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University of Alabama Languages Conference 2017

University of Alabama Languages Conference 2017

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : mlc.ua.edu)

The University of Alabama Languages Conference February 17-18, 2017

The graduate students of The University of Alabama’s Department of Modern Languages & Classics, in collaboration with the graduate students of the Department of Education, the Department of English, and TESOL program, invite papers for our seventh annual University of Alabama Languages Conference entitled “Exchanging Ideas and Experiences Through Language” to be held February 17-18, 2017, at Hotel Capstone and The Ferguson Center of The University of Alabama.

 

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Bill VanPatten (Linguistics) and Dr. Rubén Gallo (Literature) Dr. Bill VanPatten is an award-winning scholar, teacher, and writer with an international presence in the field of second language acquisition. Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies at Michigan State University, VanPatten researches and teaches in the area of linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition. He has published eight books, eight co-edited books and over 120 articles and chapters. He is the current co-editor of the Cambridge journal Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Dr. Rubén Gallo is an award-winning writer and scholar who is currently the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain at Princeton University. He is the author of Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (2010), an essay about Freud’s fantasies about Mexico, as well as Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (2005), an essay about the Mexican avant-garde’s fascination with machines, among other publications. He is a member of the board of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, and in 2009 he was the Freud-Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Psychoanalysis in Austria.

 

Strands Proposals about all languages are welcome in, but are not strictly limited to, the following topic strands: • Sociolinguistics • L1, L2, L3 acquisition and pedagogy • Languages in contact • Historical and comparative linguistics • Non-verbal communication; sign language • Language as presented in literature, film and music • Voices in literature • Feminism, gender identity • Alterity • Storytelling, mythology, memory

 

Proposals

Proposals are invited for individual papers or presentations of 20 minutes in length. Please email abstracts in English of up to 500 words as a Microsoft Word document attachment to ualanguagesconference@gmail.com. Please include the following information for each presenter: (1) Name, affiliation, and email address, (2) Title of presentation, and (3) Multimedia requests, if any. Suggestions for panels of three or four presenters are especially encouraged. Along with a description of the panel proposed, please submit one panel proposal accompanied by individual abstracts for all presenters and provide the professional information requested above for each member. The deadline for proposal submission is October 1, 2016. Conference information can also be found on the departmental website. Box 870246 – 200 B.B. Comer Hall – Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 – www.mlc.ua.edu