The 10th Annual International Conference Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in Language, Literature, Pedagogy and Foreign Language Teaching Methodology, 28 -29 May, 2010, Alba Iulia.
Conference site: http://www.uab.ro/sesiuni_2010/limbi_moderne/index.htm.

 

The conference had three sections:

1. Interdisciplinarity and / or transdisciplinarity in language: on the origin of words and their use in specialized languages, the different types of grammars, mathematical / computational linguistics, translation studies and practice.

2. Interdisciplinarity and / or transdisciplinarity in literature: the meeting point between literature, literature - related fields and science and technology.

3. Interdisciplinarity and / or transdisciplinarity in pedagogy and foreign language teaching methodology.

The conference featured the following keynote speakers:

Professor Giacomo FERRARI, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro" Vercelli, Italy

Professor Stefan OLTEAN, "Babeş-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Dr. Svetlana KURTES, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Ewa RYCHTER, The Angelus Silesius State School of Higher Vocational Education in Wałbrzych, Poland

 

 

The Second International Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education (CLIE2), 10-12 June 2010, Herceg Novi, Montenegro.

Conference site: http://www.uab.ro/sesiuni_2010/CLIE_2010/

 

The special theme of the conference was Linguistic and Cultural Diversity within European Learning Communities: Cross-cultural and Trans-national Perspectives, within which two sections were organised:

1.  Theoretical/methodological frameworks

2. Applied/Empirical approaches

The conference featured the following keynote speakers:

Professor Cornelia Ilie, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University, Sweden

Professor Ljiljana Marković, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Professor Jacques Moeschler, Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Professor Itesh Sachdev, Department of Linguistics, SOAS, University of London, UK