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Educational Research
LRDG: Critical ethnographic research of literacy practices used in youth community-based organisations in Québec: what ethical concerns?
Date: 5 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm
Virginie Thériault, Lancaster University, will be speaking on:General ethical principles such as informed consent, confidentiality, participants' ph ... Read more»
LRDG: The discursive construction of communities in social media
Date: 12 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm
Caroline Tagg, University of Birmingham, will be speaking on: On social media, which is predicated on notions of connectedness and the establishment ... Read more»
LRDG: Reading and discussion session "Writing as sociolinguistic object"
Date: 19 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm
This week's session is a reading and discussion session, led by Tony Capstick, Lancaster University. The reading is: Blommaert, J. (2012). Writing ... Read more»
Seminar Series - "Build me a role model!" A critical exploration of the perceived qualities/characteristics of men in the early years (0-8)
Date: 20 March 2013 Time: 12.30 - 2.00 p.m.
Dr Simon Brownhill, Senior Teaching Associate, University of Cambridge "Build me a role model!" A critical exploration of the perceived qualities/c ... Read more»
LRDG: Bronwyn Williams: Finding a Way In: Literacy, Popular Culture, and Points of Participation
Date: 7 May 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm
Bronwyn Williams, Professor of English, Director, University Writing Center University of Louisville/Kentucky:Whether on computers or mobile device ... Read more»
Seminar Series - Dr John Potter, awaiting title
Date: 29 May 2013 Time: 12.30 - 2.00 p.m.
Dr John Potter London Knowledge Lab Department of Culture, Communication and Media Institute of Education University of London awai ... Read more»
English and Creative Writing
English and Creative Writing: Departmental Research Seminars
Date: 6 March 2013 Time: 5.00 pm
Wednesday 6th MarchJanet Clare (University of Hull) '"Buried in the Open Fields": Ofelia and Early Modern Suicide' 5pm, County Main Seminar Room 4. Al ... Read more»
English and Creative Writing, Book Launch Event
Date: 13 March 2013 Time: 5.00 pm
Wednesday 13th MarchDepartmental Book Launch event with Kamilla Elliott and Jenn Ashworth 5pm, County Main Seminar Room 4. All Welcome ... Read more»
Creative Writing - 30th Anniversary Event
Date: 1 May 2013 Time: 6.00 pm
Celebrating 30 years of Creative Writing at Lancaster.Further details will be announced shortly. ... Read more»
Visit by Paul Muldoon
Date: 7-8 May 2013 Time:
The Departments of English and Creative Writing and Linguistics and English Language will be jointly hosting a two-day visit by Paul Muldoon.Further d ... Read more»
English and Creative Writing: Open Postgraduate Seminar
Date: 13 May 2013 Time: 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Professor Terry Eagleton (Lancaster) 'The Event of Literature 1: What is Literature?' ... Read more»
English and Creative Writing: Open Postgraduate Seminar
Date: 14 May 2013 Time: 10.00 am-12.00 pm
Professor Terry Eagleton (Lancaster): 'The Event of Literature 2: The English Novel'. ... Read more»
Terry Eagleton Undergraduate Lecture
Date: 14 May 2013 Time: 1.00 pm
Professor Terry Eagleton's lecture for ENGL 100: English Literature'On Postmodernism'. ... Read more»
English and Creative Writing: Open Postgraduate Seminar
Date: 15 May 2013 Time: 10.00 am-12.00 pm
Professor Terry Eagleton (Lancaster): 'The Event of Literature 3'. ... Read more»
English and Creative Writing: Public Lecture
Date: 27 May 2013 Time: 6.00 pm
Further details of this lecture will be posted shortly. ... Read more»
English and Creative Writing: Departmental Research Seminars
Date: 28 May 2013 Time: 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Research Seminar with Simon Critchley ... Read more»
One-Day Symposium with Simon Critchley
Date: 29 May 2013 Time: 9.00 am-5.30 pm
This one-day symposium with Simon Critchley will include a lecture by Terry Eagleton on 'Jesus and Tragedy'.More details will follow shortly. ... Read more»
European Languages and Cultures
Cultural Translation in Popular Music
Date: 12 April 2013 Time: 09.00-18.00
Allyson Fiddler and Nick Hodgin are both delivering papers at this event on popular music. The conference aims to discuss 'the role of cultural tr ... Read more»
History
Right-Wing Populism
Date: 8 March 2013 Time: 14:00-16:00
Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Erasmushogeschool Brussel) "The Rhetoric of the Flemish Populist Radical Right Party Vlaams Blo ... Read more»
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, 'The normalization of war in Israeli discourse 1967-2008'
Date: 14 March 2013 Time: 17:00-18:00
My first motivation in this lecture is to describe life in reality of repetitive wars from the perspective of Israeli citizen. I would like to expl ... Read more»
Conference: Private Identities, Private Spaces
Date: 14 - 15 May 2013 Time:
This conference addresses the themes of space, identity, domesticity, gender, position, role, material culture, instruction, emotion and privacy. Them ... Read more»
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Film research seminar: Dr Brian Baker: 'Ringway Split': Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair's London Orbital (2002)
Date: 7 March 2013 Time: 4.00 pm
Dr Brian Baker from Lancaster University's English and Creative Writing dept. will be speaking on London Orbital (2002), a film by writer Iain Sinclai ... Read more»
Law
Religious Interest Groups in Irish Bioethics Debates
Date: 6 March 2013 Time: 2.00 pm
Dr Sorcha Ui Chonnachtaigh ( University of Keele), research interests fall into two main categories: ethics, particularly bioethics, and justice and e ... Read more»
Right-Wing Populism
Date: 8 March 2013 Time: 14:00-16:00
Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Erasmushogeschool Brussel) "The Rhetoric of the Flemish Populist Radical Right Party Vlaams Blo ... Read more»
Law - Work in Progress - Easton and O'Cuinn
Date: 13 March 2013 Time: 12 noon
Catherine Easton will present draft title (subject to possible change) - 'The Rights and Responsibilities of Internet media content providers Gearó ... Read more»
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, 'The normalization of war in Israeli discourse 1967-2008'
Date: 14 March 2013 Time: 17:00-18:00
My first motivation in this lecture is to describe life in reality of repetitive wars from the perspective of Israeli citizen. I would like to expl ... Read more»
Sociology, Security Lancaster & UNESCO Chair Seminar with Liz Kelly on Sexual Violence
Date: 19 March 2013 Time: 4.15 to 6pm
'Sexual violence: a case study of the rhetorics and realities of victim participation' There will be a wine reception following the seminar w ... Read more»
Dr Hilary Sommerlad - POSTPONED until the Summer Term
Date: 20 March 2013 Time: 100 pm
This seminar has been postponed and will be re-arranged for the Summer Term 2013. Dr Sommerlad has been invited to give keynote talks and lectures ... Read more»
One Mum too few: Maternal Status in Host Surrogate Motherhood Arrangements
Date: 20 March 2013 Time: 2.00 pm
Dr Stuart Oultram (University of Liverpool) area of expertise is in Health Services Research and his research interests lie primarily in applied ethic ... Read more»
Law - Work in Progress - Summers and Webb
Date: 20 March 2013 Time: 1.00 pm
James Summers draft title (subject to possible change) - 'Self-determination as an Environmental Right' Tom Webb'sdraft title (subject to possible ... Read more»
Jean d'Aspremont, University of Manchester,
Date: 24 April 2013 Time: 14.30 - 15.30 pm
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Law - Work in Progress - Rieder
Date: 1 May 2013 Time: 1.00 pm
Clemens Rieder - 'EU health care law: an exercise of integration or coordination? And why bother? ... Read more»
Law - Work in Progress - Skogly and Mayfield
Date: 15 May 2013 Time: 12 noon
Sigrun Skogly's draft title (subject to possible change) - 'Land Grabbing and Human Rights' Ben Mayfield's draft title (subject to possible change) ... Read more»
Professor Alan Buchanan (Duke University) 'Human rights: taking international legalization seriously'
Date: 15 May 2013 Time: 17.00 pm
Perhaps the dominant position among contemporary philosophers is that the key to a moral assessment of human rights practice is to develop a theory ... Read more»
Is there anything special about international human rights law?
Date: 16 May 2013 Time: 09.00am
The requirement for a proper understanding of the idea of human rights has become a live one for academic and policy-orientated debate in moral and ... Read more»
Law - Work in Progress - Cahill-Ripley and Kibble
Date: 5 June 2013 Time: 12 noon
Neil Kibble draft title (subject to possible change) - To be Confirmed Amanda Cahill-Ripley draft title (subject to possible change) - 'Transitiona ... Read more»
Law - Work in Progress - Kopela and MacCulloch
Date: 12 June 2013 Time: 12 noon
Sofia Kopela draft title (subject to possible change) - 'title to be confirmed' Angus MacCulloch draft title (subject to possible change) - 'title ... Read more»
Linguistics and English Language
LTRG & SLLAT talk by Talia Isaacs, Bristol University, Modelling comprehensibility in second language speaking scales
Date: 4 March 2013 Time: 04.00-05.30pm
The visitor Talia Isaacs from Bristol University will give a talk during a joint session or LTRG and SLLAT on Modelling comprehensibility in second la ... Read more»
LRDG: Critical ethnographic research of literacy practices used in youth community-based organisations in Québec: what ethical concerns?
Date: 5 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm
Virginie Thériault, Lancaster University, will be speaking on:General ethical principles such as informed consent, confidentiality, participants' ph ... Read more»
UCREL CRS: Wrangling large-scale data for specialised corpora
Date: 7 March 2013 Time: 2.00-3:00 pm
UCREL Corpus Research SeminarWrangling large-scale data for specialised corporaAndrew Hardie (LAEL, Lancaster University)With vast amounts of text now ... Read more»
Right-Wing Populism
Date: 8 March 2013 Time: 14:00-16:00
Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Erasmushogeschool Brussel) "The Rhetoric of the Flemish Populist Radical Right Party Vlaams Blo ... Read more»
Undergraduate Admissions Open Day
Date: 9 March 2013 Time: 13:00 - 16:30
The Department of Linguistics and English Language will be holding an Open Day for UCAS applicants holding offers from the department, and for their p ... Read more»
LRDG: The discursive construction of communities in social media
Date: 12 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm
Caroline Tagg, University of Birmingham, will be speaking on: On social media, which is predicated on notions of connectedness and the establishment ... Read more»
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, 'The normalization of war in Israeli discourse 1967-2008'
Date: 14 March 2013 Time: 17:00-18:00
My first motivation in this lecture is to describe life in reality of repetitive wars from the perspective of Israeli citizen. I would like to expl ... Read more»
LRDG: Reading and discussion session "Writing as sociolinguistic object"
Date: 19 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm
This week's session is a reading and discussion session, led by Tony Capstick, Lancaster University. The reading is: Blommaert, J. (2012). Writing ... Read more»
Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices
Date: 10-12 April 2013 Time:
This conference brings together a range of researchers doing detailed analyses of the discourse, practices, and social interactions of micro ... Read more»
LRDG: Bronwyn Williams: Finding a Way In: Literacy, Popular Culture, and Points of Participation
Date: 7 May 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm
Bronwyn Williams, Professor of English, Director, University Writing Center University of Louisville/Kentucky:Whether on computers or mobile device ... 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 & Social Sciences Sixth Form Conference
Date: 5 July 2013 Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm
On Friday 5th July, the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) will be holding a Sixth-Form Conference (at Lancaster University). This eve ... 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»
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»
Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR
Ethics in Dialogue: Encountering the Other in Indian Philosophy
Date: 5 March 2013 Time: 6.00 pm
Ethics in Dialogue: Encountering the Other in Indian Philosophy Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture by Dr Brian Black Tuesday 5 Marc ... Read more»
Fifteen years on from the Good Friday Agreement, how much has Northern Ireland really changed?
Date: 6 March 2013 Time: 4.00-6.00 pm
Fifteen years on from the Good Friday Agreement, how much has Northern Ireland really changed? Professor Jon Tonge - University of Liverpool ... Read more»
Complementary and Alternative Medicine goes Mainstream: Implications for Religion and Society
Date: 13 March 2013 Time: 4.00-6.00 pm
Complementary and Alternative Medicine goes Mainstream: Implications for Religion and Society. Professor Candy Brown - Indiana University ... Read more»
The Hard Problem of Thought
Date: 20 March 2013 Time: 4.00-6.00 pm
The Hard Problem of Thought Dr Philip Goff - University of Liverpool ... Read more»
Was Pol Pot a Buddhist? Reflections on Theravada Politics and Historiography
Date: 24 April 2013 Time: 4.00-6.00 pm
Was Pol Pot a Buddhist? Reflections on Theravada Politics and Historiography Professor Ian Harris - Preah Sihanoukreach Buddhist University, Ph ... Read more»
Sociology
3rd Annual STS Postgraduate Conference
Date: 9-11 January 2013 Time: 09.00-17.00
All students interested in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and feminist technoscience scholarship are invited to attend the 3rd Postgraduate ... Read more»
Sociology Seminar with Rebecca Ellis and the CaTAlyST team
Date: 5 March 2013 Time: 4.15 to 6pm
Tuesday 5 March 2013, 4.15pm in Bowland North SR22 Rebecca Ellis and the Catalyst team on The (in)tangibility of Catalyst's 'oth ... Read more»
CGWS Research Day
Date: 8 March 2013 Time: 09:00-4:30
Join us for an Information interdisciplinary day workshop in which staff and post graduate students present work in progress related to Gender and Wom ... Read more»
Sociology Seminar with Richard Tutton on Personalizing Biomedicine
Date: 12 March 2013 Time: 4.15pm to 6pm
Personalizing Biomedicine? From Care to Capital Today, biomedicine is said to have undergone a shift from the universalization of knowledg ... Read more»
Sociology, Security Lancaster & UNESCO Chair Seminar with Liz Kelly on Sexual Violence
Date: 19 March 2013 Time: 4.15 to 6pm
'Sexual violence: a case study of the rhetorics and realities of victim participation' There will be a wine reception following the seminar w ... Read more»
ISCRAM 2013
Date: 12-15 May 2013 Time:
Ethical, Social and Legal Issues of IT Supported Emergency Response ISCRAM 201310th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis R ... Read more»
Theorising the Surface
Date: 23 May 2013 Time:
Theorising the Surface: An Interdisciplinary Seminar In the Arts and Social Sciences, theoretical consideration of the surface and its relationship t ... Read more»
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