Thursday, 21 October 2021
10.00 – 10.30 Conference opening.
Dr Artūras Vasiliauskas (Vilnius university, Pro-Rector for Partnerships) ; Prof Dr Inesa Šeškauskienė (Vilnius University, Dean of the Faculty of Philology); Prof Dr Olaf Bärenfänger (Leipzig University)
Plenary presentations
10.30 – 11.15 Olaf Bärenfänger (University of Leipzig, Germany) „Multilingualism and Multiculturalism - Arqus perspective“
11.15 –12.00 Maria Teresa Zanola (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Italy) „Multilingualism and Language Policy in Higher Education: facing the challenge“
12.00 – 12.15 Break
12.15 – 13.00 Robert O'Dowd (University of León, Spain) „Reviewing Intercultural Learning Outcomes in Virtual Exchange“
13.00 – 13.45 John Corbett (BNU-HKBU United International College, China) „Conflict, mediation & drama: English in contexts of intercultural crisis“
13.45 – 14.00 Break
Parallel Panel Sessions
14.00 – 15.30 Presentations
15.30 –15.45 Break
15.45 – 18.45 Presentations
Friday, 22 October 2021
Plenary presentations
10.00 – 10.45 Manuel Célio Conceição (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal) “Linguistic diversity and knowledge in Higher Education: an embedded engagement”
10.45 – 11.30 Mireia Trenchs Parera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) “Plurilingualism, intercultural sensitivity and new identities in the 21st-century internationalized undergraduate classroom”
11.30 – 11.45 Break
11.45 – 12.30 Johann Fischer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) “Rethinking language assessment: integrating the four skills in task-based assessment – making language tests more meaningful”
Workshop
12.30 – 13.15 Adam Mastandrea (Vilnius University, Lithuania) "Disinformation as discourse in the English Language Classroom"
13.15 – 14.00 Break
Parallel Panel Sessions
14.00 – 15.30 Presentations
15.30 – 15.45 Break
15.45 – 17.15 Presentations
17.15 – 17.30 Break
Interactive Language Cafés
17.30 – 18.15
- English Language Café. Moderator Adam Mastandrea. Invited guests: Svetozar Poštič, Vilnius University; Ovidiu Ivancu, Vilnius University.
- French Language Café. Moderator Vita Valiukienė. Invited guests: Alice Pantel, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Vice Dean of Language Faculty, Lyon 3, France; Ana Maria Cozma, University of Turku, Finland; Thommas Buffin, Director of Institut Français, Lithuania; Cynthia EID, President of the International Federation of French Teachers (FIPF).
- German Language Café. Moderator Vaiva Žeimantienė. Invited guests: Eva Seidl, University of Graz, Austria; Jupp Möhring, Leipzig University; Nijolia Buinovskaja, Goethe-Institut Litauen; Heike Zinsmeister, Hamburg University; Eglė Kontutytė, Vilnius University.
- Italian Language Café. Moderator Diego Ardoino. Invited guests: Anna Suadoni, University of Granada; Marta Kaliska, University of Warsaw; Novella Di Nunzio, Vilnius University; Kristiina Rebane, Tallin University.
- Lithuanian Language Café. Moderator Inga Hilbig. Invited guests: Virginija Stumbrienė, Department of Lithuanian Studies, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Vilnius University, dr. Agnieszka Rembiałkowska, University of Warsaw, Poland, dr. Justina Bružaitė-Liseckienė, Department of Lithuanian Studies, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Vilnius University, Frederik Bissinger, Departments of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Stockholm University.
- Norwegian Language Café. Moderator Vuk Vukotić. Invited guests: Else Berit Molde, Assistant Professor of Norwegian at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at UiB, University of Bergen; Pernille Myrvold, Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, Simona Kamarauskaitė, Vilnius University.
- Russian Language Café. Moderator Anastasija Belovodskaja. Invited guests: Stanislav Chernyshov, University of Gratz, Austria; Extra Class Language Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Alla Chernyshova, Extra Class Language Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- Spanish Language Café. Moderator Carmen Caro Dugo. Invited guests: Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado, University of Granada, Spain; Åse Johnsen, University of Bergen, Norway; Alicia Relinque Eleta University of Granada, Spain.
Conference Round up
18. 15 – 18.45
The whole programme in PDF format could be found here: Programme.pdf