ebulletin: February 2009
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General interest
Date: 16 April, 2009 - 17 April, 2009
Location: Clare College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
LLAS runs an annual student essay competition open to anyone studying languages, linguistics or area studies as part of their HE course.
Début: The Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies is an online peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate students of languages, linguistics and area studies. It aims to showcase scholarship carried out by undergraduate students in these subject areas. The first issue was launched in June 2010.
Languages
Date: 20 February, 2009
Location: Western Infirmary Seminar Rooms, Dumbarton Road, University of Glasgow, G11 6NT
Event type: Workshop
Date: 20 March, 2009
Location: Mansfield Cooper Building - Room 2.1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester
Event type: Workshop
Date: 21 April, 2009
Location: University of Exeter - Streatham Campus (LT7 - Queen's building)
Event type: Conference
Date: 23 February, 2009 - 28 February, 2009
Location: School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London
Event type: Other
Endangered Languages Week 2009 presents a variety of displays, discussions, films, and workshops to provide a view of what is happening to minority languages, including sign languages, and what is being done to document, archive and support endangered languages at SOAS and around the world. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 27 February, 2009 - 28 February, 2009
Location: School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London
Event type: Workshop
The goal of the workshop is to highlight and discuss theoretical and practical issues in the area of beliefs and ideology on endangered languages, and especially views that have implications for language support and revitalisation. Language ideologies have been described as ‘socioculturally motivated ideas, perceptions and expectations of language, manifested in all sorts of language use’ Blommaer For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 13 March, 2009
Location: Leeds Metropolitan University
Event type: Workshop
This workshop is open to all those whose institutions are members of UCML. The workshop aims to present the use of work allocation models across various types of universities and encourage participants to share practice and ideas. It is aimed at Heads of departments and others who use work allocation models in their management of language staff. For more information, please see the conference website.
Linguistics
Date: 10 March, 2009
Location: School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Elvet Riverside, room 148, Durham DH1 3JT
Event type: Seminar presentation and discussion
Date: 23 February, 2009 - 28 February, 2009
Location: School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London
Event type: Other
Endangered Languages Week 2009 presents a variety of displays, discussions, films, and workshops to provide a view of what is happening to minority languages, including sign languages, and what is being done to document, archive and support endangered languages at SOAS and around the world. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 27 February, 2009 - 28 February, 2009
Location: School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London
Event type: Workshop
The goal of the workshop is to highlight and discuss theoretical and practical issues in the area of beliefs and ideology on endangered languages, and especially views that have implications for language support and revitalisation. Language ideologies have been described as ‘socioculturally motivated ideas, perceptions and expectations of language, manifested in all sorts of language use’ Blommaer For more information, please see the conference website.
Area Studies
Date: 4 March, 2009
Location: Loughview Suite, Jordanstown Campus, University of Ulster
Event type: Conference
Date: 21 April, 2009
Location: University of Exeter - Streatham Campus (LT7 - Queen's building)
Event type: Conference
Other news
Keynote presentations now available at our conference 2008 website
We are very pleased to announce that video clips of the keynote presentations and employability panel from our 2008 conference are now available for viewing on our website. These include Professor Michael Kelly (LLAS Subject Centre Director), Professor Mike Byram (University of Durham), Dr Lid King (DCSF) and Sir Harold Walker (ex UK Ambassador to Iraq). The employability panel includes presentations from GCHQ, Praxis Interpreting, Astra Zeneca and BDB Marketing consultants.
Written presentations from the conference will also be available shortly from the conference web page.
