Events

Here we will list forthcoming events relevant to our community. Please email any items that you would like to add to ndlrmodernlanguages@nuigalway.ie

Date: 5th December, 2008
Location: NUI Galway
Event type: Symposium

The Modern Languages’ Community of Practice Symposium

Your very own Modern Languages’ CoP is organising a symposium to take place on Friday the 5th December 2008 in NUI Galway. The symposium will be free to attend and will host a keynote talk by Joe Dale, followed by NUI Galway practitioner showcases. After lunch a meeting on the future of the Modern Languages’ CoP will proceed three parallel workshops: The use of cinema in the languages classroom; A podcasting workshop; Blogs in the language classroom.

The workshops will be limited to 12 people per workshop. Registration is now open. As this event is limited to a maximum of 36 people, you are advised to register early. More details available here.

Date: 6th – 7th March, 2009
Location: Trinity College Dublin
Event type: Conference

Translation Right Or Wrong


Keynote speakers:

Josephine Balmer: “Whose Classics?: Transgressing and Recreating Ancient Greek & Latin Texts.”
Lawrence Venuti: “Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation.”
Suggested themes for the sessions of the conference are listed below, but others are possible and creative responses are welcome.

Teaching Translation
Language learning; teaching literary translation

Translation and Taboo
Translation for children

True and False
(truth to type, to genre, to idiom)

Judging Translation
Omissions; Praising Translation

Multiple Translations/Revisiting Translations
Glosses, Paraphrases and Footnotes
Corrections

Translation and Language Politics
Translation into lesser used languages

Sacred Texts
Bible, Koran, canonical texts

Papers relevant to the suggested themes, or at least to the conference title, should be 25 minutes long. Abstracts should be sent to cato@tcd.ie.

The conference fee will be ¤40, including tea, coffee and a wine reception.

Date: 10th – 14th March, 2009
Location: Arizona State University
Event type: Conference

Language Learning in the Era of Ubiquitous Computing

CALICO ‘09
26th Annual Conference

More information can be found on the CALICO website.

Date: 21 – 25 April, 2009
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Event type: Conference

SPACE Network for Business Studies and Languages

The main theme of this year’s conference will be “Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Education: breaking barriers and achieving links” with as parallel subtheme: ”Turning Cultural Differences into Advantages”.

More information can be found here

Date: 18 – 20 June, 2009
Location: University of Limerick
Event type: Conference

Language Policy and Language Learning: New Paradigms and New Challenges

The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics / Cumann na Teangeolaíochta Feidhmí will host this large international conference immediately after a meeting of the AILA Executive Board and International Committee in the university.

The conference is concerned with all aspects of language policy and the learning of languages. It will address the status and form of languages as well as acquisition policies pertaining to their teaching and learning. It will welcome papers, posters and panels on promoting and managing language policy and research on the development, implementation and effects of language policy in all regions of the world. The organisers will particularly welcome studies that contribute to language policy theory, both in regard to language learning and other domains.

More information can be found here