2010 SLCCS Research Seminars

Students and staff from other Schools and universities, as well as members of the general public, are welcome.
NOTE: THE LIST OF CURRENT YEAR SEMINARS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND TOPICS/SPEAKERS SHOULD BE CHECKED CLOSER TO THE DATE OF PRESENTATION.

• Speaker: Dr Michael Proctor
  Topic: Tongue tips and tongue slips: Phonetic insights into Phonological Organisation
  Time and Venue: 10:00 – 11:00am, Gordon Greenwood Building (32), Room 209

• Speaker: Dr Erich Round
  Topic: Empirical and theoretical implications of stop lenition in Australian languages and "Learning Phonetics and Phonology" 
  Time and Venue: 11:30am – 12:30pm, Gordon Greenwood Building (32), Room 209

• Speaker: Robert Mason
  Topic: "'Hispanic Radicalism in White Australia: Translocality and belonging in the writings and lives of Spanish-speaking migrants" (In English).
  Time and Venue: 10:30am-12:00pm, Building 32, Room 209
• Speaker: Prof. Rob Pensalfini, University of Queensland
  Topic: Chomsky, Newton, and Freud - on the unmeasurable value and valuable unmeasurableness of pure theory
  Time and Venue: 2:00-3:00pm, 2:00-3:00pm, Gordon Greenwood Building, # 32

• Speaker: Jose Luis Fernandez
  Topic: "Elementos novelísticos en un diálogo picaresco de ¿1597?: El "Diálogo intitulado el capón" de Francisco Narváez de Velilla." (In Spanish)
  Time and Venue: 10:30am-12:00pm Gordon Greenwood Building (32), room 209 

• Speaker: Jenny Davis Barnett
  Topic: “Images of Deception: Echo and Narcissus in Ovid and Maurice Scève”
  Time and Venue: 3:00- 4:15pm, Building 32, Room 210

• Speaker: Prof. Massoud Rahimpour, Honorary Research Consultant (Applied Linguistics)
  Topic: Theoretical & Practical Issues in Task-based Language Teaching & Syllabus Design
  Time and Venue: 12-1pm, Building 32, Room 211

• Speaker: Abigail Loxham
  Topic: "New Catalan cinema: Subjective pasts and the imaginative power of the image" (In English)
  Time and Venue: 10:30am-12:00pm Gordon Greenwood Building (32), room 209

• Speaker: Dr Karen Sullivan
  Topic: "Censorship in Franco-era translations of Hamlet"
  Time and Venue: 12:00-1:00pm, Building 32, Room 211

• Speaker: Gilles Brougère, Paris 13
  Topic: "Jeux et apprentissage" (in French).
  Time and Venue: 4:30-5:30pm, Building 32, Room 210 

• Speaker: Susana Arroyo Furphy
  Topic: Proyecto GRISO - "Sor Juana y el Primero Sueño, notas para su versión crítica." (In Spanish)
  Time and Venue: 10:30am-12:00pm, Building 32, Room 209
• Speaker: John Beston (Honorary Research Associate, UQ)
  Topic: "On translation”
  Time and Venue: 3:00pm-4:15pm, Building 32, Room 210

• Speaker: Hugo Hortiguera
  Topic: "La agonía perpetua. Notas sobre El silencio de sus ojos de Juan José Campanella." (In Spanish)
  Time and Venue: 10:30am-12:00pm, Building 32, Room 313

• Speaker: Dr Wendy Jiang
  Topic: Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language
  Time and Venue: 12:00-1:00pm, Building 24, Room S402
   
• Speaker: Prof. Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv University
  Topic: Language as a Cognitive Technology
  Time and Venue: 2:00-3:00pm, Gordon Greenwood Building (# 32), Room 214
  see notes from this seminar here

• Speaker: Dr Jeong-Bae Son (University of Southern Queensland)
  Topic: "Language teacher development in online environments"
  Time and Venue: 12:00-1:00pm, Building 24, Room s402 

• Speaker: Juana Maria Segui Aznar
  Topic: 'Robert Graves and his Majorcan Short Stories' (In English)
  Time and Venue: 10:30am-12:00pm, Building 32, Room 313

• Speaker: Junior Assoc Prof Keita Kikuchi (Tokai University)
  Title: Demotivators in ELT: What can language teachers do?
  Time and Venue: 11:30am - 12:30pm,  Richards Building (5), Room 213, 

• Speaker: Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi
  Topic: “Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb”
  Time and Venue: 6:00-8:00pm, Parnell Building (7), Room 222, St Lucia Campus

• Speaker: Dr Amy Hubbell
  Topic: Research Seminar (in English), “(Re)turning to Ruins: How the Pieds-Noirs Remember Algeria”
  Time and Venue: 10:30-11:15am, Room 324, Level 3, Michie Building (no. 9)

• Speaker: Dr Amy Hubbell
  Topic: Teaching Seminar (in French), “Interactions Communicatives : stratégies d’enseignement dans les cours de langue et de littérature française”
  Time and Location: 11:15-11:45am, Room 324, Level 3, Michie Building (no. 9)

• Speaker: Dr Sandra Hobbs
  Topic: Research Seminar (in English), “From Cowboys and Indians to Colonial Subjects and Subalterns: A Spivakian Reading of the Native in the Quebec Novel and Essay of the 1990s”
  Time and Venue: 12:30-1:15pm, Room 324, Level 3, Michie Building (no. 9)

• Speaker: Dr Sandra Hobbs
  Topic: Teaching Seminar (in French) “Rejoindre les millènaires: strategies pèdagogiques pour favoriser  Iîmplication  des ètudiants dans l’apprentissage de la langue, de la literature, et de la culture francaises”
  Time and Venue: 1:15-1:45pm, Room 324, Level 3, Michie Building (no. 9)

• Speaker: Dr Rachel Briggs
  Topic: Interventionist Counterfactuals
  Time and Venue: 2:00-3:00pm, Building 32, Room 214
  see notes from this seminar here 
   
• Speaker: Professor Paul McCarthy (Surugadai University, Japan)
  Topic: Translating Modern Japanese Poetry: a First Attempt
  Time and Venue: 3:00-4:00pm, Gordon Greenwood Building, Room 209

• Speaker: Roberto Esposto
  Topic: "La Argentina o la pasión según Abel Posse."(In Spanish)
  Time & venue: 10:30am-12:00pm, Building 32, Room 313

• Speaker: Dr Larry Duffy
  Topic: Disciplinary Polemic as Menoir and Medical Treatise: The Strange Case of Dr Halmagrand and Professor Orfila
  Time and Venue: 3:00pm, Building 32, Room 313

• Speaker: Nadezhda Kolesnik
  Topic: Comparative Study of Traditional and Blog-Assisted Teaching of Intercultural Communication in Higher Education’
  Time & venue: 12:00-1:00pm, Chamberlain Building #35, Room 212

• Speaker: Saeed Shar
  Topic: The Role of Larynx Height in Production of Gutturals and Emphatics
  Time & venue: 2:00-2:30pm, Sir Lew Edwards Building (#14-15), Room 115
   
• Speaker: Misnadin Misnadin
  Topic: The Vowel System and the Three-Way Phonation Contrast of Madurese
  Time & venue: 2:30pm, Sir Lew Edwards Building  (#14-15), Room 115

• Speaker: Patharaoarn Patharakorn
  Topic: Pain language: A Thai case study
  Time & venue: 12:00pm, building 39A, Room 209
   
• Speaker: Sumaya Ambu-Saidi
  Topic: Student and teacher attitudes towards the use of language learning technology (LLT) in a tertiary English course in Oman
  Time & venue: 12:00pm, building 39A, Room 209
   
• Speaker: Kyeong Eun Kim
  Topic: Korean tertiary students' perception of their first language us in an English only environment
  Time & venue: 12:00pm, building 39A, Room 209
   
• Speaker: Claudia Wegner
  Topic: Nominalization as a gradual phenomenon: Structure and Functions of –ghu nominalizations in Savosavo (non-Austronesian, Solomon Islands)
  Time & venue: 2:00 pm, Sir Lew Edwards Building (#14), Room 115

• Speaker: Abdullah A. Bin Towairesh
  Topic: Using Address Terms with Strangers in Riyadh
  Time & venue: 2:00pm, building 14, Room 115
   
• Speaker: Juliana de Nooy
  Topic: Becoming French: Contemporary Australian women’s relocation memoirs
  Time & venue: 3:00pm, Building 39A, Room 209

• Speaker: Marcelo Dascal
• Topic: Language as a cognitive technology
• Time & venue: 2:00pm, building 14, Room 115

• Speaker: Aqueel Al-Shammari
  Topic: ‘Innovative L2 Arabic writing project: The role of regulation and mediation’
  Time & venue: 12:00-1:00pm, building 39A, Room 209
   
• Speaker: Chiharu Tsurutani
  Topic: Prosodic influences on the acceptability of English learners of Japanese utterances
  Time & venue: 2:00pm, building 14, room 115
   
• Speaker: Guy Ramsay
  Topic: An analysis of 'personal' and family caregiver narratives of mental illness published in a mainland Chinese psychoeducational newsletter
  Time & venue: 3:00pm, Building 39A, room 209

• Speaker: Kevin Yongqing Wang
  Topic: Computer-assisted EFL essay local coherence tutoring: An application of centering theory
  Time & venue: 12:30-1:30pm, building 32 room 210
   
• Speaker: Felicity Meakins
  Topic: The development of asymmetric serial verb constructions in Gurindji Kriol
  Time & venue: 2:00pm, building 14, room 115

• Speaker: Mary Laughren
  Topic: Warlpiri type languages and accusative case?
  Time & venue: 2:00pm, building 14, room 115

• Speaker: Yang Lei
  Topic:  Eye Movements in second language processing of enhanced input
  Time & venue: 12:00-1:00pm, building 67, room 342

• Speaker: Paul McAleer
  Topic: The Menippean Satire, and Narratives of Dystopia in Fernando Vallejo’s La virgin de los sicarios (1996) (Research Seminar in English)
  Time & venue: 8:45-9:30am, Building 32, Room 209
• Speaker: Paul McAleer
  Topic: Métodos y objectives: La filosofía de dar clases de lengua y de contenido
  Time & venue: 9:30-10:00am, Building 32, Room 209
• Speaker: Dr Carles Gutiérrez-Sanfeliu
  Topic: Lorca and “amor oscuro”: Writing the unwritten, speaking about the unspeakable (Research Seminar in English)
  Time & venue: 12:30-1:15pm, Building 32, Room 209
• Speaker: Dr Carles Gutiérrez-Sanfeliu
  Topic: Why is studying (and teaching) Spanish such a good idea? (Teaching seminar in Spanish)
  Time & venue: 1:15-1:45pm, Building 32, Room 209
• Speaker: Dr José Luis Fernández Castillo
  Topic: Poetry at the margins of utopia: Octavio Paz and Jose Angel Valente (Research Seminar in English)
  Time & venue: 4:00-4:45pm, Building 32, Room 209
• Speaker: Dr José Luis Fernández Castillo
  Topic: La enseñanza del español y su literature. Perspectivas y propuestas (Teaching seminar in Spanish)
  Time & venue: 4:45-5:15pm, Building 32, Room 209

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