Conferences and Events
2010 Annual One-Day
Conference
This year's conference theme is Language
Attrition, Dialect Attrition. The Keynote Speaker is
Professor David Britain (University of Berne).
The
conference takes place on Saturday 5th December 2009,
between 1000 and 1700, in the A.K. Bell Library, Perth. The cost
for the day is £30, including a sandwich lunch. Students,
unwaged and OAPs are entitled to a discounted admission fee of
£25. The
poster for the event may be downloaded here.
Directions
to the library are available here.
Past themes have included:
Dictionaries, Glossaries and the Languages of Scotland and Ulster
Language and Literature in the Time of Burns
One Language or Two?.
2012 International Triennial Conference
News about venue and dates for this conference will be available in the near future. The First Call for Papers will be issued in the course of 2011.
Previous venues for the triennial conference:
2009 Orkney College, Kirkwall, Orkney
2006 Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle, Islay
2003 Crichton Campus, Dumfries
2000 Queen’s University, Belfast
1997 University of Aberdeen
1994 Sabhal Mór Ostaig
1991 University of Edinburgh
1988 University of Glasgow
1985 University of Aberdeen