In this section we provide a short description and dates and/or contact
information for language conferences, institutes, meetings, and other
activities which may be of interest to our readers. If you have information
about a language event that would be appropriate for this section, please
email the editor at jsealt@charter.net
April
April 27-30
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), Ninth Annual
Conference
Theme: Expanding the LCTL Capacities in the United States
Location: The Madison Concourse Hotel, One West Dayton Street, Madison,
WI 53703
Contact:
www.councilnet.org
April 30th
Deadline: Submit abstracts for the July COTSEAL Conference on Southeast
Asian Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics by this date. E-mail your
abstract to Lopao Vang at
lvang@madison.k12.wi.us or Bac Tran at
bact@calmail.berkeley.edu
May
May 22-25
1st World Congress on the Power of Language: Theory, Practice,
and Performance
Location: Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Phone: 66 2 661-6720 Email:
royalth@ksc.th.com
Website:
www.poweroflanguage.org
June
June 19 to July 28
Advanced Study of Khmer (ASK)
Location: Royal University of Phnom Penh
Contact:
http://www.hawaii.edu/cseas/academic/khmer_2005.html
June 19 to August 11
2006 Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)
Languages: Burmese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao,
Thai, and Vietnamese.
Location: The University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact: Mary Jo Studenberg. Phone: 608-263-1755. Email:
seassi@intl-institute.wisc.edu
Website:
seassi.wisc.edu
June 19 to August 11
Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute
Location: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Contact: Kim Nguyen. Phone 206-543-4986 Email:
vasi@u.washington.edu
Website:
streamingmedia.org/vasi/
June 26 to August 18
Advanced Study of Thai Program
Offered by the Consortium for Advanced Study of Thai.
Location: Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Contact:
http://depts.washington.edu/~seac/ast or email
seac@u.washington.edu
July
July 21-22
2006 COTSEAL Conference on Southeast Asian Language Teaching and Applied
Linguistics.
Theme: Making Southeast Asian Language Learning Enjoyable Through the
Use of Technology and Literature; papers on this theme or on the
teaching of Southeast Asian languages generally are welcome.
Contacts: Lopao Vang at
lvang@madison.k12.wi.us or Bac Tran at
bact@calmail.berkeley.edu
Location: The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St .at the University of Wisconsin
in Madison
Rooms: The Lowell Center, 610 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53713. Reserve by
calling 608-262-4395 or emailing
lowell@edd.uwex.edu or go to
http://conferencing.uwex.edu
September
September 20-21
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics
Society (SEALS XVI)
Location: Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia
Contact:
http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/seals.php
November
November 10-12
International Conference on Thai Language and Literature: Wisdom and
Dynamism in the Global Context
Location: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Contact:
www.ICTL2006.org Abstracts should be submitted by email to
admin@ICTL2006.org |