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CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit proposals for the ESTIDIA workshop entitled ‘Critical dialogue revisited: Challenges and opportunities‘ http://www.afahc.ro/Simpozion/info.html to be held within the framework of the international conference ‘Redefining community in intercultural context’ (RCIC’12) organised by the Air Force Academy in Brasov, Romania, on 14-16 June 2012

A primary goal of this workshop is to reflect on the state-of-the-art regarding European and International expertise on dialogue as an art, an interaction technique, a scientific method of enquiry and a problem-solving tool. It is an invitation to explore and discuss the nature, scope and role of language and communicative mechanisms in reflecting and shaping ideas, cultural identities and cross-cultural relationships through dialogue.

The workshop is intended as a multicultural and interdisciplinary gathering of researchers, practitioners and students. The following are just some of the topics we propose to explore:

– dialogue connecting teaching and research creativities

– dialogue facilitating cross-fertilization of European and global experiences in academic mentorship

– dialogue promoting collaborative exploratory projects, joint training programs

– dialogue fostering creative and critical thinking

– dialogue between languages and cultures (e.g. in translation, interpreting)

– dialogue facilitating correlations between different disciplines

– dialogue integrating different scientific and cultural traditions