LINGUIST List 23.4458: Confs: Applied Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing/USA

LINGUIST List 23.4458
Thu Oct 25 2012 Confs: Applied Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing/USA Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org>
Date: 24-Oct-2012 From: Tej Bhatia <tkbhatiasyr.edu> Subject: Mellon Foundation Symposium on The Multilingual Mind E-mail this message to a friend Mellon Foundation Symposium on The Multilingual Mind Date: 27-Oct-2012 - 28-Oct-2012 Location: Syracuse, New York, USA Contact: Tej Bhatia Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.syracusehumanities.org/index.php/calendar/multilingual-mind/#.UIgRWkSGrXU Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics Meeting Description: A 2-day Mellon Foundation Faculty-Student Symposium is scheduled for 27-28 October 2012 at 211 Hall of Languages of Syracuse University. Entitled ‘The Multilingual Mind,’ the symposium’s focus is on neurological, psycholinguistic and linguistic dimensions of the multilingual mind. The main objectives of the symposium are: (1) presentations of prepared papers by internationally-renowned scholars and young highly promising researchers that take up substantive and current challenges of Multilingualism; and (2) interdisciplinary exploration of the issues of the multilingual brain and multilingual creativity from the perspective of language development and its various facets, including the question of sign language acquisition, language documentation methodology, multilingualism and academic discourse. The symposium is being organized by Professor Tej K. Bhatia (Linguistics) and Professor William C. Ritchie (Linguistics). Sponsored by: The Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation SU Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Latino-Latin American Studies Day One: October 27, 2012 1:30 pm Welcome Gregg Lambert, Founding Director, SU Founding Director, SU Humanities Center Gail Bulman, Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Session 1: 2:00 - 3:00 pm Keynote I: Barbara Lust, Cornell University Pursuing the Process of Bilingual Development in the Young Child: An Enriched Case Study Methodology Provides New Evidence Chair: Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University Session 2: 3:30 - 4:30 pm Presenter: Carissa Kang, Cornell University A Differentiated Test of Executive Attention Reveals Cognitive Benefits of Child Bilingualism Across Cultures Presenters: Kathryn Womack and Jim Male, Rochester Institute of Technology Mentors: Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Anne Haake, Cara Calvelli Towards understanding diagnostic cognitive reasoning of physicians Chair: James W. Gair, Cornell University Session 3: 4:45 - 5:45 pm Panel: Multilinguals and Academic Discourse I Organizer: Stan Van Horn, Rochester Institute of Technology Negotiating Meanings in Transnational Academic Discourse Panel participants: Stanley Van Horn, Rochester Institute of Technology David S. Martins, Rochester Institute of Technology Elisabetta D'Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology Chair: Iswari Pandey, Syracuse University Dinner: 6:30pm Genesee Grande Hotel, Capital Club Room 1600 East Genesee Street, Syracuse Day Two: October 28, 2012 7:30 - 8:30 am Breakfast Genesee Grande Hotel Session 4: 9:00 - 10:00 am Keynote II: Gerald P. Berent, National Institute of Deaf. Rochester Institute of Technology Code Mixing on Steroids: Multimodal Sign Language-Spoken Language Bilingual Communication Chair: William C. Ritchie, Syracuse University Session 5: 10:30am - 12:00pm Workshop on Language Documentation and Field Linguistics Organizer: Scott Paauw, University of Rochester Working with Language Communities Scott Paauw, University of Rochester Field Semantics and Pragmatics Scott Ander Bois, University of Rochester Field Linguistics: Real-life Experiences in the Amazon & Metadata and Archiving Wilson Silva and Jared O'Loughlin, University of Rochester Chair: Amanda Brown, Syracuse University Session 6: 12:15pm - 1:15pm Panel: Multi-linguals and Academic Discourse II Organizer: Stanley Van Horn, Rochester Institute of Technology Cross-cultural performance and academic literacy Panel participants: Tanya Schueler, Rochester Institute of Technology Lisa Swovick, Rochester Institute of Technology Lori Nolasco, Rochester Institute of Technology Steve Foulkrod, Syracuse University Deb McGraw , Syracuse University Maureen Edmonds , Syracuse University Chair: Maria Emma Ticio Quesada, Syracuse University Closing Remarks: Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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