[1] From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu (125)
Subject: GURT96: REMINDER
[2] From: Bernard Frischer <IDDHBDF@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> (57)
Subject: UCLA CONFERENCE ON THE NEW SHAKESPEARE ELEGY
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:31:47 -0500 (EST)
From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: GURT96: REMINDER
PREREGISTRATION DEADLINE: (postmarked no later than) FEBRUARY 9,
1996. After this date, on-site fees apply. A 10% handling fee
will be charged for refunds.
====================CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT====================
Georgetown University Round Table
on Languages and Linguistics 1996
Linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation:
Current trends and future prospects
March 14 - March 16, 1996
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This is a brief version intended to keep list messages short.
To see the full program, visit this www-site:
>> http://www.georgetown.edu/conferences/gurt96/gurt96.html
.....or contact the GURT staff at the address given below.
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Thursday, March 14, 1996
Opening remarks
James E. Alatis, Chair, Georgetown University Round Table
1996
Dedication of Conference to Earl Stevick, Independent Researcher
Plenary Address
David Crystal, University of Wales, Bangor
"Playing with linguistic problems from Orwell to Plato and
back again"
*****
Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 1996
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Donna Lardiere and Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University
Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University
Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics
Mary Ann Christison, Snow College
Reinhold Freudenstein, IFS der Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg/Lahn,
Germany
Braj Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California
Michael Breen, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University
Joan Morley, University of Michigan
Peter Patrick, Georgetown University
Theodore Rodgers, University of Hawaii and Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey
Renzo Titone, University of Rome, Italy and University of Toronto,
Ontario
Walt Wolfram and Gail Hamilton, North Carolina State University
and Ocracoke School, North Carolina
*****
Tutorial with Stephen Krashen, School of Education, University of
Southern California
This workshop will cover, and attempt to integrate, material
presented at Krashen's GURT presentations since 1989. It will
review evidence for and against the input hypothesis, the reading
hypothesis, applications of the input hypothesis to beginning
and intermediate language and literacy development, the role of
light reading, and applications to bilingual education.
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Registration form. Please send a printout of this form and
your check or money order (payable to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY; no
credit cards) to: Carolyn A. Straehle, Coordinator, GURT 1996,
International Language Programs and Research, 306-U Intercultural
Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057-1045, U.S.A.
PREREGISTRATION DEADLINE: (postmarked no later than) FEBRUARY 9,
1996. After this date, on-site fees apply. A 10% handling fee
will be charged for refunds.
Badges and registration material are not mailed, but will be
available the days of the conference at the registration site in
Intercultural Center. Registration desk open from 8:45 a.m. during the
conference.
Please print clearly:
FIRST NAME__________________________________________________
LAST NAME___________________________________________________
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION (e.g. university, place of work)
____________________________________________________________
MAILING ADDRESS_____________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
CITY_____________________________STATE/PROV.________________
ZIP______________COUNTRY____________________________________
TELEPHONE ________________________
FAX ________________________
E-MAIL ________________________________________________
Please check here________ if you plan to attend opening-night
plenary session and reception, Thursday, March 14.
Please mark with (X) categories which apply:
Please note that the TUTORIAL conducted by Stephen Krashen is NOT
included with the full conference, daily, or other rates listed
below; there is an additional $40 fee to attend the tutorial
($50.00 after February 9).
NON-GEORGETOWN RATES
PREREGISTRATION On-site (after
(no later than FEBRUARY 9,
FEBRUARY 9, 1996) 1996)
Full Conference
(includes Thursday opening
plenary/reception, Friday,
Saturday) ______ $ 100.00 ______ $ 125.00
Opening plenary/reception only ______ $ 40.00 ______ $ 50.00
Friday only ______ $ 40.00 ______ $ 50.00
Saturday only ______ $ 40.00 ______ $ 50.00
Tutorial ______ $ 40.00 ______ $ 50.00
TOTAL
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Discounted rates (include Thursday opening plenary/reception,
Friday, and Saturday)
Senior citizens* ______ $ 40.00 ______ $ 50.00
Students* ______ $ 40.00 ______ $ 50.00
Tutorial ______ $ 40.00 ______ $ 50.00
*with copy of I.D.
Group rates available for groups of five or more by FEBRUARY 9
only (no on-site group registration). Please contact Conference
Coordinator to make arrangements.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PREREGISTRATION RATE
(no later than FEBRUARY 9, 1996)
Students (all fees
except tutorial waived
if volunteering) ______ $ 20.00 ______ $ 30.00
Faculty and staff ______ $ 25.00 ______ $ 35.00
Tutorial ______ $ 30.00 ______ $ 40.00
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TOTAL ENCLOSED $
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For more information, please contact Carolyn A. Straehle,
Coordinator * GURT 1996 * Georgetown University
International Language Programs and Research * 306-U
Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1045
e-mail: gurt@guvax.bitnet or gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu *
voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-0699
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 96 09:20 PST
From: Bernard Frischer <IDDHBDF@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: UCLA CONFERENCE ON THE NEW SHAKESPEARE ELEGY
>
> S P E C I A L A N N O U N C E M E N T
>
> CONFERENCE ON 'A FUNERAL ELEGY,'
> DISCOVERED AT UCLA AND RECENTLY ATTRIBUTED TO
> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
>
> Friday, February 9, 1996
> 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. in 121 Dodd Hall, UCLA
> (Admission is free)
>
> You are cordially invited to attend the first conference to be
> held on Prof. Donald Foster's important discovery of a 578-
> line elegy published in 1612 by W.S., who, Prof. Foster has recently
> argued on historical and stylometrical grounds,
> was William Shakespeare. This attribution has gained general
> acceptance among Shakespeare scholars. Prof. Foster found the poem among
> UCLA's microfilm copies of the holdings of the Bodleian Library.
>
>
> Conference Schedule:
>
> 2:00-2:10 Prof. Robert Watson (UCLA), Welcome
>
> 2:10-2:30 Prof. David Holmes (University of the West of England),
> "Authorship Studies Today."
>
> 2:30-3:00 Prof. Donald Foster (Vassar), "W.illiam. S.hakespeare's.
> 'Best-speaking witnesses': Trying the "Funeral
> Elegy" (with a reading of highlights of the poem).
>
> 3:00-3:20 Prof. Lars Engle (University of Tulsa), "The Significance
> of 'A Funeral Elegy' for Our Understanding of Shakespeare's
> Life and Works."
> 3:20-3:30 Prof. Stephen Booth (University of California, Berkeley),
> "Where Will We Go from Here?"
>
> 3:30-4:00 DISCUSSION
>
> This conference has been organized by Prof. Bernard Frischer (UCLA) and
> is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
> Studies, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, the UCLA
> Department of Classics, the UCLA Department of English, the UCLA Humanities
> Computing Facility, the UCLA Office of the Education Abroad Program,
> and the Dept. of English of Loyola Marymount University.
>
> For further information please call ((310) 825-1867) or write
(iddhbdf@mvs.oac.ucla.edu) Prof. Frischer.
>