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Workshop - May 2009

May 9-10, Saturday & Sunday, 10:00-16:30

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WORKSHOP:
Practically Unspoken: The Legacy of E.T. Hall

LEADER:
Prof. John (Jack) Condon, Ph. D

PLACE:
Reitaku University Seminar Center, Shinjuku i-Land Tower 4F

LANGUAGE:
English

FEE:
Members 8000Yen (1 Day) 15000Yen(2 Days)
Non-members 10000Yen (1 Day) 20000Yen(2 Days)
Member Students 3000Yen (1 Day) 6000Yen(2 Days)
Non-member Students 5000Yen (1 Day) 10000Yen(2 Days)
Non-member Graduate Student 6000Yen (1 Day) 12000Yen(2 Days)

Membership & benefits

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

In May, SIETAR Japan honors the 50th Anniversary of E.T. Hall's, The Silent Language - the book widely acknowledged as launching the field of intercultural communication studies, which has influenced more people in more parts of the world and across more fields of inquiry, including communication, photography, architecture, organization, psychology -- than any other work in the past 50 years.John (Jack) Condon has been colleague, friend and neighbor of Prof. Hall for more than forty years. On May 9 and 10 these workshops will present Hall's visions and philosophy, much of which has been overlooked, his methods of studying intercultural communication, ways of teaching, and look at our field today which reflects and has diverged from Hall's vision. Each day will review Hall's insights and include activities useful when planning research, teaching and training in our field.

Saturday's workshop may be slightly more "academic," with discussion of Hall and his contemporaries and their influence on us today. Hall's perspectives and methods of teaching will be featured through activities and discussions.

Sunday's workshop will also include a brief review of Hall's history and influences, and continuing challenges, and re-view these in a world where communication is instant and digital. On Sunday, Prof. Condon will include more of his outlook and some favorite teaching methods as well.

WORKSHOP LEADERS:
Prof. John (Jack) Condon is a pioneer in the field of intercultural communication with special significance in Japan where he helped shape the field and taught many of today's scholars and continues to mentor others. Jack is credited with writing the first intercultural communication dissertation (Ph.D, Northwestern Univ.) and author of the first intercultural communication textbook that influenced many that followed. His writings, including 17 books, have been published in seven languages. He has studied in taught in Japan, Tanzania, Brazil, Mexico, Micronesia, and advised refugee work in Southeast Asia. His awards include his university's highest award for graduate teaching and a lifetime title of Regents' Professor, the Univ. of New Mexico's highest honor. Jack is a founding faculty member of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication where he has taught since its origin at Stanford University, and has received SIETAR's Senior Interculturalist award. While teaching at ICU in the 1970s the 1990s, Jack co-chaired, with the late Prof. Mitsuko Saito, the first-ever international intercultural communication conferences, and later directed the first ICC training program for the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. Valuing learning outside of the classroom, Condon today conducts intensive field trip seminars in New Mexico. His newest book, The Goose in the Bottle: Things Which Seem to Exist but Don't and Things Which Don't Seem to Exist, will be published early next year.

How to get there?:
i-Land Tower can be accessed directly from Nishi-Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line by following the underground path. From JR Shinjuku Station it is approximately a 10-minute walk. Once you get to the building, select an elevator that stops on the 4th floor. After you get off on the 4th floor, walk to the right until you get to the last door on your left.