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Appeal for the China Earthquake Disaster
Students in Chinese Studies in the School of Languages and Linguistics have organised an appeal for the China earthquake disaster. Anyone wishing to contribute to this appeal should come to the School Office on Level 2 of Morven Brown Building where donations can be made to the student volunteers. All donations received will be passed on to the official account for earthquake victims with the Bank of China, Sydney.
Call for Papers
The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009
Collective Creativity
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - The University of New South Wales
The Goethe Institute Sydney
23 – 26 July 2009
Gerhard Fischer, University of New South Wales (Convenor) in co-operation with Sabine Rossbach (University of Adelaide), Klaus R. Scherpe (Humboldt-University Berlin) and Florian Vassen (Leibniz-University Hannover)
The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009 is part of a series of scholarly conferences sponsored by the Department of German Studies at the University of New South Wales since 1980. The symposia are international, interdisciplinary academic conferences devoted to current issues in literary and cultural studies, with a focus on - but not exclusively restricted to – contemporary German literature and culture. Recent symposia have addressed themes such as ‘Writing since The Fall of the Wall’, ‘Adventures of Identity’, ‘The Play within the Play’ or ‘W.G. Sebald and Expatriate Writing’; others were dedicated to a critical analysis of aspects of the work of Walter Benjamin, Hans Magnus Enzensberger or Heiner Müller.
The symposium is traditionally held bi-annually on the last weekend in July and organized in co-operation with the Goethe Institute Sydney which also offers the venue for the event. In 2009, the topic of he Symposium will be ‘Collective Creativity’.
For more information, click here: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/collective_creativity09/
Contact: g.fischer@unsw.edu.au
A traditional start to Japanese 1000.
Over 350 students have enrolled in the beginners course JAPN1000 (Japanese Communication 1A) and to mark the occasion A/Prof Chihiro Thomson and her students donned traditional Japanese dress at the first lecture!
Pictured from left to right are Pann Pann Chung (Honours student), Kana Okada (MA student), A/Prof Chihiro Thomson, and Kaori Shimasaki (Exchange student from Tohoku University).
UNSW students are winners in Japanese Speech Contest
(L to R) Nagisa Fukui, Jenny Chen, Yun Bai, Sumiko Iida, Chihiro Thomson, Mai Uchino and Owen Hilton.
The NSW State Final of the 34th Japanese Speech Contest was held on 1 September 2007. This event is hosted by the Japan Foundation and the Consul General of Japan. In the Open Beginners Division UNSW students picked up the top three prizes:
1st Prize Yun BAI, "Learning how to learn in Australia"
2nd Prize Billy JAYA, "Japan, the place of perfect service"
3rd Prize Jenny Heng-Chen CHEN "Culture shock experience - Aged care in Canada"
Owen HILTON was awarded a special prize in the Open Beginners Division with his speech "Australian drivers"
Anna Lam was awarded 2nd prize in the Open Division ("Japanese culture crisis in Australia"), whilst in the Background Speakers Division Mai Uchino was awarded first prize ("I want to be a bilingual - A child's wish") and Aiko Leung won second prize ("The Japanese value of respect conveyed in various human relations”).
Both Yun BAI and Mai UCHINO will represent NSW in the upcoming National Final on October 13th. We wish them all the best.
UPDATE
The 38th Australian National Final Japanese Language Speech Contest results
Congratulations to Yun Bai and Mai Uchino who were both awarded second place in their respective divisions at the Australian National Final Japanese Language Speech Contest held on 13 October 2007.
New Language Labs officially opened
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| These photographs are of the new School of Languages and Linguistics language laboratories on level one of the Morven Brown Building. | |
The School of Languages and Linguistics is the beneficiary of a large development grant allocated to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It has enabled the School to acquire the latest technology for its language teaching and training in its interpreting programs. The new language laboratory is housed in newly refurbished rooms on Level one of the Morven Brown Building.
The new equipment is easy to use and includes features such as:
- Consecutive and Simultaneous interpreting facilities
- Access to a vaster variety of listening sources
- Ability to record students’ speech and collect sound files
- Improved research opportunities
The official opening ceremony took place in August 2007.
