Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Events

Gemma Moss: Taking numbers to task: Exploring PISA data on reading engagement

Date: 28 May 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm

At this joint event organised by the Literacy Research Discussion Group and the Language, Identity & Power Group at the Department of Linguistics, ... Read more»

CeMoRe Annual Research Day 2013

Date: 29 May 2013 Time: 9.30am to 5pm

The 2013 CeMoRe Research Day is an informal event at which staff and research students associated with CeMoRe can present and get feedback on their ... Read more»

PaSTY talk: The Networked Novel: social semiotic and cognitive approaches, by Paola Trimarco

Date: 29 May 2013 Time: 4.00-5.00 pm

The Networked Novel: social semiotic and cognitive approaches Paola Trimarco (University Campus Suffolk) Digital fictions, providi ... Read more»

UCREL CRS:

Date: 30 May 2013 Time: 2.00-3:00 pm

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar"To any count, to all counts, to what is man": finding patterns of gender in Early Modern playsHeather Froehlich (Univers ... Read more»

SLLAT presents: Diana Pili-Moss 'Effects of different feedback strategies on the improvement of morphological accuracy in spoken L2 Italian'

Date: 3 June 2013 Time: 04.00-05.30pm

Diana Pili-Moss, Manchester UniversityEffects of different feedback strategies on the improvement of morphological accuracy in spoken L2 ItalianQuasi- ... Read more»

UCREL CRS: Uncovering Complex Facts in Natural-language Documents

Date: 6 June 2013 Time: 2.00-3:00 pm

UCREL Corpus Research SeminarUncovering Complex Facts in Natural-language DocumentsColleen E. CrangleThis talk is about text data mining, specifically ... Read more»

Charles Bazerman: Intersections of Genre, Intertextuality, and Evidence in Academic Writing: Textual, Historical, Social, Cognitive, Theoretical, and Pedagogical

Date: 11 June 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm

The Literacy Research Discussion Group is pleased to welcome Charles Bazerman (University of California, Santa Barbara) who will be talking on: Int ... Read more»

LIP Talk: Bob Jeffery - The Absent Community: Conservative Interventionism and Simulated Engagement in a Splintering City

Date: 12 June 2013 Time: 5-6 pm

The Language, Ideology and Power (LIP) Research Group is pleased to welcome Bob Jeffery (Sheffield Hallam University) who will give a talk entitle ... Read more»

A-level English Language teachers day conference

Date: 21 June 2013 Time: 9.30 am - 4.30 pm

We are delighted to announce that the next conference for teachers of A Level English Language will take place on Friday 21st June 2013 at Lancaster U ... Read more»

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Sixth Form Conference

Date: 5 July 2013 Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Sixth Form Conference is designed to provide an engaging and enjoyable insight into what it's like to s ... Read more»

Lancaster Pragmatics Summer School: 30 Years of Pragmatics at Lancaster

Date: 13-14 July 2013 Time: 9.30am-5.00pm

Thirty years ago saw the publication of Geoffrey Leech's Principles of Pragmatics. To mark that event and the subsequent flowering of pragmatics at ... Read more»

8th Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching

Date: 15 July 2013 Time: 9.30am-5.00pm

The 8th Lancaster University International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching which will take place at Lancaster Unive ... Read more»

SLLAT presents: Nicole Ziegler (Georgetown University/University of Manoa) 'Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication and Interaction: Methods, practices, and outcomes'

Date: 16 July 2013 Time: 11.00-12..00 am

... Read more»

WACL-2 -- Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics

Date: 22 July 2013 Time: 9.00 am- 5.00 p.m.

The Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics isto be held in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics 2013 conference.The aim of this series of wor ... Read more»

Corpus Linguistics 2013

Date: 22 July 2013 Time:

The seventh international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2013) will be held at Lancaster University from Tuesday 23rd July 2013 to Friday 26th July ... Read more»

Study Start: 2-week intensive study skills course

Date: 16-27th September 2013 Time: 9.00 am - 4.00 pm

Study Start is a 2-week intensive study skills course designed to help international students get the best possible start for their degree a ... Read more»