SIETAR UK

A Date for your diaries - 25th September This looks like a fascinating discussion with SIETAR France and Prof Helen Spencer-Oatey

👋 Calling all SIETAR UK members - please save the date for our 2024 AGM 📆 Monday 23rd September, 18.00 - 19.30 📍 Hybrid - in-person c/o IES Abroad, Gray's Inn, 2 Atkin Building, London WC1R 5AT and online. Our president, Adrian Pilbeam, has decided to step down after six years of hard work and dedication to SIETAR UK and SIETAR Europa. We’re sure that members past and present would like to join us in sending huge thanks to Adrian for his leadership, including pivoting to online events during the pandemic, covering for other vacant SUK roles and playing a significant part in the SIETAR Europa congresses in Malta and Lille. We will hold online elections in early September for new board members and announce the results at the AGM. We invite members of at least one year standing to put themselves forward for the roles of President, Treasurer, Communication, Event Management and Membership. Please contact info@sietar.co.uk by 30 August. Look forward to hearing from you and seeing you on 23rd September - more details to follow. #SIETARUK #SIETAREUROPA #Intercultural

Dear SIETAR UK members and supporters We would like to inform you about a talk on Teams organised by The Open University, UK about language capabilities of UK students and the impact on student exchanges. The talk will be on: 📅 Tuesday 18 June at 13.00 - 14.00 UK/ BST. Attendance is free. Register here: https://lnkd.in/d3VDDiQK With best wishes, SIETAR UK team

Dear SIETAR UK members and supporters We would like to inform you about a talk on Teams organised by The Open University, UK about language capabilities of UK students and the impact on student exchanges. The talk will be on: 📅 Tuesday 18 June at 13.00 - 14.00 UK/ BST. Attendance is free. Register here: https://lnkd.in/d3VDDiQK With best wishes, SIETAR UK team

✨ Are you ready for the SIETAR Europa Congress in Lille? ✨ If you are a SIETARian interested in intercultural awareness and competence for working with migrants and forcibly displaced persons or you would like to start using your intercultural expertise in supporting migrants and FDPs, the SIETAR Europa's Special Interest Group on Migration and Refugee issues is putting on an event just for this. SIETAR UK's very own Dr. Katharina Addington-Lefringhausen and Eila Isotalus together with Anne-Claude Lambelet will lead a pre-conference workshop: SIG Migration Onboarding: How We All Can Support Volunteers and Forcibly Displaced Persons In the workshop you will: 🔹learn how SIETARians can support volunteers and forcibly displaced persons (FDPs), 🔹 exchange approaches and network with SIETARians who are already engaged in such work 🔹 learn how to identify the needs of volunteers and FDPs and implement concrete training; 🔹 help in creating a strong network within the SIG Migration group which will be used as a platform for future resource exchanges, learning and support. Find our more about SIETAR Europa SIG here: https://lnkd.in/dSHQh54a More about the workshop in the attachment. SIETAR Switzerland SIETAR Deutschland e.V. SIETAR UK #interculturalcommunication #interculturalawareness #migrants #refugees #culturalintelligence #culturalawareness

Dear SIETAR UK members and friends,   ✨ The next SIETAR Europa biennial congress will be taking place in Lille, France from 4-8 June  📅 Registration will be open from 16 February See https://lnkd.in/es8S8eCN   📌 Members of SIETAR UK and other national SIETARS will be eligible for the members’ rate, which is €120 less than the standard rate, so make sure your membership and profile are up to date. The special SIETAR member registration code will only be available in the Members section of the SIETAR UK website. ➡️ If your membership has lapsed or you would like to join, see https://lnkd.in/extXkHjG   But before that, there two interesting events being hosted online by SIETAR France 🇫🇷  in February.   The first is: Neuroscience of Inclusion: Working with the Brain » with Shannon Murphy on 21 February, 18.00-19.30 CET Shannon gave a very well attended in-person session at SIETAR UK in November 2018, so this will be a chance to catch up on her latest ideas about culture and neuroscience. For more information and to register:https://lnkd.in/e-f4YKdj     Then one week later, there is a joint SIETAR Europa/SIETAR France event:   “21st Century as the Pacific Century: Interculturalism in Great Power Competition” with Dr. Joanna SIEKIERA on 29 February, 18.00-19.00 CET For more details and to register: https://lnkd.in/eFqyXpec #sietar SIETAR Europa SIETAR UK SIETAR France SIETAR España SIETAR Deutschland e.V. SIETAR Polska SIETAR Switzerland SIETAR Ireland SIETAR Austria SIETAR Nederland Official #congress #interculturalcommunication #interculturalcompetence #crossculturalcommunication

🌟 We are looking forward to seeing you at our upcoming SIETAR event! 🌟 The last event of this year will be an online interactive session by Maura Di Mauro on: 🔹How, as interculturalists, can we contribute to migrants’ integration, particularly third-country nationals? 🔹 How can we support the building of intercultural competences so as to facilitate migrants’ integration process? 🔹 And how can the building of intercultural competences support the inclusion of an intercultural perspective in migrants’ integration policy? This session will give the opportunity to understand how to include an intercultural perspective in migrants’ integration policy, and to extend participants’ intercultural training toolkits. During this 90 minute interactive session, Maura Di Mauro will share the main highlights of one of the recent projects she has worked on: the EU-BELONG project, aimed at improving the socio- economic inclusion and migrants’ sense of belonging. She will also share the main recommendations and practices synthesized in the handbook “Building Intercultural Competences” developed for regional authorities and local stakeholders. Participants will be actively involved in sharing their training and consultant experiences, and their intercultural practices about migrants’ integration projects. 📌 When: December 13th at 5.30pm (UK time)/ 6.30pm (CET) 📌 Where: Zoom Register here: https://lnkd.in/gZtjf63J

The Christmas party is right around the corner! Come join us on Monday 4th December for a chance to catch up and connect with fellow interculturalists :) Book your spot here: https://lnkd.in/euNZ9HvS

✨ Our Christmas party is approaching fast! ✨ Don't miss out and join us at:   📍 Truckles of Pied Bull Yard Bury Place London WC1A 2JR 📅 on Monday, 4 December, from 18.00 – 20.30 Drinks, snacks and food will be provided, though it will not be a formal, sit down meal. Attendance will be free for SIETAR UK members. The cost for other guests, including SIETAR Members from other SIETAR groups, will be £25. We have reserved a separate space for SIETAR UK with a mix of seating and standing, so it will be a good opportunity to network.   You can book (and pay if required) on our website: https://lnkd.in/ev4imSWM   If your membership is about to run out, this is a good incentive to renew. And don’t forget that membership will also give you a reduced rate for the SIETAR Europa Congress in Lille from 5-8 June 2024!   ❄️ We look forward to seeing some of you in December! ❄️ #christmas #christmasparty #sietaruk #interculturaltrainer #interculturalcommunication #interculturalcompetence #diversityandinclusion

What is genuine cultural change and what is cultural appropriation? And what fosters the first named and diminishes the second named? This is a particular tricky question when looking at those in power culturally adopting to/incorporating elements from minority cultures. For example, when we train managers to become interculturally competent (to change some expectations and behaviours towards the 'other' group), how do we know that this is not or does not lead to appropriating the culture of the minority group? Specifically, intercultural competence models often discuss how one can learn skills to express the 'appropriate' behaviour. But what if this is not consented by the minority group (e.g. you think you should wear local clothes to an event, but it is actually perceived as an act of cultural exploitation)? We tried to tackle these questions in this theoretical paper, led by Jonas R. Kunst and in collaboration with Hanna Zagefka. https://lnkd.in/ebhurQa7