Past International Systemic Functional Workshops & Congresses
The name has changed over the years. From the first meeting in 1974
until 1981, the meeting was called the Systemic Workshop, and
all
of these meetings were held in Britain. In 1982, the first
meeting
outside of England was held, in Toronto. For this reason, the meeting
was
retitled the International Systemic Workshop. This name held
for
6 years. Attendance at meetings was increasing however, and the
original
predomination of workshops was giving way to straight presentations.
For
the 1988 meeting we decided to recognise the changing nature of the
meeting
by renaming it the International Systemic Congress. Four years
later,
the title was changed to International Systemic Functional Congress,
as a need to reflect the functional nature of SFL was felt.
In terms of rotation, the first 8 meetings were held in England.
After
that, a rough rotation started with every second meeting held away from
the UK. Eventually a rough cycle of Europe-Australia-North America
evolved,
but with frequent "drop ins" by new Systemic centres in Asia. We are
now
working on a rough 4 year cycle of Europe-Asia-Australia-NA. However,
as
Systemics grows in other sites, the cycle is expanding. In 2006,
the first meeting in Latin America will be held in Brazil. It will not
be long before the first African meeting.
T The meetings, their location (and convenor where known) are as follows (as collected by Nan Fries and amended by Jim Martin):
- 1st SW (1974) West Midlands College, Walsall, UK (Robin Fawcett)
- 2nd SW (1975) University of Essex, Colchester, UK (Michael O'Toole)
- 3rd SW (1976) Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK (Margaret Berry)
- 4th SW (1977) Hatfield Polytechnic, Hatfield, UK (Eugene Winter or Geoff Turner?)
- 5th SW (1978) University of East Anglia, Norwich, England (William Downes)
- 6th SW (1979) University of Wales, Institute of Science & Technology (UWIST), Cardiff, Wales, UK (Robin Fawcett and David Young)
- 7th SW (1980) University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK (Tony Lyne)
- 8th SW (1981) Birmingham University, Birmingham, UK (Robin Fawcett & Margaret Berry)
- 9th ISW (1982) York University, Toronto, Canada (Jim Benson, Bill Greaves)
- 10th ISW (1983) University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (Margaret Berry.)
- 11th ISW (1984) Stirling University, Stirling, UK (Martin Davies)
- 12th ISW (1985) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (Richard Bailey)
- 13th ISW (1986) University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK (Robert Veltman)
- 14th ISW (1987) University of Sydney, Australia (Jim Martin)
- 15th ISC (1988) Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA (Ruth Brend, Peter Fries)
- 16th ISC (1989) University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (Eija Ventola)
- 17th ISC (1990) Stirling University, Stirling, Scotland, UK (Martin Davies)
- 18th ISC (1991) International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan (Fred Peng)
- 19th ISC (1992) Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (Ruqaiya Hasan)
- 20th ISFC (1993) University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada (Bernie Mohan, Gordon Fulton)
- 21st ISFC (1994) University of Ghent, Belgium (Ann Marie Simon-Vanderbergen)
- 22nd ISFC (1995) Peking University, Beijing, China (Hu Zhuanglin)
- 23rd ISFC (1996) University of Technology (UTS), Sydney, Australia (Di Slade)
- 24th ISFC (1997) York University, Toronto, Canada (Jim Benson, Bill Greaves)
- 25th ISFC (1998) University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK (Robin Fawcett and Gordon Tucker)
- 26th ISFC (1999) National University of Singapore, Singapore (Joe Foley)
- 27th ISFC (2000) University of Melbourne, Australia (Fran Christie)
- 28th ISFC (2001) Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (Lynne Young)
- 29th ISFC (2002) University of Liverpool, UK (Geoff Thompson)
- 30th ISFC (2003) Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Lucknow, India (V.Prakasam, R.D.Akella, B.Mallikarjun)
- 31st ISFC (2004) Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan (Masa-aki Tatsuki, Hisao Kakehi, Wendy Bowcher)
- 32nd ISFC (2005) Sydney University, Sydney, Australia (Jim Martin)
- 33rd ISFC (2006) Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (Leila Barbara)
- 34th ISFC (2007) University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (Uwe Helm Petersen)
- 35th ISFC (2008) Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (Christian Matthiessen)
- 36th ISFC (2009) Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Fang Yan)
- 37th ISFC (2010) University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (Geoff Williams)
- 38th ISFC (2011) University of Lisbon, Portugal (Carlos Gouveia)
- 39th ISFC (2012) University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia (Sue Hood)
- 40th ISFC (2013) Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China (Huang Guowen)
- 41st ISFC (2014) National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina (Cristina Boccia et al.)
- 42nd ISFC (2015) Aachen University, Aachen, Germany (Stella Neumann et al.)
- 43rd ISFC (2016) Indonesia University of Education, Bandung, Indonesia (Emi Emila)
- 44th ISFC (2017) University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia (Pauline Jones)
- 45th ISFC (2018) Boston College, Boston, USA (Maria Brisk)
- 46th ISFC (2019) Pontifical Catholic University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile (Teresa Oteíza)
- (No conference in 2020, 2021 due to COVID)
- 47th ISFC (2022) Shenzhen University, China (Alex Peng & Geoff Williams)
- 48th ISFC (2023) Sousse, Tunisia (Akila Sellami Baklouti)
- 49th ISFC (2024) University of NSW, Sydney, Australia (Mira Kim, Peter White)