2021 Word of the Year
strollout: the slow implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination program in Australia. Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout, which made headlines both at home and abroad in 2021, has inspired the…
Registration Open for 2021 CoEDL Summer Masterclasses
Registration is now open for the 2021 CoEDL Summer Masterclasses. Full information about the schedule and presenters is available here; registration is through the ALS conference page. The…
Leslie Barnes Discusses New Volume with New Book Network
Leslie Barnes and her co-editor Joseph Mai recently discussed their new volume, The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything has a Soul, on the New Books Network. Born in 1964, Rithy Panh…
Seminar on ‘Ethnicity and social class in a modern metropolis’
Seminar on ‘Ethnicity and social class in a modern metropolis’ at the Sydney Centre for Language Research, 13 August 2021.
Abralin ao Vivo 2021, Ethnolectal variation in real time
In July 2021 Catherine Travis presented on ethnolectal variation in real time as part of the Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online series. Find the video here.
A new ICH opinion piece: ‘More than words’ – Interpersonal communication, cognitive bias and diagnostic errors
A new opinion piece, "‘More than words’ – Interpersonal communication, cognitive bias and diagnostic errors" in Patient Education and Counselling, discusses how communication and cognitive bias can…
Launch of Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka
On Monday 17 May, around fifty people gathered at the Menzies library for the launch of Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka. The volume is dedicated to SLLL’s Emeritus…