ebulletin: September 2009
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General interest
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: 28 January, 2010 - 29 January, 2010
Location: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Event type: Symposium
The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) call for 2009-10 project bids is now available.
Languages
Date: 23 September, 2009
Location: SR 1.06 Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds
Event type: Workshop
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 12 November, 2009
Location: The School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
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.
From October 2009 (SOAS) the School of Oriental and African Studies in association with the Languages of the Wider World CETL will be running a new Postgraduate Certificate in teaching languages of the wider world.
A revamped version of the Council of Europe's European Day of Languages website, including a restructured EDL calendar of events, has been launched.
The Language and Film Talent Awards (LAFTAs) is a competition for 13-21 year olds, run by CILT, the National Centre for Languages.
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
Area Studies
Date: 19 March, 2010
Location: University of Birmingham
Event type: Seminar
Following recommendations from HEFCE, a team from across the Higher Education Academy's subject network is working to build a national Islamic Studies network.
