| Immersion Courses 2012 (French and Spanish) - Funding Deadlines! | |
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| Date | Various dates from 31 March 2012. Next application deadline is 16th January for courses running June - August 2012 |
| Venue | Various in France and Spain - please check website |
| Contact | Le Français en Ecosse / LFEE Europe |
| Translation Studies seminars at Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities | |
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| Date | Various until March 2012 |
| Venue | All seminars are held from 4-5.30 pm SEICS Seminar Venues, unless indicated otherwise Translation Studies Research Seminars Venues, unless indicated otherwise Translation as a Profession Series Venues, unless indicated otherwise: |
| Contact | Dr Marion Winters, Lecturer Translation Studies/German |
| Cafés Histoire et Art | |
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| Date | next event 14 May 2012 |
| Venue | Institut Français d’Écosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7TT |
| Contact | Book now by phone at 0131 225 53 66 or come to see us at the French Institute. |
| Seminar introducing online support for Advanced Higher German | |
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| Date |
23 May 2012 |
| Venue | Goethe-Institut, Glasgow |
| Contact | For further information and registration please contact our Language Department:language@glasgow.goethe.org |
| The Year Abroad: Maximising and promoting its real value | |
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| Date | 23 May 2012 |
| Venue | University of Strathclyde, Glasgow |
| Contact | More information is available from the LLAS website. |
| City of Edinburgh Council, Modern Foreign Languages Conference 2012 | |
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| Date | 25 May 2012 |
| Venue | Broughton High School, Edinburgh |
| Contact | Call 0131 469 3227 or email candf.cpd@edinburgh.gov.uk to book a place. |
| Cafés Histoire et Littéraire 2012 | |
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| Date | next event 28 May 2012 |
| Venue | Alliance Française de Glasgow - 3 Park Circus - G3 6AX - Glasgow |
| Contact | Tel. +44 (0)141 331 4080 |
| The status, role and future of Russian language training and Slavonic studies in the Scottish education system | |
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| Date | 28 May 2012 |
| Venue | The Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College Street, Edinburgh |
| Contact | As places are limited, please email Jon Oldfield if you are intending to join the workshop: Jonathan.Oldfield@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Open Educational Resources in Languages | |
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| Date | 1 June 2012 |
| Venue | Harrington Building, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK, PR1 2HE |
| Contact | Contact email: Michael Thomas |
| Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency and ecologies - call for papers | |
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| Date | Jyväskylä, Finland, 4-7 June 2012 |
| Venue | |
| Contact | Visit the Conference website or, if you have any further queries, please contact the conference organisers by email at applied-summerschool@jyu.fi |
| Fourth Joint Conference of European Confucius Institutes | |
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| Date | 6 - 8 June 2012 |
| Venue | The Confucius Institute for Scotland, Edinburgh. See the flyer for full location details |
| Contact | For further information contact: T: 0044(0)131 662 2180 F: 0044(0)131 662 2199 E: info@confuciusinstitute.ac.uk |
| Alliance Française Glasgow / Glasgow Science Festival 2012 - workshops for schools | |
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| Date | Exhibition runs from 6 - 15 June 2012 Workshops with French scientists 6 - 7 June 2012 |
| Venue | Alliance Française de Glasgow - 3 Park Circus - G3 6AX - Glasgow |
| Contact | For more information regarding the exhibition and bookings, please contact the Language Office on 0141 331 4080 or by email admin@afglasgow.org.uk |
| Teacher Education and Teachers’ Work (TETW) Conference 2012 | |
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| Date | 8 June 2012 |
| Venue | University of Glasgow, St Andrew’s Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH |
| Contact | To reserve a place please contact Anna Beck on a.beck.1@research.gla.ac.uk |
| Summer courses in Spain for non-native Spanish teachers and for young learners | |
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| Date | Course dates commence 10 June 2012 |
| Venue | Madrid (Spanish teacher courses) Salamanca (Junior/Young Adult courses) |
| Contact | Eoin Ward - marketing@sampere.es www.sampere.es Tel.: +34 91 4314366 |
| SCEN Seminar for pupils and ambassadors **PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED** | |
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| Date | 11 June 2012 |
| Venue | George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh |
| Contact | For further information contact Judith McClure, Convener of SCEN (judithmcclure12a@aol.com) |
| Scottish Education Awards 2012 | |
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| Date | 12 June 2012 (closing date for nominations 2 March 2012) |
| Venue | Hilton Hotel, Glasgow |
| Contact | Gillian Ferguson |
| XV Taller de español / 15th Workshop for Teachers of Spanish (University of St Andrews) | |
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| Date | 12 June 2012 |
| Venue | Department of Spanish, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews |
| Contact | For further information please contact Dr Gustavo San Román on 01334 462968, email: gfsr@st-andrews.ac.uk or Miss Dani Bruns on 01334 462961, email: db38@st-andrews.ac.uk. |
| Twilight sessions for Spanish Teachers in Glasgow | |
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| Date | 13 June 2012 |
| Venue | The Language Centre, Modern Foreign Languages Unit, University of Glasgow, Hetherington Building, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RS |
| Contact | To book a place and get a complementary ticket, please send an e-mail to asesoriaedimburgo.uk@mecd.es with your full name and the name of the school or institution where you work. |
| Taking Languages to the Next Level: A conference and workshop for potential candidates for the Scottish Baccalaureate in Languages | |
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| Date | 14 June 2012 |
| Venue | Edinburgh Napier University Craiglockhart Campus |
| Contact | For enquiries, and to register, contact: Dr Mary Fischer, (m.fischer@napier.ac.uk). |
| Using Free Audio Online tools to Enhance Learning and Teaching in Languages | |
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| Date | 15 June 2012 |
| Venue | London Metropolitan University, Learning Centre, 166 Holloway Road, London , England, N7 6PP |
| Contact | Contact email: Marion Sadoux |
| CPD: German in the nursery (**event rescheduled from 19 May...new date 18 June 2012**) | |
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| Date |
18 June 2012 |
| Venue | Goethe-Institut, Glasgow |
| Contact | For further information and registration please contact our Language Department:language@glasgow.goethe.org |
| 'Connecting Cultures' and internationalisation through Commonwealth Foreign Languages (CFL) | |
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| Date | 20 June 2012 |
| Venue | Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate house, Malet Street, London , England, WC1E 7HU |
| Contact | Contact email: Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan |
| Primary MFL Conference | |
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| Date | 23 June 2012 |
| Venue | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Contact | email: a.downey@mmu.ac.uk |
| ForMoove 2012 - European awareness and mobility projects for schools | |
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| Date | Training course run in French: 25-29 June 2012 Training course run in English: 9-13 July 2012 |
| Venue | CIEP, 1 avenue Léon-Journault, F-92318 Sèvres, France Telephone: +33 (0)1 45 07 60 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 45 07 60 01 |
| Contact | See the ForMoove website for information |
| Conference on Transition in Languages - learning without hesitation, deviation or repetition | |
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| Date | 3 July 2012 |
| Venue | Aston Business School at Aston University in Birmingham. |
| Contact | Email: m.james2@aston.ac.uk (Mick James) Website: www1.aston.ac.uk/transitions |
| 8th BAAL Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group Conference 2012 - CALL FOR PAPERS | |
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| Date | Submission Deadline Friday 9 March 2012. Event 4 - 5 July 2012 |
| Venue | University of Oxford, Department of Education (OUDE, http://www.education.ox.ac.uk) & Worcester College (http://www.worc.ox.ac.uk) |
| Contact | Abstracts (up to 250 words) should be submitted by email attachment (Word files) to jess.briggs@education.ox.ac.uk. Queries about the conference should also be sent to this email address. |
| German Scholarships Programme | |
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| Date |
4 July - 3 August 2012, application deadline 7 March 2012 |
| Venue | Various locations within Germany |
| Contact | Please contact Marta Piwowarski (020 7824 1572 / marta.piwowarski@ukgermanconnection.org) |
| Language Futures: Languages in Higher Education conference 2012 | |
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| Date | 5 - 6 July 2012 |
| Venue | University of Edinburgh |
| Contact | For further information on the event please contact llas@soton.ac.uk or check the LLAS homepage for updates: http://www.llas.ac.uk/ |
| 11th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness | |
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| Date | 8 – 11 July 2012 |
| Venue | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Contact |
For more information visit the Conference website or contact the organisers by email. |
| Engaging Alumni to Support Languages and Internationalisation | |
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| Date | 9 July 2012 |
| Venue | The University of York, Heslington, York, England, YO10 5DD |
| Contact | Contact email: Nik Miller |
| S@S Accelerate - Languages Challenge | |
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| Date | 23rd - 27th July 2012, University of Strathclyde |
| Venue | University of Strathclyde |
| Contact | Iain Mitchell at i.mitchell@strath.ac.uk. You can also phone on 0141 950 3542. |
| Lapin wants Ice Cream | |
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| Date | 3 - 27 August 2012 |
| Venue | Institut Français d’Écosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7TT |
| Contact | Book by phone: 0131 225 53 66 |
| German Pupil Courses | |
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| Date |
Various between 12 - 30 August 2012, application deadline 7 March 2012 |
| Venue | Various locations within Germany |
| Contact | Please contact Marta Piwowarski (020 7824 1572 / marta.piwowarski@ukgermanconnection.org) |
| Adventures of the Little Prince | |
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| Date | 13 - 27 August 2012 |
| Venue | Institut Français d’Écosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7TT |
| Contact | Book by phone: 0131 225 53 66 |
| The Brunets Seminar 2012 - Teacher Training for Differentiation and Autonomy | |
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| Date | 15 - 22 August 2012 |
| Venue | Les Brunets, France. |
| Contact | Please contact Terry Lamb (T.Lamb@sheffield.ac.uk) or Turid Trebbi (turid.trebbi@if.uib.no) for further information and registration form. |
| EUROCALL 2012 | |
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| Date | 22 - 25 August 2012 |
| Venue | Gothenburg University, Sweden |
| Contact | |
| Skills Training for Advanced Higher German | |
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| Date |
25 August - 6 October 2012 |
| Venue | Goethe-Institut, Glasgow and online |
| Contact | For further information and registration please contact our Language Department:language@glasgow.goethe.org |
| Languages in the Globalised World (LGW) | |
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| Date | 5 - 6 September 2012 |
| Venue | School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK. |
| Contact | For general queries please contact Angela Batty at: A.J.Batty@leedsmet.ac.uk |
| "Multilingual Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics" - BAAL 2012 | |
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| Date | 6 - 8 September 2012 |
| Venue | Physics Lecture Theatre A, Blg 46, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton |
| Contact | If you have any queries, please email the conference team at : baal2012@conftool.com |
| A Taste of Multilingual Europe | |
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| Date | 15 September 2012 |
| Venue | Goethe Institute, Glasgow. |
| Contact | Please contact Jordi Pitarch-Marquino (jpitarch-marquino@stevenson.ac.uk). |
| The Need for Educational Research to Champion Freedom, Education and Development for All | |
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| Date | 17 - 21 September 2012 |
| Venue | University of Cadiz, Spain |
| Contact | Registration will start when the reviewing process is over and authors have been informed about the result of the evaluation. All registrations need to be done via the online system. |
| Conference on the History of Foreign Language Teaching | |
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| Date | 13 - 15 September 2012, Essen |
| Venue | Essen |
| Contact | Please submit your abstract of 300 words maximum by 1st April, 2012 to Prof. Dr. Marcus Reinfried (marcus.reinfried@uni-jena.de). Confirmation of acceptance will be given by 1st June, 2012. The contributions will be subsequently published. |
| Defining Scotland's Global Identity: the Chinese Perspective | |
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| Date | 29 October – 5 November 2012 |
| Venue | Different dates across Scotland - University of Strathclyde, Scottish Parliament, University of Glasgow, University of West of Scotland, University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh. |
| Contact | For further information contact Judith McClure, Convener of SCEN (judithmcclure12a@aol.com) |
| Gleneagles China Youth Summit | |
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| Date | 12 November 2012 |
| Venue | Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland. |
| Contact | Please contact Judith McClure, Convener of SCEN (judithmcclure12a@aol.com) as soon as possible if you are interested in this opportunity. |
| ALAPP 2012 - CALL FOR PAPERS | |
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| Date | Submission Deadline 1 May 2012. Event 6 - 8 December 2012 |
| Venue | University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. |
| Contact | Abstracts for individual 20-minute papers (maximally 250 words) or for 90-minute colloquia (maximally 500 words, including a synopsis and paper outlines) on the themes or related topics below should be sent to: alapp@uts.edu.au by 1st May 2012. |
