This conference seeks to build on the success of previous PEN conferences held in Edinburgh (2000), Barcelona (2002), Braga (2004), Maynooth (2007) and Seville (2011). It will be hosted by the University of Malta in Veletta Campus.
The conference is an opportunity for university-based teachers and researchers, student-activists and others involved in higher education, who share a common interest in popular education – many of whom work in considerable isolation in their own institutions – to meet, exchange ideas, learn from each other and enjoy some much needed solidarity and conviviality. See more...

The European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) will organise on 24-27 April in Istanbul, Turkey its annual symposium to gather various stakeholders from different cultural backgrounds to reflect upon a common theme. This year’s specific focus on creativity in education and intercultural learning will be the opportunity to share best practices and learn from each other through debates with experts, intercultural workshops by AFS trainers, educational best practice workshops delivered by attendees from all around the world, creativity sessions, field trips, co-teaching opportunities and visits to like-minded organizations. Apply here before 17 February!

New Trends in Language Didactics conference is aimed at bringing together specialists working on different topics of language learning. It represents an outstanding opportunity of exchange between researchers, research groups and institutions working in the field.
The conference is organised around the following main lines of research:

Topics

We are inviting presentations reflecting the developments of our rapidly changing times within the focus of the following themes:

Proposals

Proposals for the oral presentations can be sent by email in .doc format together with the following information:

The proposals may be send at language.didactics@gmail.com by 25th February 2014. Abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed. A selection of the papers will be published in the volume of the conference.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 10 March 2014.

Languages

The official languages of the conference are: English, Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian. Professional interpretation will be provided if needed.

The European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) will hold its annual conference at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, from 10 to 13 June 2014. The theme of the conference is “From Education to Employment and Meaningful Work with ICTs – Elearning at work and the workplace”.
The conference organisers have published a call for contributions including paper presentations, posters and workshops that relate to the conference themes. The deadline for paper submissions is 31 January.
More information about the call and the event is available through the conference website.

The conference “Connecting through Culture - A Vision for Global Citizenship” will take place at Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg, from 4 to 6 June 2014.
The focus of the event, which is co-organised by the University of Luxembourg, is to examine the critical role of culture/broad education “for developing students who think broadly, who recognize and respect cultural diversity and heritage, and whose engagement in the arts serves as a conduit to personal authenticity and innovation”.
Details about the event and the programme are available here. For information on the conference and how to register, please see the website.

The Fourth International Nobel Economic Congress, “The World Economy in XXI Century: Cycles and Crises”, will take place at the Alfred Nobel University (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) from 21 to 24 May 2014.
The conference website highlights that the principal theme for debate in 2014 will be “Economics and the Economy: the Dialectic of Cooperation.” Problems relating to this theme will be discussed at the plenary sessions, where reports will be delivered from national economic institutes and economists.
To find out more or to register, please visit the event website.

The University of Cologne is hosting from 8 to 10 May 2014 the conference: “On the way to the ‘best Children’s University’: The Supply and Demand Relationship under the Principle of Participation. Opportunities and Challenges Raised by the Children’s University”.
The conference is “aimed at children’s university organizers and also at experts from the education and science communication fields, at practitioners from education institutions whose target groups are children and young people, and at multipliers from politics and media”. It will be held in German and English.
For more information or to contact the organisers, please visit the conference website

The Higher Education Academy is holding a one-day symposium on 1 May at the University of Liverpool on teaching the transatlantic - its pedagogies and practices.
The interactive workshop - The transatlantic: towards a scholarship of learning and teaching - will consider pedagogies produced by the Caribbean and the transatlantic and is likely to be of particular interest to teachers of History, American Studies, Literature, and Languages.
Twenty years after the publication of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness and 25 years after Bernabé, Chamoiseau and Confiant published their manifesto In Praise of Creoleness, this event will explore how teaching the transatlantic engages the ‘shattered histories’ (Walcott, 1998) of the Atlantic. More...

Bookings are now open for the second Future Directions Conference, which takes place on 2 and 3 April 2014 at Aberystwyth University.
The event will launch the new Future Directions theme – Global Graduates: Enabling Flexible Learning and will feature a series of paper, poster, nano-teach, discussion and workshop sessions in the following themes: distinctive graduates, inspiring teaching, learning for employment, learner journeys, and students as partners. More...

This event is on 7 July 2014