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
Intercultural Competence in a Rapidly Changing World: Supporting Sustainable Futures for All
With plenary presenters:
- Vanessa Andreotti (University of Victoria)
- Irina Golubeva (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
- Ricardo Römhild (University of Passau)
Extended submission deadline: August 11, 2025
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. Proposals are accepted for papers (in-person and virtual), symposia (in-person and virtual), posters (virtual) and workshops (in-person and virtual).
Authors will be asked to choose from among the following strands:
- Theoretical and conceptual approaches
- Assessment
- Curricula, materials, and instructional approaches
- Technology
- Policy and institutional initiatives
- Exchanges (physical and virtual)
- Service/Community-based learning
- Professional learning of educators
Click here to see a PDF version of the call for proposals: CFP 10TH ICC_1page
➤➤➤ See the full guidelines and the link to submit your proposal here:
https://icc.cercll.arizona.edu/cfp26/
Proposals are due by the extended submission deadline of August 11, 2025.
—
ICC 2026 is hosted by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) at the University of Arizona and co-sponsored by the College of Humanities, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona International, Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Center for Latin American Studies (LAS), Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), all at the University of Arizona; and by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at Pennsylvania State University, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota, 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.