ebulletin: March 2008
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General interest
Date: 9 June, 2008
Location: University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, Lecture Theatre 4
Event type: Workshop
Date: 8 May, 2008
Location: University of Glasgow (Melville Room)
Event type: Workshop
Date: 25 April, 2008
Location: Sheffield Hallam University, Owen Building, Room 223
Event type: Workshop
Date: 18 April, 2008
Location: Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London
Event type: Workshop
Date: 15 April, 2008
Location: Clare College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
The winner of the Subject Centre's undergraduate student essay competition 2008 is Siobhan Tebbs Wesley, a final year student studying a Combined Honours in Arts (Arabic, French, Russian and Sociology) at Durham University.
Languages
Date: 26 September, 2008
Location: University of Manchester
Event type: Conference
Date: 15 September, 2008 - 16 September, 2008
Location: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Event type: Conference
Date: 25 April, 2008
Location: British Academy, London
Event type: Conference
Date: 11 April, 2008 - 12 April, 2008
Location: at-Bristol, Bristol, UK
Event type: Conference
Date: 16 June, 2008
Location: Nottingham Trent University, Djanogly International Centre
Event type: Symposium
The Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning, University of Ulster is organising its second symposium to highlight appropriate pedagogy and innovative teaching in the use of digital language labs. This free event aims to bring together digital lab practitioners as well as those involved in policy making and management, in order to share examples of good practice in the use of digital labs for language teaching. Discuss language teaching with peers and share practice-based research. The symposium is free to attend however registration is required by 5th June. For information, please visit the conference website.
Date: 1 May, 2008
Location: University of Central Lancashire, Harris Park Conference Centre
Event type: Conference
This one day event will look at how students learn and experience Language and Literature in the undergraduate curriculum. As a follow-up to the successful English Subject Centre event "Teaching on the Language-Literature Border" organised by Richard Steadman-Jones and the English Subject Centre, this event at the University of Central Lancashire emphasises the learning of language and literature rather than how we as lecturers teach, although the two are, of course, deeply related. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 17 April, 2008
Location: Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
Event type: Conference
This event will provide an opportunity for the Islamic studies community to discuss current issues in the subject area and comment on HEFCE's draft proposals for the subject going forward. For more information, please see the conference website.
Linguistics
Date: 15 September, 2008 - 16 September, 2008
Location: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Event type: Conference
Date: 30 May, 2008
Location: CILT, London SE1
Event type: Seminar
Date: 11 September, 2008 - 13 September, 2008
Location: Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK
Event type: Conference
Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics that fits within the theme of the conference - "Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics". This theme is deliberately intended to be inclusive and might include papers which take stock of Applied Linguistics generally, consider attempts to quantify language and language learning which is one important element of Applied Linguistics, or make the case that non-quantified language descriptions can be equally valid and useful in linguistic applications. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 1 May, 2008
Location: University of Central Lancashire, Harris Park Conference Centre
Event type: Conference
This one day event will look at how students learn and experience Language and Literature in the undergraduate curriculum. As a follow-up to the successful English Subject Centre event "Teaching on the Language-Literature Border" organised by Richard Steadman-Jones and the English Subject Centre, this event at the University of Central Lancashire emphasises the learning of language and literature rather than how we as lecturers teach, although the two are, of course, deeply related. For more information, please see the conference website.
Area Studies
Date: 11 April, 2008 - 12 April, 2008
Location: at-Bristol, Bristol, UK
Event type: Conference
Date: 17 April, 2008
Location: Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
Event type: Conference
This event will provide an opportunity for the Islamic studies community to discuss current issues in the subject area and comment on HEFCE's draft proposals for the subject going forward. For more information, please see the conference website.
Other news
The Subject Centre has established a network for all coordinators/tutors of student residence abroad, undertaken as part of degree programmes. Please join the "residence-abroad" Jiscmail list to stay informed about the Subject Centre's work in this area, share information, and discuss residence abroad issues with colleagues across the UK.
