Special Events

3rd Colloquium on Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Assumptions in SFL

hosted by Lise Fontaine (Cardiff University)

1st Colloquium on Multimodal Literacies

hosted by Volker Eisenlauer (University of Klagenfurt)

Roundtable on The Wherefrom and Whereto of SFL in Italy and the World – with a Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century 

chaired by Maria Freddi (University of Pavia)

with Paul Bayley, Marina Bondi, Donna R. Miller, Carol Taylor Torsello, Chris Taylor, Nicoletta Vasta, Robin Fawcett

Geoff Thompson ESFLA Young Scholar Bursary

awarded by Anne McCabe, ESFLA Chair

Current Ph.D. students whose sole-authored papers have been accepted for the conference may apply for the Geoff Thompson ESFLA Young Scholar Bursary. The bursary covers the conference fee for one awardee; it also covers his/her travel + accommodation up to €200 (receipts must be provided).

To apply, send

– the conference acceptance email
– the title and abstract of the paper as they are to appear in the program (as a Word document, with no name or identifying marks)
– an accompanying explanation of how the proposed paper furthers the work of Geoff Thompson (also as a Word document, with no name or identifying marks)
– proof of current Ph.D. status

by March 1, 2018 to the ESFLA Chair (esfla-chair@esfla.org). The GT Bursary awardee will be notified by March 20th.

Please send any queries about the bursary to the ESFLA Chair as well.