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Hello ESL Folks,

Just a reminder that the Wisconsin TESOL [WITESOL] Annual Conference will be held in Appleton, Wisconsin, this year (2006), convening from September 29th to the 30th, at the Paper Valley Convention Center. Their theme this year is "Literacy for All," and the proposal submission details are included below.

To see the official Call for Proposals please click HERE:

http://www.witesol.org/WITESOLcall2006.pdf

Information about the conference is updated regularly at . . .

Hello ESL Folks,

Just a reminder that the annual TexTESOL State Conference will be in Austin, Texas, this year (2006), convening from October 26th to 28th, at the Omni Southpark and Marriot South hotels in Austin. Our theme this year is "Focusing on the Ability to Learn," and the proposal submission deadline is May 30.

Below is the link to the Call for Proposals:

http://www.textesol.org/region3/CFP_2006_state.doc

Information about the conference is updated regularly at . . .

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"There's a world outside your window / and it's a world of dread and fear" - from "Do They Know it's Christmas?" by Sir Bob Geldof, et al.

As students of the Holocaust, we know something about the horrors of genocide . . .

From The Citizenship and Civic Engagement Initiative:

Since 2003, there has been a war between the Sudanese government and two rebel groups in this western region of Sudan. The government forces and the ethnic militias called "Janjaweed" have systematically attacked the Darfurian civilians, killing unarmed people, burning their villages, stealing their livestock, and forcing them to flee. The government forces and the Janjaweed have also terrorized these displaced people in their refugee camps. The Janjaweed are using rape as a weapon to further demoralize and destroy the social fabric of the Darfurian peoples. These brutal actions have been called "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide."

Last week the IUP (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) student newspaper, The Penn, ran the following article about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan (see below). Dr. Marveta Ryan-Sams, in a campus-wide email, said "There is a genocide taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan. Thousands of Sudanese citizens are being killed, raped . . .

Conference on Saturday in the Western PA Area: Are you Coming?

Investigating Our Reality: Bridging Interdisciplinary Gaps
2006 IUP GSA/EGO 4th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference

February 18, 2006, 8:30 am to 6:30 pm
Hadley Union Building [HUB]
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705-1094

The GSA and EGO are pleased to host this year’s plenary speaker, Dr. Marc Bousquet. His keynote address to the annual conference will be held in the Ohio Room at 1:45 pm and is entitled: "Management Theory and Academic Reality." Dr. Bousquet will speak about the following issues . . .

For the first time, the two major conferences on the nineteenth century will join forces for a conference at Purdue University, to be held August 31-September 3, 2006 (Labor Day weekend).

More details here . . .

Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu offers a wide variety of high quality education and training opportunities for . . .

Attention readers of the English-Blog,

The Third International Congress on English Grammar

will take place from . . .

"I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land." - Mark Twain, A Pen Warmed Up in Hell.

Strong words indeed from such an overly-identified and stereotypical "American" fantasy writer.

Hello friends,

I just finished reading an article by Andrew Osobka on the topic of Cultural Imperialism . . .

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." ~Sir Francis Bacon

Are you an ESL graduate student?

Have you still never presented at a conference before but realize that potential employers will see your involvement with the academic community as a big, big plus when considering your C.V.? Then think about university sponsored graduate conferences, particularly interdisciplinary ones (where you'll have improved chances of having your proposal accepted). They are the perfect place to begin presenting since they are a safe, friendly environment where you'll find encouragement instead of criticism . . .

The University of Arkansas has openings for a full-time TESL faculty position

Spring International Language Center at the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, has openings for a full-time faculty position to begin
teaching on January 10, 2006. We ask that applications be submitted by
October 15, 2005, but they will continue to be accepted until this position
is filled . . .

Symposium About Language and Society 2006 - Austin, Texas

Date: 07-Apr-2006 - 09-Apr-2006
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Contact Person: Simeon Floyd
Web Site: http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/ . . .

Lee Hobbs, a North American native-speaker (and partial descendant of Native-Americans and wily Welshmen), renowned global citizen (and infamous universal denizen) spends much of his existence "searching for sanity beyond the self-dynamic" After earning his bachelor of arts (in fine art) in 1993, he spent six of his thinner years trekking across the planet, experimenting with entrepreneurial endeavors, and working in the emerging ESL field of Post-Communist Europe. During that time . . .