The Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture is an annual, international event, jointly hosted by adjacent colleges of the University of London, led by Birkbeck College, where researchers at different stages of their career are invited to present the latest work in the broad fields of Language, Communication and Cognition. This year the event will be co-organised by the International Association of Multilingualism, the AILA Research network “Multilingualism: Acquisition and Use” and Birkbeck’s Centre for Multilingual & Multicultural Research. The Thematic Focus will be on 'The Multiple Faces of Multilingualism'. The Round Table will consist of 9 invited presentations and a limited number of paper presentations and posters. The total number of participants will not exceed 60.
The 9 invited presentations at the 2010 Bloomsbury Round Table are: - Dr. Larissa Aronin (Oranim Academic College/University of Haifa, Israel) and Dr. Muiris Ó Laoire, (Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland): The Multiple Faces of Multilingualism: Language Nominations
- Professor Raphaele Berthele (University of Fribourg, Switzerland): Simple Heuristics and Abduction in Receptive Multilingualism
- Dr. Gessica De Angelis (University of Bolzano, Italy) and Professor Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria): Writing Across Languages
- Professor Britta Hufeisen (University of Darmstadt, Germany): L2-transfer in L3-text Competencies
- Professor Li Wei (Birkbeck College, University of London): Creativity, Criticality and Multilingual Practices of Minority Ethnic Children
- Dr. John O’Regan (Institute of Education, University of London): The Discourse of Intercultural Communication: Aporias of Praxis in the Intercultural Public Sphere
- Professor Anne Pauwels (SOAS, University of London): 'Being cool': Gender and Language Practices in Multilingual Settings
- Dr. Sian Preece (Institute of Education, University of London): Imagining English-medium Universities as Multilingual Spaces
- Dr. Adam C. Schembri (University College London): The Sociolinguistics of Sign Bilingualism/Multilingualism