Special One Day Workshop in Intercultural Communication

by Prof. John Condon

sponsored by Kansai SIETAR

(Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research)


TIME: ¡¡ Sunday April 26, 2009 10am-5:30pm

PLACE: Nishinomiya Daigaku Koryu Center, Conference Room 2 (6F, ACTA East Tower,
a short walk from Hankyu Nishinomiya Kitaguchi Station. For access, see:
http://www.nishi.or.jp/~daigaku/info/index.html)

FEE: ¡¡ SIETAR members: 5000 yen (member students 2500)

Non-members:¡¡ 7000 yen (non-member students 3500)

Note: Pre-registration is necessary for this workshop, as the number of
participants is limited. To register, or for more information, please email
condonws@.... Deadline for registration is April 16.


The Legacy of Edward Hall

On the Silver Anniversary of E.T. Hall¡¯s The Silent Language, the book
that launched the field of Intercultural Communication, John Condon will present
a one day workshop inspired by Hall¡¯s legacy ¨C his philosophy and ways of
knowing, his enduring influence and his simple gifts which are yet to be
appreciated. Hall¡¯s insights drew from a range of fields from architecture to
zoology, and influenced many, since he wrote for ordinary people. This workshop
will review Hall¡¯s life and influences, including Japanese perspectives. It
will also include a primer on Hall¡¯s philosophy on paying attention,
appreciating the body as our most important instrument of knowing, and
respectful distrust of what we were told and think we know. Other themes will
include observation, listening, discovery; models and metaphors; ¡®content¡¯ is
process; coordinates of time and space; cultural shaping of learning and
teaching; technology and intercultural communication; and how to see culture and
talk about it simply.


About the presenter:

Prof. Condon taught at ICU during the 1970s and in the 1990s, and has been
a lifelong friend, neighbor, and former colleague (at Northwestern Univ.) of
anthropologist Hall. Condon has received numerous awards for his teaching and
his many publications (which have appeared in seven languages), including the
first authored textbook in the field -- written while at ICU. His forthcoming
book, also influenced by his years in Japan, is The Goose in the Bottle: Things
Which Seem to Exist but Don¡¯t and Things which Don¡¯t Seem to Exist But Do, the
subtitle taken from an Edo-era metate-zumo.


For information on how to join SIETAR Japan, please go to their website:

http://www.sietar-japan.org


Thanks,
Catriona Takeuchi
Nara JALT Publicity