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Extracurricular activity

April 2008 – First LSP International Conference of the Al.I.Cuza University in Iasi, on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in a World of Global Pluralism.

2005, 2007 – member in the peer review committee of the international conference TEPE -2005, TEPE  2007: http://hidrotehnica.utcb.ro/simp05 http://hidro164.utcb.ro/tepe_2007/en/tabla_en.aspDec. 2004 – Conference of the Dept of Business Communication in ASE.

Sept. 2003 – Round table Translation  An Intercultural Approach, organised by the Faculty of Technical Equipment, Bucharest.

Sept. 2003 – The 2nd Anti-Conference organised by Ovidius University, Constanta.

May 2003 – British and American Studies International Conference, organised by the University of West, Timisoara.

June 2002 – Public presentation and defending of PhD thesis at the University of Bucharest.

Oct.2001 – International conference on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity  Factor of European Development, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest.

1999, October – Business Culture and Communication: Challenges of the Millennium, conference organised by the ASE, ESU-Romania and PROSPER-ASE LC.

1998, August –  IATEFL East 98, 3rd EFL Conference in the Balkan Region.

1997, Nov. –  1st European Conference on Private Language Education in Europe. Its Contribution to the Multilingual and Multicultural Aspect of the European Union, Salonique, Greece.

September 1997 – International conference of the Special Interest Group Teachers Develop Teachers Research, University of Oranim, Israel.

1995-1996 – the Manchester University Distance-learning MEd module in Language Assessment.

1995 – Admitted to a Ph.D. programme with the Bucharest University, the Institute of Education, on: Developing and improving foreign language teaching/learning strategies in adult education.

1994, Apr.- June – Teacher development course for Romanian Teachers of ESP in Tertiary Education, The Management of Change, Lancaster University, Institute for English Language Education, UK.

1993, Feb. – Communicative English Language Teaching Methodology organized by the British Council.

1996, April – Seminar on Efficient Management organised by BC Romania and CIMP (Romanian Centre of Implementing Performant Management).

1996, March – International seminar organised in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by ELTECS, BC and Syllabus-private language school on ELT Management and Marketing.

1996, February – International Conference organised by the English-Speaking Union-Hungary in Budapest, English A Window of Opportunity.

1996, Jan. – Open Week For Training Managers, LTS, Bath, UK.

1995, Jan. –  International seminar on Private English Language Teaching Management, organized by ELTECS and the BC in Budapest, Hungary.

1974 – British Council exchange programe: British Culture and Civilization, one month in the UK.

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Curriculum vitae

Professor Mariana Nicolae is a vicedean of the School of International Business and Economics of the Bucharest University of Economics (BUE). With about 42,000 students enrolled in all forms of education, BUE is the most important university of economic and business higher education in Romania. Professor Nicolae is also the director of the Master in International Business Communication programme delivered in English.

Professor Mariana Nicolae holds a university degree in English literature and linguistics from the University of Bucharest, Romania, a Ph.D. in Education from the same university, and is currently working on a doctoral degree in Management, with a focus on leadership in higher education. Besides teaching, research and academic management, her current duties involve institutional building, coaching and mentoring, networking with people and organizations, publishing, traveling both in-country and abroad to attend conferences and seminars and organizing (inter)national conferences in Romania. She was a Fulbright senior scholar at .the California State University of San Bernardino (CSUSB) in 2005. She has been invited as an expert evaluator in the Framework Programme FP7 of the European Union. She is a founding member of the English-Speaking Union-Romania, an honorary member of Phi Beta Delta, Gamma Lambda CSUSB, member of the Romanian Association for American Studies, of the Bucharest English Teachers Association and of the Association for Women Entrepreneurship Development.

Contact details:

http://www.ase.ro/site/despre/profesori/index28.asp?ID=482

www.mibcom.ase.ro

e-mail: mariana.nicolae@rei.ase.ro

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