Happy 10th Birthday LLAS!
News summary
We're celebrating 10 years of supporting languages, linguistics and area studies teaching in UKHE. Enter a prize draw to win a free place on one of our events.
The UK’s 24 subject centres began in January 2000. Over the past ten years there have been many highlights. We have developed numerous resources for promoting our subjects including the Languages Box, 700 Reasons for Studying Languages, the Area Studies Project, Why Study Languages?, Discover American Studies’ and ‘Language Unlimited’, a presentation to promote linguistics in schools. We have organised or co-organised over 200 conferences, workshops and seminars, funded hundreds of colleagues to conduct research, develop materials or run workshops. Thousands of colleagues from the UK and beyond have attended our events.
10 Year Survey:
Enter a prize draw to win a free place on one of our events by sending us your pick of the best of LLAS (it should take only 3-5 minutes to complete) .
Here are 10 things we will be doing in out tenth anniversary year:
1. e-Learning symposium 2010
University of Southampton, 28-29 January
2. Sharing and showcasing humanities teaching resources: the HumBox collection
University of Sheffield, 26 February
3. Pedagogic research workshops in languages, linguistics and area studies (Stages 1 and 2),
Woburn House, London, 4-5 March
4. Workshop on English Language degrees
University of Sheffield, 19 March
5. Seminar on sustainable development
University of Birmingham, 19 March
6. Workshop for New academic staff
Aston Business School, 15-16 April
7. Conference on learning beyond the classroom
Leeds Metropolitan University, 27 May
8. Our biennial conference, Raising the standard for languages
London, 1-2 July
9. Liaison magazine being published in January and June
10. Our first ever issue of Début: the undergraduate journal of languages, linguistics and area studies
