Seminars held in 2007
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Seminars in 2007
| Presenter | Title | Time/Location |
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Professor Michael Bamberg (Clark University, USA) Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
Small stories in narrative theory and analysis |
Tuesday 27 February, 2:15pm Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne |
WORKSHOP Professor Michael Bamberg (Clark University, USA) Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
Workshop in Positioning Analysis |
Wednesday 28 February, 9am - 12noon. University of Melbourne. |
Dr David Fleck (RCLT, LaTrobe) Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
Evidentiality and double tense in Matses. |
Friday 2 March 2007,
3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dr Carol Rittner (The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey) Centre for Jewish History & Culture |
The Holocaust & the Christian World |
Wednesday 7 March 2007, 1pm |
Nao Ohkubo |
An investigation into Japanese test-takers’ experiences of the integrated writing task component of the TOEFL iBT |
Friday 16 March 2007, 11:30am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Paul Broussard (PhD student, University of Melbourne) PhD Confirmation talk - German |
Memory and History in the works of Christoph Hein | Tuesday 20 March 2007, 3:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
***Free Special Event*** Film Showing Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
Film Showing Fragments of the Owl's Egg. Wamud has come back to spend his remaining years on the remote Arnhem Land Plateau. It is half a century since he and his kin left their lands for the missions and towns of a changing world. He has returned to impart his knowledge both to a new generation and to scientists concerned with the ecology of this vast area. The Plateau is rich in rock art, mostly unrecorded. Wamud recalls from his youth a particular site - he remembers much about its glorious art, but less about its whereabouts. So begins a search as much through memory as the extraordinary landscape. (Running time: 39 minutes) |
Thursday 22 March 2007, 1:00pm Theatre B, Old Arts building, University of Melbourne |
Isabel Bickerdike Linguistics & Applied Linguistics - Linguistics |
Sung and spoken: different versions of a Kun-barlang love song |
Friday 23 March 2007, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Françoise Rose Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
Sociative Causation in South-America |
Friday 23 March 2007, 12:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dr Murray Garde Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
Words about country and the Bininj Kun-wok lexicography project. |
Friday 23 March 2007, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Saya Ike PhD confirmation / conversion talk - Linguistics |
Japanese English as a Variety | Friday 30 March 2007, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Cara Penry Williams (PhD student, University of Melbourne) PhD confirmation / conversion talk - Linguistics |
Constructing Identities in Australian English | Friday 30 March 2007, 11:45am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dr Volker Gast Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
(Non-)veradicality and the distribution of even – towards a semantic map |
Friday 30 March 2007, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Prof. Dr. Klaus R. Scherpe, Humboldt Universität Berlin | W.G. Sebalds Poetik der Beschreibung | Friday, 30th March, 3.15 pm, 7th floor, Arts Centre, Melbourne University |
Dr Vladimir Kapor
|
Couleur locale - a pictorial term gone astray? | Monday 2 April 2007, 1:10pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Gedaliah Afterman PhD Completion seminar - Jewish Studies |
Understanding the Theology of Israel’s Extreme Religious Right: 'The Chosen People' And 'The Land Of Israel' from the Bible to the ‘expulsion from Gush Katif’ |
Thursday 5 April 2007, 1:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Prof Timo Lauttamus Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
A model for the description of code-switching and borrowing among marginally bilingual speakers | Friday 20 April 2007, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Zeynep Beykont |
‘We can’t learn Turkish by osmosis’: Youth reflections on language programs |
Friday 20 April 2007, 3:15pm Room 225, Alice Hoy building, University of Melbourne (Note: Venue change) |
Dr Deirdre Gilfedder |
Dr Deirdre Gilfedder, maître de conférences in Australian Studies at the University of Paris-Dauphine will present an informal talk on the institutional setting and the current state of play in Australian Studies in France, and will also discuss the place of her own research within that setting. | Monday 23 April 2007, 1:10pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Erich Round University of Melbourne |
Reconstructing Tangkic truncation and augmentation |
Friday 27 April 2007, 1:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr. Stefanie Everke, Monash University | A few of my favourite things – Markers of German Identity | Friday 27 April 2007, 3.15pm 7th floor, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr. Marianne Kröger, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main | Carl Einstein (1885-1940) - Wegbereiter der Avantgarde: Porträt, Werk und aktuelle Publikationen | Friday 4 May 2007, 3.15pm 7th floor, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dr Helen Frank
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Babar's "wonderful" [?] travels in America: Translating cultural displacement |
Monday 7 May 2007,
1:10pm |
| Dr Nick Thieberger University of Melbourne |
Online presentation of interlinear text. |
Friday 11 May 2007, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Louisa Sadler University of Essex |
Agreement, Gender Resolution and Gender Indeterminacy in Norwegian, |
Friday 11 May 2007, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Prof. Svend Erik Larsen, Aarhus University | Literature and Globalisation – A Book Project | Friday 11 May 2007, 3.15pm Room 239, Old Arts building (Note room change) University of Melbourne |
| Dr Lara Anderson and Dr Heather Benbow University of Melbourne |
Using the LMS for Listening Comprehension and Culture Teaching - German and Spanish. | Monday 14 May 2007, 1:10pm Room 603, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Stefan Mummert Monash University |
Public Discourse and Personal Recollections- The De- and Re-Construction of a Post-Wende East German Identity | Friday, 18 May 2007, 3.15pm 7th floor, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Warren Walker PhD Confirmation talk |
Humour and Irony in the Contemporary French Novel with Particular Reference to Echenoz, Houellebecq and Salvayre. |
Monday 21 May 2007, 1:10pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Professor John Dingley |
The Vikings and the Russian Language |
Thursday 24 May 2007, 1:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Professor Tim McNamara and Dr Carsten Roever |
Language Testing: The Social Dimension Tim McNamara & Carsten Roever - Abstract (pdf, 182kb) *Followed by the launch of books: Language Testing: The Social Dimension by Carsten Roever and Tim McNamara; and An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (3rd Ed.) by John Clark, Collin Yallop and Janet Fletcher. |
Friday 25 May 2007,
11:00am |
| Andrew Blumbergs The University of Melbourne |
CANCELLED Due to illness of the presenter, the seminar on Friday, 25 May must be cancelled. Andrew Blumbergs will give his paper in semester 2, 2007. Undeutsche, Leibeigene or Sklaven? The Livonian peasant and the 'province of barbarism' |
|
Lyn May PhD completion talk |
Interaction in a paired speaking test: the rater's perspective |
Friday 29 June 2007, |
Sebastian Olcher Fedden PhD completion talk |
Direct inflection and auxiliary compounding in Mian | Friday 29 June 2007, |
| Professor Jan Blommaert Chair of Languages in Education Institute of Education University of London |
"It's life Jim, but not as we know it" - (real) language in (real) space This paper draws on Jan Blommaert's work with Jim Collins and Stef Slembrouck on urban multilingualism. It makes an argument for theorising space as agentive in sociolinguistics. |
Wednesday 4 July 2007, |
Nu Nhu Ngoc Ton PhD completion talk |
Requests by Vietnamese learners of EFL: An investigation of the relationship between proficiency, grammar, and pragmatic development | Friday 6 July 2007, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Simone Graetzer PhD Confirmation talk |
An acoustical study of coarticulation; coarticulation and coarticulation resistance in three Australian languages | Friday 27 July 2007, 11:00am |
Nao Ohkubo PhD Confirmation talk |
A validity study of the integrated writing task of the TOEFL iBT: The ways test-takers use the source materials for the task | Friday 27 July 2007, 11:00am Room 333, Alice Hoy building, University of Melbourne |
Yi-Ching Pan PhD Confirmation talk |
Consequences and the evaluation of test use: Washback of English proficiency tests utilized as English graduation threshold on college education in Taiwan | Friday 27 July 2007, 1:30pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Michael Warner PhD Confirmation talk |
The discourse of (in)security in political rhetoric. |
Monday 30 July 2007, 10:00am |
| Dr Muiris Olaoire (Tralee) | 'New' languages and old in Ireland. From bilingualism to multilingualism? | Cancelled. |
Associate Professor Stephen Kolsky
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Agreeing to disagree: debate in Castiglione's "Book of the Courtier" | Monday 6 August 2007, 1:10pm Room 509, Arts Centre building, University of Melbourne |
| Professor Barry Rubin | Why the Middle East affects the whole world |
Thursday 9 August 2007, 1:00pm Theatre E, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne |
Associate Professor Stephen Kolsky
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Agreeing to disagree: debate in Castiglione's "Book of the Courtier" | Monday 6 August 2007, 1:10pm Room 509, Arts Centre building, University of Melbourne |
| Professor Barry Rubin | Why the Middle East affects the whole world |
Thursday 9 August 2007, 1:00pm Theatre E, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Dominique de Gasquet | Diversité culturelle et littérature: influences, traductions, adaptations, réception et Irradiation: les échanges d'identité entre Marguerite Yourcenar et Mishima Yukio. |
Thursday 9 August 2007, 5:30pm Harold White Lecture Theatre, Arts Centre building, University of Melbourne. |
| Rand Valentine University of Wisconsin - Madison |
A Ritual to Read to Each Other: Research in Endangered Languages. |
Friday 10 August 2007, 3.15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Two informal Australianist talks Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
Robert Mailhammer (University of Melbourne) and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (K.U. Leven & University of Melbourne) |
Wednesday 15 August 2007, 1:30pm to 3:15pm (Note time change) Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Professor Michael B. Oren Free Public Lecture - All welcome |
The Richard Pratt Oration 2007 Jews, Statehood and Power - Israel and the Challenge to Jewish Morality
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Thursday 16 August 2007, 6:30pm *Refreshements served from 6pm outside the theatre. |
| Dr Muiris Olaiore | 'New' languages and old in Ireland. From bilingualism to multilingualism? | Friday 17 August 2007, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Postgraduate Qualitative Research Forum / Semester 2, 2007 / SOLL Dr Paul Gruba |
Key issues in qualitative research for applied linguists Pre-reading available from SuperSearch or email Paul Gruba - paulag(at)unimelb.edu.au
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Friday 17 August 2007, 11:00am Room 606, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dr Barb Kelly Informal Lunchtime Tibeto-Burman Series |
A brief look at evidentials in Sherpa | Tuesday 21 August 2007, 12:45pm - 1:45pm (Note time change) Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Two informal Australianist talks Linguistics & Applied Linguistics |
Nick Evans (University of Melbourne) and Amos Teo (University of Melbourne) |
Wednesday 22 August 2007, 1:30pm to 3:15pm (Note time change) Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Postgraduate Qualitative Research Forum / Semester 2, 2007 / SOLL Dr Paul Gruba |
Qualitative data collection Pre-reading available from SuperSearch or email Paul Gruba - paulag(at)unimelb.edu.au
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Friday 24 August 2007,
11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dianne Jonas Yale University |
Word Order: Change and Configurationality |
Friday 24 August 2007,
3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Andrew Blumbergs
|
’Undeutsche, Leibeigene oder Sklaven?’: The Livonian peasant and the 'province of barbarism'. | Friday 24 August 2007,
4:00pm Level 7, Mezzanine, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Postgraduate Qualitative Research Forum / Semester 2, 2007 / SOLL Dr Paul Gruba |
Data analysis: Paper or computer-based? Pre-reading available from SuperSearch or email Paul Gruba - paulag(at)unimelb.edu.au
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Friday 31 August 2007, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Professor Tim McNamara |
'Chez soi'? Derrida and the problematic notion of the 'mother tongue' Derrida's work is barely acknowledged within linguistics and applied linguistics, although the topic of language is the subject of many of this major texts. Drawing on his autobiographical late work Le Monolinguisme de l'autre/Monolingualism of the Other, this paper presents an analysis of Derrida's complex relationship with French, his 'mother tongue', and the implications of this relationship for understanding both the project of deconstruction, and for thinking about a range of issues in the area of language and identity. |
Friday 31 August 2007, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Katie Sutton The University of Melbourne |
Am Anfang war der Sport: The Masculinized Female Athlete in Weimar popular culture | Friday 31 August 2007, 4:00pm Level 7, Mezzanine, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Robyn Loughnane & Sebastian Fedden The University of Melbourne |
Establishing the genetic relation between Oksapmin and the Ok family | Wednesday 5 September 2007, 1:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Felicity Meakins PhD Completion talk
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Moving targets: Variation and convergence in the expression of goal marking in Gurindji Kriol |
Thursday 6 September 2007, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Postgraduate Qualitative Research Forum / Semester 2, 2007 / SOLL Dr Paul Gruba |
Writing up qualitative research Pre-reading available from SuperSearch or email Paul Gruba - paulag(at)unimelb.edu.au
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Friday 7 September 2007, 11:00am Room 606, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Honours Students Linguistics & Applied Linguistics The University of Melbourne |
Poster session. | Friday 7 September 2007, 12:30 - 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Robyn Loughnane The University of Melbourne |
Expanding the typology of evidentiality | Friday 7 September 2007, 2:30pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Nick Evans The University of Melbourne |
The dyad construction in Mapudungun and its typological implications | Friday 7 September 2007, 3:30pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Rachel Nordlinger The University of Melbourne |
"It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it": the role of formal theory in language description |
Wednesday 12 September 2007, 1:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Sarah Jones University of Nottingham |
Erst heute wird mir klar, wie sehr ich mich damals hätte fürchten sollen: Stefan Heym, the Stasi and the consequences of the Biermann affair | Friday 14 September 2007, 4:00pm Level 7, Mezzanine, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Celeste Rodriguez Louro The University of Melbourne |
Some observations on the use of the Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian Spanish: Results from a Questionnaire | Wednesday 19 September 2007, 2:00pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Guy Edwards The University of Melbourne |
When agree doesn’t mean agree: Stance and indexicality | Wednesday 19 September 2007, 2:00pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Ali Aldosari PhD completion talk |
The influence of social relations, proficiency difference, and task type on pair interactions (EFL context) This study examined the influence of proficiency levels, task types, and social relations on the nature of dyadic interactions in Saudi Arabia, where learners were not accustomed to pair work. Data were collected through tape recording, teacher's comments, survey, and interviews with the learners. Findings showed that though proficiency levels and task types had an influence on the quantity, focus, and functions of L2 and L1, the social relations appeared to be the most influential factor. |
Friday 9 November 2007, 11.00am |
| Belinda Ross - Linguistics Confirmation Talk | Does grammatical structure impact on pause spacing? Pausing and syllable counts in Dalabon and Kayardild narratives. | Monday 10 December 2007, 2:00 pm Phonetics Lab, 5th Floor, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Ruth Singer The University of Melbourne |
Joining the dots: typological groupings and linguistic prehistory in Australia |
Wednesday 19 December 2007,
12:00 noon Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |