[Peace] FYI: Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World

[jbpeyton at illinois.edu]

In case anyone's interested, uiuc is hosting summer intensive courses in languages of the Muslim World.  One of the instructors asked me to send the information out to lists that might contain potentially interested people:


The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with the European Union Center, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for African Studies, CIBER and the Center for Global Studies is pleased to host the Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW) in summer 2009 (June 15-August 6, 2009). Application deadline is April 30, 2009.

SILMW will offer intensive courses in a variety of Muslim World languages, including Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Swahili.

SILMW provides a unique opportunity to explore the languages and cultures of the Muslim World and interact with experts in this region. In addition to classroom instruction, SILMW will offer a variety of extracurricular activities designed to enhance classroom instruction, provide additional channels for language contact and practice, and expose learners to the traditions of the Muslim World communities. These extracurricular activities include research forums, conversation hours, cooking demonstrations, music, film showings, and other cultural activities.


The SILMW at UIUC is being organized by Abdulkafi Albirini (Director), Ercan Balci, Abbas Benmamoun, Peyman Nojoumian, and Peter Otiato, from the Department of Linguistics.


Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or like to get more information about SILMW.


http://silmw.linguistics.uiuc.edu/index.html
Ercan BALCI, Ph.D.
Turkish Program Coordinator
Lecturer of Turkish

Linguistics Department, UIUC
4114 Foreign Languages Building
707 S. Matthews Urbana IL.
Office Tel. no.: (217)244-3058
Email: ebalci at illinois.edu