Bilingual Conference (French/English)
Presented by the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication,
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 4-5 July 2012
This international two-day conference focuses on Academic Mobility and Migration (AMM). It follows two previous successful international conferences held in Finland (Turku, 2006) and in Estonia (Tallinn, 2009). Renamed ICAMM3 on the occasion of this new event, the conference will take place near Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. This marks the first move to shifting the focus from Europe and exploring Academic Mobility and Migration in Asian perspectives—and beyond! Malaysian higher education is no stranger to mobility. As such clear internationalization strategies concerning incoming and outgoing mobility have been delineated for some time now. This conference seeks to address the following topic strands (amongst others):
• Language learning and teaching
• Educational aspects
• Diachronic perspectives on AMM
• The myths of AMM
• Forms of AMM
o Short-term/long-term/multiple mobilities (‘multimovers’)
o Virtual Academic Mobility
o ‘Local’ Academic Mobility (e.g. Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, Middlesex University-Dubai Campus, Monash University Malaysia, The University of Nottingham-Malaysia Campus or Curtin University Sarawak)
o Mobility of objects, images, information and “wastes” (Urry, 2010)
across global academic networks and flows
• Categories of mobile individuals
o Gender
o Minorities
o Academic Migrants (il/legal)
o Returnees (migrants/exchange students)
• Long-term impact / consequences of AMM
o Employability
o Language policies
o The “intercultural”
o Identity
o Impact on the ‘local’
o Impact on the environment
• Official strategies vs. reality
• Sociality (long-term/short-term)
o Families, intimate relations
o ‘Friendship’
o Sense of community
o Reunion
• Research methods: how to study AMM?
Proposal submission
Scholars and professionals are invited to submit proposals (in English or in French) before 1st November 2011. Abstracts should be submitted through Easyabstracts: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/icamm3 Paper and colloquia proposals are invited. Individual paper proposals (200-300 words; duration: 30 minutes including a twenty-minute presentation, with an additional ten minutes for discussion). Colloquia proposals (200 words for the colloquium concept and 200-300 words on each paper, duration: 3h, max. 5 participants – conveners and discussant included)
Questions should be sent to: icamm3(at)yahoo.com
Conference website: www.fbmk.upm.edu.my/ICAMM3
Visit the website at http://www.fbmk.upm.edu.my/ICAMM3