Friday, January 29, 2016

International Conference on Re-mapping the Future of Postcolonial Studies: Apprehensions and Utopias 2016

International Conference
on
Re-mapping the Future of Postcolonial Studies: Apprehensions and Utopias

10 February 2016

Kazi Nazrul University





Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Tenth Students' Conference of Linguistics in India 2016

 
5-6 March, 2016
Department of Linguistics, Foreign and Indian Languages,
RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur
SCONLI Logo
Welcome to SCONLI - 10
The Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India, acknowledged as SCONLI, is a two day international conference. It’s an annual event of the students, by the students and for the students of Linguistics. It has served as a scholarly platform for budding linguists to engage in diverse activities ranging from writing to reviewing papers to chairing the conference sessions. SCONLI-10 presents an opportunity for interaction on various issues concerning Research in Language and Linguistics within and outside India.
Initiated in the year 2006, this conference has completed nine successful years. Now, the Department of Linguistics, Foreign and Indian Languages, RTM Nagpur University in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore is extremely happy to announce the tenth edition of this conference from 5th-6th March, 2016. These two days will see a fine blend of several academic activities; oral and poster presentations, special lectures, workshops, interaction among students from India and abroad. The publication (with ISBN) of a select number of papers presented at the conference is also included in the conference agenda.
Call for Papers - SCONLI 10
Students working on any aspect of language and linguistics are encouraged to participate through unpublished research work in any of (but not restricted to) the following areas:
Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, NLP/Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Indian and Western Linguistic Tradition, Language Teaching/Testing, Typology, Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Semiotics, Field Linguistics, Language Endangerment, Translation Studies, Neurolinguistics, Grammatical Traditions, Stylistics, Language Documentation and Forensic Linguistics.
Authors’ Guidelines:
- Abstracts written in English (formatted with 12 pt. Times New Roman, Single spaced, .pdf & .doc) are invited.
- An author can submit a maximum of 2 Abstracts of which only 1 can be single authored.
- Abstract length: 2, A4 sized pages (including references).
- Kindly submit your abstract to: sconli10@gmail.com
Important Dates:
- Abstract submission deadline: 20th January, 2016 (extended)
- Acceptance/non-acceptance notification: 30th January, 2016 (extended)
- Full Paper submission: 17th February, 2016
- Conference Dates: 5th – 6th March, 2016
Registration fee:
- ₹ 500/- (for students without scholarship)
- ₹ 1000/- (for students with scholarship)
- $ 50 (for Foreign Nationals)

For any query - kindly e-mail us at: sconli10@gmail.com
For any query - kindly e-mail us at: sconli10@gmail.com
Committee will be formed soon and updated here.

International Congress on English Grammar (ICEG-2016)

International Congress on English Grammar (ICEG-2016)

 
                                                                                                                                                          February 8-12, 2016
                                                                                                                                                                 Organised by                                   
                                                                                                   Department of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (Punjab), INDIA
                                                                                                                                                          in collaboration with 
                                                                                                                         Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, Hyderabad                       

                                                                                                                                                             Inaugural Address
                                                                                                                                                                          by
                                                                                                                                    Professor Christian Matthiessen, Department of English
                                                                                                                                            Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong


Theme: Linguistics, English Grammar, Text Analysis & Translation

Research Papers
 and Workshops are invited on the following topics***:

1. Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Practice
2. Englsh Grammar: SFL and Other Approaches
3. Text Analysis and Interpretation
4. Linguistics and English Language Teaching
5. Focus on Language in Literary Theories
6. Language, Power and Media Studies
7. Register, Genre and Other Language Varities
8. English and Other Languages: A Comparative Study
9. Linguistic and Translation Studies

                       ***These are only suggestive areas, but not an exhaustive list. Therefore the participants are
                                       free to select any other topic which can relate to the theme of the congress.


For more information visit http://gndu.ac.in/gndu2014/ICEG2016/index.html

RELC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016

51st RELC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016, SINGAPORE
Teaching Literacies - Emerging Pathways and Possibilities
in Language Education

14 – 16 March 2016

51st RELC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016, SINGAPORE

Teaching Literacies - Emerging Pathways and Possibilities in Language Education 14 – 16 March 2016

Teachers are constantly exploring new pedagogical approaches in an effort to engage learners and meet their divergent needs. Teaching practice has evolved to better respond to how learners learn, and this has led to the emergence of new pathways and possibilities for language learning.  The theme, “Teaching Literacies…” has relevance for language education.  Teaching as an enterprise must engage learners who are actively and creatively involved in directing their own learning.
From rural communities to the highly urbanized, the advent of information and communication technologies has left an indelible imprint on language education.  The meaning of literacy has slowly changed.  It has taken on new dimensions, incorporating a multi-literacies approach to pedagogy. Innovative teaching practices which integrate a focus on literacies-building can support learning. Regardless of language policies and language practice for educators and practitioners, education is ultimately aimed at giving learners the crucial literacy skills they need.
This Conference provides a platform for educators and language professionals to share their insights and practices as well as discuss current trends in the areas of literacy teaching, educational innovations and creative pedagogy.
The organizers invite submissions of papers that approach the conference theme from any of the two strands:
  1. Creative Pedagogies for Literacies
  2. Curriculum Design and Assessment of Literacies

For more information visit http://www.relc.org.sg/Conference2016/

1st National Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation Studies


1st National Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation Studies

                                        ELTLT


Quchan, Iran


16-Feb-2016 - 17-Feb-2016


Recent Call for Papers
Call Deadline: 04-Feb-2016

Call for Papers:

ELTLT 2016 invites research papers that cover a wide range of topics in English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation which include but are not confined to the following topics:

Some suggested sub-themes for papers include:

- Language and Education
- Issues on English Curriculum Development
- English Language Teaching in EFL/ESL context
- Using Technology in Teaching
- Teaching grammar /Vocabulary
- Applied Linguistics
- Language Testing and Assessment
- Recent Approaches to ELT
- Teaching Language Skills
- Language Acquisition and Learning
- New Challenges in ELT
- Teaching English to young learners
- Syllabus Design and Materials Development
- Language Teacher Education
- Language, Power and Ideology
- Discourse Analysis and ELT
- Multimedia and Web-based CALL /CALT
- English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Recent and Future Orientations in ELT
- Innovation in Language Teaching
- The Collaboration of Socio-cultural Theory to Language Teaching
- English Literature and Culture
- Comparative Literature
- Cultural Diversity in Literature
- American Literature and Culture
- Technology and Contemporary Culture in Literature
- Post – Colonial Discourse in Literature
- Ecological Approach in Literature
- Literary Criticism
- Contemporary Literature
- Poetry and Prose
- Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- Literature and other Arts
- Literature and History
- World Languages and Literature
- Postmodernism Literature
- Medieval Literature
- Literary Schools
- Literature and Mythology
- Issues and Challenges in Translation Studies
- Translation and Interpretation Studies
- Translation of Literary Works
- Translation in Cyber World
- New Approaches and Theories in Translation
- Translation Quality Assessment
- Translation Pedagogy
- Foreign Language Teaching and Translation
- Translation and Culture
- Translation and Ideology
- Translator’s Identity and Translation
- Translation and Politics
- Translator Education
- Translation and Metadiscourse
- Translation and Technology
- Other Interdisciplinary Related Issues…

Friday, January 22, 2016

Timeline for Great American Authors Since 1650

Timeline for Great American Authors Since 1650


1607 – Jamestown Colony established 
1620 – Plymouth Plantation founded in Massachusetts
1650 – Anne Bradstreet’s book of poems The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of
Those Parts is published in London
1702 – Cotton Mather publishes Magnalia Christi Americana - The Great Achievement of Christ in America
1773 – Black poet Phillis Wheatley publishes her first book of poems 

1776 – The Declaration of Independence is signed
1783 – Noah Webster releases his Blue-Backed Speller
1819 – Washington Irving publishes Rip Van Winkle
1826 – James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans
1836 – Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes Nature, launching the American Transcendental movement
1845 – Edgar Allan Poe writes “The Raven”
1849 – Henry David Thoreau releases his essay Civil Disobedience
1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter
1851 – Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
1852 – Emily Dickinson publishes her first poem
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin, beginning the American tradition of social writing
1854 – Thoreau writes Walden
1855 – Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Writes The Song of Hiawatha
Walt Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass 

1861 - 1864 – The American Civil War is fought
1868 – Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women
1870 – Mark Twain writes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1878 – Henry James writes Daisy Miller
1884 – Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1895 – Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage
1903 – Jack London writes Call of the Wild
1905 – America’s greatest short story writer, O Henry, writes his masterpiece, The Gift of the Magi
1906 – Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle and helps launch America’s tradition of investigative journalism
1913 – William Carlos Williams releases his first book of poems, The Tempers 

1914 - 1918 – The First World War is fought
1914 – Carl Sandburg Publishes Chicago
1915 – Edgar Lee Masters releases Spoon River Anthology
1917 – T. S. Eliot writes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
1919 – Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio
1920 – Edith Wharton is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence
1922 – T.S. Eliot publishes The Wasteland
1923 – E. E. Cummings published his first book of poems, Tulips and Chimneys
1923 – Robert Frost Publishes “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
1925 - 1940 – Era of the lost generation writers
1925 – Theodore Dreiser writes An American Tragedy
1925 – F. Scott Fitzgerald Writes The Great Gatsby
1926 – Ernest Hemingway writes The Sun Also Rises
1927 – Willa Cather writes Death Comes for The Archbishop
1929 – Faulkner writes The Sound and the Fury
Thomas Wolfe Writes Look Homeward Angel
1930 – Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
1931 – Pearl Buck writes The Good Earth
1934 – Henry Miller writes Tropic of Capricorn
1936 – Playwright Eugene O’Neill wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1938 – Pearl Buck wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1939 – Henry Miller writes Tropic of Capricorn
1939 – John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath 

1939 - 1945 – The Second World War is fought
1940 – Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is Published
1941 – James Thurber writes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 – Robert Heinlein launches the golden age of science fiction with his short story “The Green Hills of
Earth” published in The Saturday Evening Post
1948 – T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Tennessee Williams Wins His First Pulitzer Prize for A Street Car Named Desire
1949 – William Faulkner becomes the fourth American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
Arthur Miller writes Death of a Salesman 

1950 - 1953 – The Korean War is fought
1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks Becomes the First Black Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
1951 – Isaac Asimov begins his Foundation trilogy with Foundation
J.D. Salinger writes Catcher in the Rye
1952 – Ernest Hemingway writes his masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea
John Steinbeck writes East of Eden
Black author Ralph Ellison writes Invisible Man
1953 – Ray Bradbury writes Fahrenheit 451
Black author James Baldwin writes Go Tell It on the Mountain
1954 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1956 – Allan Ginsburg writes Howl
1957 – Dr Seuss Writes The Cat in the Hat
Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road
1958 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes A Coney Island of the Mind
1959 – William Burroughs writes The Naked Lunch
Playwright Lorraine Hansberry writes A Raisin in the Sun
1960 – John Updike begins his Rabbit Series with Rabbit Run
1961 – Joseph Heller writes Catch-22
1962 – John Steinbeck wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1963 – Sylvia Plath writes The Bell Jar
1964 – Ken Kesey writes Sometimes a Great Notion 

1965 - 1973 – The Vietnam War is fought
1966 – Truman Capote writes In Cold Blood
1968 – Tom Wolfe publishes The Electric Koolaid Acid Test
1969 – Kurt Vonnegut writes Slaughterhouse Five
Philip Roth writes Portnoy’s Complaint
1976 – Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1982 – Black author Alice Walker writes The Color Purple
1987 – Black playwright August Wilson wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fences 

1989 – The Cold War Ends
1989 – Asian American author Amy Tan writes The Joy Luck Club
1993 – Black author Toni Morrison wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 


2003 – The Second Gulf War is fought
2006 – Cormac McCarthy wins a Pulitzer Prize for The Road