28.3041, Calls: Applied Ling/Cyprus

Thu Jul 13 17:22:10 UTC 2017

LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3041. Thu Jul 13 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3041, Calls: Applied Ling/Cyprus

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté,
                                   Michael Czerniakowski)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Sarah Robinson <srobinson at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:22:03
From: Spyros Sofokleous [spysofo at gmail.com]
Subject: 2nd International Conference: Literacy and Contemporary Society: Spaces, Discourses, Practices''

Full Title: 2nd International Conference: Literacy and Contemporary Society: Spaces, Discourses, Practices 

Date: 28-Nov-2017 - 29-Nov-2017
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus 
Contact Person: Spyros Sofokleous
Meeting Email: spysofo at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.pi.ac.cy/literacy 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus,
in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, announce the 2nd International
Scientific Conference on “Literacy and Contemporary Society”, titled:
Spaces, Discourses, Practices 

The Conference will be held on 28-29 November 2017, at the “Filoxenia”
Conference Center in Nicosia. 

The Conference aspires to constitute a dynamic forum for the exchange of
theoretical perspectives, research findings and knowledge on good practices
related to how Literacy as a broad term, a practice and subject of education
can be (re)defined in contemporary institutional/non-institutional and broader
socio-political and historical contexts. Therefore, the aim of the Conference
is to contribute to the study of different aspects and forms of Literacy and
to facilitate the discussion of related issues.

The Conference addresses teachers, undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral
students, academics, researchers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as
well as other stakeholder interested in the promotion of language and
literacy, as well as literacy education. 

Participation in the Conference can take the form of oral paper presentation,
poster, symposium or workshop, addressing one of the following themes:
- Language, Literacy and Teaching Practices 
- Emergent Literacy and Literacy in the Early Years (in and out of school)  
- Literacy, Curriculum and Educational Policies 
- Teacher Professional Development and Literacy  
- Multiliteracies, Multimodality and New Information and Communication
Technologies
- Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Multicultural Education  
- Literacy, Social Practices and Informal Education 
- Literacy and Literature 
- Theoretical  Approaches to Language and Literacy Research

Key Notes Speakers:

- Adam Lefstein, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Kate Pahl, Professor, The University of Sheffield
- Vally Lytra, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London

Participation in the Conference is free of charge. Places are limited to about
300 participants and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. 

Information for the registration process will be announced at a later stage on
the Conference website: http://www.pi.ac.cy/literacy.

Call for Papers:

To participate in the Conference in any form (oral paper presentation, poster,
symposium or workshop), authors may submit a proposal until no later than
September 10, 2017, by completing their details in the appropriate form which
can be found on the Conference website: http://www.pi.ac.cy/literacy.
Abstracts should be sent to the email address:
literacy_cyprus at cyearn.pi.ac.cy. 

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the
Conference and decisions will be sent to the corresponding authors by the 25
of September 2017. 

Authors, whose abstracts will be accepted, and who are interested in
publishing their full papers in the Conference Proceedings, must send their
final paper until no later than 20 November 2017. Full papers will also be
reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the Conference, and authors will be
notified for possible revisions via email, until no later than December 20,
2017. 

More details regarding the procedure to be followed for full paper submissions
will be announced at a later stage on the Conference website
http://www.pi.ac.cy/literacy. Please note that only papers presented at the
Conference may be included in the Conference Proceedings.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3041	
----------------------------------------------------------