Editorial

Based on the response received at the end of the first International Conference on Discourse and Cultural Transformation (Oct 2004, Hangzhou), the scientific committee decided to formally establish the International Association for Multicultural Discourses (IAMD). The purpose of the association is to attract international scholars and graduate students in discourse studies and cultural studies, in their broadest sense, and to form an academic web-community and get actively involved in the multicultural politics of facilitating cultural solidarity and prosperity through dialogue, research, publication, conferences, teaching and learning (including e.g. PhD program and summer school). The association will also actively seek funding to aid scholars from developing countries and regions to participate in the activities organized by the Association.

Newsletter

The Second International Conference for Multicultural Discourses is to be held between April 13-15, 2007, Hangzhou China. The call for papers will be announced at the end of this year.

PACA Convention at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, January 7-9, 2007,  http://www.paca4u.com

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD), http://discourse.uea.ac.uk/

New item received: Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, a global network/group of scholars and practitioners,http://www.humiliationstudies.org

Multicultural Discourses Series, Hong Kong University Press, Series Editors: Shi-xu & Doreen Wu, This book series publishes monographs and edited books in English that approach language, communication and discourse from multiculturalist perspectives. As editors, we welcome manuscripts that advocate cultural diversity and equality in everyday or scientific language and communication. Further, we make a point to enlisting writers of different colours and ethnicities and with diverse cultural intellectual backgrounds for the re-construction and transformation of the international field of discourse studies. In addition, we promote in the series proactive and creative modes of research that facilitate the intended cultural-politics of achieving cultural solidarity and prosperity through discourse research.Prospective authors may direct their enquiries to: xshi@zju.edu.cn  or ctdwu@polyu.edu.hk

Publication received:Journal fo Language Teaching,Lingustics and Literature.Editor:Koo Yew Lie ( kooyewli@streamyx.com  ).

Asian Anthropology (see http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/asian/ ).

Language and Folklore,August 8th-12th,2005 Liaoning Normal School, Dalian ( lnmsxyjs@126.com , yanbaoping3@163.com, )

Tel:0086-0411-87402521).

Chinese Pragmatics Conference,July 26th-28th,2005 Fudan University,Shanghai ( xujin@fudan.edu.cn ,  Tel:021-55664060)

Chinese Communication Studies, Xiamen University, December 28th-30th, 2005 ( LLu@depaul.edu  for international participants; xmhuang@xmu.edu.cn for Chinese).

Chinese Sociolinguistics Conference, December 9th-12th, 2005,Guangzhou Foreign Languages and Foreign Trade University ( gpphd@mail.gdufs.edu.cn ; www.clal.org.cn ).

Second International Conference on Conflict, Peace and Development in South Asia, Dec. 28-30 , 2005. University of Rajasthan, India. email: Prof. BM Jain .

Professor Antonia Candela Martin, Director of Department of Educational Research and Center of Research and Advanced Studies of National Politechical Institue in Mexico City, visits the Institute of Discourse and Multicultural Studies on 30th and 31th April, 2005 and gives a talk on Students Power in Classroom Discourse.

SoLLs.INTEC.05: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Worlds in Discourse: Representations of Realities, 21¨C23 November 2005 Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Subang Jaya,Selangor, Malaysia. email: solls@ukm.my .

Publications

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Membership

Applications to the IAMD can be made by sending an email message to: jmd_editor@126.com  ,giving information about the following

Full name:

Gender:

Degrees:

Full address:

Email:

Three representative publications or alternatively three top research interests:

Members are eligible for submitting news and publication items to the web site and get a deduction in subscription to the Journal of Multicultural Discourses.

Scientific Committee

Shi-xu, Chair, Zhejiang University, China;

Dariusz Galasinski, University of Wolverhampton, UK;

Aydan Gulerce, Bogazici University, Turkey;

Puleng Hanong, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa;

Gabriella Modan, Ohio State University, USA;

Narcisa Paredes Canilao, University of the Philippines Baguio, the Philippines;

Luisa Martin Rojo, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain;

Lawrence Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China;

Reza Najafbagy, University of Tehran, Iran;

Yunxia Zhu, Unitec, New Zealand;

Wu Zongjie, Zhejiang University, China;

Doreen Wu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China;

Livia Mathias Simao, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil;

Victoria V. Krasnykh,University of Moscow, Russia;

Donations

We plan to use the donations mainly for offering prizes for the best papers given by PhD students and young scholars at the Associations conferences. We gratefully acknowledge the donations (HK$4333,US$382, RMB6163, BP20, Euro100)from:

Doreen Wu, Rukmini Bhaya Nair,Kathryn Kelly Epstein, Wei Yongkang, C.S.Eigenmann-Malik, Suzanne Kauer, Ramona Maria Fruja, Scott Metzger, Guan Xinping, Brecken Chinn Swartz, Narcisa Paredes-Canilao, Johanna Orgiles Zulueta, Puleng Hanong, Reza Najafbagy + Iranian delegates, Norman Leslie Fairclough, Ian Parker, Erica Burman, Dariusz Galasinski, Gabriella Modan, Robert Maier, Garrett Albert Duncan, Janet Higgins, Vicent Tao-hsun Chang, Douglas Kerr, Adrian Hare and Pan Liping, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University (RMB1000 has been used for the association forum design.)