2008 Calendar of Events

August

1~3 Asia TEFL International Conference Bali, Indonesia
http://www.asiatefl.org/2008conference/conference2.html

1~4 5th International East Nusantara Conference
Kupang, NTT, Indonesia www.uaf.edu/linguist/enus

4~8 International Conference on
Language, Communication & Cognition Brighton, England
http://languageandcognition.net

5~8 WorldCALL 2008 (Computer Assisted
Language Learning) Fukuoka, Japan
www.j-let.org/WCF/

6~8 14th International Conference on Turkish
Linguistics (ICTL 2008), Antalya-Side (Manvgat), Turkey www.ictl2008.org

7~9 2nd European Conference on Korean
Linguistics (ECKL), London, UK
http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=60800

9 International Day of Indigenous People

10~14 World Library and Information
Congress (IFLA), Quebec City, Canada
www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/index.htm

14~16 South Dakota Reading Council
Pierre, SD www.sdrc.dsu.edu

15 Books for Children
The Libri Foundation
www.librifoundation.org/

17~22 International Congress of
Onomastic Sciences Toronto, Canada
www.yorku.ca/vpaweb/ICOS2008/

18~21 Proyecto de la Diáspora
Latinoamericana Montevideo, Uruguay www.mundoalfal.org

18~22 22nd Intl Conference on
Computational Linguistics
Coling 2008 Manchester, UK
www.coling2008.org.uk

24~29 15th World Congress of
Applied Linguistics AILA 2008, Essen, Germany www.aila2008.org

28~2 International Conference on the
History of the Language Sciences ICHoLS XI, Potsdam, Germany www.ichols-xi.de

September

23~5 Association for French Language Studies
Oxford, UK www.afls.net/conferences.html

3~6 European Association for Computer Assisted
Language Learning (EUROCALL), Székesfehérvár, Hungary
www.eurocall-languages.org

3~6 13th International Conference on
Functional Grammar London, UK
www.functionalgrammar.com/

4~7 Florida Reading Association Orlando, FL www.flreads.org

11~13 41st Annual Meeting of the
British Association for Applied Linguistics Swansea, UK www.baal.org.uk

8 International Literacy Day15~17 The 2nd International
Conference on Mande Languages St. Petersburg, Russia
http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=60560

15~15 Hispanic Heritage Month

17~19 The ICEF China Workshop
Beijing, China www.icef.com

17~20 Societas Linguistica
Europaea, Forli, Italy
http://sle2008.sitlec.unibo.it/

18~19 Language Diversity and the
Acquisition of LS Knowledge Wroclaw, Poland www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/
MISSI2008/LDALSK/

18~20 Workshop on the Acquisition of
Romance Languages Southampton, UK
www.romanceturn3.soton.ac.uk/

18~21 The National Association to
Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking (REFORMA)
El Paso, TX www.reforma.org

18~20 Globe 2008: Critical
Discourse Analysis and global media Warsaw, Poland
http://globe.ils.uw.edu.pl

22~26 Interspeech 2008 Brisbane, Australia
www.interspeech2008.org/

25~27 Kentucky Reading Association
Louisville, KY www.kyreading.org

25~29 Syntax of the World’s
Languages III (SWL),Berlin, Germany
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~gast/swl3/

26 European Day of Languages

26~27 3rd International Conference of
the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Leipzig, Germany
www.uni-leipzig.de/~gcla08

26~28 Living, Working and Studying in
Vehicular Languages Turku,Finland
http://users.utu.fi/freder/lingua%20francae/CALL%20FOR%20PROPOSALSdraft.htm28 Native American Day28~1Early European Languages in the
Eyes of Modern Linguistics
Brno, Czech Republic
http://plone.phil.muni.cz:8088/wsvj-

October

2~4 ANUPI-TESOL, Teaching, Learning Leading in ELT
Puerto Vallarta Mexico www.anupi.org.mx2~6 German Studies Association St. Paul, MN
www.aatg.org/content/view/210/42/

2~5Community Languages and ESOL (CLESOL),
Auckland, New Zealand
www.clesol.org.nz

TBA Texas Association for Bilingual Education
(TABE) San Antonio, TX www.tabe.org

4~6 Foreign Language Association of North
Carolina (FLANC) Winston-Salem, NC www.flanc.org

5 World Teachers’ Day5~8 1st ISA World Forum of Sociology, Barcelona,
Spain www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/

6~11National German Week www.aatg.org

8~10 LIBER Barcelona, Spain
www.liberbcn.com/

8~11The Linguistics of English: Setting the
Agenda (ISLE), Frieburg, Germany
http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=50247

9~11Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association Reno,NV
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/

9~1119th West IRA Regional Conference
Seattle, WA www.reading.org/
downloads/meetings/19west_call_
program_proposals.pdf

11~13 Hispanic Association of
Colleges and Universities (HACU) Denver, Colorado www.hacu.net/

11~13 Interpersonality in Written Academic Discourse
Jaca (Huesca), Spain
www.unizar.es/interlae/conference08.html

16~18 Immersion Education:
Pathways to Bilingualism and Beyond Minneapolis, MN
www.carla.umn.edu/conferences17~19 Linguistic Association of
the Southwest Corvallis, OR
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foreign_lang/lasso/index.html

22~24 3rd Asian Translation
Traditions Conference Istanbul, Turkey http://www.asiantranslation3.
boun.edu.tr/23~25 Narrating the Portuguese
Diaspora (1928-2008) Lisbon, Portugal,
www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca13im6i

23~26 2nd International Conference on
Applied Linguistics Chiayi County, Taiwan
http://web.ncyu.edu.tw/~chaochih/24~26 International Conference on
Models of Interaction in Bilinguals Bangor, Wales
www.bilingualism.bangor.ac.uk,

24~26 Discourse Approaches to
Linguistics, Translation and Foreign Language Teaching
Wloclawek, Poland
http://www.pwsz.wloclawek.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=152

TBA Korea Tesol www.kotesol.org

TBA MI Tesol www.mitesol.org

November

4~6 Egypt at the Crossroads: Literary and Linguistic Studies Cairo, Egypt
http://www.conferencealerts.com/
seeconf.mv?q=ca13ihii

4~6 ICEF Berlin Workshop Berlin Germany
www.icef.com

5~8 New York Library Association (NYLA),
Sarasota Springs, NY
www.nyla.org

5~11 National French Week
www.frenchteachers.org

6~8 TexTESOL 2008
Dallas-Richardson, TX
www.textesolv.org

7~8 Georgia TESOL
Jekyll Island, GA
www.gatesol.org

5~8 2008 National Association for the
Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Annual Conference Dallas, TX
www.naeyc.org

12~16 National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) New Orleans, LA www.nameorg.org

12~17 American Education Week

14~17 California Library Association (CLA)
San Jose, CA www.cla-net.org/

16 International Day for Tolerance

16~18 California Reading
Association Sacramento, CA
www.californiareads.org

17~21 International Education Week

20~21 5th Days of Swiss Linguistics
Zurich, Switzerland http://www.zhaw.ch/
de/linguistik/5tdl.html

21~23 American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages Orlando,FL www.acftl.org

21~25 2008 Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
www.sbl-site.org/default.aspx

December

7~10 26th Southeast IRA Regional Conference
Nashville, Tennessee www.reading.org/
association/meetings/regional.html

11~12 Les Mots de la Santé 3
Lyon, France http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=57581

11-13Interpersonality in Written Academic
Discourse InterLAE Conference 2008 Jaca (Huesca), Spain www.unizar.es/interlae/conference08.html

15
Conference Greek Applied
Linguistics Association Thessaloniki, Greece
www.enl.auth.gr/gala

17~23 International Language Week

18 International Migrants’ Day

TBA Modern Language Association (MLA)
San Francisco, CA www.mla.org