Hear more on intercultural competence in new speaker series

Have you ever considered how your culture and the community you live in shapes your identity, values, beliefs and preferences?

Developing your intercultural competence is arguably one of the most valuable skills you can develop for the modern workplace.

World-renowned Emeritus Professor Mike Byram is the inaugural guest in the Distinguished Speaker Series from the OU’s School of Languages and Applied Linguistics on Thursday 17 February (13:00).

You will learn more about what it means to be interculturally competent and why an ‘internationalist’ approach to working across cultures might be exactly what we all need!

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Upcoming Events

Jul 16

Guest lecture: Fraud, Data and Emerging Risks

Thursday, July 16, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:30

Online on MS Teams

This guest lecture with Mike Haley, CEO of Cifas, will provide an overview of the types of fraud currently causing the greatest harm to society and examine how advances in AI are likely to affect fraud cases in the future.

Sep 2

Caring Feminisms Across Borders Conference

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 - 09:00 to Friday, September 4, 2026 - 17:00

University of Donja Gorica, Oktoih 1, Podgorica 81000, Montenegro

This academic conference hopes to draw feminist scholars, activists and communities together to consider what caring feminism across borders might mean now and for the future.

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