Keynote speaker announced for GLECC2026
Following the success of GLECC2025, we are very pleased to announce that the 2nd International Conference on Globalisation/Deglobalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) will be held 28-30 July, 2026, Manchester, UK.
A keynote speech for GLECC2026 has been announced: “Translation, Chinese Texts, and World Literature” by Professor Yifeng Sun, University of Macau, China.
Last year we welcomed over 60 scholars, educators, practitioners and students from 18 countries and regions to the vibrant city of Manchester in July.
A wide-range of thought provoking works were presented by scholars, PhD and master students and practitioners. Highlights include literary translation and technology, cultural memory through the prism of heritage sites in Japan and Korea, linguistic nationalism of Catalan and challenges in Spanish heritage language education in the USA, liberal arts education through theatre practice in a Chinese university, teaching English in Japan and Hong Kong, the role of AI in language teaching and learning, gender issues in Georgian language classrooms, cultural adaption of Iranian students in Austria, Moroccan youth culture and identity, progressive values study in Taiwan.
This cross-disciplinary conference brought down the barriers and provided the opportunity for economists, sociologist, linguists, language educators, translators, historians, artists, educators, cultural practitioners, university administrators to examine the phenomena of globalisation, deglobalisation and reglobalisation and their impact on languages, education, culture and communication.
Out of 40 presented papers, 18 were invited to publish with one of the four AT-Journals. The conference proceedings Navigating Global Currents: Languages, Education, Culture & Communication in Transition (ISBN: 978-1-0682208-0-7 (eBook), ISBN:978-1-0682208-1-4 (print), https://doi.org/10.56395/glecc2025) can be downloaded here.
You are invited to make a submission to the GLECC2026 conference.
Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 https://glecc.org/2026Kind regards,
Karen Wang
On behalf of the GLECC2026 Organising Committee and AT-Publishing
