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From https://cla.auburn.edu/MIFLC/call-for-papers/

The Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference invites you to attend its 69th annual meeting at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama during October 10-12, 2019. Submissions of abstracts are welcome in the following languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish.

Submission deadline April 19, 2019.

View the full call for papers at https://cla.auburn.edu/MIFLC/call-for-papers/

From https://www.gc.cuny.edu

Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education Symposium
The CUNY Graduate Center
New York 
May 2, 2019

The symposium is an opportunity for scholars, practitioners, administrators, and students to engage in conversations about the ways in which multilingualism shapes access to higher education and to start collaborative projects such as scholarly publications, teaching materials, and educational programs. Students are particularly welcome. 
 
The symposium is free; however, registration is required for lunch. The deadline for registration is April 26th. 

For full details, go to https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/Institute-for-Language-Education-in-Transcultural-Context/ILETC-Events/Spring-2019-ILETC-Events/Linguistic-Diversity-in-Higher-Education-Symposium

National Association for Bilingual Education 5th Annual Dual Language Symposium
June 27-29, 2019
Carolina, Puerto Rico

This is a professional development opportunity for teachers, researchers, school system and university administrators and Title III Directors from across the country and from Puerto Rico.
 
There will be presentations from experts in the field of Dual Language Education, a panel discussion, cultural immersion activities, and exhibitor offerings, as well as networking opportunities during breakfast, breaks and lunch.
 
Participants will also receive a Dual Language Toolkit with resources that they can use in the classroom.
 
Visit the symposium website at http://www.nabe-dls.com/index.html

From https://www.puliima.com

PULiiMA 2019
Indigenous Languages and Technology Conference
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
August 19-22

PULiiMA Indigenous Language and Technology Conference is a biennial event aimed at bringing people together from all over Australia and internationally to explore pioneering project ideas and exciting products and equipment that can be used in community based Indigenous languages projects. The conference allows people to network with an inspirational group of people who all share a common ambition of preserving and celebrating the languages of your country.

Registration is now open: https://www.puliima.com/register

From https://theawla.wildapricot.org/events

The Alabama World Language Association will be sponsoring the following professional development events in the coming months, open to AWLA members and guests:

An IPA Everyday
June 18-19
IPAs (Integrated Performance Assessments) reflect basic, realistic human language in use in the world. Instructors already have access to resources to create meaningful, articulated, integrated sequences of interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational activities. Use those resources for quick, motivating, formative student learning every day.

How to Teach with Authentic Media
June 19
Once of the core practices for effective language teaching is using authentic materials. In this session, a five-step scaffolded approach to modifying the tasks at each level of instruction will be presented. This approach will allow all students to experience success with authentic “text”. The focus will be primarily on audio and video. 

Proficiency, Technology, Brain Breaks, and More!
June 26
Come learn how to increase student engagement, streamline classroom management and build a safe classroom community through the use of technology tools and brain breaks in a proficiency-oriented classroom!

Spanish Immersion Workshop
July 1-3
AWLA Member Dr. Leonor Vázquez-González, PhD will host a 3-day immersion workshop for Spanish teachers focusing on the Dominican Republic.

Comprehensible Input in the Classroom
July 10
How do I build a student-driven, communicative, comprehensible-input curriculum? Come to Mobile and find out. Topics covered include 
a. how to teach vocabulary and structures with minimum instruction. 
b. how to engage Novice-low/mid students with personalized interviews
c. How to Do A Picture Talk with a Class Novel or Cultural Piece of Realia!

For more details about all of these upcoming opportunities, go to https://theawla.wildapricot.org/events

From https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/04/05/language-crucial-to-accurate-census/

Language Magazine is calling on language educators to help ensure that limited-English speakers take part in the census with the campaign Count on Me! — Campaign for an Accurate 2020 Census. Educators are trusted by limited-English-speaking minorities, making them the ideal messengers.

Language Magazine is producing guides to help teachers explain the importance of taking part in Census 2020 and the guarantee that the information will not be shared.

Learn more about the Count on Me campaign and access the guides (currently available in English, with more languages to be added soon) at https://www.languagemagazine.com/CountOnMe/. 

If you would like to help with this campaign, especially by helping with translations into less commonly taught languages, please contact dan@languagemagazine.com at Language Magazine.

From http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/persian-manuscripts-spanning-700-years-now-digitized-and-available-online.html

700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized and Available Online
April 5, 2019

For Nowruz, the Persian New Year, the Library of Congress has released a digital collection of its rare Persian-language manuscripts, an archive spanning 700 years. This free resource opens windows on diverse religious, national, linguistic, and cultural traditions, most, but not all, Islamic, yet all different from each other in complex and striking ways.

Read more about the collection at http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/persian-manuscripts-spanning-700-years-now-digitized-and-available-online.html, and access it at https://www.loc.gov/collections/persian-language-rare-materials/about-this-collection/

In the second episode of the Foreign Language Pedagogy Podcast, Richard Robin, professor of Russian at George Washington university and the author of the famous textbook Golosa, discusses a number of topics related to language teaching and testing, such as:
- strategies to cultivate learner autonomy,
- when plagiarism and cheating can be good for language learning,
- five-minute declension quizzes and the reasons Professor Robin believes in learner-centered homework, not learner- centered classroom;
- using ACTFL guidelines and OPIs for teaching and testing;
- effective test-taking strategies and what one needs to do to achieve Superior or Distinguished level of proficiency, and many others.

Access the podcast at https://www.teachrussian.org/Materials/fe4ec506-2857-411b-b2d6-4984bc99bc53/robin-podcast.html?lang=en