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From https://sites.google.com/view/7thhispaniclinguistics/home

The Spanish Linguistics Graduate Students at Arizona State University is pleased to invite you to our seventh annual Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics Conference, which will be held in Tempe, AZ, on March 30 and 31, 2018. The conference offers an opportunity for graduate students of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics to share their current research. 

The plenary speakers this year will present on topics in Spanish Heritage Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, Sociolinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition.

Visit the conference website at https://sites.google.com/view/7thhispaniclinguistics/home

From http://www.businesschineseconference.org/

The 6th Business Chinese Workshop in Conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Business Chinese Education
Beyond a Limited Scope: Chinese for Specific, Academic, and Professional Purposes 
March 30 (Workshop) and 31 (Conference), 2018
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Visit the conference website at http://www.businesschineseconference.org/

From http://cabe2018.gocabe.org/

CABE 2018
Sacramento Convention Center
March 28-31, 2018
Embracing Multilingualism: From Policy to Powerful Practices

Visit the conference website for full details and to register, at http://cabe2018.gocabe.org/

"Flipping the classroom: implications for student and instructor training"
Facilitator: Marta Tecedor Cabrero, Assistant Professor in Spanish linguistics at Arizona State University.

Webinar description: A growing number of institutions are migrating to flipped approaches to foreign language learning. This change has raised questions and concerns regarding instructors' and students' preparation. This session examines how both instructors and students conceptualize and experience their roles and how this interpretation shapes their behaviors and beliefs about learning under this new instructional model.

Date and Time: Wednesday February 21, 5:00-6:00pm EASTERN / 4:00-5:00pm CENTRAL / 2:00-3:00pm PACIFIC

Sponsored by the Center for Language Instruction and Coordination at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyHrOaArb6yWU7XtrRS6yREvu0B9zufcq3nRx_ox3My8w2Ew/viewform

• foster a community of Nebraska and Iowa world language educators dedicated to implementing best practices
• extend professional learning opportunities beyond the Fall Conferences

The Iowa chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese will team up with Grandview University in Des Moines to provide a professional development opportunity for Spanish teachers. Offered on March 2 and 3, 2018, the AATSP Café Latino has the theme "El Amor Por España." Teachers have a reading to do ahead of time and should bring a classroom activity to share with colleagues.

For more details go to https://iaaatsp.org/cafe-latino/

From https://melikian.asu.edu/cli/

Learn Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Indonesian, Hebrew, Persian, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, or Uzbek this summer at Arizona State University's Critical Languages Institute. CLI instruction in Arizona and abroad is practically focused and proficiency-based. Students not only study a language, but learn to live that language. Specially designed summer intensives on the ASU campus prepare students, even beginners, to function competently in their language when they go abroad. Once overseas, students live and breathe their language; they participate in family life, join sports and gaming clubs, sing in choirs, join theater groups, appear on television, give presentations and make speeches, participate in neighborhood projects, and otherwise actively immerse themselves in the culture of the language they are learning.

For more details go to https://melikian.asu.edu/cli/

From http://www.sras.org/summer_programs_abroad_2018

The School of Russian and Asian Studies specializes in innovative study abroad programs in Eurasia. SRAS programs are available to undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, and "gap year" students. Previous language study is not required for most programs.

Check out the upcoming study abroad opportunities at http://www.sras.org/summer_programs_abroad_2018

From http://germansummerschool.unm.edu/

The Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico is a total immersion academic program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of The University of New Mexico, which simulates the experience of studying at a German-speaking university. The Sommerschule offers language courses, a lecture series central to the academic mission of the program, afternoon and evening elective courses taught by in house and guest faculty and an extensive selection of extra-curricular activities. Participants pledge to speak only German while at the Sommerschule.

The 2018 lectures center on Wechselwirkungen: Umwelt, Technologie und Kultur. The curriculum is further complemented by evening presentations and lectures featuring our visiting scholars, authors-in-residence, artists-in-residence, and guest lecturers. 

The 43rd annual session of the Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico will take place June 5 through July 6, 2018.

For more details go to http://germansummerschool.unm.edu/

From http://www.businessnorth.com/kuws_wisconsin_public_radio/wisconsin-educators-businesses-look-at-language-education/article_19ed2484-051b-11e8-af5c-d380b1e9b4f0.html

Wisconsin educators, businesses look at language education
By MARYLEE WILLIAMS
January 29, 2018

Better language education could help Wisconsin's global business competitiveness in the future. That's the idea that brought education and business leaders to the University Wisconsin-Madison on Friday.

The Wisconsin Language Summit was part of the two-year initiative that wants to figure out how languages can help business in the state. The Wisconsin Language Roadmap Initiative is funded from a U.S. Department of Defense grant.

...The Wisconsin Language Roadmap Initiative hopes to create a specific plan by 2019.

Read the full article at http://www.businessnorth.com/kuws_wisconsin_public_radio/wisconsin-educators-businesses-look-at-language-education/article_19ed2484-051b-11e8-af5c-d380b1e9b4f0.html

Learn more about the Wisconsin Language Roadmap Initiative at https://wisconsinlanguageroadmap.wiscweb.wisc.edu/about/