ebulletin: July 2007
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General interest
Date: 10 October, 2007
Location: Leeds Metropolitan University
Event type: Workshop
It is often asked if enterprise and entrepreneurship are relevant for students in humanities disciplines. In this workshop research into how humanities graduates can gain from learning and experiencing enterprise and entrepreneurship will be presented, as well as discussing ways in which students and institutions can implement and benefit from such experiences. The relevance of enterprising skills for ALL graduates, not simply those setting up on their own, will be discussed, as well as problems, setbacks and ways forward. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 20 September, 2007
Location: University of Oxford
Event type: Other
This day of discussion on the nature of academic careers in Humanities subjects is sponsored by the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, and the Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, University of Oxford. LLAS is looking for early career colleagues who have recently completed a Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (or equivalent course) to contribute to discussions from a languages, linguistics or area studies point of view. Places are limited. Please contact John Canning with a brief biography (one paragraph) if you are interested.
Date: 10 September, 2007 - 11 September, 2007
Location: Clare College, Cambridge
Event type: Conference
Languages
Date: 18 July, 2007
Location: The Thornton Room, Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool
Event type: Conference
An information/training day for those working in employability with language graduates, or with an interest in employability. Contact Diane Appleton for more information. Full cost is £50.
Date: 10 July, 2007
Location: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Event type: Conference
Date: 18 October, 2007
Location: Rm LG33, Building 28 (Learning Centre), Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham
Event type: Seminar
Date: 10 July, 2007
Location: Homerton College, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2PH
Event type: Workshop
The revised benchmark statements for Languages, Linguistics and related studies are now available for consultation.
Linguistics
Date: 24 August, 2007 - 26 August, 2007
Location: UCL Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics, London WC1
Event type: Conference
The conference is organised jointly by UCL, The University of Westminster and the Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies. The keynote speaker will be Dr Beverly Collins of the University of Leiden, co-author of The Real Professor Higgins: the Life and Career of Daniel Jones. His talk will be entitled Daniel Jones and UCL - a hundred years of phonetic history. For further information, please visit the PTLC2007 website.
Date: 29 August, 2007 - 1 September, 2007
Location: King's College London
Event type: Conference
The Subject Centre is sponsoring a session at this event which will take place on 31st August 12.10-12.50. Angela Goddard will talk about her recent research and publication "As simple as ABC: issues of transition for students of English Language A level going on to study English Language/Linguistics at University. The report was funded by the English Subject Centre and can be downloaded from the English subject centre For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 6 September, 2007 - 8 September, 2007
Location: University of Edinburgh
Event type: Conference
The 40th BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) annual conference will be jointly hosted by three departments of the University of Edinburgh: Linguistics and English Language, the Institute for Applied Language Studies and The Moray House School of Education. The Subject Centre will be presenting a short session about its work in the area of Linguistics at this conference. A highlight of the event will be the celebration of 50 years of applied linguistics at the university. This will be marked by the invited Pit Corder Colloquium and a dinner in Old College. For further information, visit the BAAL website.
Date: 10 July, 2007
Location: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Event type: Conference
The revised benchmark statements for Languages, Linguistics and related studies are now available for consultation.
Area Studies
Date: 10 July, 2007
Location: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Event type: Conference
Date: 18 October, 2007
Location: Rm LG33, Building 28 (Learning Centre), Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham
Event type: Seminar
Other news
Heather McGuinness (Programme Manager) and Claire Dugdale (Programme Administrator) started work at Southampton in May 2007. The Steering Group meets regularly and decisions were made in April and May selecting the four pilot regional consortia, the two national networks in translation and interpreting, and the three research projects.
Routes into Languages is delighted to announce a call for bids for a further five regional consortia. If you would like further details of the call for bids please email Claire Dugdale or phone 023 8059 9413
Latest information is on the website at www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk
