Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication at the Universiti Putra Malaysia’s is inviting scholars and professionals to submit proposals (in English or in French) to attend the 3rd International Conference on Academic Mobility and Migration (ICAMM3). The conference will be held at a place near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 4- 5, 2012.
This two-day international conference follows two previous successful international conferences held in Finland (Turku, 2006) and in Estonia (Tallinn, 2009). This conference marks the first move to shifting the focus from Europe and exploring AMM in Asian perspectives—and beyond! The conference in Malaysia will be an occasion to take stock of the many and varied activities related to internationalization in other parts of the world. The conference tradition has it that speakers can present their work in English and French—needless to say that this also adds to the originality of the event and the richness of exchanges.
Topics
ICAMM 3 will bring together international researchers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and institutions to discuss Academic Mobility and Migration. This conference seeks to address the following topic strands (amongst others):
– Language learning and teaching
– Educational aspects
– Diachronic perspectives on AMM
– The myths of AMM
– Forms of AMM
-> Short-term/long-term/multiple mobilities (‘multimovers’)
-> Virtual Academic Mobility
-> ‘Local’ Academic Mobility (e.g. Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, Middlesex University-Dubai Campus, Monash University Malaysia, The University of Nottingham-Malaysia Campus or Curtin University Sarawak)
-> Mobility of objects, images, information and “wastes” (Urry, 2010) across global academic networks and flows
– Categories of mobile individuals
-> Gender
-> Minorities
-> Academic Migrants (il/legal)
-> Returnees (migrants/exchange students)
– Long-term impact / consequences of AMM
-> Employability
-> Language policies
-> The “intercultural”
-> Identity
-> Impact on the ‘local’
-> Impact on the environment
– Official strategies vs. reality
– Sociality (long-term/short-term)
-> Families, intimate relations
-> ‘Friendship’
-> Sense of community
-> Reunion
– Research methods: how to study AMM?
Target Audience
Researchers, scholars, decision and policy makers, language teachers, teacher trainers, students of languages, applied linguistics, education, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology, and officers of international offices.
Last date for submission of abstracts is November 1, 2011.
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