ebulletin: October 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
Beginning in January 2010, the Higher Education Academy is running the second round of a discipline-based organisational development programme as part of its Enhancing Learning through Technology (ELT) programme. Participating subject departments in HEFCE funded higher education institutions will be supported by their respective Subject Centre.
A new publication called The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, edited by Arran Stibbe was funded by the Higher Education Academy for Sustainable Development Project and conducted by the Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire Centre for Active Learning, the University of Brighton and the UNU RCE (Severn).
This document has been prepared by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and the National Centre for Languages (CILT).
Date: 6 October, 2009
Location: The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Event type: Workshop
Survive or Prosper? A workshop on Directing Research Centers. This workshop explores key issues relevant to creating, sustaining and ultimately, making a research centre prosper. This event will be held on Tuesday 6th October 2009, at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH from 10.00 – 15.45pm (with lunch). For more information, please see the conference website.
Languages
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: 5 October, 2009 - 9 October, 2009
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Event type: Seminar
The seminar will bring together students who are pursuing their PhD studies or who have recently successfully completed their PhD on a Canadian subject. The seminar will focus on traditional Canadian Studies issues, in particular, issues currently of major importance to Canada, and will provide a forum for participants to communicate their insights on Canada to a wider audience. For more information, please see the conference website.
The review of languages in higher education in England led by Professor Michael Worton will be discussed by the strategically important subjects advisory group on 16th October 2009.
Date: 27 October, 2009
Location: Hilton Birmingham Metropole, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham B40 1PP
Event type: Conference
The conference will be a good opportunity to discuss and showcase the achievements of the Routes programme so far, and debate wider issues relating to languages. Chris Millward from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will deliver the keynote speech. He will also welcome questions regarding the current HEFCE review in languages. This event is aimed at Language professions, language teachers at KS3,4 and 5, PGCE languages students, policy makers, funding agencies, employers requiring staff with language skills, local authority language advisers, HE language advisors, employers of translators and interpreters, managers of sixth form colleges offering language courses, HODs of MFL in secondary schools, language centre managers. There will be a conference fee of £40. For more information, please see the conference website.
Linguistics
The (LAGB) Linguistics Association of Great Britain would like to invite those of you who teach first-year undergraduates to take part in a very brief audit of school-leavers' (explicit) grammatical knowledge. The audit uses a short two-part questionnaire which was first used in 1986, then again in 1997, so the results will reveal long-term trends as well as informing your teaching.
Date: 4 December, 2009
Location: The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Event type: Seminar
Area Studies
Date: 19 March, 2010
Location: University of Birmingham
Event type: Seminar
Date: 5 October, 2009 - 9 October, 2009
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Event type: Seminar
The seminar will bring together students who are pursuing their PhD studies or who have recently successfully completed their PhD on a Canadian subject. The seminar will focus on traditional Canadian Studies issues, in particular, issues currently of major importance to Canada, and will provide a forum for participants to communicate their insights on Canada to a wider audience. For more information, please see the conference website.
