Registration to the conference Rethinking intercultural communication through its ethical and ecological dimentions

The conference will take place on Monday 5th May 2025 at 14.00 online. You will receive the link after your registration.

In this conference, Mélanie Le Forestier (UT2J) will explore a theoretical framework for intercultural communication that emphasizes a critical approach. This critical perspective considers interculturality through social relations like race, class, and gender, highlighting the role of power in interactions. This study in professional engineering contexts illustrates how intercultural communication can occur among people with different professional expertise, not just different nationalities. We argue for understanding intercultural communication through the perception and social representations of the actors involved, making it context-dependent and ethically significant. Lastly, we connect intercultural communication to broader societal, technological, and environmental challenges, advocating for an ethical and ecological approach in engineering practices.

The conference will be given by Mélanie Le Forestier, Lecturer in information and communication sciences at Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès University, specialized in intercultural communication.

For more information you can contact universeh@univ-tlse2.fr