ebulletin: October 2007
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General interest
Date: 16 June, 2008 - 17 June, 2008
Location: Liverpool Hope University
Event type: Conference
The PRHE organisers are calling for submissions of abstracts (300 words) for papers and posters (research or theoretical/conceptual). All abstracts for both types of submission will be independently reviewed by two referees. In particular, we are looking for submissions that are empirically and/or theoretically based rather than un-theorised descriptions of practice. Authors of accepted papers (not posters) will be given the opportunity for redrafting after the conference for publication in a special conference issue of PRIME (Pedagogical Research in Maximising Education) to be distributed to every conference delegate. 30 November 2007 is the deadline for receipt of abstracts and 1 February 2008 is the date for notification of acceptance. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 22 January, 2008
Location: Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
Event type: Conference
The conference will bring together issues, key evidence and recommendations for action by HEIs and relevant sectoral bodies. A mix of plenaries, discussion sessions and case study presentations will offer opportunities to explore ways of tackling differential attainment. In identifying practices HEIs can use to address statutory requirements to promote equality of opportunity, this conference will also explore the benefits derived from creating inclusive and fair learning and assessment experiences for all students. For more information, please see the conference website.
Languages
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Date: 31 January, 2008
Location: Humanities Research Institute, Douglas Knoop Centre, University of Sheffield, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield, S3 7QY
Event type: Seminar
Proposals are invited for this year’s Workshop to Go programme. Workshops dealing with key themes for this year include assessment, supporting new staff and engaging with employers will be particularly welcome. The successful applicant will be required to produce a training pack and run two regional training sessions for HE staff. Participants at the workshop will then be expected to 'cascade' the training within their institutions.
Date: 25 November, 2007
Location: School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle UniversityEvent Type: Conference
Event type: Conference
The linguistic aspects of postcolonial writing and the stylistic aspects of language in postcolonial contexts are under-researched areas. These domains engage creative writers and academic scholars in equal measure, and this conference aims to map some of the new research that is being done at the intersections between postcolonial writing, linguistics and criticism. Some of the topics covered will include: Caribbean poetics and linguistics, African pidgins and language contact, postcolonial theories of translation, Indian and African postcolonial literature and heteroglossia. This one-day conference will showcase research in these areas at Newcastle as well as invited papers from key researchers in these domains both nationally and internationally. For Further details and to download a registration form, please visit the conference website.
Linguistics
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Date: 16 April, 2008
Location: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Event type: Symposium
This event is a one-day symposium organised by the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG. The purpose of the meeting is to present and discuss research based on studying originals and one or more translations. Languages may be any combination of two or more languages, including sign languages. Any type of corpus systematic processing and analysis is permissible, including the use of Multiconc or Paraconc software, typed transcripts and audiovisual files. For more information, please contact Verena Jung.
Date: 15 March, 2008
Location: the University of Essex, Colchester
Event type: Conference
The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex invites you to its third postgraduate day-conference held on 15th March 2008. Following the success of the previous years' postgraduate conferences, we will be inviting papers covering *any* field of Linguistics. This conference is aimed at postgraduate students and presents them with a great opportunity to present and discuss current research, results and problems and meet their peers. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 25 January, 2008
Location: University of Southampton
Event type: Workshop
This workshop will present a new corpus of spoken L2 Spanish (Spanish Language learner Oral Corpus: SPLLOC), and review the potential contribution of learner corpora to SLA research. It consists of samples of learner speech in a variety of genres, from beginners to advanced. The conventions and software of the CHILDES project have been used for transcription and part of speech tagging of the corpus. The programme includes presentations from members of the SPLLOC team about the corpus design and associated research programme, and a hands-on workshop demonstrating CHILDES programmes for data analysis. For more information, please see the conference website.
Proposals are invited for this year’s Workshop to Go programme. Workshops dealing with key themes for this year include assessment, supporting new staff and engaging with employers will be particularly welcome. The successful applicant will be required to produce a training pack and run two regional training sessions for HE staff. Participants at the workshop will then be expected to 'cascade' the training within their institutions.
Date: 25 November, 2007
Location: School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle UniversityEvent Type: Conference
Event type: Conference
The linguistic aspects of postcolonial writing and the stylistic aspects of language in postcolonial contexts are under-researched areas. These domains engage creative writers and academic scholars in equal measure, and this conference aims to map some of the new research that is being done at the intersections between postcolonial writing, linguistics and criticism. Some of the topics covered will include: Caribbean poetics and linguistics, African pidgins and language contact, postcolonial theories of translation, Indian and African postcolonial literature and heteroglossia. This one-day conference will showcase research in these areas at Newcastle as well as invited papers from key researchers in these domains both nationally and internationally. For Further details and to download a registration form, please visit the conference website.
Area Studies
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Proposals are invited for this year’s Workshop to Go programme. Workshops dealing with key themes for this year include assessment, supporting new staff and engaging with employers will be particularly welcome. The successful applicant will be required to produce a training pack and run two regional training sessions for HE staff. Participants at the workshop will then be expected to 'cascade' the training within their institutions.
Date: 25 November, 2007
Location: School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle UniversityEvent Type: Conference
Event type: Conference
The linguistic aspects of postcolonial writing and the stylistic aspects of language in postcolonial contexts are under-researched areas. These domains engage creative writers and academic scholars in equal measure, and this conference aims to map some of the new research that is being done at the intersections between postcolonial writing, linguistics and criticism. Some of the topics covered will include: Caribbean poetics and linguistics, African pidgins and language contact, postcolonial theories of translation, Indian and African postcolonial literature and heteroglossia. This one-day conference will showcase research in these areas at Newcastle as well as invited papers from key researchers in these domains both nationally and internationally. For Further details and to download a registration form, please visit the conference website.
Other news
The Subject Centre and CILT, the National Centre for Languages will shortly be announcing the call for papers for the biennial Languages in Higher Education conference to be held in July 2008.
The theme of this year’s conference is Transitions and Connections: supporting students as they progress into, through and out of language learning in Higher Education. This will include a strand supported by the Routes into Languages programme and will be co-sponsored by UCML and SCHML. Further information will shortly be available on the Subject Centre website.
The 'Here be dragons?' report on enterprising graduates in the Humanities is now available to order.
This month we welcome Lisa Bernasek to LLAS as a Research Fellow. Lisa will be undertaking research into Islamic Studies in the UK.
If anyone out there is using a piece of software called 'Apicale' developed under the TLTP programme we would very much like to hear from you. Please contact llas@soton.ac.uk with your details and indicate if you are happy to be contacted by other users.
CILT will shortly be moving to new premises near Waterloo station. We will occupy the third floor of a light and airy office block which will provide a new home for our library as well as better facilities for training and meetings. We hope it will be equally convenient for visitors and look forward to welcoming you there. From Monday 19 November 2007 our new address will be:
3rd Floor
111 Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1
The full postal address and new telephone numbers will be confirmed shortly; however our internet and e-mail addresses will not change. Please accept our apologies for any disruption to our services during the period of the move, which we hope to keep to a minimum.
