ebulletin: July 2009
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General interest
Date: 10 September, 2009
Location: School of African and Oriental Studies, London, WC1H 0XG
Event type: Workshop
Date: 21 October, 2009
Location: Tower Building, Perth Road, IT Lab Tower, IT Suite B (in the basement of the Tower)
Event type: Workshop
Date: 23 October, 2009
Location: Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ
Event type: Conference
Date: 21 July, 2009 - 22 July, 2009
Location: University of Aberdeen
Event type: Conference
Moving Forward, the College of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, is running for the 6th consecutive year in 2009 with generous support from LLAS. Postgraduates in the component fields of Arts and Social Sciences - including literature of the world, linguistics and area studies - will present their original research in an interdisciplinary setting. Visit our website for more details For more information, please see the conference website.
Languages
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 13 November, 2009
Location: University of Bath, Building 8 West, Room 2.8
Event type: Seminar
Date: 18 September, 2009
Location: University of Ulster Belfast Campus, York Street Belfast
Event type: Symposium
Building on the success of our previous symposia in London (2007) and Nottingham (2008), the Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning is hosting a third symposium on the use of digital labs to be held in Belfast on 18 September 2009. This event aims to bring together digital lab practitioners to share examples of good practice in the use of digital labs for language teaching. With For more information, please see the conference website.
Linguistics
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 26 September, 2009
Location: The Hawthorns, University of Bristol
Event type: Applied Sign Linguistics Symposium
Other news
Islamic Studies Network online consultation (deadline 17 July 2009)
Colleagues are invited to participate in a consultation to inform the development of a new Islamic Studies Network. Please fill in the questionnaire. Further details about this work can be found on The Higher Education Academy website.
As part of a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, they are currently investigating the practical language testing training needs of applied linguistics/TESOL students and language teachers. The survey takes approximately 10 - 15 minutes to complete.
There is also an explanation about the survey on the project website.
Professor Worton has now set up three online consultations where individuals and subject associations can give their views. Online consultation is now available on the following websites:
