have listed the conference papers that I have either authored individually or collectively. Where possible, I have provided links to the paper abstracts and/or full-length versions of the papers. The papers are organized according to year and conference.

2009

Paper Presented at 2nd Conference on Culture, Language & Social Practice, Boulder, Colorado, Oct. 2009

• Demont-Heinrich, C. English-language hegemony, (American) English monolinguals, and the question of multilingual reciprocity in a globalizing world. Conference on Culture, Language & Social Practice, Boulder, Colorado, Oct. 2009.

2008

Papers Presented at 2nd Annual Global International Studies Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2008

• Demont-Heinrich, C., Ivanisin, M., Holc, J., Maher, D., Mlakar, R. (2008). Identity, culture and learning process in an international online student forum. Global International Studies Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2008.

2007

Papers Presented at ICA, San Francisco, May 2007

• Demont-Heinrich, C. (2007). The death of cultural imperialism -- and power too? A critical analysis of American prestige press representations of the hegemony of English. International Communication Association conference, San Francisco, May 2007.

2006

Papers Presented at ICA, Dresden, Germany, June 2006

• Demont-Heinrich, C. (2006). English by popular demand?: The French Foil and the valorization of 'universal' American values. International Communication Association conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2006.
• Demont-Heinrich, C. (2006). The global hegemony of English and the 'tongue-tied' American. International Communication Association conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2006.

2005

Paper Presented at University of Colorado, Boulder Colloquium, Boulder, Colorado, April 2005

• Demont-Heinrich, C. (2005). Can we have our global language rights cake and eat it too? The tension between English-language hegemony and multilingual reciprocity in a globalizing world. University of Colorado, Boulder Colloquium: A Rights Revolution?
  Communication Rights and Global Justice.

2004

Papers Presented at International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication Conference (IALIC), Dublin, Ireland, November 2004

• Demont-Heinrich, C. (2004). Insularity in the global linguistic center?: American 'prestige press' discourses on English and globalization in a post cold war world.

Papers Presented at ICA, New Orleans, May 2004

• Demont-Heinrich, C. Language and national identity in the era of globalization: The case of English in Switzerland. Winner of a top student paper award, Language and Social Interaction Division.
• Demont-Heinrich, C. Language, paradox, and postcoloniality: An application of postcolonial critical theoretical perspectives to the problematic of linguistic hegemony in India -- and beyond. Winner of a top student award, Philosophy of Communication Division.
• Demont-Heinrich, C. Global politics, power, and the 'language of wider communication': Mapping the hegemony of English in the world capitalist system.

2003

Papers Presented at AOIR, Toronto, October, 2003 (presented by Lynn Schofield Clark)

• Demont-Heinrich, C., Clark, L. & Webber, S. The bloom is off the rose: Families of limited socio-economic means and the rhetoric of computers and success

Papers Presented at ICA, San Diego, May 2003

• Clark, L., Demont-Heinrich, C. & Webber, S. Ethnographic interviews on the digital divide.

2002

Papers Presented at NCA, New Orleans, Nov. 2002 (presented by Guowei Jian)

• Taylor, B.C., Demont-Heinrich, C., Broadfoot, K. Dodge, J., & Jian, G. New media and the circuit of cyber-culture: Conceptualizing Napster.

Papers Presented at IAMCR, Barcelona, July 2002

• Demont-Heinrich, C. When the panopticon goes online: Charting the geography of power, control and surveillance in cyberspace.
• Demont-Heinrich, C. Central points of control and surveillance on a "decentralized" Net: Internet service providers and privacy and freedom of speech online

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