American Association of Teachers of German

Tongji University
Shanghai, People's Republic of China
June 27-29, 2008

Conference Languages:
Chinese, English, German

Tongji University in cooperation with the University of Arizona and the University of Leipzig will host an international conference from June 27-29, 2008 to explore what the “rise of the transcultural” portends for language, policy and culture studies scholarship and education in a global context.

The concept of the transcultural appears to be increasingly shaping approaches to understanding the relationship between language, culture, and policy-making. The field of transcultural studies are inherently interdisciplinary and essentially comparative, contrastive, and critical in nature. This emerging field of inquiry investigates and seeks to foster understanding of the complex nature of the interrelationships between language, literature, culture, and policy in global communities and in the politics of globalization.

Paper proposals are welcome from scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, applied linguistics, literature, cultural studies, area and policy studies, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. Practitioners can come from diverse fields of policy-making, including education, language policy, cultural affairs, non-profit, international organizations, social policy, management, and environmental affairs.

Proposals for papers can address a wide variety of theoretical and practical concerns, and can be of a broadly theoretical nature, integrate theory and case studies, or explore the concept of the transcultural for particular fields of scholarship and/or professional activity.