RNLD subscribers who are in Melbourne over the next few days may be interested in a Convention being held at Wesley College:<div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.wesleycollege.net/convention.cfm">http://www.wesleycollege.net/convention.cfm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Keynote speakers include Pat Dodson, Jo Lo Bianco and Alastair Pennycook. It's mostly about language teaching but the colloquium on Sunday may be of interest (note however that registration for the convention is $1000, or for one day $400!!!):</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Colloquium</div><div>Sunday 11 April 2010 at 12.15pm</div><div><br></div><div>Colloquium: The impact of English on the preservation and maintenance of Indigenous</div><div>and other old languages. Chaired by Dr Zane MaRhea (Senior Lecturer, Education</div>
<div>Faculty, Monash University) with Maryam Ismail (Monash University), Ghil’ad Zuckermann</div><div>(Associate Professor University of Queensland & Australian Research Council Discovery</div><div>Fellow in Linguistics), Baressa Frazer (Puuch Clan woman from the Wik country of</div>
<div>Aurukun), Rhonda Inkamala (Indigenous Educator, Australia), Henry Atkinson (Monash</div><div>University and Elder) and Ato Quayson (Professor of English and Director of the Centre for</div><div>Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Canada).</div>
<div><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Prof Peter K. Austin<br>Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics<br>Department of Linguistics, SOAS<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>London WC1H 0XG<br>United Kingdom<br><br>web: <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa">http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa</a><br>
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