1) XIXth INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF THE SGdS
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HENRY SWEET SOCIETY ANNUAL
COLLOQUIUM
Helsinki (Finland), 18-22 July 2007
‘SPRACHLEHRE UND SPRACHPFLEGE’
The XIXth International Colloquium of the Studienkreis
Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft (SGdS) and the Annual Colloquium of the
Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will take place
at the University of Helsinki from 18 to 22 July 2007. This joint conference
of the two societies is organized by Anneli Luhtala, Aino Kärnä,
and Anders Ahlqvist.
Papers on the topic ‘Sprachlehre und Sprachpflege’,
the main theme of this conference, are particularly welcome, but contributions
focusing on other topics within the framework of the history of linguistics
will also be much appreciated.
Presentations will last for 30 minutes, followed
by 15 minutes discussion. The conference languages are German and English,
and contributions in French are also be welcome.
The conference fee will be 30 euros, 20 for
students, payable during the conference.
For further information please contact:
Dr Aino Kärnä
University of Helsinki
German Department
PL 24
00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
aino.karna@helsinki.fi
or
Docent Anneli Luhtala
University of Helsinki
Classics Department
PL 4
00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
aluhtala@mappi.helsinki.fi
2) INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: SAUSSURIAN REVOLUTIONS
Geneva (Switzerland), 19-22 June 2007
To celebrate the centenary of Saussure’s first
course of lectures in general linguistics, the 150th anniversary of the
birth of Ferdinand de Saussure, and the 50th anniversary of the publication
of the Sources manuscrites du CLG by Robert Godel.
A hundred years ago, Ferdinand de Saussure
delivered his first course of lectures on general linguistics at the University
of Geneva. His ideas were to have a remarkable future: bold and innovative,
but poorly understood in consequence, tentative but revolutionary, they
have inspired many subsequent developments in modern thought and research.
Over several decades now, the gradual discovery of his unfinished manuscripts,
his notes and those of his students has made it possible to propose re-readings
of his work and reassessments of its importance. Apart from linguistics,
semiotics, anthropology and other social sciences have had their Saussurean
revolutions. Saussure’s contrastive approach, rejecting ‘ontological’
conceptions of language and various forms of positivism, laid the foundations
for modern structuralist thinking. His focus on the interdependence
of perspective and object, forms of temporality and the dynamics of systems
threw new light on the relations between language and thought, signs and
culture. Saussure’s work was thus of general epistemological significance,
affecting the very conception of scientific inquiry itself. For the
sciences of culture, at present undergoing an identity crisis, it offers
the prospect of a new reorientation.
‘Saussurean Revolutions’ is an international,
interdisciplinary conference that sets out to examine both current and
potential future developments of Saussurean thought.
Colloquium website: http://www.saussure.ch
3) 40th BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
University of Edinburgh (Scotland), 6-8 September
2007
Theme: ‘Technology, Ideology and Practice in
Applied Linguistics’
The 40th BAAL annual conference will be jointly
hosted by three departments of the University of Edinburgh: Linguistics
and English Language, the Institute for Applied Language Studies and The
Moray House School of Education. The conference will be held in the Central
Area Campus of the university, which is within 10 minutes’ walking distance
of the city-centre. A highlight of the event will be the celebration of
50 years of applied linguistics at the university. This will be marked
by the invited Pit Corder Colloquium and a drinks reception in the Playfair
Library.
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and
a thriving, cosmopolitan, cultural and educational centre. In the month
before the conference the city’s international arts festivals will be taking
place and, during the same period, several other international linguistics
conferences will be held in universities only a short distance away. Edinburgh
is well served by regular and low-cost flights from cities across Britain
and Europe, by direct flights from North America, by sea from Europe and
by high-speed rail links from around the UK.
Conference Organisers: Alan Davies, Linguistics
and English Language
e-mail: a1adavie@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Heather Hewitt, Institute for Applied Language
Studies
e-mail: BAAL07@education.ed.ac.uk
Plenary speakers: Karin Aijmer,
University of Gothenburg
Norman Fairclough, University
of Lancaster
Richard Johnstone, University
of Stirling
Pit Corder Colloquium: Michael Halliday, Ruqaiya
Hasan, Tony Howatt, John Joseph, Sinfree Makoni, Miriam Meyerhoff, Rosamund
Mitchell, Barbara Seidlhofer, John Sinclair and Henry Widdowson
For more information please consult the BAAL
website: http://www.baal.org.uk/
4) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - ICHOLS XI
The 11th International Conference on the History
of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI) will be held at the University of Potsdam
from 28 August to 2 September, 2008 (http://www.ichols-xi.de).
The International Conference on the History
of Language Sciences has taken place every three years since 1978. Previous
venues have been Ottawa, Lille, Princeton, Trier, Galway, Washington, Oxford,
Fontenay-St. Cloud (Paris), São Paolo-Campinas and Urbana-Champaign.
Papers relating to any aspect of the history of language sciences are welcome.
Besides focusing on diverse topic areas ranging from antiquity to the contemporary
history of linguistics and from individual case studies to methodological
considerations, we would like to draw your attention to the relationships
between history and the methods of present-day linguistics. Opportunity
will also be given to present computer-aided projects. We particularly
encourage young scholars to submit a paper proposal.
Suggestions for individual thematic workshops
are welcome. In this case the organisers are requested to contact us by
December 2006.
The abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
We request that you submit your proposals for
papers with the respective abstract by 31 July 2007 as e-mail attachment
(Word file) to the following e-mail address: info@ichols-xi.de.
If it is not possible for you to submit your proposal by e-mail, please
send your abstract to the following postal address:
Prof. Dr. Gerda Haßler
ICHoLS XI
University of Potsdam
Institut für Romanistik
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25 (Haus 14.039)
14476 Golm
Germany
Phone: +49 331 9772015
Fax +49 331 9772193
An international
panel of referees will select the papers to be presented at the conference.
Final selection will be made by October 2007; notification of acceptance
will be sent in November 2007.
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