Social Exchange

EVERY WEDNESDAY with MADRID BABEL

http://madridbabel.es

International Evening from 21:00 at The Quiet Man (c/ Valverde, 44 - metro Tribunal or Gran Vía)

The environment is friendly and welcoming and there is no entrance fee. Fran Rodríguez Veiga – creator and leader of the group from Madrid – and his collaborators are there to introduce people who share common interests and/or languages and help create a comfortable welcome for newcomers. These events usually attract about 200 participants - students to professionals, 20 to 50 years old, from about 30 different nations-. Recently, they have been awarded with the prize 'Best Intercambio of the Year' by the European Vibe Magazine.

 

The Language Show - sponsored by IATEFL

Travelling Languages

Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

3 - 5 December 2010, Leeds, United Kingdom

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/german/ialic_conference_2010.htm

10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) in Association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University.

• Moving languages - continuities and change;
• Real and virtual border crossings;
• Tourist encounters and communicating with the ‘other’;
• Tourism’s role in inter-cultural dialogue;
• The languages of diasporas and diasporic languages;
• Dealing with dialects and the evolution/dissolution of communities;
• Hospitality and languages of welcome;
• Learning the languages of migration;
• Lingusitic boundaries and socio-cultural inclusions and exclusions;
• ‘Located’ and ‘dislocated’ languages and identities;
• Practices and performances of translation.