Inaugural Meeting - EMCA Doctoral Network
7-8 June 2014 - University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Plenary speaker: Professor Liz Stokoe, Loughborough University

This is the first in a series of biannual meetings for doctoral students undertaking research in the allied fields of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. These meetings shall establish, build and support a doctoral research community across the UK and Europe.

Each meeting will offer a flexible mix of workshops, data sessions, reading groups and presentations. The idea is to provide an informal environment for students to come and share ideas, ask questions, showcase research, etc. We also want to encourage and emphasise these events as opportunities to socialise and network with your EMCA peers.

CIDLeS Summer School 2014: COMMUNITY-DRIVEN LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION (CDLD 2014)
Date & Venue: August 18th - 23rd, 2014 |  Minde, Portugal

Website: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/

Deadline for applications: May 31st, 2014

About the Summer School

The field of language documentation has matured over the last 15 years. With several funding initiatives running out, community-driven language documentation ensures sustainable documentation.

This summer school is designed to encourage community-driven interdisciplinary language documentation. It will bring together speakers of endangered languages, local language workers, students and researchers of linguistics and related fields. The summer school is intended to be a space for engagement and exchange between community members, language workers and students and provide an environment for learning about each other’s interests and requirements.

CIDLeS Summer School 2014: CODING FOR LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES (CLC 2014)
Date & Venue: August 11th - 15th, 2014 |  The Summer School will take place within the Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros in or near Minde, Portugal

Website: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-coding-for-language-communities-2014/

Deadline for applications: May 31st, 2014

About the Summer School

There are currently around 7.000 languages spoken all over the world - but each month a language dies. In general we see a strong tendency to learn and use only the major languages such as English, German, French, etc., especially in electronic communication. This is partly caused by the lack of hardware (e.g. keyboards) and software (for transliteration, text completion, etc.) for under-resourced languages, which constrain the natural usage of people's own language in many tasks. The Summer School Coding for Language Communities is about ongoing research and development to turn that process in exactly the other direction: every successful technology can also be used to teach, revitalize and therefore boost the use of regional languages. This technology should also assist the renewal of local languages and cultures by allowing people to actively teach, learn, extend, and spread their language in their community. Our aim is to give people the ability to use their mother tongue in everyday electronic communication, no matter where they are or what language they speak.

Update: Applications for admission now open

The Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK, offers five MA or MSc programs of potential interest to students of discourse. Among them are the two newly created MSc programs in Communication and Interaction, in Conversation Analysis and in Discursive Psychology. Below is more information from Elizabeth Stokoe in the Languse list.