Events

This page lists symposia that have been sponsored by the Pike Center, with links to further details about each event and what it produced.

Future symposia

• May 1-3, 2024 — Working symposium on Sustaining Literacy in a Digital Age, Call for Papers

• June 12-14, 2024  — Public symposium on Sustaining Literacy in a Digital Age

• July 15-19 2024 — Working symposium on Evidence-Based Research in Language Program Assessment, Call for Papers

• Sept 19-25, 2024 — Public symposium on Evidence-Based Research in Language Program Assessment to be embedded within ILAC-8

2023 Nov 15-17 — Evidence-Based Research in Language Program Assessment

This exploratory symposium was held on Zoom with about 50 participants. See the Call for Participation for a description of the objectives and the  Proceedings for links to the concept papers, presentations, and archived video recordings. 

2023 Oct 13-17 — Quality in Translation: A Multi-Threaded Fabric

This public symposium was embedded within the Bible Translation Conference. The 14 papers presented can be downloaded as an ebook; drag the the price slider all the way to $0.00 to download for free.

2023 Sept 13-15 — Sustaining Literacy in a Digital Age

This exploratory symposium was held on Zoom with about 50 participants. See the Call for Participation for a description of the objectives and the  Program for links to the concept papers that were presented. 

2023 July 5-8 — Quality in Translation: A Multi-Threaded Fabric

This working symposium was an in-person event in Dallas, TX  involving 20 authors of the papers that were accepted in response to the Call for Papers that was issued as a result of the exploratory symposium. See the Program for the papers and authors; the completed papers will be published in an ebook and presented at the BT conference in October.

2022 Dec 7-10 — Quality in Translation

This exploratory symposium was held on Zoom with about 120 participants. See the Call for Participation for a description of the objectives and the  Program for links to the abstracts and concept papers and to archived recordings. 

2021 May 17-20 — Language and Human Flourishing

This working symposium was held on Zoom with about 30 participants. See the Call for Papers and the Program for the event. The proceedings were published in an ebook; drag the the price slider all the way to $0.00 to download for free.

2021 May 10-14 — Assessing Local Ownership of Language Development

This exploratory symposium was held on Zoom with about 70 participants. See the Call for Participation for a description of the objectives and the  Program for links to the concept papers and the results. 

2018 May 10-15 — Symposium: Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World

The first ever Pike Center symposium took place in Penang, Malaysia, as part of SIL International's 7th International Language Assessment Conference at which 125 participants gathered to consider the overall theme of “Understanding the Implications of Multilingualism.”  The symposium was jointly sponsored by SIL's MUSE Task Force and resulted in a book of 21 chapters.