ebulletin: September 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: 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.
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: 21 September, 2007
Location: Open Access Centre, Newcastle University
Event type: Subject Centre sponsored lecture
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.
Linguistics
Date: 14 November, 2007
Location: Senate House, University of London
Event type: Forum
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.
Other news
This month we welcome Shoshannah Holdom, our new academic coordinator, who as part of her role will be helping to develop our activity in supporting the teaching of literary and cultural studies.
The Subject Centre wishes to gather and disseminate information on the organisation and structure of residence abroad for students doing two languages. We are interested in collating this information so that current practice can be shared across the sector. Please note that any information received will be treated in confidence and no specific details will be attributed to individual institutions.
Year abroad survey for dual linguists:
With activity to promote language learning set to intensify as the Routes into Language project takes off, here's an activity to get students thinking about point of learning another language and producing a useful resource at the same time. The competition, run by CILT, involves creating a two minute video clip that presents the most convincing case for being able to speak more than one language. It can be an interview, an animation, a sketch or even some sort of spoof - the funnier the better!
