Faculty of Arts School of Languages & Linguistics

Research Seminars Program - Languages and Linguistics

Research Seminars Program for the School of Languages and Linguistics.

Seminar announcements are sent regularly by the School of Languages and Linguistics. If you would like to be added to our list please email Sally Jones with your details.

Presenter Title Time/Location
Assoc Prof John Bitchener
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

Written corrective feedback and second language development: A ten month investigation of the relationship.

Abstract-Bitchener (pdf, 175kb)

Friday 11 July 2008, 3:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Alexander Maxwell
Victoria University, Wellington

A Historian Examines Dialectology, or, Why the Slovak Language Has Three Dialects

Abstract-Maxwell (pdf, 172kb)

Monday 14 July 2008, 1:00pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Australian Society of French Studies (ASFS)

The XVIth meeting of the Australian Society of French Studies

Call for Papers (See web page):
First call for papers on issues concerned with “The ‘Minor’ Genres: kinds of document, kinds of documentary discourse”

14th to 16th of July 2008, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Interdisciplinary Conference

Borders & Crossings / Seuils et Traverses
Tenth Anniversary Bilingual Conference

Call for Papers (see web page):
Papers are invited on a wide range of topics related to travel writing and tourism studies and encourage participants from a variety of disciplines, including cultural geography, anthropology, history, literature and the creative arts. Participants interested in publication opportunities should address the proposed theme of “Time in Travel Writing and Tourism Studies” to be explored throughout the conference.

16th to 19th July 2007, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Kazumi Namiki
The University of Melbourne

The development of the pragmatics of requests in Japanese as a foreign language setting

Abstract-Namiki (pdf, 179kb)

Conversion talk

Friday 25 July 2008, 11:00am
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Oliver Bond
SOAS, London

Conditions on agreement: Feature mismatch and intra-paradigmatic variation in Eleme.

Abstract-Bond (pdf, 186kb)

Friday 1 August 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Miriam Butt
University of Konstanz

An Ergative/Dative Connection

Abstract - Butt (pdf, 167kb)

Friday 1 August 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Jean Mulder
The University of Melbourne

Oral Performance and Rhetorical Structure in Sm’algyax

Abstract - Mulder (pdf, 266kb)

Friday 8 August 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dale Adams
The University of Melbourne

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

The Confrontation of Thought and Reality: The Role and Significance of Mathematics in the work of Robert Musil, Hermann Broch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt – PhD Completion Talk (will be given in German).

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 8 August 2008, 3.30pm
Room 501 Arts Centre,
University of Melbourne

Uwe Kretch
The University of Melbourne

Topic TBA

(Confirmation talk)

Friday 15 August 2008, 11:00am
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Erik Beyersdorf
Monash University

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Normalising the Abnormal-Jonathan Littell's 'Die Wohlgesinnten' and Arno Surminski's 'Die Vogelwelt von Auschwitz'.

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 15 August 2008, 3.30pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Andrea Bandhauer
The University of Sydney

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Text und Körper in Performanz: Elfriede Jelineks "Die Klavierspielerin" in Michael Hanekes Film.

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 22 August 2008, 3.30pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Margaret Dahlström
The University of Melbourne

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Swedish Bicultural Fiction: exploring cultural anxieties and expressing cultural resistance.

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 29 August 2008, 3.30pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Karin Moses
The University of Melbourne

Topic TBA

(Completion talk)

Friday 5 September 2008, 2.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Samantha Disbray
The University of Melbourne

Topic TBA

(Completion talk)

Friday 5 September 2008, 3.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
HCSNet Human Communication Disorders Priority Area - Workshop on Narrative and Communication Disorders.


For further information, contact Associate Professor Lesley Stirling
lesleyfs@unimelb.edu.auor Dr Susan Douglassdouglas@unimelb.edu.au.
 

The aim of the workshop is to bring together Australian and international researchers with an interest in narrative and communication disorders. The workshop will address developmental and acquired disorders of both child and adult language and perspectives from neurotypical populations; it will consider topics in theory, methodology and analysis. The intention is to take a truly interdisciplinary approach, involving speakers and participants from a range of areas covered by the broad domain of cognitive science, and to generate fruitful leads and directions for further research.

Thus we expect that researchers from linguistics, psychology, speech pathology, psychiatry, computer science, cognitive neuroscience and other areas will find the workshop of interest. Interested researchers are invited to submit 200-250 word abstracts for paper or poster presentations by 2nd June 2008.

Further details are available on the workshop website at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2008/ncdworkshop

Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September 2008
The University of Melbourne

A/Prof Kate Rigby
Monash University

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Confronting Catastrophe: Heinrich von Kleist and the Hermeneutics of Disaster.

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 19 September 2008, 3.30pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

A/Prof Gerhard Fischer
The University of New South Wales

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Schreiben ex patria: W.G. Sebald und die Konstruktion einer literarischen Identität

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 10 October 2008, 3.30pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Rhiannyn Geeson
Monash University

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Peeling the Onion: Analysing Hyperculturality in the German translations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 24 October 2008, 3.30pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Seminars previously held in 2008

Seminars held in 2007

Seminars held in 2006

 

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