Nitobe Symposium 6 (Reykjavik, Iceland): Languages and Internationalization in Higher Education: Ideologies, Practices, Alternatives

The symposium consisted of papers, presentations and panel discussions by experts from across the world, with particular emphasis on the Nordic countries and on languages of instruction in higher education. The topic was linked particularly to the publication of the book edited by Anna Kristina Hultgren, Frans Gregersen, and Jacob Thøgersen, English in Nordic Universities: Ideology and Practice, published in the series Studies in World Language Problems, by the publisher John Benjamins, Amsterdam. The symposium was particularly concerned with the expanding use of English-medium instruction in higher education and the repercussions, positive and negative, of this development. The symposium also examined alternative approaches.  Although the starting-point was the Nordic countries, contributions on the language-of-instruction situation in higher education in other parts of the world were welcome.

The symposium took place under the auspices of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and the Vigdis Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages. Financial support was received from the Esperantic Studies Foundation and from John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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