English Teaching Excellence in Qatar (ETE-Q) Conference, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) 9/10/2010, Education City, Doha, Qatar On Saturday, the 9th of October 2010, I participated in the ETE-Q conference at CMU-Q in Doha with a poster presentation entitled “Academic Writing: Challenge, Inspiration, Engagement”. The poster summarises my teaching approach […]
Read moreI’ve just returned from the conference in Vlora, Albania, which I must say was surprisingly successful. I will probably be putting up a longer post about the entire experience, but for the moment I think that the presentation will have to do. Some of the slides are not entirely intuitive, but there is explanatory text embedded in the powerpoint. Comments […]
Read morePaul Smith is involved in this event at the OU next month. Maybe we’ll hear some of his insights in due course …. but here is the programme to keep you going 🙂 STOP PRESS : Virtual discussions “Ethnographies of Academic writing in a global context: the politics of style” involves a face to face day seminar on July 16th at the […]
Read moreTo see the paper I gave at QI 2010, click here. It can be a mistake to go back…Last year I attended the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI 2009) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and was refreshed, energised and motivated by the genuine inclusivity of the conference and the engagement with issues of social justice […]
Read moreI am attaching here the ppt for the paper which Nicos Sifakis gave last week – on behalf of the research team also including Vally Lytra and myself – at the ELF (English as a lingua franca) conference in Vienna. I will also add his reflections on how it went. Sifakis, N., Lytra, V. and Fay, R. (2010). English as a lingua […]
Read moreThis is the prompt for Carol, Eljee, Richard, Tanya and Viv to post their reactions and reflections on the May 2010 Narrative Matters conference in Fredericton in Canada where they all presented.
Read moreEljee, Tanya, Viv and myself are all presenting at the NM 2010 conference next week. Details below. wish us luck with volcanic ash as we negotiate the Atlantic 🙂 “Narrative Matters 2010 – Exploring the narrative landscape: Issues, investigations, and interventions” to be hosted by the CIRN in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 20th – 22nd 2010: Fay, R., Zhou, […]
Read moreVlora (Albania), September 11-13 This seems to focus more on English linguistics and Anglophone literature, so it’s not immediately relevant to my needs. But it should be an interesting intercultural experience… Izmir (Turkey), October 28-30 Focussing on English as an International Language. Chomsky’s keynote speech should be one of the highlights of the event. I might turn a paper in […]
Read moreHi All this is my draft abstract for the PRASH conference at Edge Hill University in June. http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/56271-220101/Postgraduate-Research-in-Arts-Social-Sciences-and-Humanities-PRASH-conference-2010.html#pageInfo (Link no longer active) You’re allowed 150 words only, so here they are. I’ll be sending this Thu/Fri so any comments would be most welcome! The title of the presentation is currently “The ‘Interdisciplinary Turn’ and Locating Research”. Hh-hm: “I do not intend […]
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