Category: 学会関連ニュース

The online platform for academic fieldworkers ‘Fieldnet’

The online platform for academic fieldworkers ‘Fieldnet’, run by the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), offers an opportunity to hold an online symposium/workshop for early career researchers. For more information, please refer to https://fieldnet-aa.jp/.assets/2022_fieldnet_lounge.pdf, or contact through email at fieldnet@tufs.ac.jp

Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2022

Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2022 will be held at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (Tachikawa, Tokyo and online), 5-6 September 2022.

The workshop invites oral and poster presentations of different types (such as original research, preliminary report on experimental results, replication work, position paper, and survey paper).

We welcome any paper within the broader theme of “”Evidence-based Linguistics””, on topics including (but not limited to) the following areas:

  • Theoretical linguistics
  • Typology
  • Field Linguistics
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Experimental Linguistics

Important dates:

  • 4 July 2022, 8:00 (JST): submission due
  • 11 July 2022: notifications to authors
  • 8 August 2022: camera-ready (pdf) due

For more details, please refer to the ELW2022 website.

The 22nd International Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association(J-SLA 2022)

The 22nd International Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association(J-SLA 2022), to be held at Korakuen Campus, Chuo University and Online (subject to change), 22-23 October 2022, invites submissions of abstracts for presentations.
For more information, please visit the site.

JEWEL Seminar Series #7 for Joint East-West Early Language Project

“JEWEL Seminar Series #7 for Joint East-West Early Language Project” will be held via Zoom webinar on June 17, 2022. For more information, please visit the site.

The renovation of“Fieldnet” provided by ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

The renovation of“Fieldnet” provided by ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

May 10, 2022

We are pleased to inform you that we have newly renovated “Fieldnet,” a website provided by Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) for field workers. We hope you will see and utilize it for your publicity and information gathering.
On our new website, in addition to collecting information concerning fieldwork such as announcements & reports of research events, recruitment & advertisement, and publications from members to publish them, we provide members’ profiles and special pages such as “COVID-19 and fieldworkers” to the public.

■ New website
https://fieldnet-aa.jp/

If you register in Fieldnet, you can post information such as announcements of research events and publications. The outlines of them will also be distributed to the members once a month by e-newsletter.
Please take this opportunity to register yourself as a member. Any researchers conducting fieldwork can join it regardless of the affiliations. Graduate students are also welcomed.

■ Please visit the following URL for new registration
https://fieldnet-aa.jp/contacts/member-regist.html

■ E-mail magazine (No.0, December 2021)
https://fieldnet-aa.jp/mailmagagine/120.html 

Fieldnet aims to function as a network for researchers who conduct fieldwork. Our mission is to promote field research by creating a fellowship through online and offline activities.
It would be very grateful if more people enjoy utilizing our activities.

★ Contact:
The Office for Fieldnet, Field Science Center
ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
E-mail: fieldnet[at]tufs.ac.jp
URL: https://fieldnet-aa.jp/
Address: 3-11-1, Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534, Japan

Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages

国立国語研究所共同研究プロジェクト 2022年度第1回「危機言語の保存と日琉諸語のプロソディー」合同研究発表会が5月28日にオンラインで開催されます。詳細については以下を御覧ください。

https://www.ninjal.ac.jp/events_jp/20220528a/

The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL21)

The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL21) has been postponed one year and its venue has been changed from Kazan, Russia to Poznań, Poland. More details will be available on the ICL21 website in the near future.