The 7th AICLU conference from 7 to 9 July 2011 will be organized by the Language Centre of the Free University of Bolzano at the premises of the Faculty. The decision to organize such a conference in South-Tyrol was made plausible because of the historic, demographic and ethnic background and the somewhat natural vocation towards multilingualism of this province. The Free University of Bolzano with its ambitious trilingual approach (English, German and Italian are the languages of tuition) contributes strongly to the discussion on multilingualism. The conference will offer various occasions to get to know the organizing university and to exchange ideas on topics such as CLIL and innovation in language teaching in Italian universities.

Il VII Convegno AICLU dal titolo “Multilinguismo, CLIL e innovazione didattica” verrà organizzato dal Centro linguistico della Libera Università di Bolzano e si svolgerà dal 7 al 9 luglio 2011 presso la sede della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione a Bressanone.
Per vari aspetti il luogo si presta ad una riflessione approfondita sul multilinguismo in ambito universitario. L’Alto Adige ha una vocazione bi– e multilingue forte e quasi naturale dal punto di vista linguistico, demografico ed etnico. Il multilinguismo è sempre al centro dell’attenzione. La Libera Università di Bolzano si inserisce in questo contesto con un progetto trilinuge molto ambizioso con inglese, italiano e tedesco come lingue di insegnamento. Il convegno quindi darà la possibilità di conoscere meglio l’approccio trilingue dell’ateneo ospitante, di confrontarsi su teoria e la prassi del Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) ed su altri temi importanti per i centri linguistici universitari in Italia.

Die 7. AICLU-Tagung wird vom Sprachenzentrum der Freien Universität Bozen ausgerichtet und findet vom 7. Bis 9. Juli 2011 am Sitz der Bildungswissenschaftlichen Fakultät in Brixen statt. Die Wahl des Tagungsortes fiel aus mehreren Gründen leicht, wenn es um das Thema Mehrsprachigkeit im Hochschulbereich geht, denn Südtirol hat zum einen starken historischen, ethnischen und demografischen Bezug zu sprachlichen Fragen. Die Freie Universität Bozen fügt sich mit ihrem ambitionierten Modell der Dreisprachigkeit mit Deutsch, Englisch und Italienisch als Unterrichtssprachen in diesen Kontext ein. Die Tagung bietet somit die Möglichkeit, den Tagungsort und die Freie Universität Bozen besser kennen zu lernen und sich gleichzeitig über Theorie und Praxis des universitären Sach-Fach-Unterrichts (CLIL) und andere Themen auszutauschen, die für die italienischen Universitäts-Sprachenzentren von Belang sind.

Enrollment and more information - Iscrizione e informazioni - Anmeldung und Information

Diese Tagung findet statt vom 11.-13 Juli 2011 in Graz und umfasst Beiträge zu 20 Sprachen und 40 Varietäten in 26 Ländern.

Sie ist die erste, die dieses Thema umfassend behandelt und zugleich eine Veranstaltung in Gedenken an Prof. Michael Clyne, dem bedeutenden australischen Linguisten, der wesentlich zur Entwicklung des Konzepts der Plurizentrik und der Erforschung der Mehrsprachigkeit beigetragen hat.

Sie finden umfassende Informationen auf der Webseite der Tagung.

An interesting alternative for funding mobility in research: The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar.

Their fellowships support the "focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers".

Application deadline: 31 May 11, more information.

The First International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse, Multiculturalism, Diversity and Dynamicity will take place at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong on 20-21 August, 2011

The First International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse, associated with Multicultural Association of Law and Language, invites theoretical studies, applicational cases, and relevant work-in-progress papers on the key issues in Law, Language and Discourse. The theme of the conference “Multiculturalism, Diversity and Dynamicity” promotes research of, and welcomes participation from, researchers of different cultural and language backgrounds from different disciplines and across jurisdictions.

Abstract deadline: 15 June 2011 (Please send 500-800 words to LLDmall@cityu.edu.hk
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2011

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer le prochain Colloque de l'Association Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée (ASLA / VALS) qui aura lieu à l'Université de Lausanne du 1er au 3 février 2012, sur le thème: "Le rôle des pratiques langagières dans la constitution des espaces sociaux pluriels d'aujourd'hui: un défi pour la linguistique appliquée."

Un colloque qui s'inscrit en continuité avec nos réflexions dylaniennes et auquel nous serions très heureux de pouvoir vous associer.

Plus d'information - Weitere Informationen - More information - Più informazioni.

Das Herbert-Batliner-Europainstitut in Salzburg veranstaltet in Kooperation mit der Fachhochschule Salzburg am Mittwoch, 16. März & Donnerstag, 17. März 2011, ein Symposium zum Thema: "Sprache(n) als europäisches Kulturgut". Linguistic McDonaldization in Europe - Alles Englisch oder doch zurück zur Regionalsprache, zum Dialekt? Verbindet Sprache oder trennt sie Menschen? Sprachen sterben und neue werden geboren (SMS) - was macht den europäischen Kommunikationsraum aus?
Diese Fragen und weitere Themen werden von 20 hochkarätigen Referenten aus ganz Europa erörtert. Darunter der ehemalige EU-Kommissar für Mehrsprachigkeit Leonard Orban. Die kostenlose Veranstaltung findet an der Fachhochschule Salzburg, Campus Urstein, statt. Konferenzsprache ist Deutsch und Englisch. Übersetzung wird angeboten, auch in Gebärdensprache! Das Konferenzprogramm finden Sie hier.

On September, 28-30, 2011 the Language Teaching Centre of Freiburg University will host an International Conference on LANGUAGE POLICY AND LANGUAGE TEACHING: “Multilingualism in Society, the World of Work, and Politics. New Challenges for Teaching at Institutes of Higher Education/Universities”

For further information please go to the conference homepage.

The call for papers is now open. Please send your abstracts to konferenz@sli.uni-freiburg.de. Deadline will be 30 June 2011.

If you're not too far away from the Vienna University this week we recommend you to have a look at the ELDIA discussion meeting on thursday afternoon (starting at 4PM) with contributions from DYLAN member Barbara Seidlhofer, as well as LINEE scholar prof. Rosita Schjerve-Rindler.

You will find more detailed information on the ELDIA and on the University of Vienna websites.

The Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: “Ideas, Innovation and Communication” will organise this international symposium, dedicated to the discussion of the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ‘migrations’, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences.
It will be held at the University of Vienna on the 1-3 July 2010, and is co-organised by DYLAN’s WP2 Manager Ruth Wodak. You can satisfy your curiousity on the conference website, available here.

Votre présence est la bienvenue à la conférence internationale LES MOTS DES AUTRES. APPROCHES LINGUISTIQUES DE LA DIVERSITÉ en l'honneur de Prof. ém. Georges Lüdi

QUAND: 10 - 12 juin 2010
OÙ: Université de Bâle, Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1, Bâle, Suisse
ORGANISATEURS: Institut d'études françaises & francophones (IEFF), Université de Bâle
INSCRIPTION : jusqu'au 3 juin 2010 auprès de Eva Eskari

We are pleased to announce that the second DYLAN doctoral school is now open for applications. Aiming at fostering the dialogue on multilingualism and linguistic diversity in Europe and beyond, it will explore the following topics:

The 40th conference of the German Applied Linguistics association (Dt. Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik) will take place in Leipzig, D on 15-17 Sep 2010.

The theme of section 9 on Intercultural communication and multilingual discourse concerns the analysis of intercultural communication and multilingual discourse. The main focus of this workshop is on presentations of empirical research results, theoretical as well as methodological inquiries into intercultural communication along with multilingual discourse and aspects dealing with its practical use.

More information and registration.

The international symposium "Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" is dedicated to the discussion of the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ‘migrations’, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences.

It will take place on 1-3 July 2010 at the University of Vienna.

More information and registration.

The 4th International Seminar Series "Language and Migration" will take place in Fribourg (Switzerland) on the 28-29 January 2010. More information regarding conference, accommodation and travel arrangements are available on this website.

Concepta is an initiative of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group (HPSCG), which organises postgraduate research training in conceptual analysis. At both master’s and doctoral levels, the courses provide a meeting place for established academics and young scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines to engage in conceptual explorations.

The fourth Concepta Research Training Seminar will be arranged in University of Oslo, Norway, January 25-26 2010, titles and abstracts can be sent to Helge Jordheim, helge.jordheim@ilos.uio.no by 1.12.2009.

If you wish to learn more, please visit the Concepta website.

L’Ecole de Traduction et d’Interprétation de Genève organise, le 19 novembre 2009, avec le soutien du Fonds National Suisse (FNS) de la Recherche Scientifique, un colloque international sur la Médiation humanitaire multilingue, sous la responsabilité du Prof. Mathieu Guidère.
Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici.

The fourth Concepta Research Training Seminar "Culture, Civilization and the World – the Semantics of Globalization." will be arranged in University of Oslo, Norway, January 25-26 2010. In this seminar, which is a co-operation between the cross-disciplinary research program KULTRANS – Cultural Transformations in the Age of Globalization at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Concepta – International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought, the objectice is to focus on the role of language, and especially the role of concepts in exploring the processes of globalization. In addition to the uses and meanings of single concepts, such as “culture”, “civilization” or “world”, the seminar will focus on clusters of concepts, semantic fields, discourses, texts, genres and experiences – constituting what we might refer to as the “semantics of globalization”.
You can have more information writing to helge.jordheim@ilos.uio.no.

LINEE final conference: New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe - Dubrovnik (HR), April 11-15, 2010.

The conference brings together academics representing a range of disciplines in humanities and social sciences, practitioners and EU/national policy makers, concerned with multilingualism and linguistic diversity in Europe. Proposals are invited for original and previously unpublished research papers that broadly fall within the following themes and topics: Language, Culture and Identity, Language Policy and Planning, Multilingualism and Education, Language and Economy. Abstract must be in English, but conference contributions  can be in any European language (there will be no translation).

The REVISED abstract submission deadline for individual papers is October 31, 2009.

Conference website: http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference.html
Guidance notes for papers: http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference.html?page=268781

LINEE Website: http://linee.info

The Highlands pipers are ready to welcome the next DYLAN Consortium Meeting, which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland at the end of November 09. 

Before the meeting, a Postgraduate Forum is organised by the Glasgow Caledonian University research team. The deadline for submission of an abstract is 13th October 09. 

You will find more information about the Glasgow consortium meeting and the postgraduate forum at the following addresses: 

http://www.dylan-project.org/Dylan_en/dissemination/CMeetings/CMeetings/CM6.php

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/pgradconf/Dylan_Consortium_Meeting/Postgraduate_Forum.html

The KFG research group at Free University Berlin is hosting the workshop "The Contentious Face of European Politics: Towards an Analysis of Discursive and Visual Strategies of Transnational Diffusion", which will be held in January 14-16th 2010, in Berlin, Germany. Organisers would like to encourage Phd-students and postdocs to have a look on the call and to contribute an empirical and/or methodological paper.

The deadline for proposal submission is October 15th, 2009.

Please find attached the full call.

The fourth AILA Language and Migration Research Network Seminar (28-29 January 2010) focuses on the relationship between language, migration flows and labour processes. The major concern is to explore the complex relationship between the economic and cultural capital of migrants and its use or exploitation by power institutions in a globalized labour market.
  
If you are interested, please submit by e-mail a 300-word abstract of your paper or poster proposal. Include your name, affiliation, address, phone and e-mail at the end of your abstract. The abstract should include enough detail to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the proposal. Please mention whether you would like to present a paper or a poster.
All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Oral papers will be allotted 30 minutes, allowing 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. An extra poster session will be organized.
In order to insure discussion between the participants, no parallel sessions will be organized. As a consequence the number of accepted oral papers will be limited.
Abstract submissions should be sent before October 1st 2009, to Liselotte Lutz:

You will find more detailed information on the conference website.

On a le plaisir de vous annoncer que l'Académie Suisse des Sciences Humaines et Sociales va organiser une conférence sur le thème: "Les enjeux du plurilinguisme pour la construction et la circulation des savoirs", qui aura lieu les 12 et 13 novembre au Centre Paul Klee à Berne.

Cette conférence est en prise directe sur l'un des axes thématiques privilégiés de DYLAN, concernant plus particulièrement l'atout du plurilinguisme pour l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche, et elle fait place à de nombreuses interventions de chercheurs "dylaniens".

Vous pouvez trouver plus d'information en lisant le fichier ci-joint.

We are glad to announce you that DYLAN RT 4.2 will co-organise the Third International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, which will be held in Wien between 22-25 May 2010.
As usual, you will find more information by clicking on this link.

Linguamón – Maison des langues et Maaya, le réseau mondial pour la diversité linguistique, annoncent la célébration à Barcelone du Symposium international sur le multilinguisme dans le cyberespace : les sociétés de la connaissance peuvent-elles se permettre de ne pas être multilingues ? Ces journées sont construites autour d’un objectif : engager un débat sur les enjeux et les défis du cyberespace dans son rapport avec les langues.

Vous pouvez trouver plus d'information sur le site de Maaya.

The goal of this workshop, hosted by the 37th Austrian Conference on Linguistics (37. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, 5 - 7 December 2009 in Salzburg) is to bring to gether researchers of language con tact and multilingualism wor king in different theoretical and method ological frameworks.
 
Submissions on the following topics are welcome: contact induced language change; diglossia, polyglossia and similar scenarios; individual vs. social multilingualism; the multilingual brain; problems of standardization in multilingual settings; syntax and pragmatics of code switching and code mixing; mixed language vs. language mixing; language death and “linguicide”; documentation of language contact.
 
Each presentation slot will be 45 min. (including 15 min. for dis cussion).
 
Please submit your abstract (in German, English or French) to imke.mendoza@sbg.ac.at orbernhard.poell@sbg.ac.at no later than 15 October 2009. The abstract should not exceed 300 words.

You will find further information on the conference web page.

La crise financière apparue au deuxième semeste 2008 a entraîné une crise économique mondiale qui a affecté à la fois la production et les services. La conférence tentera de mettre en lumière l'impact de cette crise sur les industries de la langue, en particulier sur la traduction et ses disciplines annexes telles que l'apprentissage des langues, la terminologie, les resources linguistiques et la manière dont les professionnels des langues font face à cette crise.

La conférence est organisée conjointement par l'Association internationale Langue et économie (AILE) et l'Association suisse des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes (ASTTI), sous les auspices de FIT Europe.

Plus d'informations sur le site de la conférence.

Plusieurs chercheurs de DYLAN vont intervenir dans le cadre de la Conférence organisée par l’Académie Suisse des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, qui se tiendra les 12 et 13 novembre prochains à Berne, sur le thème “Les enjeux du plurilinguisme pour la construction et la circulation des savoirs”.

The Berliner DYLAN team (Matthias Hüning & Ulrike Vogl) would like to invite you to participate to a workshop they are organizing as Research Task responsible for the historical perspective on multilingualism. The workshop's title is "Monolingual multilingualism? Standard languages and their impact on multilingual policies and practices in Europe: a historical perspective" and it will be held on October 5th and 6th 2009 in Berlin.

In case you want to contribute to the workshop, the submission deadline is June 8th.

You will find more information on the enclosed PDF document.

The conference "New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe", organised by the LINEE Network of excellence and hosted by the Institute for Anthropological Research of Zagreb will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on 11-15 April 2010.

The conference is now open for contributions. The abstract  submission deadline for individual papers is 1 October  2009.  Abstracts should be written in English, while oral presentations can be made in any of the European languages. (No translation services will be provided.)

DYLAN will collaborate with LINEE in the organisation of this event. Moreover, DYLAN WP4 Manager François Grin is member of the scientific board of this conference.

For more information, please click here.

The Chemnitz University of Technology is hosting the international congress "Ideas of Europe | Ideas for Europe" in cooperation with academic institutions within Europe and abroad. The congress will take place in Chemnitz, 6-9 May 2009, under the patronage of the President of the European Commission, Mr José Manuel Barroso. Mr Barroso will also be awarded the academic degree Honoris Causa from Chemnitz University of Technology.

Internationally renowned experts in the humanities and social sciences will meet to discuss heterogeneous concepts of European identity from Antiquity to the 21st century. For further information (e.g. programme, abstracts) please visit the congress website
(www.tu-chemnitz.de/ideaseurope) or contact us.

Registrations are still accepted and the form can be found at the congress website under "Registration".

En  Suisse,  on  remarque  que,  depuis  quelques  années,  certains  milieux  scientifiques  et académiques  incitent  fréquemment  à  l’usage  de  l’anglais  au  détriment  des  langues nationales  (projets  FNS  à  rédiger  en  anglais,  cours  donnés  exclusivement  en  anglais  dans 
certaines universités ou hautes écoles, titres de diplômes en anglais, etc.). Le  but  de  ce  colloque  est  de  questionner  ces  pratiques  sous  l’angle  des  incidences  qu’elles  pourraient  avoir  à  long  terme  dans  la  recherche  et  l’enseignement,  ou plus généralement sur l’usage et la diversité des langues en Suisse et dans le monde.

Pour avoir plus d'informations, veuillez télécharger le programme ci-joint.

The Sixth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism will be held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, on 10-12 September 2009. The aim of the conference is the discussion of topics related to a minimum of three languages.

To learn more about this conference and the sumbission deadlines, download the PDF document or visit the conference website.

Take your agenda to note another rendez-vous brought to you by a DYLAN partner: Jérôme Jacquin, a member of the DYLAN team at University of Lausanne (UNIL) will organise, in collaboration with Marcel Burger et Raphaël Micheli, the meeting « Le français parlé dans les medias (French as used by the medias)», which will be held on 1-4 September 2008 at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. You will find more information by clicking here!

DYLAN project partner University of Lancaster will organise a seminar on the subject "Dynamics of memories". This event will take place on 28-29 November 2008 and the access is free of charge. For further information or registration please click here.

On 17 November 2008, a conference will take place in Bern to present the findings of the PNR56 (Projet National de Recherche, National Project of Research). DYLAN will be represented there through François Grin, researcher at University of Geneva and deputy coordinator of DYLAN, who is co-responsible of the PNR56 "Langues étrangères dans l'activité professionnelle" (foreign languages in a professional context). For more information, please click here.

Ulrike Vogl und Matthias Hüning, Forscher der Freien Universität Berlin (FUB) und DYLAN Partner, organisieren den Workshop "Linguistic diversity in political unity? Multilingualism in Europe - source of contention or of cohesion". Der Workshop findet statt vom 26 bis zum 26. November 2008. Alle sind herzlich eingeladen. Für weitere Informationen und Registrierung, klicken Sie bitte hier.

Lancaster University partners Ruth Wodak and Michal Krzyzanowski, will give voice to the Dylan Project at the International Conference “GLOBE 2008: Critical Discourse Analysis and the Global Media”. During this three-day meeting - which will be held on September 18-20, in Warsaw Poland - Ruth Wodak will deliver an invited plenary lecture “Communicating Europe: Analyzing, Interpreting and Understanding Multilingualism and the Discursive Construction of Transnational Identities, whereas Michal Krzyzanowski will give a paper on “Language Ideologies in/and the Media: A CDA perspective on the Coverage of the EU Enlargement”. Both presentations will be based on research carried out within the Dylan Project and its Workpackage 2.

The Dylan project will be represented at the 4th Mid-term Conference of the European Sociological Association’s Qualitative Methods Research Network, thanks to WP2 and WP5 Managers Ruth Wodak and Michal Krzyzanowski. This conference is devoted to “Teaching Qualitative Methods” and takes place in Lodz, Poland, on September, 11-17. The two Lancaster scholars will take part in the invited “Meet the Author Session”, during which they will present their recent major work “Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences”.

"Le défi du multilinguisme pour l'Europe", une conférence organisée dans le cadre de la chaire UNICA de l'Université de Lausanne. 
plusieurs personnalités suisses et européennes liées au domaine de la recherche et de l'éducation seront présentes pour cette conférence, notamment:

- Myriam Tétaz, présidente du Conseil Communal de Lausanne
- Dominique Arlettaz, Recteur de l'Université de Lausanne
- PATRICK Piffaretti, Directeur de la Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe
- Anne-Claude Berthoud, Responsable de la Chaire UNICA, Université de Lausanne (et coordinatrice du Projet DYLAN)
- Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Education et à la Recherche, Berne
- Harald Hartung, Chef d'Unité à la Commission Européenne, Bruxelles
- Wolfgang Mackiewicz, Président du Conseil Européen pour les Langues, Berlin.

La conférence aura lieu jeudi 19 juin 2008, de 16h à 18h, à l'Opéra de Lausanne, Salle Alice Bailly.
Avenue du Théâtre 12, 1002 Lausanne

The 15th world congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) will take place in August 2008 in Essen/Germany. The theme of the five-days conference will be: "Multilingualism: challenges and opportunities". A special European strand of Symposium will be held at this conference where a prominent slot is dedicated to the DYLAN project.
The Project Coordination Team members Anne Claude Berthoud, Georges Lüdi and François Grin will present the project and its first findings. Several more DYLAN members will contribute to the congress, amongst them Rita Franceschini with a keynote speech. Here you can find more information about 

- the 15th AILA World Congress, 
- the Dylan panel and 
- about AILA in general.

"Les enjeux du plurilinguisme pour l'université": un cycle de conférences organisé dans le cadre de la Chaire UNICA (Réseau des Universités des Capitales de l'Europe) par l'institut de linguistique et des sciences du langage de l'Université de Lausanne.
Pour en savoir plus, consultez le descriptif et l'affiche de cet événement.

The conference Mediating Multilingualism, organized at the University of Jyväskylä as the 26th Summer School of Applied Language Studies, approaches mediation and multilingualism from the double perspectiveof the meaings and the modalities. In its focus are the different ways and means for mediating multilingualism, as well as multilingualism as a mediational system.

The trilingual Free University of Bozen-Bolzano will host the third International Conference on “Bi- and Multilingual Universities” on 20-22 September 2007, with the goal of bringing together scholars, instructors, university leaders and administrative personnel working in bi- and multilingual universities, so as to provide them with a terrain for scientific and didactic discussion, comparison of practices, approaches and results and networking opportunities.