The 6th Annual International Free Linguistics Conference will be held in the Eastern Avenue Auditorium Complex, on Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus in 2012.

The aim of this conference is to provide scholars, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students with current research issues from all fields of linguistics & TESOL an open and widely accessible forum.

The conference is free due to generous sponsorship from the University of Sydney.

The main feature that distinguishes this conference is its focus on freedom:

• freedom from linguistic subfield divisions;
• freedom from an established and rigid theme for presentations, and;
• freedom from fees.

Focus speakers will include:

Karl Maton, University of Sydney

Shirley Dita, De La Salle University

Ghil'ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide

With more to be confirmed

There will also be a performance of ‘Reading Mandela: Genre Pedagogy versus Ancient Rhetoric’ written by Rob McCormack

Proceedings

There will be a proceedings to be published from this year's Free Linguistics Conference. All presenters will be emailed following the conference with information and you will then be asked to submit your paper within a deadline to be announced.

Previous proceedings can be found at the following links:

'Questioning Linguistics' (from FLC2007) http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Questioning-Linguistics1-84718-667-X.htm

'Appliable Linguistics' (from FLC2008) http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=157221&SubjectId=...

Mahboob, A. & Knight, N. (2010). Guest editors of the special issue featuring selected papers presented at the Free Linguistics Conference 2009. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Vol 4.1. (http://www.equinoxjournals.com/LHS/issue/view/841) In addition to this volume, other papers presented at FLC are also published in the regular issues of LHS.

A special issue of 'Linguistics and the Human Sciences' is in preparation. This issue will publish selected papers from FLC 2010. For more information on the journal, see http://www.equinoxjournals.com/LHS.