School of Languages & Linguistics Research Unit for Multilingualism & Cross-Cultural Communication (RUMACCC)

RUMACCC Events

Events 2009

Raising Children in More Than One Language

A free seminar for parents, early childhood and pre-school workders, grandparents, teachers and other interested in bilingual education.

Presented by RUMACCC, Community Languages Australia, and the Ethnic Schools Association of Victoria (inc) and Victorian Multicultural Commission

Sunday November 29, 2009 - 12.45pm - 5pm
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Crn Swanston street and Monash Raod,
University of Melbourne
(Free event)
To register, please email rumaccc-info@unimelb.edu.au. Registration closes 23rd November

Speakers include:

Seminar topics include:

More details and program (pdf 552kb)

 

Events previously held

 

European and Australian Perspectives on Language Policy. Towards greater linguistic uniformity or diversity?

A workshop entitled "European and Australian Perspectives on Language Policy. Towards greater linguistic uniformity or diversity?" organised by RUMACCC (Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication) was held in the School of Languages and Linguistics on the 2 October 2008.

Sally Boyd - RUMACCC workshop 2008Professor Sally Boyd from the Department of Linguistics at The University of Gothenburg opened the workshop with a talk on language policy in Sweden and the proposed legislation to make Swedish the "principal language" of Sweden.

 

Professor Sally Boyd, presenting.

Uldis OzolinsDr Uldis Ozolins from La Trobe University and RMIT continued the European focus with a presentation on language policy in the Baltic States.

Dr Uldis Ozolins, pictured with one of the workshop participants, Ms Oksana King.

Yvette SlaughterAfter these presentations with a European perspective the focus moved to Australia wih Dr Yvette Slaughter, senior researcher in RUMACCC, who gave the workshop participants an overview of language policy in the Australian education section, in particular with regard to Asian LOTES.


Dr Yvette Slaughter flanked by Professor John Hajek, Director of RUMACCC on the left and Dr Andrea Rizzi on the right)

Tim McNamaraProfessor Tim MacNamara from the School of Langauges and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, discussed langauge policy from the perspective of language testing as a prerequisite for Australian citizenship.

 

Professor Tim MacNamara, presenting.

 

The workshop was well attended with over 30 participants who contributed to the roundtable discussion that followed the four presentations

 

Some of the participants in the workshop.

Dr Leo Kretzenbacher, Professor Sally Boyd and Dr Doris Schupbach share a laugh and a drink.

 

 

Raising Children in More Than One Language

A seminar for parents, grandparents, caregivers and professionals working with children

Presented by RUMACCC, Community Languages Australia, and the Ethnic Schools Association of Victoria (inc).

Sunday August 31, 2008

Speakers included:

Seminar topics included:

 

Inclusion, exclusion and identity across two continents: aspects of multilingualism and multiculturalism in Australia and Europe

Special half-day workshop

International speaker: Assoc Prof Jacomine Nortier, University of Utrecht

In- and exclusion, appropriation and ethnicity in a multilingual and multicultural neighborhood in Utrecht

Other speakers:

 

Raising Children in More Than One Language

1pm to 4:30pm, Sunday November 12, 2006
The Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne

Sponsored by RUMACCC and Community Languages Australia.

Speakers included :

Prof Michael Clyne (University of Melbourne)
Dr Susanne Döpke
A/Prof Robert Debski (University of Melbourne)

Seminar topics included:

Raising Children in More Than One Language brochure (pdf)

 

European Multilingualism & Multiculturalism Today

From 9:30am, Friday September 29, 2006
Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Building, University of Melbourne

Speakers included:
Professor Claudia Riehl (Cologne) German-Romance language contact and language conflict in Italy, France and Belgium.
Professor Guus Extra (Tilburg) Language, migration and citizenship in Europe: A case study on testing regimes in the Netherlands.

European Multilingualism & Multiculturalism Today workshop program (pdf)

Proceedings from this seminar were published in October, 2008.

Warren, J. and Merle Benbow, H. (Eds.). (2008). Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity. Cambridge Scholars Publications.

As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multiculturalism that explores how Europe is meeting this challenge. Inspired by intersections and conflicts in language and cultural identity in Europe, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries by enhancing sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema. The book considers the relationships between language and cultural identity in Europe at a time of increasing multicultural complexity, with contributions on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, and the linguistic and imaginative spaces between and beyond. The volume highlights the ongoing significance of language and identity for an expanding Europe, and the ways in which situations of linguistic hybridity, interlocution and language contact continue to define Europe and its others.

Jane Warren, Honorary Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, completed her DPhil at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She is co-author, with Leigh Oakes, of Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and, with Michael Clyne and Catrin Norrby, of Language and Human Relations: Address in Contemporary Language (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Heather Merle Benbow, Co-Convenor of European Studies and Lecturer in German in the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2003. Her monograph, Gender and Orality in German Culture around 1800, is forthcoming.

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