To investigate the current state of China's sericulture and silk industry, enhance exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and French silk enterprises, and facilitate interactions among members of ISU, a delegation visits China from May 19 to 21, 2024. The delegation includes Xavier Lepingle, Vice Chairman of ISU and Vice President of UNITEX, CEO of Holdings Textile Hermès(HTH); Alexandra Thuriot, Quality Director of HTH; and Thierry Lanier, Director of Research and Development of HTH.

To further strengthen exchanges and interactions with sericulture and silk organizations and enterprises in Southeast Asia, and to understand the development conditions and supportive policies of the sericulture and silk industries in various Southeast Asian countries, from May 7th to May 13th, 2024, Zhang Guoqiang, Chairman of ISU and Chairman of the Board of Cathaya Group, leads a delegation to inspect the sericulture and silk industries in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, and holds the discussions with Queen Sirikit Department of Sericulture of Thailand, Department of Agriculture of Laos,

Dear Colleagues

Below is the Call for Abstracts (with links), for the (SCOPUS / ISI) SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2024, the African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology, December 4-7, 2024. The major event will foreground the Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society of Africa, globally. Please be at liberty to disseminate this CFA / CFP to networks.

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Call For Abstracts - The SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2024
(the GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology)
(SCOPUS / ISI (AHCI / SSCI / CPCI) indexed)

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