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SIETAR UK Conference and Workshops 2005
"Intercultural Communication in a Globalised World"
London, UK, 9/10th July 2005

This programme is provisional. Updates are posted regularly on this website.

Saturday 9/7/2005

 

A

B

09:30

Registration G230

 

10:00

Australia's SBS Television in a globalised media landscape.

Emma Dawson 
National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University

Culture-based student management and learning issues among Arab and Iranian students in the Arabian Gulf

Rodney Hills
Hillcrest, Dubai

10:30

MTV's Reality TV Shows = Multiculturalism as a Commodity for Profit Purposes

Monika Raesch 
Framingham State College, USA

Inside-Out: Student Criticism of "Foreign Experts" in Universities in the P.R.C.

Ewan Dow
University of Surrey, UK

11:00

Tea G230

 

11:30

Outsourcing Culture or the Culture of 'Outsourcing'

Sumitra Srinivasan 
Georgia State University, USA

The Chinese student and intercultural learning

Tricia Coverdale-Jones  

University of Portsmouth, UK

12:00

Creating Empathy: The Development of Key Cultural Competencies in Australian Professionals in Asia

Melissa Butcher 
University of Sydney, Australia

If and in what manner do students feel influenced in their view of the foreign country by outside factors.

Andrea Pfeil 
Strathclyde University, UK

12:30

Alien Communication: Applying Art practices to Develop Business Communication and Transcultural Competence

Katharina Kettner 
wave-concepts, Germany

How do tutors inspire learning in circumstances of increased diversity?

Heather Clay and Philip Frame
Middlesex University Business School, UK

13:00

Lunch G230

 


 

13:30

Lunch G230

 

14:00

Repetitive advertising and the effectiveness of sex appeal

Kallirroy Boutsikaki 
Middlesex University, UK

Intercultural Communication: Training Do's and Tabo's – Training Tips for Global Trainers Aspects of Training

 Steven Filby

 Annita Stokes Thomas, The Thomas Centre for Global Performance Strategies

 

14:30

Advertising in culturally close countries: consumer reactions

Stephan Dahl 
Middlesex University, UK

Multiculturalism as a Policy

Alexandra Kleschina 
Ural State University
, Russia

15:00

The promise of Intercultural Mediation

Susanne Schuler & Consolata Peyron

Intercultural Communication in the German - Polish Border Region Frankfurt Oder/Slubice

Sabine Krajewski 
European University Viadrina,
Germany

15:30

Tea G230

 

16:00

The Joys of Otherness: Heteroglossia in Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe

Cheryl Caesar,
American University of Paris, France

Intercultural aspects of internal communication within European Organizations

Sophie Magnier

University Paul Valery

 

16:30

How Do We Fight? – Observations of the ways couples in intercultural intimate relationships negotiate, evaluate and resolve conflict in their relationships.

Hiroko T. Amick 
International Business Services, USA

Knowledge refining across cultures: A case-study of virtual team working in an European multi-national

 Johanna Renz

 

 

18:00

Reception (Pembroke Suite, Hendon Hall)

19:00

Dinner (Pembroke Suite, Hendon Hall)

 


Sunday 10/7/2005

 

A

B

09:30

Coffee & Registration G230

 

10:00

Doing business in an enlarging Europe – The Romanian business culture

Adrienne Rubatos 
Institute for International Business Relations, Germany

Understanding the experience of international relocation in a group of adolescents – a psychoanalytic approach.

Caroline Hacohen 
Tavistock Centre, University of Essex

10:30

Differences in workplace attitudes and values among Arabs, Subcontinentals and Westerners in the Gulf Region

Rodney Hills 
Hillcrest, Dubai

Are western cultural models really applicable for business communication with India? Criticism and proposal for improvement of the 4D model of Hofstede

Neena Gupta-Biener, Germany

11:00

Tea G230

 

11:30

Media Treatment of Multiculturalism in Macedonia before and after Political Crisis in 2001
Sasho Ognenovski

Pedagogical Faculty Bitola

This is not like India or Pakistan! ... Issues in teaching, learning and assessment that Indian students find problematic when studying in UK HE

Wendy Banfield 
Middlesex University Business School

12:00

Coaching for Building Cross-cultural Competence

Rhys Photis 
Cultural Connective , UK

Strategies for successful overseas partnerships

Heather Clay
Middlesex University Business School, UK

12:30

Philosophical Rethinking of the Notion of ÒIntercultural CommunicationÓ

Natalia Limonova  Omsk State Pedagogical University

Designing intercultural Training from the perspective of different Theories and Models of Teaching and Learning

Jonathan Levy 
SIETAR Europa

13:00

Lunch G230

 


 

13:30

Lunch G230

 

14:00

What is the future for trainers in the intercultural field?

Nathalie Kleinschmit 
Global Ease, France

Teaching Intercultural Communication in Polish – German Cross - Boarder Academic Institution: Opportunities and Challenges

Agnieszka Stepinska 
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

 

14:30

Interculturalists in the Community: Are Interculturalists fulfilling our role in mainstream society?

Kate Berardo 
Culturosity.com, UK

Global Course Theme, Global Pedagogical Strategy

Ann Watters 
Stanford University, USA

 

15:00

Quality standards for intercultural trainings and coachings

Carolin Weppler 
University of Jena, Germany

Understanding American and German Communication Styles -  "Openness" versus "Objectivity"

Patrick Schmidt

15:30

Tea G230

 

16:00

Life's principals of N.P. Kondakov as a subject of intercultural study

Natalia Vinokurova 
Moscow State Forest University, Russia

Mixed Cultures – Mixed Messages?

Edna Gatza  (60minutes workshop)

16:30

Jinns, mothers little helpers?

Martha van Endt-Meijling, MD
Netherlands

Partners

For partners of conference delegates we will offer a special rate registration, which will include the Conference Dinner and a special Partners' Welcome only.

The Partners' Welcome will be on Saturday at 9:30. During the Partners' Welcome we will be at hand to give advise on what to do and see in London.

London is a great city, and we will be pleased to advise you (or your partner) on any activities while in London. If you have any special requests, please contact s.dahl@mdx.ac.uk.

You may also find the VisitLondon website very useful if you are planning to stay a little longer in London.

Some more links of interest:
TimeOut London Guide
London Theatre Guide