Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Events

Lancaster Disability Studies Conference 2104

Date: 9 September 2014 Time: 11.00-17.00 pm

The seventh Lancaster Disability Studies Conference will take place 9-11 September 2014.The Lancaster disability studies conferences have brought toge ... Read more»

Seminar Series - Beyond what works: Towards a theoretical framework to understand and improve student retention and success in higher education

Date: 19 June 2013 Time: 12.30 - 2.00 p.m.

Professor Liz Thomas Professor of Higher Education, Edge Hill University Academic lead for retention and success, Higher Education Academy Th ... Read more»

The 'Missing Women' in Higher Education Leadership Conference

Date: 26 June 2013 Time: 09:30-16.00 pm

The 'Missing Women' in Higher Education Leadership Conference Wednesday 26 June 2013, 9:15 - 16:00 at Lancaster University Hosted by the Centre ... Read more»

An ontogenetic and multimodal analysis of Hong Kong textbooks

Date: 8 July 2013 Time: 4-5 pm

Nancy Guo, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will be speaking at the next Literacy Research Discussion Group meeting ... Read more»

Can Technology Serve Social Justice?

Date: 10 July 2013 Time: 16.30-18-30

Public Lecture to be given by the leading scholar and activist Virginia Eubanks. Virginia Eubanks is Associate Professor, Women's Studies, University ... Read more»

Creative Writing MA Showcase

Date: 25 June 2013 Time: 6.30 pm

This year's annual Creative Writing MA Showcase will take place from 6.30pm on Tuesday 25th June at the Dukes. Current students will be reading from t ... Read more»

Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Albinism

Date: 20 September 2013 Time: 09.00-17.00

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Summer Talks 2013

Date: 19 June 2013 Time: 6.00 pm

Organised by Lancaster University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) the Talks aim to show the public the varied research that takes place ... Read more»

Lancaster: Making a Difference Locally

Date: 24 June 2013 Time: 5.00 pm

A series of presentations.Ian Steel, owner of J Atkinson & Co Professor Linday Woodhead MBE - Lancaster UniversityDenise Armer and Jane Halpin - f ... Read more»

Lancaster: Making A Difference Locally

Date: 24 June 2013 Time: 5.00 pm

Lancaster: Making A Difference Locally - LICA Building, Lancaster University, Monday 24th June Each year Lancaster University's Faculty of A ... Read more»

Lancaster: Making a Difference Locally

Date: 24 June 2013 Time: 5.00 pm

A series of presentations.Ian Steel, owner of J Atkinson & Co Professor Linday Woodhead MBE - Lancaster UniversityDenise Armer and Jane Halpin - f ... Read more»

Photographic Exhibition: 'Dear Lancaster'

Date: 24 April 2013 - 26 June 2013 Time:

Photographic Exhibition: 'Dear Lancaster'. James Perry, a third-year honours History student, has curated a photographic exhibition on display at t ... Read more»

Keynote Address: The Importance of State and Local Records in Tracing the Course of Vietnam War Commemoration

Date: 18 July 2013 Time: 15.00 pm

An Event Celebrating the Donation of the Patrick Hagopian Papers, with a Keynote Address by Dr. Patrick Hagopian. Research in archives, libraries a ... Read more»

Lessons of War: Gender History and the Second World War

Date: 12 September 2013 Time: 09.30-18.00

Lessons of War: Gender History and the Second World War This is a call for papers for a conference to be held at Lancaster University on 12 an ... Read more»

Drawing Symposium- Walking the Line: Drawing in Other Terrains

Date: 2 July 2013 Time: 10.00 - 16.00

Walking the Line is a LICA research project. Its focus is on artists and creative practices that transport drawing to unusual and challenging situatio ... Read more»

Global Conference 'Future Mobilities'

Date: 4 September 2013 Time: 12.30

Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research We are pleased to announce the Global Conference on Mobility Futures, 4-6 September 2013, at Lanc ... Read more»

'The Knowledge Exchange: An Interactive Conference - Academic Engagement with the Creative Sector'

Date: 26 September 2013 Time: 10.00am - 17.00pm 26th Sept and 09.30 - 12.00noon 27th September

The Creative Exchange are hosting'The Knowledge Exchange: An Interactive Conference - Academic Engagement with the Creative Sector' on 26 and 27 Sep ... Read more»

Law - WIP (Catherine Easton and Ben Mayfield)

Date: 19 June 2013 Time: 12 noon

Catherine will present her Work in progress paper entitled 'Promoting Access and Inclusion in the Big Data Debate'. Ben's Work in progress paper wi ... Read more»

Sociophonetic and Allographic Variation of 'MeFi': A Case Study of Orthography as Social Practice

Date: 18 June 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm

At the next Literacy Research Discussion Group meeting (Tuesday 18 June) we are pleased to welcome Kim Witten, University of York, who will be s ... Read more»

UCREL CRS: Presenting the new General Service List: Rationale, method, implications

Date: 20 June 2013 Time: 2.00-3:00 pm

UCREL Corpus Research SeminarPresenting the new General Service List: Rationale, method, implicationsVaclav Brezina and Dana GablasovaLearning vocabul ... 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»

Talk by Dr Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana) on the European Indicator of Language Competence in Slovenia

Date: 4 July 2013 Time: 3.30-5.00 pm

Dr Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana) will give a talk to the Language Testing Research Group on the Slovenian results of the European Indicator ... 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»

An ontogenetic and multimodal analysis of Hong Kong textbooks

Date: 8 July 2013 Time: 4-5 pm

Nancy Guo, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will be speaking at the next Literacy Research Discussion Group meeting ... 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, Washington DC, USA) 'Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication and Interaction: Methods, practices, and outcomes'

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

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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»

Global Conference 'Future Mobilities'

Date: 4 September 2013 Time: 12.30

Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research We are pleased to announce the Global Conference on Mobility Futures, 4-6 September 2013, at Lanc ... Read more»

Global Conference 'Future Mobilities'

Date: 4 September 2013 Time: 12.30

Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research We are pleased to announce the Global Conference on Mobility Futures, 4-6 September 2013, at Lanc ... Read more»

Work in Utopia

Date: 4 July 2013 Time: 9.15-5.30

Ideals aren't enough: we need realistic assessments of possibilities and immediate tactics too. But ideals are necessary, because without them we can' ... Read more»

Global Conference 'Future Mobilities'

Date: 4 September 2013 Time: 12.30

Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research We are pleased to announce the Global Conference on Mobility Futures, 4-6 September 2013, at Lanc ... Read more»

DEMAND Seminar with Sara Gløjmar Berthou

Date: 19 June 2013 Time: 4.00 pm

Competing notions of social change and intervention in local climate change governance: the case of Copenhagen. Sara will be talkin ... Read more»

DEMAND Seminar with Catherine Grandclement

Date: 25 June 2013 Time: 12.00-2.00 pm

Smarter and more transparent than you. Technicians and users scripting the user's role in smart grid experiments Techno-futurists s ... Read more»

Global Conference 'Future Mobilities'

Date: 4 September 2013 Time: 12.30

Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research We are pleased to announce the Global Conference on Mobility Futures, 4-6 September 2013, at Lanc ... Read more»

Lancaster Disability Studies Conference 2104

Date: 9 September 2014 Time: 11.00-17.00 pm

The seventh Lancaster Disability Studies Conference will take place 9-11 September 2014.The Lancaster disability studies conferences have brought toge ... Read more»