Announcement

The 2nd International Online Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group Conference

13-16 November 2023

Dear Members,

The Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group is delighted to announce the second international online SFLIG Conference (SFLIG 2023 in short), co-hosted by The University of Tasmania and School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hongkong Polytechnic University (SPEED, PolyU).

Theme: Systemic Functional Linguistics research in a changing and challenging world

Convenors: Dr Vinh To (University of Tasmania, Australia) and Dr Eric Cheung, School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hongkong Polytechnic University (SPEED, PolyU).

Selected papers will be published in a special issue for Linguistics and the Human Sciences or in an Edited Book.

Plenary Speakers:

Professor Jonathan James Webster, City University of Hong Kong
Professor Maria Brisk, Boston College
Dr Anne McCabe, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
Assoc. Professor Shoshana Dreyfus, University of Wollongong
Dr Sally Humphrey, Australian Catholic University
Dr David Rose, University of Sydney
Dr Thu Ngo, University of New South Wales

Organising Committee:

Dr Dongbing (Mus) Zhang, University of International Business and Economics
Dr. Jacqueline Nenchin, Molloy University
Dr Kathryn Accurso, the University of British Columbia
Dr Isaac N. Mwinlaaru, University of Cape Coast
Dr Marta Filipe Alexandre, Polytechnic of Leiria
Dr Winfred Xuan, Hongkong Metropolitan University
Dr Margo Van Poucke, Macquarie University
Dr Patrick Mannion, US State Department
Dr Angela Thomas, University of Tasmania
Dr Tai Huynh, Tra Vinh University
Vinh Nguyen, University of Tasmania

Academic Committee:

Professor Jonathan James Webster
Dr. Jacqueline Nenchin
Dr Marta Filipe Alexandre
Dr Thomas Amundrud
Dr Winfred Xuan
Dr Sally Humphrey
Dr Shoshana Dreyfus
Dr Yaegan Doran
Dr Thu Ngo
Dr Anne McCabe
Professor Maria Brisk
Dr Dongbing (Mus) Zhang

Dr Isaac N. Mwinlaaru
Dr Alison Moore
Assoc. Prof Helen Caple
Dr Emilia Djonov
Dr Angela Thomas

We are still in the process of inviting more scholars to join our academic committee. If you are interested and have the capacity to support us with the evaluation of abstract and/or full paper submissions, please provide your details at the following link and we will be in touch. Thank you!

EOI: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVA9gq1zoVd9tCMrPrwFuiK4_txdOqxjq-IF0CKnU54nlTnw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Link to the EOI (for colleagues in China): https://www.wjx.cn/vm/ezmzYXR.aspx#

SFLIG 2023 Intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw77bm4b3_I