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1. There’s a TeachingEnglish Facebook Live event, Empowering Women in ELT, with Grazzia Maria Mendoza Chirinos & Leticia Araceli Salas Serrano tomorrow, Friday 8^th March, International Women’s Day, at 15:00 UK time https://www.facebook.com/events/761275018755247

And below is another copy of the book they co-authored (that I shared first time round back in November), Empowered Women in ELT: A Collection of Worldwide Stories

2. The next NATESOL event at 16:00 UK time on Wednesday, 13^th March, Harnessing language learning motivation and investment through a writing project, is a presentation by Dario Banegas of the main takeaways from an action research-based project carried out with teenage learners in Argentina.

Can we promote language learning motivation and investment through writing? Yes! More info and registration here https://www.natesol.org/ and copy of flyer below.

3. The Geneva Convention states that no “protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.”

Here’s Devi Sridhar from Edinburgh University on the collective punishment (my term, not hers) currently being inflicted on Palestinians, I asked public health colleagues about starvation in Gaza. They say there is no precedent for what is happening https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/06/colleagues-starvation-gaza-no-precedent-famine

More on collective punishment from Kevin Jon Heller of Copenhagen University here https://opiniojuris.org/2023/10/24/a-short-history-of-the-war-crime-of-collective-punishment/

4. Here’s Richard Smith’s talk for the Durbeen Online Research Expo last month, Innovation and Educational Research: with what (sustained) value for teachers?, in which he questions the received wisdom that innovation is in itself always a good thing https://www.facebook.com/durbeenPK/videos/1519978448858561

5. Here’s the TeachingEnglish schedule for March https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/community/top-stories/march-2024-knowing-subject

and here’s a wonderfully comprehensive list from Jessica Mackay of the University of Barcelona, CPD Opportunities Spring 2024 https://eim-ub.blogspot.com/2024/03/cpd-opportunities-spring-2024.html#more

NB! There’s several events in Jessica’s list that are happening this week!

6. And, finally, jazz ‘kissa’ in Tokyo https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/05/one-kissa-is-all-it-takes-tokyos-finest-jazz-haunts-in-pictures The Haruki Murakami novel, ‘South of the Border, West of the Sun’, is the closest I’ve got to a ‘kissa’ – alas!