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The FILLM Newsletter Volume 3 | June 2015

Next Volume The next volume of The FILLM Newsletter will come out on 15 September 2015. If you would like to contribute to the newsletter or have some information for us to include, please send a message to aborch@abo.fi (Deadline: 1 September 2015). FILLM News The Global Rhetoric Society Joins FILLM It is with great pleasure that FILLM can announce that the Global Rhetoric Society (GRS) has joined the federation. The GRS was founded in 2012 as a non-profit international academic organization, consisting of scholars and researchers in studies on rhetoric, journalism, communication, linguistics, literature, ethics and law. To learn more about the society, you can visit their website... The GRS will be represented on the FILLM board by Professor Chen Rudong (Peking University, China). FILLM is looking forward to collaborating with the GPR and its members! The John Benjamins Prize FILLM is also very happy to announce that it has reached an agreement with John Benjamins Publishing on the creation of The John Benjamins Prize for Linguistic and Literary Scholarship. In short, The John Benjamins Prize will be awarded as a mark of recognition and encouragement to an up-and-coming scholar at the FILLM Congresses. The first Prize will be awarded in connection with the 27th FILLM Congress in New Delhi, India in 2017. To read more about the John Benjamins Prize and its terms... Here a big 'Thank You' goes out to former FILLM President, Roger D. Sell, for his efforts in creating the Prize with John Benjamins! FILLM Blogs Don't forget to check out the FILLM Blogs! Most recently, Sebastian Feller has written two thought-provoking entries, one on the use of technology in the classroom and another on the Digital Dialogue Game (DDG), a new type of learner chat system, which Sebastian belives can be a real assest in learner-centred education. You're welcome to drop Sebastian a line via email if you wish to discuss the topics of his blogs in more detail. Please also remember that the first volume in FILLM's book series FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures will be published this summer. The book is entitled Major Versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World and is edited by Theo D'han, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell.  For more details, including the Table of Contents... News from CIPSH and our Member Associations The Australasian Universities Languages and Literature Association (AULLA) is jointly organising a convention at the University of Wollongong from 7-11 July 2015. The theme for the convention will be "Literary Networks," which covers a very broad range of research intersections with reading and writing. For more information ... The 15th conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) will take place in Nancy, France from 27-29 August 2015. The event marks the 25th anniversary of IADA and the theme of the conference is "Anthropologies of Dialogue". For more information .... The International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA) will hold its 11th Conference at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA between 25-28 May 2016. The theme of the congress is "Memory and Remembrance in Africa and the Diaspora". To read more about the event... The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA/AILC) will hold its 21st Congress at the University of Vienna, Austria between 21-27 July 2016. The theme of the congress is "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature". For more information... The next triennial conference of IAUPE (The International Association for University Professors of English) will take place at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London from 24-29 July 2016. The conference does not have a specific theme, but is organised around a series of period sections. For more information, please visit the conference website. The 31st conference of IASS (International Association for Scandinavian Studies) will be held at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) from 9-13 August 2016. The theme is "Transit Norden och Europa". (NB. The Call for Papers will be issues in October 2015 and the deadline for submitting abstracts will be 15 January 2016.) For more information, see the conference website. Call for Papers FILLM is looking for contributions to its book series FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures. The series is published in collaboration with John Benjamins Publishing Company and former FILLM President Roger D. Sell is the Series Editor. For more on the aims of the series and how to submit a book proposal... The International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA) now invites panel and paper proposals for its 11th biennial conference. The theme of the conference is "Memory and Remembrance in Africa and the Diaspora". Deadline for submitting proposals is 30 September 2015. To read the entire Call for Papers and for further information...  The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA/AILC) invites papers for its  21st Congress in 2016. The theme of the congress is "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature". The deadline for submitting panel proposal has now passed but it is possible to submit proposals for individual papers until 31 August 2015. To read more about the event ... The next triennial conference of IAUPE (The International Association for University Professors of English) will be held in July 2016. The conference does not have a specific theme, but is organised around a series of period sections. To see the Call for Papers and further information.... Circulation The FILLM Newsletter reaches more than 7,000 individual scholars and over 30 international academic organisations. It is circulated in email form to FILLM's member associations, CIPSH and scholars who have taken part in FILLM's Congresses and former FILLM committee members. It is also available online via FILLM's website. Should you wish to receive The FILLM Newsletter personally via email or do you no longer want to receive it, please do get in touch. It is free to distribute The FILLM Newsletter further. The email version can be circulated on mailing lists and a link to the online version can be posted on websites and social media sites. © 2015 | International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM).