Symposium on Communication Across Cultural Boundaries

Supported by the Swedish Academy

SIK 2003

Simpozio pri interkultura komunikado

Apogata de la Sveda Akademio

The Academy of Esperanto, in collaboration with Professors Sture Allén and Sven-Göran Malmgren of Göteborg University, organized a symposium on crosscultural communication in Göteborg, Sweden, on August 2-3, 2003. The Swedish Academy, founded in 1768 by the king Gustavus III, supported the symposium financially; so did the Department of Swedish of Göteborg University.

Languages: Esperanto and English.

Time: 2003-08-02 14:00 through 2003-08-03 17:25.

Venue: Göteborg University, Department of Swedish, Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborg, Sweden. The lectures took place in the lecture room "Lilla hörsalen" in the building "Humanisten."

Program. Titles and abstracts. The program, with abstracts and a list of participants, is available here in three formats: DVI - PS - PDF.

Invited speakers

• Sture Allén, Professor of Computational Linguistics 1972-1993 at Göteborg University; Member of the Swedish Academy; its Permanent Secretary 1986-1999.
  Hĺkansdal 86, SE-417 49 Göteborg.
• Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Professor of Swedish.
  Göteborg University, Department of Swedish. P. O. Box 200, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. E-mail: lars-gunnar.andersson@svenska.gu.se
• Detlev Blanke, Dr. habil., Universität Humboldt, Berlin.
  Address: Otto-Nagel-Strasse 110, DE-12683 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: dblanke.gil@snafu.de
• Renato Corsetti, Professor of Psychopedagogy of Languages and Communication; Secretary General, Academy of Esperanto.
  University of Rome "La Sapienza," Facoltŕ di Psicologia, Via del Marsi 78, IT-00185 Roma, Italy. E-mail: renato.corsetti@uniroma1.it
• Probal Dasgupta, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Dean of the School of Humanities; Vice President, Academy of Esperanto.
  University of Hyderabad, Centre for Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies, IN-500 046 Hyderabad, India. E-mail: probal_dasgupta@hotmail.com, probal53@yahoo.com
  
• FU Kin-hung, Professor, The Hong Kong Institute of Education. E-mail: khfu@ied.edu.hk
• Koutny Ilona, Dr.; Member, Academy of Esperanto.
  Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Linguistics, Miedzychodzka 5, PL-60-371 Poznan, Poland. E-mail: ikoutny@amu.edu.pl
• Jouko Lindstedt, Professor of Slavonic Philology; Member, Academy of Esperanto.
  University of Helsinki, Slavonic and Baltic Department, P. O. Box 24, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: jouko.lindstedt@helsinki.fi
• Sven-Göran Malmgren, Professor of Swedish.
  Göteborg University, Department of Swedish. P. O. Box 200, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. E-mail: Sven-Goeran.Malmgren@svenska.gu.se
• Franz-Georg Rössler. Am Mönchsbusch 6, DE-67373 Dudenhofen, Germanio. E-mail: rozsas@web.se
• Zlatko Tishljar. Besednjakova 1, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: zlatko.tisljar@azm-lu.si
• Humphrey Tonkin, Professor of Humanistic Studies, President Emeritus, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA. E-mail: tonkin@mail.hartford.edu

Participants

Persons who wished to participate in the symposium were requested to announce themselves to Christer Kiselman (address below) no later than July 15, 2003. However, several persons arrived and were welcomed although they announced themselves later.

Program Committee

• Honorary chair: Sture Allén, Professor of Computational Linguistics 1972-1993 at Göteborg University; Member of the Swedish Academy; its Permanent Secretary 1986-1999.
  Hĺkansdal 86, SE-417 49 Göteborg.
• Chair: Christer Kiselman, Professor of Mathematics; Vice President, Academy of Esperanto; Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  Uppsala University, Department of Mathematics, P. O. Box 480, SE-751 06 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: kiselman@math.uu.se
• Renato Corsetti, Professor of Psychopedagogy of Languages and Communication; Secretary General, Academy of Esperanto.
  University of Rome "La Sapienza," Facoltŕ di Psicologia, Via del Marsi 78, IT-00185 Roma, Italy. E-mail: renato.corsetti@uniroma1.it
• Probal Dasgupta, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Dean of the School of Humanities; Vice President, Academy of Esperanto.
  University of Hyderabad, Centre for Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies, IN-500 046 Hyderabad, India. E-mail: probal_dasgupta@hotmail.com, probal53@yahoo.com
• Sven-Göran Malmgren, Professor of Swedish.
  Göteborg University, Department of Swedish. P. O. Box 200, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. E-mail: Sven-Goeran.Malmgren@svenska.gu.se
• Geraldo Mattos, Professor Emeritus at the Universidade federal do Paraná, Instituto pri lingvistiko; Professor at the Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade; President, Academy of Esperanto.
  Address: Rua Rio Jutai, 316 Bairro Alto, BR-82840-420 Curitiba, PR, Brazil. E-mail: geraldomattos@netpar.com.br

Publication

The URL of this page is: www.math.uu.se/~kiselman/sik2003en.html. Last update 2005-07-31.