The recent developments following the attempted coup-d’état in Turkey have given rise to many concerns and worries with regard to the fundamental freedom of research and academic teaching, and the personal situation of Langscape members working at the country’s universities. On behalf of Langscape, we express our solidarity with all our friends and colleagues in Turkey. The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has released an address of solidarity that we fully support and would like to endorse by sharing it with the Langscape community.
Furthermore, the European University Association has expressed its opposition to the massive state-interference at Turkish universities that lead to a clampdown on deans and the curtailing of the freedom to travel for researchers and students.
Langscape subscribes to the EUA’s call to “support democracy in Turkey, including institutional autonomy and academic freedom for scholars and students”.
On behalf of the Langscape Board,
Stephan Breidbach and Lutz Küster
Dear LANGSCAPE members,
We look forward to welcome many of you here in Berlin. The following post is meant to make your visit to Humboldt-University easier and to keep those members informed who will not be able to come to Berlin.
Please find attached:
- the schedule of the symposium
- the abstracts of the keynote lectures
- the abstracts of the panelist sessions
- the schedule of the doctoral seminar
- the abstracts of the doctoral seminar
You can find these documents also online on the symposium website.
The registration desk will open in room 2249a of the main building/Hauptgebäude in “Campus Mitte” on 8th July / 9:00am.
A € 15.00 (students € 7.50) contribution to refreshments will be collected at the registration desk. Unfortunately, credit card payments cannot be accepted. Thank you for your understanding.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any further questions at langscape@hu-berlin.de.
Kind regards on behalf of the entire coordination-team,
Bettina Kaiser
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Dear all,
The poster for the Langscape VUM Symposium (8-9th July 2016) and the Doctoral Seminar (7th July 2016) is now available in a new version. Visit the blog for a preview. Please ask for a high-resolution printable version that we can send to you as soon as we hear from you at langscape@hu-berlin.de.
Please find attach the schedule of the Symposium and all Langscape events. The final schedule of the doctoral seminar will be determined after all registrations have been received.
Registration for the symposium and the Erasmus+ session will be open until the 17th of June 2016 (https://sites.google.com/site/langvumberlin2016/).
On behalf of the entire coordination team and directors of research project (Itesh & Katja) and of doctoral support and networking (Jose & Olga),
best wishes,
Bettina
Dear all,
The poster for the VUM Symposium (8-9th July 2016) and the Doctoral Seminar (7th July 2016) is now available. Visit the blog for a preview. Please ask for a high-resolution printable version that we can send to you as soon as we hear from you at langscape@hu-berlin.de
Also, please all invite their PhD students to participate in the Langscape Doctoral Seminar (or, if you are a doctoral student, please feel invited to submit a short proposal for a presentation of your project). If funding is an issue, please also contact us. We promise to look for subsidies (even though we cannot promise to find them).
On behalf of the entire coordination team and directors of research project (Itesh & Katja) and of doctoral support and networking (José & Olga),
best wishes,
Stephan
Dear Langscape members,
Please find below the following announcement brought to our attention by Gaby Meier.
Kind regards
Bettina
‘The Power of Language, The Language of Power’
Seminar by John Edwards and wine reception, 17.05.2016, 1-2pm, Aberystwyth University
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s exciting announcement about the one-day conference in Bangor (https://goo.gl/PEJPW0), here’s an earlier talk also with Prof. John Edwards (editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development), on 17th May, this time in Aberystwyth.
Please register here: https://thepoweroflanguage.eventbrite.co.uk. The abstract and other info are there too. (Note: Eventbrite will pester you to print and bring your ticket but that’s not necessary; it’s just to help gauge numbers for catering etc.)
The seminar runs 1-2pm, so it’ll be easier to travel to and from the event the same day. There will be a wine & nibbles reception afterwards, so you might like to plan for the 15:30 train out of Aberystwyth (which gets to e.g. Birmingham by 6.30pm, or changing to e.g. Manchester by 7pm, or London or Cardiff by 8pm). For info here’s a map showing the route from the venue to the train station at that time:
https://goo.gl/maps/rRU1rNto7L82.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact either Rhys Jones (raj[at]aber.ac.uk) or Sarah Creed (CreedS[at]cardiff.ac.uk).
Dear colleagues,
Please note that there are vacancies in TESOL/Language education at the University of Exeter. These are advertised together with other positions in education. You have to scroll down the person specifications to find the relevant job descriptions.
Closing date 2 May 2016
Information can be found here:
Lecturer (education and research)
Job add: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=721836ENsh&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA
job descriptions: http://admin.exeter.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/P00619.pdf
Professor (education and research)
Job add: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=341871ENsh&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA
Job descriptions: http://admin.exeter.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/P00618AP.pdf
It would be great to have Langscape colleagues at Exeter!
All the best,
Gaby
Dr Gabriela Meier
Lecturer in Language Education
Graduate School of Education
University of Exeter
St Luke’s Campus
Exeter EX1 2LU, UK
Dear Langscape members,
Our directors of Teaching Projects – Daniela, Özlem, and Sevinc – propose to apply for a project within the Strategic Partnership funding line of the European Union (Erasmus+). The idea is to offer a specialised doctoral support programme offered through Langscape by its members over a period of three years. The core elements will be face-to-face summer schools and a virtual online module addressing relevant topics for PhD research in the field of multilingualism, language teaching and identity (e.g. concepts and theory, methodology and research methods), and for further academic qualification (e.g. teaching). The product aimed for in the project will be a sustainable curriculum for doctoral research and practice in the areas of investigation of Langscape. We thus hope to be able to offer a unique programme characterised by international perspectives across related areas of research that have not yet been linked or integrated “across disciplines & linguaspheres”.
Therefore, we will set aside a slot at the VUM Symposium in Berlin (8/9 July) of two-three hours to kick-off the project development phase in order to be able to meet the submission deadline in Feb/March 2017. Whilst planning will continue over the summer, actual proposal writing will start in October/Novembern 2016. The coordinators will be Daniela and her team at Frankfurt University.
All Langscape members wishing to be part of the project are requested to state their interest and register for the kick-off session. A preliminary description of the project idea including a quick-list of the cornerstones for Strategic Partnership projects Erasmus+ is attached to this call. In the online registration form for the kick-off meeting please indicate the teaching format (Summer School / online module) and the topic (e.g. theory; research methods; methodology; preparation for academic teaching, or any other) that you think you will be able to offer.
In order to facilitate communication and the preparation of the kick-off meeting, please use the Langscape Symposium website for your registration. Registration will be open until May 30th, 2016.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Berlin,
best wishes,
Lutz, Bettina, Stephan
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please, find attached the announcement of the LANGSCAPE Symposium on “Vitality of Urban Multilingualism & Language Pedagogy” taking place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on the 8th and 9th of July 2016.
Itesh Sachdev and Katja Lochtman – in their capacity as leaders of the directorate Research Projects – are currently initiating the research project “Vitality of Urban Multilingualism”.
Together with the LANGSCAPE coordinators, Katja and Itesh wish to encourage all members of the network to join the project and circulate the announcement of the Berlin symposium within their research groups. They will be happy to respond to all questions regarding the project. Questions, however, should be sent through langscape@hu-berlin.de
Thank you for your support of and contribution to this Langscape project.
Kind regards from of the project coordination team:
Itesh & Katja,
Lutz, Stephan & Bettina
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ANNOUNCEMENT
LANGSCAPE Symposium: Vitality of Urban Multilingualism & Language Pedagogy
8 July 2016: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
9 July 2016: 10.00 am – 3.00 pm
Room 2249a
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Registration by 30th May 2016
Multilingual living has received a considerable boost in recent times due to increased migration to urban contexts within and across national and regional boundaries. Super or hyperdiverse, globalised urban contexts, under a variety of different national and local policies and contexts, provides interesting challenges and opportunities for multilingual and intercultural communication, social cohesion and education. Focussing on language learning and language teacher education, this LANGSCAPE Symposium aims to explore how the Vitality of Urban Multilingualism (VUM) relates to intercultural competence, sensitivity and awareness and its role in language teaching and learning. VUM is about how societal multilingualism and individual plurilingualism thrive and flourish in urban conglomerations in terms of an array of demographic, status, and institutional support (& control) factors. We invite experts in the field of multi-/plurilingualism working on language learning and/or language teacher education to join us to discuss these issues in the symposium.
In addition to keynote speakers, the symposium in Berlin will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of preliminary data comprising interviews with language teachers across various LANGSCAPE cities/sites. We call for LANGSCAPE members to express their interest in the project on VUM & Language Pedagogy, and for a confirmation to conduct a small-scale interview study in their area/city by June 2016. This semi-structured interview study would consist of 6 main questions to be posed to language teachers. Ideally, we would like between 15-20 short interviews to be conducted by each partner. Of course, partners will determine the number of interviews according to time and capacity available. Please, send your expression of interest to conduct the interview study to langscape@hu-berlin.de by 27 March 2016. Interview questions and other materials will then be sent to you. Discussion at the symposium in Berlin of preliminary data and findings is envisaged.
For further information and registration for the symposium, please, go to: https://sites.google.com/site/langvumberlin2016/. Registration ends by 30th May 2016. A contribution for refreshments (€ 15) will be collected at the registration desk.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Lesley Harbon, University of Technology Sydney
“Superdiversity in language teacher education: compelling issues from the Australian context“
- Lid King, The Language Company, UK and Lorna Carson, Trinity College Dublin
“Diversity and the city – the LUCIDE experience”
- Cor van der Meer, Fryske Akademy, Mercator Institute
“Minority languages and urban multilingualism”
- Anne Pauwels, SOAS, University of London
Details will be confirmed.
Chères et chers collègues,
Dear Langscape members,
Itesh Sachdev has kindly forwarded the following call for works in progress by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. Please, widely circulate the call to colleagues and postgraduate students. It seems a wonderful opportunity to share ideas. For further questions, please, contact Itesh Sachdev at i.sachdev[at]soas.ac.uk
Kind regards
Bettina Kaiser
15th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology
**Now Accepting Works in Progress**
The International Association of Language and Social Psychology (www.ialsp.org) is now accepting Works in Progress to be presented and “workshopped” at the upcoming 15th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP) which will be held June 22-25th, 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Deadline: 1st April, 2016
Works in Progress is a new category of submissions for ICLASP and will give presenters a unique opportunity to present a “work in progress” and engage in a small group discussion about the work among a group of distinguished and emerging international scholars including journal editors and reviewers. The goal is to provide presenters with specific feedback in order to move the research from a “work in progress” to a “work in press” (or similar outcome). The Works in Progress presentations are a natural extension to the supportive networking and mentoring opportunities that are already at the core of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. We encourage Works in Progress submissions from first year graduate students to emeritus professors recognizing that all scholarship is enhanced when it is shaped by a larger social scientific community!
Send Works in Progress Submissions to: iclasplirod@gmail.com with “ICLASP works in progress” in the subject line by April 1st, 2016.
For more details, please, see the attached “call for papers”.