very pleased to announce that, for the third consecutive year, we are organising a day devoted to The Business of Culture.

• Geert Hofstede is undoubtedly one of the pioneers in the area of culture and its impact on international business, and he will be sharing his current thinking with us.
• George Renwick will also be well known to many SIETAR members – he is one of the most distinguished practitioners in our field and has built a worldwide reputation for coaching global executives at the highest levels.
• Peter Smith is a renowned cross-cultural psychologist who has researched managerial behaviour across cultures very extensively.

We are confident that these three speakers will provide stimulating input to our annual "Business of Culture" event.

A more detailed programme will be published in the new year.

Agenda

09.00 - 09.30 Registration and tea and coffee
09.30 -09.45 Welcome and introductions
09.45 - 11.00 Professor Peter Smith
11.00 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.30 Dr George Renwick
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Professor Geert Hofstede
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 - 17.00 Panel Discussion
17.00 End

Location

Regents College, London. 5 minutes walk from Baker Street tube station.

Price

• Members: £70 – including lunch and all refreshments (Please note that membership must be up to date and is £45 per year, from the date you register)
• Non-members: £130
• Student non-members: £90

Please note that you must pre-register for the event as places are limited. This can be done by simply emailing the Committee.

Registration and payment must be completed by 27 January 2005. You can pay online at sietar.org.uk or send a cheque to the following address:

Donal Lynch, Treasurer SIETAR UK, C/O LTS training and consulting, 5 Belvedere, Lansdown Road, Bath BA1 5ED

Best regards, your SIETAR UK Committee

SIETAR UK Conference and Workshops 9/10th July 2005
"Intercultural Communication in a Globalised World"

This year SIETAR UK is organising a conference and workshops with the theme of "Intercultural Communication in a Globalised World" in July 2005. Papers are invited on issues which are crucial to the understanding and practice of intercultural communication in today's world. In particular, papers which consider the following, are welcome:

- Business in a multicultural World
- Media and Multiculturalism
- Diversity and Education
- Culture in the Community
- Virtual Teams
- Politics and Culture
- Social Psychology and Culture
- Arts across Cultures

The above is not intended to be all-inclusive, and we welcome any other suggestions, submissions or proposals for other tracks.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts / Papers:
Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only.
Maximum length: 3 pages: Title page + 1 page (300 words) abstract + 1 page of references if required
Margins: all 2.5cm or 1 inch, text: 10 points, 1.5 line spacing.
Title Page: Title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact details and a short biography Abstracts should be submitted electronically, either in Word (Word 6 and above) or PDF file by 1st of November 2004 to s.dahl@mdx.ac.uk . If you
do not have access to email, please send your abstract to:

Stephan Dahl
Middlesex University Business School
The Burroughs
London NW4 4BT

Tel/VoiceMail: +44 7005 800 221 / +44 20 8411 6840
Fax: +44 7005 804 866

Authors will be notified of acceptance, rejection or suggested modifications as soon as the review process has been completed. Authors will have at least one month in which to amend their papers. Acceptance of a paper means that the author (or one of the authors) will present the paper at the conference.

Publication of Papers:
Papers will be published, with author’s permission and subject to presentation at the conference, as part of a hard copy volume (after the conference) and will be made available online in the SIETAR Intercultural Library.

Conference Location:
The conference location is to be announced asap, however, it will be in the UK.

Dates:
9/10th July 2005, subject to confirmation

Questions:?
Please check our website: http://www.sietar.org.uk/conference2005/ for further details. Or contact
Stephan Dahl
Middlesex University Business School