ebulletin: June 2007
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General interest
Date: 8 April, 2008 - 9 April, 2008
Location: St Anne's College, University of Oxford
Event type: Conference
A conference focusing on ways of helping people to start and develop academic careers, with the emphasis on what these terms mean within particular academic disciplines. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 7 December, 2007
Location: CILT, 3rd Floor, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1
Event type: Other
CILT is moving, come and see the resources collection at the new premises on Friday December 7th There will be a chance to discuss your future needs with staff from CILT and the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. There will also be a presentation by the South East consortium of the Routes into Languages Programme, an initiative funded by HEFCE and the DCSF to increase and widen participation in language study in upper secondary and higher education. For more information, please email Steve Cushion.
Languages
Date: 16 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Workshop
Date: 14 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Forum
Date: 18 October, 2007
Location: Rm LG33, Building 28 (Learning Centre), Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham
Event type: Seminar
Date: 23 November, 2007
Location: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
This national workshop will bring together academics from modern languages departments who teach visual art from a range of national and historical contexts. By exploring the particular challenges and opportunities encountered in teaching the visual arts to students of modern languages, it will enable the sharing of best practice and the exchange of ideas, and will establish a network of colleagues working in this area. Colleagues wishing to participate should contact the workshop organisers; Abigail Brundin, Emma Wagstaff or Matthew Treherne. The event is free, but participants are asked to register at the workshop website.
Date: 9 November, 2007
Location: Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (LATEU), Building 25, Southampton University
Event type: Workshop
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to explore a fully-functional prototype repository of online learning materials enhanced with web 2.0 or social networking tools, and featuring an interface that enables you to browse using a language learning and teaching concept map. This repository allows ‘sharing in action’ and has been designed with community involvement so that it meets the needs of real life users. For more information, please see the conference website.
The Subject Centre invited bids for £1,000 for practitioners wishing to undertake small scale action research projects in languages, linguistics or area studies in UK higher education.
Date: 7 December, 2007
Location: CILT, 3rd Floor, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1
Event type: Other
CILT is moving, come and see the resources collection at the new premises on Friday December 7th There will be a chance to discuss your future needs with staff from CILT and the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. There will also be a presentation by the South East consortium of the Routes into Languages Programme, an initiative funded by HEFCE and the DCSF to increase and widen participation in language study in upper secondary and higher education. For more information, please email Steve Cushion.
Linguistics
Date: 14 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Forum
The Subject Centre invited bids for £1,000 for practitioners wishing to undertake small scale action research projects in languages, linguistics or area studies in UK higher education.
Area Studies
Date: 14 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Forum
Date: 18 October, 2007
Location: Rm LG33, Building 28 (Learning Centre), Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham
Event type: Seminar
Date: 23 November, 2007
Location: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
This national workshop will bring together academics from modern languages departments who teach visual art from a range of national and historical contexts. By exploring the particular challenges and opportunities encountered in teaching the visual arts to students of modern languages, it will enable the sharing of best practice and the exchange of ideas, and will establish a network of colleagues working in this area. Colleagues wishing to participate should contact the workshop organisers; Abigail Brundin, Emma Wagstaff or Matthew Treherne. The event is free, but participants are asked to register at the workshop website.
The Subject Centre invited bids for £1,000 for practitioners wishing to undertake small scale action research projects in languages, linguistics or area studies in UK higher education.
Other news
The Subject Centre for LLAS wishes to appoint an additional Academic Coordinator to work with the LLAS team in delivering its programme of activity.
With a background in languages, linguistics or language-related area studies you will have particular expertise in one or more of the following areas: Languages / Literary and cultural studies as part of modern languages degree programmes / Linguistics
Using professional and subject knowledge to plan, coordinate and deliver activities such as workshops, conferences, research projects for the UK higher education community, this is an exciting opportunity for somebody who wishes to gain experience in educational development and management in higher education.
The post will be for three years in the first instance. Interviews will take place on 25 June. For informal enquiries about this post, please contact Alison Dickens: A.M.Dickens@soton.ac.uk To apply, please go to : university jobs site
The Subject Centre has recently moved offices within the University of Southampton. The postal address remains the same. For any visitors, we are now based in room 3011, Building 65a (Crawford Building) at the Avenue Campus.
We are pleased to annouce that Liz Hudswell, Subject Centre Manager gave birth to a baby girl "Catherine Elizabeth" on Thursday 17 May 2007.
