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You can find articles, reports and press releases about our project in our press review.
Visit us at the GAL Conference 2023 in Mainz!
This year’s annual conference of the Society for Applied Linguistics (GAL), the leading professional society for the field in Germany, will attract approximately 400 people to the University of Mainz from 20 to 23 September. This year, the ReDICo project will also be present there!
Workshop by Ulrike Schröder and Flavia Fidelis at the University of Potsdam
During the winter term 2023/24, a series of activities dealing with the topic of “digital interculturality” will be held at the University of Potsdam. One of them is the workshop “Facial gestures in video-mediated intercultural communication: From transcription to analysis” by Prof. Ulrike Schröder and Dr. Flavia Fidelis from the University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Block course by Sávio Siqueira at the University of Potsdam
The ReDICo team at the University of Potsdam is pleased to announce the block course (Blockseminar) “English as a Lingua Franca: origins, developments, and practices” by Prof. Sávio Siqueira, from the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil). For more information, contact redico@uni-potsdam.de
Guest lecture by Melisa Stevanovic at the University of Potsdam
Prof. Melisa Stevanovic, from Tampere University (Finland), will visit ReDICo at the University of Potsdam and hold a guest lecture entitled Telling a supervisor about experiences of gendered dismissal: Problems of documentation, tellability, and failed authority.
If you are interested, come and join us on October 16, 4 to 6 pm in Potsdam!
Special Issue: 25th Anniversary of the German University Association for Intercultural Studies
A special issue of the German journal of Intercultural Communication, the open access Interculture Journal, has just been published which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the “Hochschulverband für Interkulturelle Studien”; the German University Association for Intercultural Studies, including texts by ReDICo members.
New Article: Depicting European Federalists in Fiction
As part of his ongoing research on various kinds of cosmopolitanism, Fergal Lenehan has published the article “Depicting European Federalists in Fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzweins Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)” in the Journal of European Studies.
New Article: Making sense of the Permanent Crisis
Following his keynote address at the ReDICo conference, Fergal Lenehan sat down with theorist of cosmopolitanism Gerard Delanty to extend the perspective and to talk about the direction that societies and politics have been taking, particularly in Europe.
Conference Report: Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital and Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond
The second online conference took place between 27 June and 7 July 2023 within the framework of the ReDICo project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. We gathered a total of 34 contributors from different countries, ranging from Columbia and Canada to Israel to present on the theme of Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital and Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond. A large selection of papers (in English) are available online on the ReDICo YouTube Channel.
ReDICo Conference starting tomorrow!
Our online conference is starting tomorrow! We’re really looking forward to it!
Last minute registrations per e-mail to redico@uni-mainz.de