Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts - LIEMC18
Marino Institute of Education – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
 1-3 February 2018

The conference considers all aspects of the linguistic and sociolinguistic competences and practices of bi-/multilingual speakers who cross existing social and linguistic boundaries, adopting or adapting themselves to new and overlapping linguistic spaces.
We invite papers in all areas of research in bi-/multilingualism, whether or not linked directly to the overarching conference theme, including, but not limited to, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, clinical linguistics, education, bi-/multilingual societies.
 
Topics will include: (multiple) language acquisition and learning (L3, L4, Lx); psycho- and neurolinguistics of multilingualism; translanguaging; early bilingualism and heritage language development; speech processing in bi-/multilinguals; trans/multilingual language use in different contexts; multilingual education; bi-/multiculturalism; bi-/multilingual language policies; literacy in multiple languages (pluriliteracy); intercultural and globalisation issues related to multilingualism; multilingual issues in literature and translation.
 
Confirmed speakers are: Prof. Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country) and Prof. Elizabeth Lanza (University of Oslo).

IVACS One-day Symposium
Corpus Research in Challenging Contexts
​February, 24th, The Centre for Irish Language: Research, Teaching and Testing, Maynooth University

‘Academic Literacies’: explorations of a transformative project by Professor Theresa Lillis
February, 1st 2018, 6pm
Room 103-104, 7-9 South Leinster Street, Trinity College Dublin. 

The aim of this presentation will be to give an overview of the development of the relatively new field of ‘Academic Literacies’, as both research and pedagogic project. Situating Academic Literacies within the field of literacy studies more generally, I will emphasise two of its defining characteristics - critical ethnography and transformative ideology- and explore convergences and divergences with specific traditions within ‘EAP’.
Using data examples from two research studies - centering on students’ academic writing and academics writing for publication (e.g. Lillis 2001,2011; Lillis and Curry 2010, 2015) - I will illustrate how the transformative orientation towards writing adopted in Academic Literacies contributes towards understandings about what it means to write in the academy and consider intellectual and ethical consequences. The potential value of Academic Literacies in contributing to transformative pedagogic approaches to writing in the academy will be discussed, drawing on case studies and critical commentaries by practitioners working across a range of contexts (Lillis et al 2015).

Mother tongues festival 
24 February
Outhouse, 105 Capel Street, Dublin

To celebrate UNESCO International Mother Language Day, and the first birthday of Mother Tongues, we will host the first Mother Tongues Festival.
The Mother Tongues Festival will take place on 24th February 2018, and it will be a celebration of Ireland’s linguistic diversity, with performances and workshops in many different languages.
The Festival has been awarded the European Year of Cultural Heritage label.

Limericker Literaturgespräche: Gabrielle Alioth
​February 28th,  Room: D1049, Time: 5:00pm - Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick

Swiss-Irish writer Gabrielle Alioth has been a great friend of the Centre over years and has been giving a number of wonderful readings. She will return again on 28th February and read and discuss her novel Die entwendete Handschrift (Basel: Lenos 2016) and other Irish-German (Swiss) writing.