We are accepting proposals for the 2026 ICC Conference!
Intercultural Competence in a Rapidly Changing World:
Supporting Sustainable Futures for All
The Tenth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
February 27 – March 1, 2026
A Hybrid Event in Tucson, Arizona, and Online
Submission deadline: July 21, 2025
Plenary Presenters
- Vanessa Andreotti (University of Victoria)
- Maria-José de la Fuente (George Washington University)
- Ricardo Römhild (University of Passau)
In 2015, 191 United Nations (UN) member states adopted the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their targets to improve life on our shared planet by 2030. Goal 4 calls for quality education for all, and Target 4.7 calls for increased education in two key areas: global citizenship and sustainable development, which have recently received increased attention in language education.
We ask: What role might intercultural communicative language education play in promoting a more sustainable world for all? What might an intercultural communicative language education for a more sustainable world look like? What might be the implications for teachers and learners of moving towards intercultural communicative language education for sustainability?
With these issues and questions in mind, CERCLL invites language educators to reflect on how they could re-envision what they teach and how they teach it to meaningfully address these crises with the goal of building a sustainable world for all.
⮞ See the complete Call for Proposals here.
Download a one-page CFP here [PDF].
Featuring experts in Intercultural Competence from across the U.S. and internationally, the Intercultural Competence Conference (ICC) is for K-16 educators and students in fields related to Foreign Languages, Social Sciences/Studies and the Humanities, and for others involved in government, NGOs, and the private sector who are interested in seeing and interpreting relationships between cultures. This biennial event brings together researchers and practitioners across languages, levels, and settings to discuss and share research, theory, and best practices, and to foster meaningful professional dialog on issues related to the development and assessment of Intercultural Competence, especially in a foreign or second language.
This is the tenth iteration of the ICC conference organized by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), a Title VI Language Resource Center at the University of Arizona.
ICC 2025 is cosponsored by the College of Humanities, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program, Arizona International, Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of Arizona; and by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at Pennsylvania State University, the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota, the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon, and the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.