Professional Activities

International conference „Educating the Global Citizen: International Perspectives on Foreign Language Teaching in the Digital Age“

With more than 400 participants from over 30 countries, this conference took place from 25-28 March 2019. Its focus was to explore citizenship and sustainability education from a wide range of perspectives and with a particular view to digital settings, practices and methodologies. Next to the many innovative and thought-provoking presentations, symposia and discussions, we were honoured to welcome highly distinguished plenary speakers:

Michael Byram, Durham University, UK & Université de Luxembourg, Luxemburg
William Gaudelli, Lehigh University, USA
Glynda Hull, University of Berkeley, USA
Liz Jackson, University of Hong Kong, China
Claire Kramsch, University of Berkeley, USA
Greg Misiaszek, Beijing Normal University, China
Hugh Starkey, University College London, England

 

International conference "Media Literacy in Foreign Language Education: Digital and Multimodal Perspectives"

The conference took place at the LMU Munich on March 12-15th, 2017. This conference responded to the ever-growing significance of media where there is a call to challenge, negotiate and expand on current discourses that have formulated media literacy as an integral objective in 21st century foreign language education. Next to more than 350 international guests and 90 conference speakers, Prof. Dr. Christiane Lütge welcomed our highly distinguished plenary speakers:

• Prof. Dr. Bill Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
  "Language Learning and Assessment in the Era of Technology-Mediated Learning"
• Prof. Dr. Gunther Kress, University College London, UK
  "Speech and writing in an era of social and semiotic provisionality: multimodal representation and the growing dominance of the screen"
• Prof. Dr. Catherine Beavis, Deakin University, Australia
  "Digital Literacies, Digital Games: Language, Learning and Play "
• Prof. Dr. Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
  "A Grammar of Multimodality"

The photos below show Christiane Lütge together with the four plenary speakers Mary Kalantzis, Catherine Beavis, Gunther Kress and Bill Cope (from left to right) at the closing panel of the conference.

Lecture series in Japan: Prof. Dr. Christiane Lütge was invited speaker at Global Citizenship Conferences

 

• 5th October 2016: Waseda University, keynote at symposium on 'Global Citizenship Education'
• 6th October 2016: Tokai University, lecture and panel discussion at JALT conference on 'Global Citizenship Education' (newsletter about Prof. Lütge's lecture and the conference symposium)
• 7th October 2016: Tokyo University, lecture at International Symposium on Education

Prof. Lütge, International Symposium on Education, Tokyo University

Welcome - Prof. Lütge, International Symposium on Education, Tokyo University

Lecture - Prof. Lütge, International Symposium on Education, Tokyo University

Panel discussion - Prof. Lütge, International Symposium on Education, Tokyo University

Prof. Lütge, symposium on Global Citizenship Education, Waseda University