Posts by Arto

Conference theme: Discourse genres, corpus and translation in professional and academic contexts. Challenges and opportunities in the digital age May 13–14, 2021 University of Alicante, Spain http://www.entretextos.es/     The IULMA (Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages) Research Institute is pleased to announce the forthcoming 3rd International Conference EnTRetextos, to be held online on May…

August 15–21, 2021 University of Groningen, Netherlands aila2020.nl     The organizing team really hopes that by August 2021 a partly face-to-face event will be possible, but this might still not be the case, and definitely not for all participants. Thus, the AILA 2021 World Congress will be based on a fully virtual event, allowing…

March 25–26, 2021 ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland (and online) https://www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics/institutes-centres/ilc/news-und-events/participation-through-language/     We invite researchers, policy makers and stakeholders to discuss current projects and practices of linguistic enablement for society and the workplace. Furthermore, the conference provides an opportunity to establish a European network with a focus on social inclusion through…

December 11, 2020, 5pm Online (organized by IRAAL) http://www.iraal.ie/events, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85880542813?pwd=L1hGVTdNUVhzTkV2YkJFUlFid0pIZz09     With the current trend promoted inter alia by the Plain English Campaign in the UK, which aims at guarding against publicising gobbledygook or misleading public information and encouraging the creation of client-friendly texts, i.e. comprehensible at the level of an average reader, new…

November 19, 2020 – April 15, 2021 Online (Organized by Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingalism, National University of Ireland, Galway) https://www.nuigalway.ie/calm/newseventsnuachtimeachtai/calm-seminar-series-2020-2021.html     The Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) aims to promote research in the area of applied linguistics and multilingualism as well as to increase the awareness of issues related to…

Conference theme: Espagnol pour les humanités. L’espagnol comme langue-culture de spécialité en Arts, Lettres, Histoire et Sociologie June 4, 2021 Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France https://lla-creatis.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/navigation/manifestations-scientifiques/appels-a-communication/espagnol-pour-les-humanites-l-espagnol-comme-langue-culture-de-specialite-en-arts-lettres-histoire-et-sociologie-754705.kjsp     The study day is taking place on June 4, 2021 at the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès. To view the call for papers in French and Spanish,…

Conference theme: Metaphor and Space June 23–26, 2021 Vilnius University, Lithuania (and online) www.raam14.flf.vu.lt     The 14th RaAM conference addresses figurative communication in reference to space, interpreted in many different ways: from spatial linguistic expressions in one or several languages to space as a frequent source domain for numerous metaphors to the space of…

November 4–6, 2020 Online https://hundred.org/en/summit     The HundrED Innovation Summit 2020 is a worldwide online event “about the best education innovations around the world”, running 4–6 November https://hundred.org/en/summit    Paul Seedhouse and Alison Whelan are running an online workshop open to all, using the Linguacuisine app: Learning Languages, Cultures and Cuisines while Cooking: Linguacuisine Workshop 10-11am GMT on Wednesday 4 November, using English and French. All academics and postgraduate students are invited, and the workshop is also…

Conference Theme: Instruments and Explorations in Applied Linguistics October 19–21, 2021 Toulouse, France https://onela2021.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en     ONELA 2021 in Toulouse, France brings together the AILA Europe Junior Researchers Meeting with AFLA, the French association for applied linguistics. Organised in collaboration with the Lairdil[1], CLLE[2] and BCL[3], the latest in the conference series CRELA 2013, TRELA 2015,…