Other conferences and academic activities in the region

• LingFest 2008 (30 June -11 July 2008): a series of six linguistics events to be held 30 June - 11 July 2008 at the University of Sydney, Australia.
• 4-ICOM (30 July - 1 August 2008): The Fourth International Conference on Multimodality, hosted by the Multimodal Analysis Lab directed by Kay O’Halloran at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• HCLS-C2 (13-15 August 2008): The 2nd HCLS Conference on Translation, Language Contact, and Multilingual Communication, organized by the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong.