The next conference will be hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on October 23-25, 2008. Featured guest speakers will include award-winning novelist Sara Kadefors, author and journalist Johan Tell, linguist and pedagogy expert Gunlög Sundberg from Stockholm University, and Ambassador Ingrid Iremark from the Embassy of Sweden in Ottawa.More detailed program information will be posted soon. Hotel accommodation for participants has been reserved at the Holiday Inn Vancouver Downtown. Conference registration must be completed by September 30 in order to ensure hotel reservations.The conference is organized and sponsored by the Consulate General of Sweden in New York in collaboration with the Swedish Institute and the Embassy of Sweden in Ottawa. For information, contact Niklas Arnegren at niklas.arnegren@foreign.ministry.se