To the TM Language Theory Group membership: we invite nominations—and self-nominations—to join the Executive Committee of the TM Language Theory group. Nominations would be for the coming year going forward, for the standard 5-year cycle of Executive Committee activity. This primarily involves determining, advertising, and selecting the topics and…[Read more]

Thanks to all who attended our panels this past week. Please also join me in thanking Joshua Thoms, our outgoing LSL Applied Linguistics forum president, who did much of the work organizing and coordinating those talks.
On behalf of my colleagues on the Executive Committee, I am writing to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for a…[Read more]

CfP Change over time in the Iberian Worlds: stabilising regimes of normativity

https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/2689623/notice-21-11-18-change-over-time-in-the-iberian-worlds

The mpilhlt’s Glocalising Normativities project aims to construct a global history of normative production by studying the interaction of local processes of the cultural t…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:  My name is Mahmoud Azaz. I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (LSL) at the Modern Language Association (MLA). I am an associate professor of Arabic and Second Language Acquisition & Pedagogy at the University of Arizona. I am also a Distinguished Fellow at the University…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:  My name is Mahmoud Azaz. I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (LSL) at the Modern Language Association (MLA). I am an associate professor of Arabic and Second Language Acquisition & Pedagogy at the University of Arizona. I am also a Distinguished Fellow at the University…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

You might see me on your ballots for the forum’s executive committee in the MLA elections this month, so I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself to the group since I haven’t had the chance to meet many of you yet.

My name is Laura Francis, and I’m a PhD candidate at Cornell University focusing on translation stu…[Read more]

Voices from the Past

19 – 20 November 2021, Oxford, UK

The symposium will take place both in person and over Zoom. Here are the symposium website and booking link. Please register using the booking link to join us and obtain a Zoom link.

Voices from the Past brings together specialists working broadly on how people spoke in the past – and wh…[Read more]

Second circular: CFP Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL-12, 2022)

SHEL-12 website

Please join us in Seattle for the twelfth meeting of SHEL on May 19-21, 2022. SHEL has been meeting biennially for two decades; it is the preeminent gathering in North America that examines the English language and its history. The conference is…[Read more]

‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London

This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]

MLA Convention 2022

Session #546 Translingual Encounters: Linguistic Mobilities in Catalan and Galician Writing by Women sponsored by the LLC Galician Forum as part of the Presidential Theme ‘Multilingual US’.

SATURDAY, 8 JANUARY 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, EASTERN MARKET (MARRIOTT MARQUIS), WASHINGTON, DC.

Vémonos alí!