Framework

Bearing in mind the relation between European languages/cultures and historical colonialism and currently with economic and epistemological imperialism, the nature of its reception, use and development, and the role of native/indigenous languages, in academic contexts, deserve scientific attention. Moreover, governments have prioritized internationalization and globalization and, as a result, these constitute key objectives for higher education institutions and research programmes. At the same time, the English language has become a powerful linguistic vehicle worldwide and among doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, but Spanish and Portuguese are gaining influence as global languages. Along with the juncture of these linguistic networks, there are identifications and cultural hybrids that require researchers, in any field of knowledge, here called as 'GLOCADEMICS', be critically reflective about the subtleties of communication/intercultural interaction in global and postcolonial academic exchanges. Researchers should be able to act in the context of a conceptual scheme attentive to an “ecology of knowledges” and able to promote translation and dialogue between different epistemologies. This workshop aims to present and discuss the preliminary results of the 1st phase of the project GLOCADEMICS on representations, positioning and workings of 'glocal' European languages  (English, Portuguese and Spanish) and indigenous languages in some Brazilian universities. Furthermore, the workshop will introduce the 2nd phase of the project comprising the analysis of intercultural communication and interaction in a sample of research teams, both from the Social Sciences or Life Sciences, also form Brazilian universities.
 

Target: Young researchers of Social and Human Sciences and Life Sciences

Registrations are limited, free and compulsory 

Programme

10h00-11h00 – Introduction to the project

11h00-13h00 – Presentation and discussion of preliminary results of the 1st phase of the project 

14h30-17h30 - Discussion of the conceptual framework project

- Glocal Languages ​​vs. Lingua franca;
- Intercultural Responsibility vs. Intercultural Competence
- Glocademics vs. Academic Internationalization

Bio note

Manuela Guilherme is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and the University of São Paulo. She has coordinated international projects funded by the European Commission and her work has been published internationally. Among her last publications, in 2014, are “‘Glocal’ Languages and North-South Epistemologies: Plurilingual and Intercultural Relationships” and, together with Gunther Dietz, “Multi-, Inter- and Trans-culturalities: Complexities of meaning”. She has also recently authored chapters in Handbooks and Encyclopaedias by Sage and Routledge.
 

Activity within the research project «GLOCADEMICS - Glocal Languages and Intercultural Responsibility in a postcolonial global academic world: Power relations between languages/cultures within and between research groups»