Supercriticality and Intercultural Dialogue

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education and has widely published in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. His latest publications include: (2022) Interculturality in Fragments. A Reflexive Approach; (2022) The Paradoxes of Interculturality. A Toolbox of Out-of-the-Box Ideas for intercultural Communication Education; (2023, with H. R'boul) Through the Looking-Glass of Interculturality. Autocritiques. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the 'canon' of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin's idée fixes in his works over the past 20 years. Huiyu Tan is Senior Lecturer in English at the School of Foreign Studies at Shanghai University of Finance andEconomics. She teaches and researches intercultural communication education and internationalization and has published in both national and international journals (e.g. Language and Intercultural Communication; Language, Culture and Curriculum).

Invigorating interculturality through supercriticality and dialogue (Fred Dervin).- Crossing bridges.- Thinking big and thinking deep.- The ‘crash course’ of identity, othering and Chinese stories.- Advising versus preparing.- Resonating with others.- On being affected implicitly.- Balance and chaos.- Acts of compromise.- There is no formula for intercultural communication.- From whose perspective.- Refreshing our ideas, thoughts and attitudes.- Politics of Interculturality.- Daring to ask, daring to challenge.- The indispensable collision of thoughts.- Instilling interculturality in our practices.- Conclusions: Supercriticality as a way of dealing with ‘interculturalese’.