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Intercultural Communications Lecture - Prof Emeritus Adrian Holliday

Why intercultural communication begins with the small and the everyday: navigating the varicultural flow

Intercultural Communications Lecture - Prof Emeritus Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University

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Abstract

In this talk, Professor Holliday explores why our early intercultural experiences like going to school and visiting friends’ families are our best resource for travel to distant places. This deCentred finding of threads of hybridity counters the blocking colonialist, nationalist and positivist idea of separated cultures. The seamless varicultural flow of diversity within which we construct ‘cultures’ of all types and sizes enables us to carry cultural and linguistic experience back and forth across space and time if we can put aside ‘us’ - ‘them’ grand and personal narratives.

Adrian Holliday is Professor Emeritus, Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Communication, at Canterbury Christ Church University where he supervised research in the sociology and politics of the intercultural and English employing critical qualitative methods, and headed PhD research across the university until 2017. In the 1970s and 80s he worked as an English teacher and university curriculum developer in Iran, Syria and Egypt. His publications deal with native-speakerism, the Western ideologies which marginalise other cultural realities, and qualitative research methodology. website: adrianholliday.com http://adrianholliday.com/

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Building:One Constantine LeventisTeaching Room