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Osaka Chapter Events in 2007

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Saturday, May 19th, 2007

"From a Silk Cocoon", viewing the award winning film with its co-writer and director.

Speaker: Satsuki Ina - California State Univ., Sacramento
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Sat., May 19th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Takatsuki
Venue: 1 minute from JR Takatsuki Station, at the Sogo Shimin Koryu Center http://www.city.takatsuki.osaka.jp/db/kurasu/db4-koryu.html
Description: Dr. Ina is a cross-cultural psychotherapist who was born in the U.S. internment camps during World War II and who made the Emmy award-winning docudrama about her family's heartbreaking story of their incarceration. Although the events of this story happened over 60 years ago, the issues of loyalty, nationality, racial profiling, and personal liberties during times of war remain with us today in the post-9/11 world.

After viewing this compelling and widely acclaimed film (57 min.) we'll have ample time for questions and discussion.

For more information please see http://www.fromasilkcocoon.com/ or www.osakajalt.org

Osaka JALT is proud to co-sponsor this event with The Nikkei Gathering and SIETAR Kansai.

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Tech Day 2007

Speaker: Tom Robb, Myles Grogan, Gordon Wilson, Leon Bell, and more
Time: 12:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Sun., June 10th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Matsubara
Venue: Hannan University main campus - a 5-minute walk north of Kintetsu Kawachi-Amami station (15 minutes south of Tennoji/Abeno station) http://www.hannan-u.ac.jp/english/other/map.html
Description: This is our 3rd annual Tech Day event at Hannan University!

Tom Robb (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.) Making Quizzes with Moodle

Myles Grogan (Momoyama Gakuin Univ.) Using Excel for class activities

Leon Bell (Momoyama Gakuin Univ.) Preparing students for the TOEFL iBT test using non-networked technology

Gordon Wilson (Hannan Univ.) The Future of Computing in Language Learning

There will also be a "My Share" time for all who attend to share favorite websites and tech-related ideas.

Dinner afterwards at the superb Italian restaurant Naomi Amore!!

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Gender and Leadership: Some Socio-Pragmatic Considerations

Speaker: Professor Janet Holmes of Victoria University, New Zealand
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Sat., October 6th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): Member or Students 1,000 per day or 1,500 for two days
Fee (One-Day members): 1,500 per day or 2,000 for two days
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: Temple University Japan, Osaka: Osaka Ekimae Bldg 3, 21st Floor, tel: 06-6343-0005 http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/maps/osaka.html
Description: Professor Holmes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and teaches Sociolinguistics, specialising in language in the workplace, New Zealand English, and language and gender issues. She was Director of the project which produced the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English, and is currently Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project. She has published on a range of sociolinguistic and pragmatic topics, including New Zealand English, New Zealand women's usage, sexist language, pragmatic particles and hedges, compliments, apologies, disagreement, humour and small talk, and other aspects of workplace discourse. Her most recent books are the Blackwell Handbook of Language and Gender, co-edited with Miriam Meyerhoff, and Power and Politeness in the Workplace, co-authored with Maria Stubbe.

For more about Professor Holmes: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/staff/janet-holmes/holmes.aspx

This event is proudly co-sponsored by the GALE and Pragmatics SIGs as well as Osaka Chapter.

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Gender & Beyond: a mini-conference of the GALE SIG, co-sponsored by Osaka Chapter and JALT's GILE, Pragmatics, CUE, Teacher Education, and PALE SIGs, as well as the Pragmatics Society of Japan

Speaker: Janet Holmes of Victoria University in New Zealand, and many more
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Sun., October 7th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): Member or Students 1,000 per day or 1,500 for two days
Fee (One-Day members): 1500 per day or 2000 for two days
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Suita
Venue: Kansai University, Senriyama Campus, Iwasaki Kinenkan, http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/English/mapsenri.html
Description: Various presentations, discussions, and workshops on a wide range of themes will be held as well as a closing panel discussion led by Professor Holmes.

For more details see http://gale-sig.org or http://www.Osakajalt.org

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Kansai ETJ Expo

Speaker: David Paul, Grant Trew, Kaj Schwermer, Kim Horne, Marcos Benevides, Trent Spriggs, Tanja McCandie, Tom Kenny, Lesley Ito, Matthew Walsh, Jill Bruellman, Jason Good, Akiko Seino, Michael Hood, and more
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM (Sun., November 11th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen for JALT and ETJ members
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: Seifu Gakuen High School, 12-16 Ishigatsuji-cho, Tennoji-ku, Tel. (06) 6771-5757 http://www.seifu.ac.jp
Description: There will be presentations and materials for college teachers, high school teachers. elementary school teachers, kindergarten teachers. In fact, the aim is to provide top-class presentations and material displays for every kind of English teacher. Doors open at 9:00 am, presentations start at 10:00 am.

Look for the JALT table at the Expo to learn more about JALT. Osaka JALT will hold it's annual meeting with officer elections at the Expo from 10:30 to 12:00 as well, so plan to attend to learn more and to find out how you can get more involved.

Supervised childcare will be available at the Expo, so feel free to bring kids. For more information see http://www.etjkansai.com/Site/Expo.html .

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Osaka Chapter Bonenkai at Namba Parks Saijiki restaurant

Speaker: It's a party!
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Sat., December 15th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): Same
Fee (One-Day members): About 2000 yen or more, depending on drinks
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: Saijiki natural healthy buffet restaurant, on the 6th floor of Namba Parks. http://r.gnavi.co.jp/k462222/
Description: Help us ring out 2007 and get ready for 2008 at Saijiki restaurant at the new Namba Parks for a 90-minute all you can eat buffet of healthy Japanese traditional food in a beautiful smoke-free environment. The cost is about 2000 yen including soft drinks, more if you're drinking alcohol. For menu and map see http://r.gnavi.co.jp/k462222/

Drop us an email at osakajalt@yahoo.com so we can reserve you a seat with us. The brand new Namba Parks has plenty of places for after-party partying (see http://www.nambaparks.com/index2.html ), so even if you can't make it by 7:00 be sure to contact us and join us when you can. It's sure to be a great time!

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