Baha'i Language Educators SIG Call for Papers

[Sandra Fotos]

(please pass this on to any interested colleagues!)

The Baha'i Language Educators (BLE) Special Interest Group (SIG) of 
the Association for Baha'i Studies, North America invites you to 
submit proposals for presentations, workshops, colloquia or 
roundtable activities for its annual meeting at the annual ABS 
conference to be held 3-6 September 2004, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 
Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The SIG meeting will be on Friday, 
September 3.

Please visit the ABS website for conference information: www.bahai-studies.ca.

Presentations may be on any theme integrating Baha'i principles and 
concepts with instruction, curriculum design, materials development, 
classroom participation patterns, intercultural studies, mentoring, 
computer assisted language learning (CALL), web page design, 
translation, literature, and other topics involving language 
education. Talks should be 20 minutes in length, including 10 minutes 
for questions.

Please send proposals to Sandy Fotos [EMAIL PROTECTED], SIG 
Coordinator, with copies to Dara Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED], Program 
and Newsletter, and Joy Allchin, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Membership and 
Newsletter.

The afternoon program again includes the very popular Roundtable on 
Baha'i Inspired Materials. Participants are invited to share 
classroom activities based implicitly or explicitly on Baha'i 
principles. Presentations should be 10 minutes in length and be 
accompanied by a handout of the activity and teaching guidelines. 
Activities may be for any language, grade or ability level, and will 
be uploaded to our website after the conference. If you are 
interested in sharing your favorite classroom activity with other 
language professionals, please contact Dara Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with your proposal!

If you are interested in joining this dedicated group of Baha'i 
language professionals around the world, please contact Joy Allchin 
[EMAIL PROTECTED].

Visit our website for papers given at previous sig meetings, 
newsletters, downloadable activities for language teaching, and a 
menu of links of interest to language professionals: 
http://ble-sig.org/

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ABS Philosophy SIG Call for Papers

[Ian Kluge]

Call for Philosophy SIG Papers

ABS Conference, September 3-6,2004
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

The Philosophy Special Interest group (SIG) of the Association for Baha'i
Studies seeks short presentations or full length papers on any topic
relating to the philosophical study of the Baha'i Writings. Philosophically
oriented papers on the conference theme, Spirit and Intellect: Advancing
Civilization, are also of great interest.

All presentations will be made at the Philosophy SIG meeting to be held on
Friday, September 3, 2004.

Presentations should be no more than 60 minutes. Speakers may wish to
include a question period in their time. If possible, try to bring copies of
your presentation or a summary of it; audiences greatly appreciate this.
Should you require special A-V equipment, please advise us as soon as
possible.

Up to an hour will also be set aside for further organizational development
of the SIG. Some possible topics are a formal membership list, a web site to
post papers or summaries and a discussion list.

Last year's presenters were William Hatcher on his book Minimalism: A
Bridge between Classical Philosophy and the Baha'i Revelation; Susan Brill
de Ramirez on Wittgenstein and the Writings, and Ian Kluge on Baha'i
Existentialism (Heidegger and Marcel).

Please send proposals and/or papers to Ian Kluge ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SIG Convenor

Best wishes,

Ian Kluge


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