CALL FOR PAPERS

Language plays a broad range of essential roles in society and institutions with diverse needs, aspirations, cultures, traditions, and practices while linguistics offers numerous approaches to the study of how communities, groups and individuals interact or communicate with one another. To promote the importance of language learning, facilitate our understanding of languages, and broaden our knowledge of linguistics, we are organising the International Conference on Languages, Linguistics and Society in Sabah, Malaysia, which is well known for its multi-ethnic and multi-cultural identity.

The upcoming conference will look into various issues of both global and local concerns especially in relation to the use and learning of different languages. This conference covers topics pertaining to applied linguistics and theoretical linguistics in various institutional, social, and cultural contexts. The conference also welcomes presentations based on studies conducted from inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives, involving research into language/s in different academic disciplines. We hope to provide an interesting platform for researchers, academics, instructors, language practitioners, policy makers, postgraduate candidates, and members of the public to share knowledge and engage in meaningful interactions.

Objectives

We aim to

1. investigate, discuss, and exchange ideas related to the learning and/or use of language in institutional, social and/or cultural settings,
2. explore the benefits of cross-disciplinary studies involving linguistics, and
3. examine the theoretical and/or practicalimplications of new ideas, perspectives, theories, and recommendations concerning different approaches to language teaching and/or language analysis.

For more info, please visit http://iclalis2013.blogspot.com/

Malaria is a life-threatening disease that has frightening statistics worldwide.  World Health Organization (WHO) reports show more than 200 million malaria cases globally each year, and about 30 million cases and 42,000 lives lost in India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately many of the infected victims are poor, who become too sick to work and care for their families. The economic impact on the underdeveloped countries is also significant, as the cost of preventing and treating the disease can be high.
 
Nevertheless, malaria is both preventable and treatable. Much research has been carried on the control and treatment of malaria, but the progress is continually being threatened by new challenges such as emergence of drug resistance, new malaria species affecting man, movement of people within and across borders and global warming effects on the mosquito vector population.  
 
Sabah in Malaysia has the highest number of cases of  Plasmodium Knowlesi in SE Asia, the so-called 5th malaria species that infects man. It is thus a good place to hold this conference, so participants can share their experiences and contribute new ideas to help control this malaria species in this region.

OBJECTIVES
The International Malaria Symposium 2013 aims :

• To  bring eminent malaria scientists from diverse background to this region so that they can share their  experiences. Speakers will highlight the latest advances in malaria epidemiology, vector biology and ecology, parasitology, immunology, genomics, novel vaccine strategies  and mathematical modelling.
• To provide a forum for discussion of the latest findings  on malaria research. The ensuing discussions will consider the relevance of these advances to malaria control, treatment, and elimination.
• To foster cooperation among malariologists and hopefully  this will lead to future collaborative research,
• To strengthen the regional political commitment and responses to malaria in order to reduce the number of deaths from malaria in our region.

Download programme pamphlet for further details:

{phocadownload view=file|id=45}

Visit our official website for more info: www.ums.edu.my/conferences/IMS2013