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Below you will find a list of upcoming conferences and events nationwide. Please note that the National Events have been highlighted.

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2008
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April 2008

42nd Annual TESOL Convention & Exhibit
April 2-5, 2008
New York, New York USA
For more info visit: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=1518&DID=8281

Ohio Foreign Language Association (OFLA) 2008 Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio
April 3-5, 2008
http://www.ofla-online.org/index.php?module=webpage&id=55

South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association 2008 Conference
Myrtle Beach, SC
April 3-5, 2008
http://www.scflta.org/conf_wkshps/conference.html

2008 SCOLT/SCFLTA Conference
Myrtle Beach, SC
April 3-5, 2008
http://scolt.org/?page_id=38

38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 38)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 4-6, 2008
Main Session: All areas of Romance Linguistics
Parasession on Sociolinguistics: Romance Languages in the Diaspora
Conference website: http://www.lsrl.uiuc.edu
Contact: lsrl-38@uiuc.edu

2008 Business Language Conference: Preparing Global Business Leaders
Center for International Business Education and Research
Hosted by the University of Florida
St. Petersburg, FL
April 9-11, 2008
Please note that the schedule for submission of proposals will be significantly earlier than in previous years. August 15, 2007: Call for Proposals to be published. It will include specific themes and formats for proposals. Deadline for Submission of Proposals: November 15, 2007. Submissions must be limited to 200 words. CIBER http://www.cba.ufl.edu/ciber/

At Whom Are We Laughing: "Humor in Romance Languages and Literatures"
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
April 10-12, 2008
Featuring the participation of more than 90 authors, scholars, performers and historians from a number of different countries, including Australia, Belgium, the Canary Islands, Italy, Latin America, Mexico, Spain and across the United States. This may in fact be the first conference of its kind to have panels that address humor in as many as seven Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Galician. Though the vast majority of panel discussions will be conducted in English, there are select sessions that will be presented in French, Italian and Spanish.
For more info, visit, http://www.hofstra.edu/Community/culctr/culctr_events_humor.html or Contact: culdsl@hofstra.edu

College Board and Asia Society
National Chinese Language Conference
Building Global Competence of U.S. Students: Making Chinese Accessible for All
April 17-19, 2008
Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C.
U.S. and international political, economic, and educational leaders share visions, plans, or programs for Chinese language education in the global age.
http://askasia.org/chinese/announcements/nclc.htm

The 61st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
University of Kentucky, U.S.A.
17-19 April 2008
http://www.as.uky.edu/kflc/
Deadlines for abstracts: November 21, 2007

11th Annual NCOLCTL Conference
April 24-27, 2008
Madison, WI

Deadline for proposal submissions: November 30, 2007
"LCTLs and Globalization: Challenges, Expectations and Possibilities"
Proposal submission: http://www.councilnet.org/conf/conf2008/prpsl.htm
Contact NCOLCTL if you encounter technical problems

Language Symposium 2008
Reconciling Language Learning and Assessment
April 25-26, 2008
University of Illinois-Chicago
For further information, please consult: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/lclc/Research/intro.shtml

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May 2008

Applied Natural Language Processing (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society)
Coconut Bay Florida
May 15, 2008 - May 17, 2008
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work and not submitted (or in submission) to any other conference. Papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by November 20, 2007.
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2008.pdf

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June 2008

Third annual LCTL Summer Institute for Secondary teachers of Chinese and Japanese
Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland
Montgomery County Public Schools Foreign Language Program
June 16 - June 20
The focus of the institute will be on developing standards-based activities and assessments based on research-based best practices. National consultants of each language will facilitate the materials development process. There is no cost for participants. Participant teachers will receive all materials created during the workshop. Come collaborate with your colleagues!
More information is available on http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/lang/

Concordia Language Villages
Teacher Seminars
Moorhead, Minnesota
June 22 – July 2, 2008
http://clvweb.cord.edu/prweb/educators/teacher_seminar.asp

Two seminars will be held:
1. Second Language Methodologies for Teachers
Join language teachers from across the United States for a ten-day summer graduate course at the Villages. Upon successful completion of the course, four semester hours of graduate credit are earned through Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. Learn about and discuss current practices and issues related to second language acquisition.
The course is open to all K-12 second language educators including ESL educators, college educators with an interest in K-12 second language methodologies, and pre-service education majors.

2. Master of Education in World Language Instruction: Combine On-site With Online Learning
The Master of Education Program is designed for the working teacher :
Summer One, July 5 - 29, takes place at Concordia Language Villages.
Two online courses during the academic year bridge to Summer Two, July 5 – 28, at the Villages.
The program capstone is a thesis and online seminar during the fall semester of 2009. The total program includes 34 semester hours of instruction.

For more information, please contact:
Concordia Language Villages, Teacher Seminars,
901 Eighth Street South,
Moorhead, Minnesota 56562
Phone: 800.222.4750 Ext. 2002 or 218.299.4179
Email: educators@cord.edu

LTRC 2008
Hangzhou, China
June 25, 2008 - June 28, 2008
The Conference will address language awareness in the learning and teaching of languages; in literature; and in broader educational, social, professional, and cultural dimensions. A particular aim of the 2008 ALA Conference is to promote language awareness research and practice within the region. The deadline for receipt of abstracts: 30 November 2007.
http://www.iltaonline.com/ltrc2008.htm

Association for Language Awareness (ALA) 9th International Conference
The University of Hong Kong
June 26-29 2008
http://www.hku.hk/clear/ala/papers.html

The 13th Annual Conference and Workshop
SUNY, Binghamton
June 27-29, 2008
The ICKL Meeting will be held at Cornell University from 6/27 ~ 6/28 and there will be shuttle service available between the two campuses.
http://www.aatk.org/

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July 2008

2008 Professional Development Seminar for Teachers of Russian
5-11 July 2008
Bryn Mawr Collage, Bryn Mawr, PA
Application Deadline: May 16, 2008
For more information and application form contact: Camelot Marshall: marshall@americancouncils.org. For more info visit, http://www.sras.org/news2.phtml?m=922

AATSP 90th Annual Conference
July 8-11, 2008
San Jose, Costa Rica
For more info. Visit, http://www.aatsp.org/scriptcontent/index.cfm

American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
2008 Annual Convention
Liege, Belgium
16-19 July 2008
Deadline for submission: December 1st, 2007
http://www.frenchteachers.org/convention/appel.htm

August 2008
AILA 2008
The 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics
Theme: MULTILINGUALISM: Challenges and Opportunities
Essen, Germany
August 24-29
http://www.aila2008.org/

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October 2008

Immersion Education: Pathways to Bilingualism and Beyond
October 16-18, 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel - St Paul Riverfront
St Paul, Minnesota
For more info visit, http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/

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November 2008

American Association of Teachers of Turkic (AATT)
2007 Annual Conference
Montreal, Canada
November 17-20, 2007
http://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/aatt/calendar.htm

ACTFL 2008 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
November 21-23, 2008
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort
Orlando, Florida
For more info visit, http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=4730

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December 2008

MLA's 124th annual convention
27-30 December 2008
San Francisco, CA
For more info visit, http://www.mla.org/convention

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Calls for Papers

American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC)
Call for contributions: 2009 AAUSC Volume
Deadline: March 1, 2008

Abstracts should not exceed 350 words. Potential contributors will receive feedback on their abstracts by April 15, 2008. Full-length manuscripts will be due by September 1, 2008; authors will receive reviewers' comments by November 1, 2008. Final manuscripts accepted for the volume will be due on February 15, 2009.
We encourage authors to consider presenting their papers at the 2008 ACTFL conference, November 20-23, in Orlando, FL.
For more info, contact: virginia.m.scott@vanderbilt.edu

Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2008 (23-26 October 2008)
Department of languages, linguistics and translation
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers Abstract deadline: 15 March 2008.
Papers are invited regarding all aspects of Spanish, Portuguese or other Iberian languages, in domains such as theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics, applications of technology to language analysis, first and second language acquisition, and language attrition and loss.
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts can be written in English, Portuguese or Spanish, must be at most one page long on a letter-size sheet (8"'1/2 by 11"') with one-inch margins and typed in at least 12-point font. An optional second page is permitted for data and references. Abstracts must be anonymous.
For more info, contact HLS2008.Quebec@lli.ulaval.ca.

Berlin and Modernism 1900-1945 (Sept. 26-28, 2008)
Sewanee, TN
Deadline for submission: March 20th 2008
http://www.sewanee.edu/german/conference/call_for_papers.html

CALICO Monograph Series 2009
Deadline to submit proposals is March 31, 2008.
Please refer to the topics we have provided as a general guideline; you can amend aspects of the chapter as you see fit. Submissions should combine SLA theory, research and practice of relevant applications, such as those listed below. The book will focus on practical and theory-based applications and how they relate to SLA and CALL theory, as well as empirical studies detailing their usefulness to CALL.
For more info visit http://secondgenerationcall.edublogs.org.

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum(October 15-17, 2008 
)
Frankly Speaking: Challenges in Integrating 
Languages and Cultures into a Post-Secondary Curriculum

 FedEx Global Education Center 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

Call for Papers Abstract deadline May 15, 2008
http://www.unc.edu/clac
The Fall 2008 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate instructors, and administrators to share expertise in building and managing post-secondary CLAC programs. A special focus this year will be on the implications of the May 2007 MLA Foreign Language Report on CLAC initiatives nationwide.

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