| Dear SIETAR members,
It is my great pleasure to
share several new developments within SIETAR Europa.
If you follow the links below, you will see for yourselves
that in addition to the organisation's standard activities
we have been making inroads into some new territories.
I wish to reiterate the Board's
invitation to a virtual General Assembly that will vote
on the amended Statutes. As a lead-in to the actual
voting, you are kindly invited to share
your comments and remarks about the document and SIETAR
Europa's future in general.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF
OUR NEW RULES?
We want your opinion and your votes on the new Statutes
and Guidelines of SIETAR Europa! You
can read them by clicking here.
EVENTS
SIETAR Netherlands Congress 2006, summer in Thailand,
NGO Task Force, intercultural education. There are many
great events for interculturalists in our new
Events Calendar
LIST YOUR EVENT
It's free for SIETAR members. More
information...
SPONSOR THE SIETAR
EUROPA MAGAZINE
We invite sponsors to support this lively new publication.
More
information...
HOW MUCH TIME COULD
YOU SPEND ON NGO WORK?
SIETAR Europa's NGO Task Force is planning a register
of interculturalists who are available for NGO projects,
and will be attending the Salon
de Initiatives Paix. Get in touch with the Task
Force members.
REVIEW OF THE BRIDGE
Read George Simons' review of Bar-Joseph's book The
Bridge in our Book
Reviews section. Another great review by George!
REVIEW OF TWO MERDES
George Simons lifts the lid on two works by Stephen
Clarke: A year in the Merde (2004), and Merde
Actually (2005). Find them in our Book
Reviews section. Thanks George for getting your
hands dirty!
ARE YOU A ROMEO, JULIET,
ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, CASANOVA, DON JUAN OR RASPUTIN?
If you are an expert on love, romance, dating or marriage
across cultures, we want you to contribute to the next
Magazine.
Please use the Contact/reply and Editor pages. Requires
log in.
WOULD YOU MAKE LOVE
ACROSS CULTURES?
We are still seeking a SIETAR member to edit the next
Magazine
on the theme "Love across Cultures". It will
be a fun and fascinating role for someone interested
in intercultural relationships and comparative approaches
to marriage and family. Please contact Maria
Jicheva.
WHAT SORT OF EUROPE
DO YOU WANT?
We invite SIETAR members to contribute to the debate
within the EU. You
can join in by clicking here.
REVIEW YOUR SIETAR
EVENT
If you are ready to write a review of a SIETAR
event, we would be happy to publish that on the website.
We'll also consider publishing the best reviews of other
intercultural events too.
NEWSLETTER AND MAGAZINE
SPONSOR
The current newsletter and magazine sponsor is ArgonautOnline:
online resources for intercultural training.
DID TROMPENAARS RECONCILE
BRITAIN'S DILEMMAS?
Find out what happened when Trompenaars, Schwartz and
Wooliams met at the SIETAR UK Business of Culture event.
Read the event
report below.
Ildiko
POLYIAK
SIETAR EUROPA Board of Directors
On behalf of the Board
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Business
of Culture 2006 event report
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Report on the 4th Business of
Culture conference organised by SIETAR UK (with Fons
Trompenaars and Shalom Schwartz)
SIETAR UK was delighted to
welcome two world authorities on national and organisational
culture to their event, which was held on 4th March
at the grand Old Cinema, University of Westminster in
Central London. Over 100 delegates enjoyed a full day
of stimulating debate and were given the opportunity
to exchange ideas around the subject of cultural values
and how they can be used in business.
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Fons
Trompenaars with Stephan Dahl and Peter Woolliams |
The first speaker was Fons
Trompenaars, acknowledged expert on international
management, consultant to many global companies and
author of a number of influential books including ‘Riding
the Waves of Culture’. He provided an entertaining
and compelling presentation of his approach to business
consultancy, focusing particularly on how values and
cultural dimensions can be used to reconcile differences
across cultures.
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Shalom
Schwartz |
The second speaker was Shalom
Schwartz, Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, and currently president of
the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
He first outlined his ground-breaking research on national
cultures, and later gave a thought-provoking workshop
on his identification of individual values and how they
can be used at the interpersonal level.
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Peter
Woolliams and fellow panel members |
After lunch, academia and the
business world went head to head in a Panel Discussion,
in which the two main speakers were joined by Peter
Woolliams, co-author of several books with
Fons Trompenaars. Questions from the audience covered
topics ranging from best practice in cross-cultural
training for multinational corporations to intercultural
views on war and religion.
Report compiled by Robert Johnson,
SIETAR
UK
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SIETAR
members win prizes
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Congratulations
to two of our new SIETAR members
We are proud to announce the
accomplishments of two experts who became members of
SIETAR Europa at the 2005 Congress.
Dr. Abdulhamied Alromaithy,
SIETAR Europa member from The United Arab Emirates has
just published an English version of his guide to job
seeking, How to Make them Say…You’ve Got
the Job: The Essential Guide for Your Journey to Employment.
Hamied is also working very hard currently to organize
SIETAR Middle East.
Dr. Elena Korshuk, SIETAR Europa
Member from Belarus received the Educator of the Year
of the Baltic University Programme (BUP) for pre-conference
training of Belarusian University teachers, and for
the publication of her book English for Environmental
Science. BUP is a network of more than 190 universities
and other institutes of higher learning from 14 countries
throughout the Baltic Sea region.
The text of her award read:
"The Baltic University
Programme Prize Educator of the Year 2005
has been awarded by The Baltic University Programme
Board Uppsala
to Dr. Elena Korshuk, of the Belarusian State University,
Minsk, Belarus, in recognition of her important contributions
to the Baltic University Programme as a teacher, organizer
and leader, by promoting better understanding between
the countries in the Baltic sea region through teaching
intercultural communication skills, contributing to
the Baltic Sea region: politics, cultures, society
multilingual project and as the main author of the
textbook English for Environmental Science, thereby
building bridges between fellow students and teachers.”
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