International Conference

30 March to 1 April 2012 - International conference: 'Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction'.

Please click here to view the abstracts.

Please click here to view the schedule.

Please click here to view the timetable of the poster sessions.

We have 20 A0-sized display boards and therefore request that all posters be of A0-size, landscape or portrait, for optimal utilisation.

Keynote Speakers:

• Virginia Mueller Gathercole (ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism)
• Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country)
• Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa City)
• Sharon Peperkamp (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique)
• Durk Gorter (IkerBasque Foundation for Science)
• Guillaume Thierry (ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism)
• Tony Cline (University College London)
• Janet Werker (University of British Columbia)

The conference is intended to bring together specialists in bilingualism from various areas, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, bilingual and multilingual education, neuroscience (and others).

Fees and Booking:

Click here(doc), or here (pdf), for the booking form.

Delegate fee - £225
Student fee/BU fee - £199

Daily fee (Friday/Saturday) - £85
Daily Student fee/Daily BU fee - £75

Daily fee (Sunday) - £70
Sunday Student fee/Sunday BU fee - £65

For accommodation costs, please see booking form here(doc), or here (pdf).

Click here to view the conference dinner menu.

Travel:

Arriving by air - The closest airports are Manchester Airport and Liverpool John Lennon Airport, from which you can you can travel to Bangor by train (approx. 3½ hours or 2½ hours respectively).

There are also daily flights between Cardiff and Anglesey - see http://www.visitanglesey.co.uk/en-GB/by_air-188.aspx for more information (approx. 1 hour).

Arriving by train - Bangor Railway Station is only a 15 minute walk from the University, or a few minutes by taxi (approx. £3-£5). If you are traveling from London trains leave from Euston Station and traveling time is approx. 3½ hours. See http://www.nationalrail.co.uk.

Arriving by car - Please use this interactive map to calculate your route and approximate traveling time - http://g.co/maps/wt4dr (Google Maps). Simply click the ‘Get directions’ button and input your starting location/postcode. If you have a satellite navigation system in your car then please input the postcode destination as LL57 2DG.

Arriving by sea - There are frequent ferries from Ireland to the nearby port at Holyhead. Please see these websites for details http://www.irishferries.com & http://www.stenaline.com. It then takes 30 minutes to reach Bangor from Holyhead by train.

Parking: Car parking permits for the University car parks will be available from the Help Desk in the Main Arts' building during the conference. There will be a conference volunteer on duty in the Main Arts car park on Friday 30 March between 8.45am and 10:00am.

Accommodation:

The Management Centre (http://g.co/maps/9mvdz) and the Ffriddoedd site (http://g.co/maps/d4srj) are the two main accomodation sites for delegates. However there are various other hotels and bed & breakfast accommodation surrounding Bangor.

Click here to view details of other hotels and bed & breakfast accommodation.

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