LINGUIST List 22.350 Thu Jan 20 2011 Confs: Applied Linguistics, Discipline of Linguistics/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Julia Gillen , Literacy History: Pushing the Disciplinary Boundaries Message 1: Literacy History: Pushing the Disciplinary Boundaries Date: 18-Jan-2011 From: Julia Gillen <j.gillenlancaster.ac.uk> Subject: Literacy History: Pushing the Disciplinary Boundaries E-mail this message to a friend Literacy History: Pushing the Disciplinary Boundaries Date: 07-Mar-2011 - 07-Mar-2011 Location: Lancaster, United Kingdom Contact: Julia Gillen Contact Email: j.gillenlancaster.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/centres/llrc/event/3551/ Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics Meeting Description: This seminar, jointly hosted by the BERA Literacy and Language SIG and the Literacy Research Centre, Lancaster University, provides an opportunity to bring together a range of educational researchers whose work spans across different disciplines, phases, interests and perspectives to explore the potential for new interdisciplinary perspectives, conceptualisations, understandings and interpretations of language, literacy, learning and pedagogy. Cost: £35 (including lunch and transport option from & to Lancaster Stn.) 10 am - 4pm 7th March 2011 Bailrigg Conference Centre, Lancaster University Janet Soler, The Open University: History of discourses around dyslexia Nigel Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University: Erasable writing technologies Mary Hamilton, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Lancaster University: Literacy by Numbers: a history of reading, writing and statistics Gary McCulloch, Institute of Education, London: Discussant Interactive poster session - chaired by Julia Gillen, Lancaster University. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.