Posted Monday 21 November
ALAA-ALANZ program outline and keynote speakers & abstracts
ALS program outline and keynote speakers & abstracts and Audio Workshop Outline
LANGUAGE & THE LAW (joint event) program outline and abstracts
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
From 27 November to 9 December 2011, the city of Canberra, Australia, will be host to langfest 2011, a series of events about language, languages and their relationship with the world, including:
| Australian Society for French Studies (ASFS) Conference 'French Connections: Traduction, Didactique et Analyse du Discours' | 27–28 November |
| Australasian Association for Lexicography (AustraLex) Conference | 28 - 29 November |
| Language and Culture Conference Please note, this conference has been rescheduled to 2012 | POSTPONED |
| ALAA-ALANZ Postgraduate Student Workshop | 29 November |
| ALAA-ALANZ-ALS Gamilaraay Language Learning and Teaching Workshop | 3 December |
| Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) & Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ) 2nd combined conference | 30 November to 2 December |
| Special events on Language and the Law | 1 December (afternoon) & 2 December (all day) |
| Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2011 (ALTW 2011) | 1–2 December |
| Australian Linguistics Society (ALS) 42nd Annual Conference | 2–4 December |
| The Canberra Languages Education Mini-Conference | 3 December |
| ALS Graduate Master Classes on Probabilistic Syntax and Cultural Phylogenetics | 5–9 December |
| ANU Tone Workshop | 4–16 December |
The
first ALAA-ALANZ Postgraduate Student Workshop will provide an
opportunity for postgraduate research students to discuss issues in their
work in progress with distinguished academics, including the plenary speakers.
The
ALAA-ALANZ-ALSGamilaraay Language Learning and Teaching Workshop will provide an
opportunity for a hands-on experience in learning a NSW Aboriginal language that is being rebuilt and in exploring possibilities for teaching it. No previous knowledge of the language or linguistics is required.
The ALAA-ALANZ conference theme is Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place. Plenary speakers are Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University), Janet Holmes (Victoria University, Wellington), Tim McNamara (University of Melbourne) and Merrill Swain (University of Toronto).
A langfest highlight will be papers and special events on Language and the Law on the afternoon of 1 December and throughout the joint ALAA-ALANZ-ALS Day (2 December). Diana Eades (University of New England) will open the Joint Day with a plenary lecture entitled 'Applying linguistics to questions about Aboriginal participation in the legal process'. |
ALS conference plenary speakers are Janet Fletcher (University of Melbourne), Birgit Hellwig (LaTrobe University), Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University) and Larry Hyman (University of California).
Canberra Languages Education Mini-Conference will offer language teachers and other education professionals the opportunity to hear presenters speak on languages education issues.
ALS Graduate Master Classes will be led by by Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) and Fiona Jordan (Max Planck Institute).
ALTW 2011 is the annual workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, and the primary venue for language technology research in Australia.
The AustraLex conference theme is Dictionaries inside and outside the classroom. Topics will include: learners dictionaries, online dictionaries, dictionary entry style, phraseology, language policy and lexicography, terminology and terminography.
The ASFS conference theme is Applied Linguistics and its links to French Studies, including translation, language teaching and discourse analysis.
The ANU Tone Workshop: 4 December—papers on the state-of-the-art of tonal description. 5–16 December— hands-on work with tone languages.
This website will provide information on and links to each of the canberra langfest 2011 events as they become available. You can register, submit abstracts, find information on accommodation, and more.
