Seminars held in 2008
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Seminars in 2008
| Presenter | Title | Time/Location |
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| Matilde V.R. Scaramucci State University of Campinas, Brasil |
Consequences and Validity |
Friday 18 January 2008, 2.00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Margaret Dahlstrom The University of Melbourne |
Swedish Bicultural Fiction: recurring themes and contrasting treatments. Swedish PhD Confirmation talk |
Thursday 7 February 2008, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Thi Thanh Ha Do The University of Melbourne |
The acquisition of English agreements and disagreements in a study abroad context. Linguistics PhD Confirmation talk |
Thursday 21 February 2008, 2:00pm Room 502, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Sascha Rixon The University of Melbourne |
Humour and facilitator talk-in-interaction: An Australasian case study Linguistics PhD Confirmation talk |
Friday 22 February 2008, 10:30am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Akiko Ryumon The University of Melbourne |
Washback processes in the secondary school foreign language classroom: a case study of two Japanese classrooms Linguistics PhD talk |
Friday 29 February 2008, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Celeste Rodriguez Louro The University of Melbourne |
Linguistic-external forces on language change: The Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish |
Friday 7 March 2008, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Alan Davies University of Edinburgh |
Academic Language Testing in the UK: the IELTS compromise
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Friday 7 March 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Catriona Fraser The University of Melbourne |
An evaluation of intercultural communication practices amongst the Victoria Police. Linguistics Conversion talk |
Friday 14 March 2008, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne *Note date change |
| Janne Morton The University of Melbourne |
Becoming architectural: socialization into disciplinary discourse through the design studio presentation. Linguistics PhD talk |
Friday 14 March 2008,
2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr. Timothy Baldwin Computer Science, University of Melbourne |
The Syntax and Semantics of Determinerless PPs in English and Dutch |
Friday 14 March 2008,
3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Abdul Asmari The University of Melbourne |
Integration of foreign culture in pre-service EFL teacher education: A case study of Saudi Arabia Linguistics PhD Completion talk |
Friday 4 April 2008, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Sylvia Mackie The University of Melbourne |
The revival of the parataxis hypothesis Linguistics PhD Completion talk |
Friday 4 April 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Linguistics & Applied Linguistics - Honours The University of Melbourne |
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Mid-Year Honours Poster Session |
Friday 11 April 2008, 1:00pm to 2:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Saya Ike The University of Melbourne |
Japanese English as an emerging variety of English: Its features and intelligibility |
Friday 11 April 2008,
2.15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Beth Zielinski Forum on Accent #7 |
Reduced intelligibility in L2 speakers of English 3.30 - 4.30 Presentation + Question Time |
Friday 11 April 2008,
3:30pm to 5:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Esther Jilovsky Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar |
Recreating Postmemory? Using Holocaust Sites to 'experience' the Holocaust. |
Friday 11 April 2008,
3:30pm to 5pm Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Prof Tim McNamara The University of Melbourne |
A journey into language: Ein Gastprof lernt Deutsch |
Friday 18 April 2008,
3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Hyejeong Kim The University of Melbourne |
Evaluating aviation policy in relation to English language proficiency testing: The case of Korea. PhD Confirmation talk |
Tuesday 29 April 2008, 10:30am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Meredith Bartlett The University of Melbourne |
Language Use of Bilingual Deaf Adults using Australian Sign Language (Auslan) and Australian English. |
Friday 2 May 2008, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dan Flickinger This seminar is sponsored by HCSNet. |
Transparent Heads in English |
Friday 2 May 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dr Heather Benbow Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar |
The Gentleman and the Rogue: Jewish Protagonists in Lessing's Die Juden and Dani Levy's Alles auf Zucker | Friday 2 May 2008,
3:30pm to 5pm Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Mónica S. Cárdenas-Claros The University of Melbourne |
A principled framework of help options in computer based-listening Confirmation talk |
Friday 9 May 2008, 2:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Susan Douglas The University of Melbourne |
Verb acquisition in the language of children with autism: syntax, semantics and social cognition. |
Friday 9 May 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Felicity Grey PhD candidate sociology/linguistics The University of Melbourne |
Speaking well of the Other |
Friday 16 May 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Prof Tim McNamara REPEAT Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar |
A journey into language: Ein Gastprof lernt Deutsch |
Friday 16 May 2008,
3:30pm to 5pm Room 501, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Kerrie Delves The University of Melbourne |
Repair in the conversation of high functioning children with autism and typically developing children. Abstract - Delves (pdf 216kb) |
Friday 23 May 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Debbie Loakes The University of Melbourne |
When celery and salary are homophones: neutralisation of prelateral /æ / and /e/ in Melbourne English |
Friday 23 May 2008, 3.30pm (Note new time) Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
David Blencowe Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar |
Please note that this Seminar has been cancelled. |
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| Mosheer Amer The University of Melbourne |
The Linguistics of Representation: The New York Times’ Discourse on the Second Palestinian Intifada PhD Completion talk |
Friday 20 June 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Quynh Thi Ngoc Nguyen The University of Melbourne |
An exploratory study of the acquisition of Vietnamese as a second language by ethnic minority children in a bilingual education program in Vietnam PhD Confirmation talk |
Friday 20 June 2008, 3.30pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Assoc Prof John Bitchener AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand |
Written corrective feedback and second language development: A ten month investigation of the relationship. |
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 |
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): |
14th to 16th of July 2008, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Interdisciplinary Conference | Borders & Crossings / Seuils et Traverses Call for Papers (see web page): |
16th to 19th July 2007, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Hoa Nguyen The University of Melbourne |
Investigating the validity of two EFL listening tests Completion talk |
Friday 18 July 2008, 2:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Kazumi Namiki The University of Melbourne |
The development of the pragmatics of requests in Japanese as a foreign language setting Conversion talk |
Friday 25 July 2008, 11:00am Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Maureen Saclot The University of Melbourne |
Event Structure in Tagalog: Interface of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics |
Friday 25 July 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Oliver Bond SOAS, London |
Conditions on agreement: Feature mismatch and intra-paradigmatic variation in Eleme. |
Friday 1 August 2008, 2:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dale Adams Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series - German |
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 1 August 2008, 3:30pm Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Miriam Butt University of Konstanz |
An Ergative/Dative Connection |
Friday 1 August 2008, 3:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Oranna Speicher School of Modern Languages and Cultures The University of Nottingham |
The One-Stop-Language-Shop |
Monday 4 August 2008, 12.10pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Anne Taille University of Melbourne |
Topic TBA PhD Confirmation talk |
Monday 11 August 2008, 12.10pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| William B. McGregor Aarhus University, Denmark |
Optional ergative case-marking systems in a typological perspective |
Friday 15 August 2008, 3.15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Erik Beyersdorf 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 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Uwe Kretch The University of Melbourne |
A comparative grammar of Aslian languages |
Friday 22 August 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne Note: Date changed from 15 Aug. |
Dr Andrea Bandhauer 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 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Craig McArthur, Andrea Rizzi and Matthew Absalom The University of Melbourne |
Veni, wiki, wiz: simple editing and authoring of multimedia materials for second language teaching and learning | Monday 25 August 2008, 12.10pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Ana Maria Ducasse The University of Melbourne |
Interaction in paired oral proficiency assessment in Spanish PhD completion talk |
Friday 29 August 2008, 3.15pm. Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Margaret Dahlström Norman Macgeorge Scholarship Report |
Swedish Bicultural Fiction: exploring cultural anxieties and expressing cultural resistance. Norman Macgeorge Scholarship Report Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb) |
Friday 29 August 2008, 3.30pm Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Prof Michael Clyne (University of Melbourne) Dr Susanne DöpkeRUMACCC, The University of Melbourne |
Raising Children in More Than One Language A seminar for parents, grandparents, caregivers and professionals working with children. | Sunday 31 August 2008, 12.45 to 5pm,The Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Helene Chenut University of California, Irvine |
Youth Culture and Language in Contemporary France: French, Beur and Verlan in the Suburbs | Monday 1 September 2008, 12.10pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Samantha Disbray The University of Melbourne |
More than one way to catch a frog: Children’s discourse in a language contact setting PhD Completion talk |
Friday 5 September 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Karin Moses The University of Melbourne |
Do dinosaurs hug in the Kimberley? -- the use of questions by Aboriginal caregivers and children at Yakanarra PhD completion talk |
Friday 5 September 2008, 3.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Prof Horst Dippel | Topic TBA | Friday 5 September 2008, 3.30pm Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Research Postgraduate Students Linguistics & Applied Linguistics The University of Melbourne |
LAL Research Postgrads speed paper session This session is designed for LAL research postgraduate students to get together and discuss their research. Each student is asked to come with a four minute (4 slide) speed paper outlining some aspect of their research. Much discussion will follow, as will more general discussion as to future postgrad-oriented plans and activities. |
Friday 12 September 2008, 3.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
HCSNet Human Communication Disorders Priority Area - Workshop on Narrative and Communication Disorders. or Dr Susan Douglas sdouglas@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 |
| Dr Andrea Rizzi The University of Melbourne |
Translating the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) | Monday 15 September 2008, 12.10pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Prof Sally Boyd University of Gothenburg |
Whose language shall we study? Problems using the term ”native speaker” about young people in multilingual urban settings |
Friday 19 September 2008, 3.15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
A/Prof Kate Rigby 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 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Workshop This event is organised by the Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication (RUMACCC), School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne. Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts Visiting Scholars’ Scheme and by a Swedish Institute Guest Lecturer Grant |
European and Australian Perspectives on Language Policy 2008 is the International Year of Languages designed to celebrate and encourage linguistic diversity around the world. Recent trends in Europe and Australia send conflicting messages about the value of such diversity. In this workshop national and international experts come together to discuss current language policy issues in Europe and Australia. For catering purposes: Please RSVP to Catrin Norrby catrinn@unimelb.edu.au by Monday 29 September Flyer - European and Australian Perspectives on Language Policy (pdf, 207kb) Abstracts - European and Australian Perspectives on Language Policy (pdf, 132kb) |
Thursday 2 October 2008, 1.30 pm – 5pm Room 509, Arts Centre University of Melbourne
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| Jana Verhoeven PhD Candidate in French Studies The University of Melbourne |
Femme caissière and mistress of the house: Presentations of the French wife in fin de siècle cross-national debate |
Monday 6 October 2008, 12.10pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Tim Moore The University of Melbourne |
Critical thinking and the disciplines PhD completion talk |
Friday 10 October 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
A/Prof Gerhard Fischer 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 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Prof Philippe Met Visiting Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania |
Films that never were – films that could never be? Towards a theory of ghost cinema |
Thursday 16 October 2008, 5.30pm Mezzanine, Level 7, Arts Centre |
| Luke Harding The University of Melbourne |
The use of diverse accented speakers in EAP listening assessment: a PhD completion talk |
Friday 17 October 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Evan Kidd La Trobe University & The University of Manchester |
Object relatives made easy: rethinking the syntactic complexity of embedded clauses. |
Friday 17 October 2008, 3.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Robert Savage Monash University |
Ape-Theater. Primal Scenes in the Classical German Bildungsroman Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb) |
Friday 17 October 2008, 3.30pm Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Julie Robarts PhD candidate in Italian Studies The University of Melbourne |
Arcangela Tarabotti’s intertextual uses of Dante’s Commedia in her three cloistral works: La Semplicità Ingannata, L’Inferno Monacale, and Il Paradiso Monacale. |
Monday 20 October 2008, 12.10pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Prof Anne Freadman The University of Melbourne |
Jürgen Habermas and the problem of ‘genre |
Friday 24 October 2008, 2.15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| A/Prof Janet Fletcher The University of Melbourne |
Place assimilation and consonant coarticulation in Australian languages |
Friday 24 October 2008, 3.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne NOTE: Date Change. |
Rhiannyn Geeson Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008 |
Peeling the Onion: Analysing Hyperculturality in the German translations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series |
Seminar Cancelled |
| Dr Jean Mulder The University of Melbourne |
Final But in Contemporary Australian English |
Friday 31 October 2008, 3:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne Note: Date changed from 8 Aug. |
| Jenny Green University of Melbourne |
Between the earth and the air: Multimodality in Arandic sand stories PhD completion talk |
Friday 14 November 2008, 2:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Celeste Rodriguez Louro University of Melbourne |
Perfect evolution and change: A sociolinguistic study of Preterit and Present Perfect usage in contemporary and earlier Argentina PhD completion talk |
Friday 14 November 2008, 3:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost Cardiff University, RUMACCC |
The Irish Language and Symbolic Power: the Long War in the North of Ireland, Irish Republican Prisoners and the Jailtacht |
Friday 21 November 2008, 12noon - 1pm Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Building, University of Melbourne *Note time and location have changed. |
| Postgraduate Conference 2008 | The University of Melbourne Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 2008 |
Friday 21 and Saturday 22, November 2008, Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Building, University of Melbourne |
| Amanda Brotchie University of Melbourne |
Transition clauses in Tirax narrative: cohesion and suspense PhD completion talk |
Friday 28 November 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Nobue Tanaka University of Melbourne |
An Analysis of Student Interaction On and Around Computers during Collaborative Writing Tasks PhD completion talk |
Tuesday 16 December 2008, 2.00pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |