SIGs (Special Interest Groups) – suggestions for ESTIDIA SIGs, especially interdisciplinary SIGs
A SIG is a collaboration and networking group set up after identifying common research interests, to brainstorm about developing joint research projects, to discuss appropriate / alternative theoretical approaches, to submit joint project applications, to co-author or co-edit collective volumes or special journal issues. The main goal of SIGs is to bring together researchers, teachers, and practitioners from different countries and disciplines who work in the same, related, or complementary fields, and who are interested in sharing ideas and developing closer collaborations, especially interdisciplinary and/or cross-cultural ones. SIG members can propose a thematic or methodological workshop for a future ESTIDIA conference.
You are welcome to join one of the following recently initiated SIGs or to propose new SIGs.
– EU-migration: Language, Borders and Identity in Dialogues
Coordinators: Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra, Spain) <rbreeze@unav.es> and Sarali Gintsburg (University of Navarra, Spain) <sgintsburg@unav.es>
Further members are welcome ……
– Dialogue and / in Education
Coordinator: Takanori Kawamata (Meisei University, Japan) <takanori.kawamata@meisei-u.ac.jp>
Further members are welcome ……
-Humour and Dialogue across Cultures
Coordinators: Arie Sover (The Open University of Israel) <ariesover@gmail.com>
Kateryna Yeremieieva (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich) <eremeeevaea@gmail.com>, <Yeremieieva.Kateryna@lmu.de>
Further members are welcome ……
– Dialogues in Healthcare Environments
Coordinators: Keiko Tsuchiya (Yokohama City University) <tsuchiya.keiko@gmail.com>
Further members are welcome ……
– Translation as Intercultural Dialogue
Coordinators: Vilhelmina Vaičiūnienė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania) <vvaiciun@mruni.eu>Maria Lopez Medel (University of Alicante, Spain) <medel@ua.es>
Lora Tamošiūnienė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania) <lora@mruni.eu>
Krzysztof Łoboda (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland) <krzysztof.loboda@uj.edu.pl>
Further members are welcome ……
– Conspiracy Theories and Manipulation Practices
Coordinator: Ludmilla A’Beckett (University of the Free State, South Africa) <berchonok@gmail.com>
Cornelia Ilie (Strömstad Academy, Sweden) <cornelia.ilie@gmail.com>
Further members are welcome ……
– Political and Public Discourse in Times of Crisis
Coordinators: Adrian Toader (Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania) <toader.adrian@unitbv.ro>
Further members are welcome ……
– Twists and Turns: The Development of Second Language English Language Learner Identity through the Middle/High School Years, into Tertiary Education
Coordinator: John McKeown (Uskudar American Academy, Istanbul, Turkey) <jmckeown@my.uaa.k12.tr>
Further members are welcome ……
– Using Mixed Method Approaches (Pragma-Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics) to Explore Dialogue-Based Media and Political Interaction (e.g. parliamentary debates, news interviews, election campaign debates)
>Coordinator: Taofeek Dalamu (the University of Lagos, Nigeria) <lifegaters@yahoo.com>
Further members are welcome ……