3. Members
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This area lists
new members as well as
projects and activities, e.g., research,
discussions, presentations, trainings, etc. being conducted by SIETAR
members or opportunities offered to SIETAR from non-members looking for
intercultural expertise.
New Members
Here are 10 new members who have joined SIETAR EUROPA since
March 2003. Some of them chose to speak about their expectations for
SIETAR.
NAMAZIE Pari
I am pleased to be a new member at SIETAR. As I am developing the
itercultural field in Iran, it is particularly interesting to me to ecome aware of
intercultural issues and development in the field, specially in relation to a new
country and market; Iran, in which quite number of multinational companies
are present.
I hope this will be the beginning of an intercultural future in Iran and he region. One day, I hope to see SIETAR Middle East added to the list chapters. I believe it will be a significant chapter in the ntercultural field. Thank you Managing Director Atieh Roshan Tel: +98-21- 286 8032 Fax: +98-21- 286 8669 mail: pari@atiehroshan.com eb: www.atiehroshan.com inks: www.atiehbahar.com www.atiehassociates.com |
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BERARDO Kate
I'd be happy to share my expectations of joining Sietar-Europa. Mostly, I look
forward to sharing ideas and resources with other members and discussing
the directions our field is headed in now and in the future. I also hope to
build a stronger network of intercultural colleagues to do joint-projects with
and to become involved with Sietar Congresses and Events.
Kate Berardo is a Northwestern University educated (USA) interculturalist currently living and working in Sapporo, Japan. She helps people from different cultures, backgrounds, and schools of thought understand each other and work effectively together. As a co-author of the upcoming Putting Diversity to Work, Kate has helped managers leverage the diversity present in their organizations and businesses to improve working environments and increase profitability. Kate Berardo AEON Sapporo Kitaguchi Tokan Sapporo Ekimae Bldg. 5F 4-1-1 Kita 7-Jo Nishi, Kita-Ku Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0807 JAPAN kateberardo@yahoo.com |
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Remember-your updated membership list is an important working tool
Don't forget to give Christine Longé, Secretary at the
SIETAR Europa Office
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your updated contact information if you move, change email addresses,
phone numbers, etc. Please include the address of your website (URL) if you
would like other SIETARians to visit you there.
Every 3 months, you will receive the updated membership list. In between times, the new listings will be published here in the newsletter. Thanks for keeping us au courant. |
- Gothenburg University International Conference
- Tool Box Intercultural Management
- Seven different workshops
- Coaching skills at Mozaik International
- Intercultural Developments in Bulgaria
- Forum des Européens
Gothenburg University
International Conference
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Invitation to Gothenburg University International Conference on "Intercultural
Communication at Work"
Gothenburg University and the Nordic Network of Intercultural Communication (NIC)
present their 10th NIC Symposium held in Gothenburg, Sweden, 20-22 November 2003.
Members from SIETAR are welcomed to attend this conference and to take part in the very latest research made in the increasingly important field of Intercultural Communication and meet the top professionals in the field. Early Registration on or before 30 August 2003: EUR 55 or SEK500, Registration 1 September 2003 or thereafter: EUR 70 or SEK650 For more information on the conference, visit www.ling.gu.se/projekt/nic/ where you will also find an online registration form to register your attendance. NIC 2003 are also looking for sponsorship contributions to the event. Current sponsorship options can be found at www.cordeiroconsulting.com/nic/index_sponsorship.html For further queries, please contact: Cheryl Marie Cordeiro cordeiro@ling.gu.se NIC 2003 Organizing Committee / Corporations & Businesses |
Tool Box Intercultural
Management
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COOPERATION-PARTNERS WANTED:TOOL BOX INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT
As a network of German consultants, trainers and coaches, we share our materials and
experiences working with groups and individuals in tool boxes. We use this tool boxes
as professional exchange, but also for knowledge-management and blended-learning
processes with our customers/clients. We have developed 4 professional tool boxes and
2 specialized tool boxes for customers till now.
The tools (texts, exercises, structured experiences, transparencies, role-plays etc.) are embedded in a good structured software, so that the suitable tool for different situations can be easily found. The tool boxes are distributed as cd-roms, in intranet and internet. For more details see www.werkzeugkasten-interaktiv.de . We intend to develop a tool box for intercultural management/communication and are looking for partners, who
Contact:
juergenlehmann@t-online.de
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Seven different workshops
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On behalf of Prof. Samuel van den Bergh, who is a member of SIETAR, we would like to
publish the following coming-up event in Winterthur:
ICPT is featuring seven different workshops with internationally recognized experts in
the intercultural field starting:
Milton Bennett and Janet Bennett
‘’Intercultural Communication for Practitioners’’
Sivasailam ''Thiagi'' Thiagarajan and Samuel van den Bergh
‘’Managing Multicultural Teams’’
Sivasailam ''Thiagi'' Thiagarajan
‘’Interactive Experiential Strategies for Crosscultural Training’’
Anita Rowe
‘’Managing Diversity in Organizations’’
Milton Bennett and Janet Bennett
‘’Developing Intercultural Competence: A Trainer’s Perspective’’
Michelle Le Baron
‘’Resolving Cross-cultural Conflicts’’
Milton Bennett
’’IDI Qualifying Seminar’’
December 4th through 6th,
2003
www.zhwin.ch/ICPT
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Coaching skills at
Mozaik International
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Kathleen Dameron (SIETAR France) and other colleagues will be conducting a three
part 2-day workshop on Coaching someone to become more intercultural at Mozaik
International, a leading institution in France that trains coaches and consultants in the
art of accompanying change. The seminar series will be run in French.
What do intercultural theories bring to the coach in order that we as coaches develop
tools and processes? What qualities and skills do good multicultural players have?
Pre-requisite: having read Camielleri, Hall, Hofstede, Trompenaars, Lewis
Coaching an individual through the process
Part of the workshop will be coaching individuals towards more multiculturality of ONE
particular cultural. How to open up towards more than one?
Coaching multicultural teams Tools and process for accompanying managers as well as
members of a multicultural team. A look at theories from several fields and how to
develop our tools. Part of the workshop involves coaching members and managers of
multicultural teams.
IF you are interested in enrolling as a participant please look at the mozaik website.
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Intercultural Developments
in Bulgaria
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Intercultural Developments in Bulgaria
(Richard Fay, University of Manchester, and Leah Davcheva, British Council Bulgaria)
Colleagues may be interested to hear about a number of connected intercultural projects and course developments in Bulgaria. Specifically:
Each of these projects builds upon the activities of language teachers and language teacher trainers in Bulgaria (as managed by the British Council and supported by consultants from the UK) regarding the integration of intercultural learning within foreign language education. In particular, the above projects resulted from the development of Branching Out: A Cultural Studies Syllabus (British Council Bulgaria, 1998; Davcheva et al, 1999) and the subsequent large-scale project to disseminate this syllabus through collaborative classroom research more widely throughout language education circles in Bulgaria (Davcheva & Fay, 2000). The ISLT course resulted from a desire to continue the dissemination project. It is a distance learning course written by language teachers for language teachers which encourages teachers to develop their pupils’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC) as well as their linguistic skills. It was developed between 1999-2001 and to date has been presented four times to participating teachers mainly in Bulgaria and occasionally in Romania and Greece. Evaluation of the course has identified the need to explore more critically what is involved when experienced language teachers systematically undertake further study to develop their own as well as their pupils’ ICC. In this sense, the ISLT course is concerned with developing the teachers’ Professional ICC (PICC), an element that will be strengthened when the course is revised. The concept of PICC is also being built into the translators’ course (ICTI) from its inception (Fay & Davcheva, forthcoming). This second distance learning programme is being written by experienced translators and interpreters for their fellow practitioners who are either less experienced or who have somehow missed out on systematic training for their professional roles. It will be offered to participants for the first time in spring 2004. Both of these distance learning courses involve transnational collaboration and this raises the issue of appropriate distance learning methodology and intercultural aspects of education practices (Fay & Hill, 2003) as well as the interculturally sensitive areas of technology transfer and globalisation (Fay, Hill & Davcheva, 2002). The third project involves the setting up of the Intercultural Helpdesk in January 2003 with the purpose of advising schools and publishers about the potential and problems from a intercultural educational perspective of the curricula and textbooks used in schools. At the moment, the work of the Helpdesk is being focused through a British Council managed project, a Bulgarian outcome of an earlier COMENIUS project involving colleagues in Belgium, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, and Sweden (eg Sercu, 1999; Sierens, 2000). The IC Helpdesk project involves 26 teachers and a UK consultant in developing a clear view of the coherence of the Bulgarian primary and secondary curricula with regard to the elements and processes of intercultural education. This evaluation acts as the foundation for the Helpdesk to develop its Mission Statement and to produce the criteria to be used in evaluating the educational materials used in delivering these curricula. By the time the project ends in spring 2004, the team will also have produced some sample evaluations as a model for further work of a similar character. Further information about any of the above projects can be obtained from either:
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References
British Council (1998) Branching Out: A Cultural Studies Syllabus. Sofia, the British
Council Bulgaria.
Davcheva, L. & R. Fay (2000) “Disseminating a Cultural Studies Syllabus for Foreign Language Teaching in Bulgaria: Collaborative Classroom Research” in M. Beaumont & T. O’Brien (Eds.) Collaborative Classroom Research in Second Language Education, pp.95-108, Stoke, Trentham Books. Davcheva L., H. Reid-Thomas and A. Pulverness (1999) “Cultural Studies Syllabus and Materials: A Writing Partnership”, in C. Kennedy (Ed.) Innovation and Best Practice, pp.59-68, Harlow: Longman. Fay, R. & L. Davcheva (forthcoming) “Developing Professional Intercultural Competence: Reflections on DL Programmes for Language Educators, and Translators/Interpreters in Bulgaria”, B. Holmberg, M. Shelley & C. White (Eds.) Languages and Distance Education: Evolution and Change, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters. Fay, R. & M. Hill (2003) Educating language teachers through distance learning: The need for culturally-appropriate DL methodology. In Open Learning 18(1), 9-27. Fay, R., M. Hill & L. Davcheva (2002) “The Transfer of Distance Learning Practice Across Contexts: Developing Language Teacher Education Programmes in Britain, Greece, and Bulgaria”, in W. Leal Filho (Ed.) Prospects of Integration and Development of R&D and the Innovation Potential of Black Sea Economic Co-operation Countries, pp.159-174, Amsterdam, Netherlands, IOS Press / Kluwer Academic Press (NATO Science Series). Sercu, L. (1999) National Helpdesks for Intercultural Learning: A Guideline, Utrecht, Parel (National Advisory Centre for Intercultural Learning Materials).
Sierens, S. (Ed.2000) Us, Them, Ours: Points for Attention in Designing
Interculturally Sound Learning Materials, Gent, Steunpunt Intercultureel Onderwijs,
Universiteit Gent.
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Forum des Européens
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Le Forum des Européens est une émission de reportages et de débats diffusée chaque samedi à 19
heures sur Arte (en France et en Allemagne). Autour d'un thème différent pour chaque émission, un
invité (expert, homme politique, témoin, ONG, etc) est interrogé par deux journalistes (une Française,
un Allemand) sur la base de 3 reportages tournés dans trois pays d'Europe. Le prochain numéro,
samedi 6 septembre, est consacré aux atteintes aux libertés individuelles conséquences de la réaction
aux attentats du 11 septembre (reportage en Allemagne, en Grande Bretagne et en France).
L'émission est enregistrée à Paris, une à deux semaines avant la diffusion. L'enregistrement prend une heure à une heure trente. Pour le mois d'octobre, nous préparons un forum sur les Européens qui choisissent de quitter leur pays d'origine pour s'intaller dans un autre pays d'Europe. Nous nous interessons surtout à ceux pour qui cette expatriation est un choix culturel, une attirance vers un autre mode de vie (par opposition à ceux qui s'expatrient seulement pour leurs études, pour leur profession). Nous recherchons donc un spécialiste de ces questions culturelles et des enjeux de l'expatriation (en Europe) : pourquoi part-on, quels sont les critèrs pour choisir un pays ? Qui part ? Comment s'acclimate-t-on à son nouveau pays ? L'acculturation est-elle complexe ? Rapide ? etc... Quels pays attirent le plus ? ... Pourriez-vous nous aider à trouver quelqu'un qui puisse répondre à quelques unes de ces questions et qui serait prêt à venir à Paris pour un enregistrement (ses frais sont evidemment pris en charge). La nationalité importe peu : Allemand, scandinave, italien : nous sommes ouverts à toutes les langues... et nous apprécions de ne pas avoir à nous limiter à des chercheurs français, l'émission se veut européenne. N'hésitez pas à me recontacter si vous avez des questions supplémentaires. D'avance, je vous remercie pour votre aide.
Frédéric Boisset
Arte - Le forum des Européens Mobile : 00 33 (0)6 64 95 20 34 tel : 00 33 (0)1 40 60 46 91 fax : 00 33 (0)1 40 60 45 99 La compagnie des Phares et Balises 49, boulevard du général Martial Vallin 75015 Paris - France fboisset@yahoo.com |