CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, WORKSHOPS, etc.

1. UPCOMING

2. PREVIOUS

2010	Four-day mini-course on "Minimalism" (Ghent, 18-21 January 2010) Invited speaker: Prof. David Adger (Queen Mary, London) Download programme (pdf) Organized by GIST. For further information, please contact Karen De Clercq.
2009	Music for life: 21-22 December: The Department of English cycles for life See here.
2009	Literature and the Memory of Catastrophe: A Symposium (Brussels, 29-30 May 2009) Organized by LITRA. Visit the conference website. For further information, please contact Stef Craps.
2008	Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism In Great Britain and Ireland (8 December 2008) general editors : Marysa Demoor & Laurel Brake visit the DNCJ website
2007
	Melodies and Modernisms (21 December 2007) organised by Marysa Demoor, Sarah Posman and Debora Van Durme download Programme visit the conference website
	Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Sonnets (Ghent University, 8 June 2007) Organised by Marysa Demoor and Marianne Van Remoortel For further information, please contact Conference website
	Genderforum 2007 (23-25 April 2007) Organised by the Centre for Gender Studies Download programme (pdf)
	Victorian Periodicals: Defining the Field and the Genre (Brussels, KVAB, 10 March 2007) Organised by Marysa Demoor, Kate Macdonald and Laurel Brake Download programme (pdf) For further information, please contact Read the conference report on TLS editor Peter Stothard's blog
2006	Special session on Trauma, Narrative, and the Postcolonial organized by Gert Buelens and Stef Craps at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia (27-30 December 2006) Scheduled to take place on 28 December 2006 at 7.15 - 8.30 p.m. in Washington B, Loews Participants: Anne Whitehead (chair), Shane Graham, Amy Novak, Nicole Simek (speakers), Stef Craps (respondent) See call for papers Download abstracts (pdf)
	Workshop CorpuScript - a one-day workshop about constructing and tagging language corpora (learner as well as reference corpora) that can be used both in FLE and SLA research (19 December 2006) See http://www.schrijven.ugent.be/Corpuscripteng for further details Download flyer
	Linguistic Ethnography and Institutions (Ghent/Knokke, 20-22 September 2006) A colloquium organised by the English Department, the Department of African Studies and the Department of Language & Communication Key note speakers: Janet Maybin (Open University) and Keith Richards (Warwick) Contact Peter Flynn or Ellen Van Praet
	Language, Migration and the Re-Theorization of Sociolinguistic Space: towards a research agenda for Applied Linguistics (Leeds, 15-16 June 2006) Seminar sponsored by the British Association of Applied Linguistics and Cambridge University Press. Invited Speakers: Anna de Fina (Georgetown), Joan Pujolar (Barcelona), Gill Valentine (Leeds) Organisers: Mike Baynham (Leeds), James Collins (Albany) and Stef Slembrouck (Ghent)
	An Introduction to Statistics for Linguistics (15-19 May 2006) Intensive seminar organised by Contragram and the English Department Invited lecturer: Chris Butler (Swansea) Contact Miriam Taverniers
	Englishmen Adrift. The English Presence in the Southern Netherlands, 1603-1660 (27-29 April 2006) International conference organised by the English Department and the Department of Modern History Contact Jean-Pierre Vander Motten or Katrien Daemen-De Gelder
	Genderforum 2006 (24-26 April 2006) Organised by the Centre for Gender Studies See programme
2005	Sessions on Henry James coordinated by Gert Buelens at MLA Annual Convention (27-30 December 2005) Loving James, Hating James - abstracts (28 December 2005) Canny James - abstracts (30 December 2005)
	HIV/AIDS-prevention and care. How are the messages being received, interpreted and understood? (7-8 December) Public debate (7 December) and academic colloquium (8 December) sponsored by VLIR-University Development Cooperation Coordinators: Stef Slembrouck and Marleen Temmerman (International Centre for Reproductive Health)
	Genderforum 2005 (2-4 May 2005) Organised by the Centre for Gender Studies See programme
	Rhetoric, Politics and Ethics (21-23 April 2005)
	Reference Works in the 21st Century (Brussels, KVAB, January 2005) Organised by Marysa Demoor
2004	Language Competencies across Languages, Modalities and Contexts (KVAB-Brussel, 6-7 September 2004)
	Annual RSVP-conference. Theme: "Image and Text, Image in Text" (July 2004) Organised by Marysa Demoor
	Genderforum 2004 (29-31 March 2004) Organised by the Centre for Gender Studies See programme
2003	BAAHE annual meeting (22 November 2003)
2003	Colloquium WOG Systemic Functional Linguistics (27-29 November 2003)
2002	Colloquium Gender and Sexuality (7 June 2002)
2002	Sociolinguistics Symposium 14 (April 4-6, 2002) Theme: Discourse resources: the sociolinguistics of access, availability and distribution.
2001	Gebarentaal in Vlaanderen/Sign Language in Flanders (12-13 October, 2001)
2000	POST EX SUB DIS: Fragmentations of the City (Brussel, 19-21 October 2000)
2000	Text and Talk at Work: Discourse Practices in, around and about the Workplace (August 16-19, 2000)
1999	11th Euro-International Systemic-Functional Workshop, Metaphor in Systemic Functional Perspectives (14-17 July 1999)

2009

Music for life:

21-22 December: The Department of English cycles for life

See here.

2010

Four-day mini-course on "Minimalism" (Ghent, 18-21 January 2010)

Invited speaker: Prof. David Adger (Queen Mary, London)
Download programme (pdf)
Organized by GIST.
For further information, please contact Karen De Clercq.