Category: All topics
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Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2014 [Call for papers]
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2014) will take place in The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, on 1-5 September 2014. Special Events The following lectures and workshops have been scheduled: Henry Sweet Lecture: The semantics of embedding and the syntax of the left periphery (Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst);…
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Some things that are wrong in academia
About this post: This is a summary of posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which appeared in the last week of March 2015. This week’s collection of readings is not thematically linked, as was the case with last week’s stories on oppression and resistance. Rather, I…
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Complexity MOOC
Information about a MOOc on Complex Systems Theory
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Greek Language and Spoken Communication [Call for papers]
The Institute of Modern Greek Studies (M. Triandaphyllidis Foundation), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki are organising a two-day Symposium on ‘Greek language and spoken communication’, which will take place in Thessaloniki on 18-19 September 2014. The Symposium will look into pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects of Modern Greek, with particular emphasis on its use in naturally occurring…
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What’s a spamference?
As the pressure to present and publish becomes more and more intense, many scientific conferences have appeared, some of which are less legitimate than others. This means that it is becoming more important for academics, especially more junior and more inexperienced ones, to be alert to predatory conferences or, ‘spamferences’. In this blog post, you…
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Recently Read (17 – 23 March)
This week’s collection of readings contains stories that seem trivial, but invite reflection on serious questions pertaining to freedom, diversity, tolerance and oppression. The activities of the Quebec language police once again highlight the tensions between language planning and linguistic human rights. The second story (involving topless models) raises questions about sexism and tolerance in…
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Bad academia
This week’s [i.e., 10-16 March 2014] collection of noteworthy articles reports on the Obama administration efforts to curb student debt; offers a reminder that ‘visionary’ is not always an accolade; invites comparisons between failing higher education systems and our own academic culture; draws attention to underhand practices used to censor criticism; and presents ground-breaking research…
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Change to this blog’s copyright policy
Some readers may have noticed that the ‘Creative Commons’ icon that used to appear on the bottom left corner of this blog has been replaced by legal boilerplate about copyright. I am, in principle, very strongly opposed to restrictions on the sharing of information, so this was not a decision that was easy for me.…
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Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula
[Archive] Call for papers for the edited volume “Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula” (Buckingham, 2016).