LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

Intercultural dialogue: the way forward
Event date: 11 April, 2008 - 12 April, 2008
Location: at-Bristol, Bristol, UK

Call for papers: Teaching across cultures: interdisciplinary thinking and student diversity in an international context

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. The Subject Centre and the School of Art, Media & Design, University of Gloucester are looking for contributions to our forthcoming event on 1st November 2003. This conference is aimed at those who teach cultural material as part of Anglophone Area studies programmes in the Higher Education sector (particularly American, Australian and Canadian Studies) as well as those involved in teaching elements of Anglophone cultures in Education, Film, History, Media/Media Communications, Human Geography, Postcolonial Studies and Sociology courses. The focus of the conference is on classroom practice.

Intercultural Learning and the role of Visual Media
Workshop: 31st January, CILT, Covent Garden, London

Call for papers - Intercultural Learning and the role of Visual Media workshop
The Subject Centre is looking for contributions to its forthcoming event at CILT, on the 31 January 2003 on the various uses of visual media - film television and other visual representations - in undergraduate teaching to promote intercultural awareness as part of a programme in area, transnational or postnational studies.

Russian studies in UK universities
An account of offerings and trends in Russian Studies in the UK at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including a brief history of the field, details of selected modules within key programmes, and of the main centres for study of Russia and the former Soviet Union