http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/index.phpForthcoming Events, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster Universityhttp://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/lancaster/web/disclaim.htmen-gba.sharman@lancaster.ac.uka.sharman@lancaster.ac.uk120http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/images/template/fassblue.gifhttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/index.php Invitation to theNetworked Learning 2012 preconference online hot seats Based on last year's success we continue the online hot seats. Starting from October, we are offering an exciting series of online hot seats hosted by some of the leading thinkers in the field. All hot seats are free to attend will run for one week. The first hot seat will be from October 10th- 14th, 2011 and will be hosted by Peter Goodyear Further hot seats will be hosted by; ·Terry Anderson - November 21st-25th, 2011 · Ann Lieberman & Diane Wood - December 12th - 16th, 2011 · Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Vivien Hodgson & David McConnell - January 9th - 13th, 2012 · Tara Fenwick & Judi Marshall - February 20th - 24th, 2012 · Simon Buckinham Shum - March 12th - 16th, 2012> · Peter Sloep, Adriana Berlanga & Hendrik Drachsler - March (week to be confirmed) The hot seats run asynchronously for a week and are free to attend. All you need to do is sign up at the conference community website and join the online hot seat debates. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3763/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3763/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 10 October 20110.00 - 23.592012-10-142011-10-10 At each meeting a current postgraduate research student will speak on an area of their research. Talks will be 20-30 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions. We will retire to Bowland College bar. Everyone is welcome For enquiries contact James Bowen j.bowen@lancaster.ac.uk or Alex Scott a.scott2@lancaster.ac.uk Click on the link below to access the full programme of Postgraduate Research Seminars http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3840/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3840/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 3 November 2011 - 27 June 20115.30pm2012-06-272011-11-03 A brown bag seminar is an informal lunchtime meeting with an open invitation. Attendees eat any lunch they have brought along while listening to a short and informal talk by a member of staff about his/her historical research. Ensuing discussion is in the spirit of helping the researcher with their problems. The seminars are held Wednesday lunchtimes on various dates during the Lent and Summer terms (See Event Programme below). For more details/offers of talks for 2012-13 contact Steve Pumfrey (B149, s.pumfrey@lancs.ac.uk). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3889/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3889/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 January - June 20121.10 - 1.50pm2012-06-202012-01-18 Every Wednesday morning during term time 9.30- 10.30amthe Centre for Gender and Women's Studies hosts an informalcoffee morning open to anybody in the University who is interested in or engaged in research with a gender dimension. MA students, PhD students and allStaff welcome to pop along. It is a good chance to network with others, make friendsand find shared research interests. Bowland B Floor Sociology Hub area (The postgrad/CGWS end) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3954/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3954/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 Jan- June 2012wednesday mornings 9.30- 10.30 am2012-06-272012-01-25 Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University Stephen Healy (UNSW), 'Atmospheres of Consumption: affect, space and the assembly of docile shoppers' Celia Roberts (Lancaster), 'Scaling normal sexual development: Tanner and his extraordinary child' Claire Waterton (Lancaster), 'Barcoding nature: 'technopreneurial' norms for knowledge of life' Normalisation, according to Foucault, created a 'whole range of degrees of normality indicating membership of a homogeneous social body but also playing a part in classification, hierarchization and the distribution of rank' (1977:184). This mini-workshop explores different takes on contemporary lives, spaces and degrees in terms of techniques, practices and forms of thought concerning norms. The papers address topics - air-conditioning, sexual development in puberty, and biological species identification - in which normality has become problematic, in which the question of degrees of normality and membership are unsettled, and in which norms of growth, classification and ordering shift. The workshop will discuss how in various domains norms, normality and normalization are significantly re-done or undone. It will investigate the affective, material, pragmatic life of norms, as well as their abstraction, diagrammatics and mediations. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3930/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3930/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 31 January 201201.00-04.00pm2012-03-292012-01-31 Department of History - Research Seminar Series - Lent Term 2011-12 'Migrations of the Holy? Religious Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe' Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge) Wednesday 8 February at 4.00pm - 5.30pm in Bowland North SR2 '"No Two Religions": The Question of Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Arabian Peninsula' Harry Munt (Oxford) Wednesday 22 February at 4.00pm - 5.30pm in Bowland North SR2 'The Origins of the Experimental Method: Mathematics or Magic?' John Henry (Edinburgh) Wednesday 29 February at 4.00pm - 5.30pm in Bowland North SR6 '"Target America": Visual Culture, Neuroimaging and the "Hijacked Brain" theory of Addiction' Tim Hickman (Lancaster) Wednesday 7 March at 4.00pm - 5.30pm in Bowland North SR20 All staff and PGR students are warmly invited to History research seminars For further information please contact Dr Nicola Clarke n.clarke1@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3964/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3964/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 8 February 2012 - 8 March 20124.00 pm - 5.30pm2012-03-072012-02-08 The Dynamics of Memories Research Group are holding a two day conference on the Holocaust in February 2012. Presentation Sessions will be held at Lancaster University Papers presented at the conference to include:- Malgorzata Fabiszak (Poznan, Poland), 'Memory and Commemoration in Text and Image'Lars Fischer (CJCR, Cambridge, UK), 'Socialists grappling with the Shoah: Early Post-War Responses'Andre Gingrich (Vienna, Austria), 'Racism, Modernist Theories and 'Applied' Practices: Anthropology in Germany and Austria during the Nazi years (1933-1945)'David I. Hanauer (Pennsylvania, USA) 'The Discursive Construction of the Stolper Steine Memorial Project: Official, Educational and Familial Meanings'Dovid Katz (Vilnius, Lithuania), 'The Prague Declaration: Writing the Holocaust out of History' Andreas Musolff, (Norwich, UK) - 'Metaphorization of Holocaust memory and false historical analogy in antisemitic discourse'David Seymour (Lancaster, UK) 'The Visibility of the Holocaust and the Invisibility of Antisemitism'Tracey Skillington (Cork, Ireland), 'UN Holocaust Commemoration in a Post-Secular Age'Karin Stoeger (Vienna, Austria), 'Antisemitism in Austrian Media Discourses on the Financial Crisis'Ruth Wodak (Lancaster, UK), '"That is how it is written in the schoolbooks!": Calculated ambivalence and Holocaust denial in Austria' The Presentation Panels will be followed by a Round Table Discussion and public event at The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster The conference is FREE to attend Contact: Please register by contacting Oliver Wilkinson by 9 January 2012 Further Informationon Contesting/Contested Memories: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century Conference http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3861/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3861/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 9-11 February 201212.30 pm2012-02-112012-02-09 Reading Group Jo Carruthers (Lancaster University) Herne-Hill Almond Blossoms from Praeterita (Chapter 2) Some hard copies of the readingwill be available at the seminar. Otherwise please bring along your own copy if you prefer. In the Library Edition, the text is on pages 34-50 of Volume 35, Part I, Praeterita. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3919/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3919/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 9 February 20124.00 pm-6.00 pm2012-02-102012-02-09 On Thursday 9th February the LAEL Society is bringing you a special lecture entitled "Linguistics and Lancaster: looking back over 40 years" from Professor Geoffrey Leech. It's a 6.30pm start, in Cavendish LT in the Faraday Building. Not to be missed! A short abstract from Prof. Leech is as follows: "The seeds of Linguistics were sown in 1964 when Lancaster University began, but the Linguistics Department (originally the LAMEL Department) didn't properly begin until 1974. How was the Department conceived, and how was it born? How did it grow from small beginnings to being ranked as the largest and best Linguistics and English Language department in the country? Which were the good times and which the tough times? How did major research and teaching strengths develop? These and other questions will be answered (in a personal and no doubt biased way) by the Department's first HoD, who has survived more than 40 years at Bailrigg." This is not a ticketed event but if you have access to Facebook please join the event page so that we can have a rough idea of numbers:http://www.facebook.com/events/223383481080151/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3963/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3963/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 9 February 20126.30 pm2012-02-102012-02-09 The Latin American Society has organized a showing of the recent release Violeta se fue a los cielos (Violeta Parra went to Heaven) at Lancaster, this Thursday 9th February 7pm, Marcus Merrimen Lecture Theatre. Felipe Otondo from LICA will give a short introduction to the film and to the significance of Violeta's work for popular music, and there will be a discussion after the film.Violeta Parra Went to Heaven is about the life of Violeta Para the Chilean singer, author, collector, poet, painter, sculptor, embroiderer, and ceramist. She was a multifaceted artist, a popular culture icon, a treasurer of deepest Chilean traditions, and a woman of intense contradictions and unique genius.With more than 3,000 songs and other inspiring works, Violeta Parra opened the gates for the new Chilean song. She rescued the forgotten traditional culture, traveled through Chile from north to south to meet its voice, uplift it, and save it from stereotypes; then she reinvented it, creating musical masterpieces, and released them to the country and to the world.http://cinemawithoutborders.com/conversations/2859-violeta-parra-went-to-heaven.html http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3965/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3965/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 9 February 20127.00 pm2012-02-102012-02-09 The Ruskin Library and Research Centre (Lancaster University) and the Guild of St George announce: Who Pays for the Environment? A Symposium on Nature, Architecture, Sustainability and John Ruskin's Guild of St George at The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT (Nearest tube Holborn or Russell Sq) 10.15 a.m. - 4.15 p.m., Saturday 11 February 2012 Booking Form Programme Poster For further information please contact: Lauren Kenwright, Administrator- Ruskin Research, Ruskin Library and Research Centre County Main B190, Lancaster University LA1 4YD Email: l.kenwright@lancaster.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1524 510818 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3894/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3894/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 11 February 201210.15 am-4.15 pm2012-02-122012-02-11 DELC Research Seminar Bob Jessop, Distinguished Professor Open Lecture The Eurozone Crisis and Why it is so Hard to Resolve http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3961/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3961/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 13 February 20126.00 pm2012-02-142012-02-13 Biodiversity and the commodification of life: text mining the global patent system for biodiversity Paul Oldham (Cesagen) New date to be confirmed http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3881/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3881/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 14 February 201216:30 - 18:002012-02-152012-02-14 Characteristics of Finnish water pollution control Marja Ylönen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Finnish water protection has often been depicted as a success story. There have, however, been practices and principles, which have hampered and delayed water protection. The study illuminates those hampering factors by analysing the ideology of pollution control in Finland from the 1960s until the year 2000. The data consists of Water Economy journal articles, interviews with environmental authorities (control authorities) and court documents concerning six pollution crime cases. The method of analysis is discourse analysis. The theoretical frame draws on dialectical materialism as a meta-level frame, and on the concepts of moral regulation, ideology and regimes of justifications. The study is located at the cross-roads of environmental sociology, sociology of social control and ideology study. The study participates in discussions concerning the relevance and paradoxes of social control. Maria Ylönen - Visiting Researcher from the University of Jyvaskala, Finland has kindly stepped into the breach as Paul Oldham has had to reschedule his seminar for later in the year. Please join us in the Sociology Department for discussion after the seminar. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3969/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3969/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 14 February 20124.30pm to 6.00pm2012-02-152012-02-14 James Lenman (Philosophy, University of Sheffield) On moral scepticism http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3899/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3899/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 15 February 20124.00 -6.00pm2012-02-162012-02-15 The Second Language Learning and Teaching Research Group (SLLAT) are pleased to announce the following presentation: Investigating the English language needs of CLIL teachers in Italian secondary school science classrooms Geraldine Ann Ludbrook This research project examines the English language needs of science teachers teaching in Italian secondary school classrooms within the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. The study collects naturally-occurring data from 20 secondary school lessons to investigate the salient features of the language used by six content teachers, most of whom co-teach with language teachers. The data from the classroom observations are enriched by additional material from interviews with the content and language teachers participating in the study. The study analyses the data collected with the main objective of drawing up a rich detailed picture of the content teachers' language to inform the construct of a performance test designed for the specific purpose of assessing the English language abilities of the content teachers. The investigation examines theoretical models of communicative language ability underlying the development of performance language tests, in particular the model of specific-purpose language testing. A review of tests currently used to assess the foreign language of non-native English speaking content teachers wishing to work in English language medium education systems provides insights into the issues involved in the development of a performance test of teacher language, and highlights the specific features of the CLIL teachers' language. The analysis of the classroom data focuses on four main aspects of the CLIL lessons. Two aspects deal with the classes in general and investigate how the content teachers' foreign language needs are influenced by the activity types observed in the lessons and by the nature of the partnership between the content and language teachers in the co-taught lessons. The third aspect focuses on the content teachers' foreign language and investigates their general language proficiency, the use of subject-specific language and the use of language for classroom interaction. The fourth aspect examines the communication strategies required by the content teachers to control their own foreign language and that of their learners. This feature is of particular importance as strategic competence is required to implement the pedagogies promoted within the CLIL approach. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3971/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3971/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 15 February 20123.30-5.00 pm2012-02-162012-02-15 Kieran McEvoy, Queen's University Belfast Victims as Idealized Citizens; Transition, Mobilisation and the Contested Past in Northern Ireland Kieran McEvoy is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queens University, Belfast. This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Law and Society. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3866/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3866/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 16 February 20125.00 pm2012-02-172012-02-16 Research Seminar Nathan Uglow (Leeds Trinity University College) Ruskin and Victorian Spirituality http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3920/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3920/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 16 February 20124.00 pm-6.00 pm2012-02-172012-02-16 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3950/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3950/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 16 February 20121-2pm2012-02-172012-02-16 Cycling, Culture, Place, and Policy: making the connections Rachel Aldred, University of East London Sustainable Mobilities Research Group John Pucher et al (2010: 5122) suggest that in providing for cycling '[t]here are many role models for cities to follow'; citing Bogotà as combining a Dutch model with 'its own particularly South American program of ciclovias'. This raises questions about the impact of culture both on cycling levels and on the design, implementation, and success (or failure) of interventions, as well as to what extent interventions can themselves be understood as containing cultural elements. In this talk I seek to establish the existence and importance of different cycling cultures within one country, using data from the recently completed ESRC-funded Cycling Cultures project. I will show how a cultural approach to cycling can contribute to understanding the choices made by different mobile citizens in specific contexts. For example, it can help guard against essentialising demographic factors (e.g. assuming that cycling must be associated either with affluence or with poverty, when this depends on broader cultural and socio-economic contexts). Culture, I will argue, shapes the ways in which mobile citizens interpret the use of different modes of transport and experience different travelling environments. It also shapes how policy-makers see cyclists and how they go about planning and implementing the provision of infrastructure and services. The talk will suggest that taking culture seriously highlights cultural constraints on both individual and policy-maker choices, and the importance of synergising environmental and individual-level interventions with cultural factors that might support cycling. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3912/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3912/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 21 February 20124.15pm to 6.00pm2012-02-222012-02-21 Ana Carden-Coyne, University of Manchester Memory, Forgetting and Justice in Postwar Cambodia Ana Carden-Coyne is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester and the author of Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2009). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3868/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3868/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 22 February 20124.00 pm2012-02-232012-02-22 Alison Scott-Baumann (PPR, Lancaster University) Counter terror agendas and academic practice http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3900/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3900/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 22 February 20124.00-6.00 pm2012-02-232012-02-22 Richard Dawkins, John Pritchard, Robert Jackson, Jim Conroy Thanks to new research which will be presented here, we now have a good idea of the place that religion actually has in UK schools today. But what place should it have? And is there still a place for 'faith schools', old and new? Register your place If you would like to take part in the debate, please email p.ainsworth@lancaster.ac.uk When registering, please let us know which of the following categories best describes you 'Academic', 'Faith-based Organisations and Voluntary Sector', 'Media', 'Policy', 'Religious Communities' or 'Other' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3907/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3907/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 22 February 20125.30-7.00 pm2012-02-232012-02-22 Dr Sarah Devaney, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, and the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School ofLaw University of Manchester Everyone is very welcome http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3956/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3956/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 22 February 20122.00 pm2012-02-232012-02-22 Dr Sue Smith, Director, LEAD, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, LUMS. 'Reconceptualising space in learning' Space has been a topic of discussion in much of the literature on learning and more often than not it focuses on the physical spaces and design for teaching and learning. In this session I reconceptualise space in relation to learning. As such four learning spaces are presented to provide a different way of conceptualising learning spaces and learning generally. They are conceived of as the result of learners engaging with any given programme and are seen as the effect of the learning community. These learning spaces are less visible and tangible than those discussed in the learning literature. They can contribute to our understanding of learning because they can demonstrate evidence of the desired learning outcomes of a programme, or at least activity related to the desired outcomes. Used in this way they can be seen as a very compelling way to rethink how facilitators of learning can support the learners. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3958/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3958/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 22 February 201212.30 - 2.00 p.m.2012-02-232012-02-22 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3951/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3951/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 23 February 20121-2pm2012-02-242012-02-23 The 10tth Anniversary Conference of the British Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare Inside-Out: Depth/Surface/Meaning, will take place from 24th-26th February at Lancaster University.Shakespeare's texts produce meaning by turning insides out. We are drawn into the plays and poems from the outside through surfaces: books, screens, words, objects, costumes, the surface of actors' faces and bodies, retellings or adaptations, teaching spaces and theatres, and via our experiences of immediate effects like music, laughter, tears and movement. The texts, meanwhile, turn deep human questions, emotions, subjectivities outwards by projecting them as words and performance. This conference will ask how the relationship between surface and depth operates in Shakespeare's work. How does it function in different types of performance practice from live theatre to film? In the traces of the past that have come down to us? And in our practices as teachers and critics? The conference will explore 'the deep value of surfaces' (Shusterman), the dynamic relationship between surface and depth across a range of practices: reading, watching, editing, teaching, performing. The conference programme includes lectures, workshops and performances of Much Ado About Nothing at Lancaster Castle and Love's Labours Lost by Northern Broadsides. Speakers include Barrie Rutter (Northern Broadsides); Prof. Jean E. Howard (Columbia University); Prof R.S. White (University of Western Australia); Prof Stuart Sillers (University of Bergen); Prof Andrew Gurr (University of Reading). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3873/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3873/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 24 February 20129.00 am2012-02-272012-02-24 Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz) will speak on post-genomic science and social justice. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3962/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3962/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 27 February 201213.00-15.002012-02-282012-02-27 Department of Educational Research in collaboration with LUSU Involve is hosting a student conference with student presentations on a range of educational work placements. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3970/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3970/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 27 February 201209.15 - 15.452012-02-282012-02-27 Doing Critical/Queer Intersectionality in an Age of Popular and Corporate Diversity Culture Sirma Bilge (Université de Montréal) What are the main challenges faced by those committed to intersectionality as a social justice oriented research paradigm and activist project in an age imbued with popular and corporate diversity culture? Drawing on critical work showing evidence of the adverse effects of neoliberal diversity rhetorics and practices on progressive politics, my presentation takes issue with some troubling tendencies observed within intersectionality scholarship and activism, such as its ornamental deployments and whitening, which will be considered against the backdrop of increasing normativity of intersectionality to signify the "diversity competency" of its claimers. It will then elaborate on the necessity of up-holding and extending the productively tensioned dialogue between intersectionality and queer theory (initiated mainly by activist scholars affiliated to queer of colour critique, queer anti-racism and queer diasporas/migration studies) as these critical thoughts might compensate some of their respective weaknesses, and complement and challenge each other, in order to firm up the foundations of a queer intersectionality. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3882/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3882/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 28 February 201216:30-18:002012-02-292012-02-28 Ronald Beiner (Political Science, University of Toronto) Civil religion: A window into perennial themes of political philosophy http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3901/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3901/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 29 February 20124.00-6.00 pm2012-03-012012-02-29 How does gender relate to other social categories of inequality, such as class, sexuality, race, disability, age? This workshop aims at exploring this question and at considering how to conceptualise this form of 'intersection'. 'Intersectionality' is one concept (among others) that has acquired increased currency in social and cultural theory, particularly feminist theory, as a means to capture how gender relates to other social categories. All welcome! - whether you examine gender or gender relations in your own research 'on their own', as it were, or whether you consider how they 'intersect' with or relate to other categories, you are welcome to participate in this workshop. Details of the format and the nature of your contribution will come in due course. We could say at this stage that participants well be expected to do a short presentation on their PhD. More details will follow The event is *free of charge* for all participants, however registration is required by 1 February 2012 as spaces are limited. > > About Sirma Bilge Sirma Bilge is Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Université de Montréal and was the director-founder of the Intersectionality Research Unit at Centre for Ethnic Studies of Montreal Universities (CEETUM) between 2005-2010. Her Ph.D. thesis, Post-migratory Ethnic Communalisations: The Case of 'Turks' in Montreal, published in French (2004), won the inaugural Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Canadian Studies, given by the International Council for Canadian Studies. Her current work engages with the intertwined politics of gender, sexuality and race within the context of nationalism, what she tentatively calls: the new politics of racialized sexualities and sexual(ized) nationalisms. Her research projects deal with the intersections of social formations of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class, and examine precisely how notions of national/ethnic sameness and otherness articulate themselves through gender and sexual regulation. The empirical field of this inquiry has been carried out through her funded projects dealing with conjugal aspirations and matrimonial practices among Montreal youth of migrant background. She has recently obtained new funding for a research project entitled "Migrant Masculinities and Western Imaginaries: An Intersectional Study of a Contemporary Representational Regime". She has published on feminist theorizations of intersectionality; judicial treatment of the violence against racialized women; the conceptualization of minority women's agency; the analysis of Canadian jurisprudence on intersectional discrimination; and the racialisation of minority gender and sexualities in the context of Quebec. She has also co-edited (with Ann Denis) a thematic issue for the Journal of Intercultural Studies (February 2010) on "Women, Intersectionality and Diasporas", and (with Barbara Thériault) a special issue for Sociologie et Sociétés, on "Border-crossers". SEE her webpage: http://sirmabilge.blogspot.com/ for further details on my research, publications and teaching activities. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3939/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3939/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 29 February 2012TBC2012-03-012012-02-29 DELC Research Seminar Art and Cultural Production within Institutions and on the Margins of Society Karen Juers-Munby (Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts) The Innovative Production Concept and Parasitic Politics of Elfriede Jelinek's 'Secondary Drama': Abraumhalde and Faust In and Out In his essay "How political is postdramatic theatre?", Hans-Thies Lehmann has argued that "in theatre the political can appear only indirectly, at an oblique angle, modo obliquo" (Lehmann 2002: 16). In this presentation I would like to argue that this is the case with Elfriede Jelinek's new genre of the 'secondary drama', which is designed to be performed alongside a classical drama and thus to come at its politics sideways and from the margins. It does so by creating resonances and disturbances in performance. With reference to Michel Serre, I argue that the political here emerges in the in-between space opened up by the disrupting secondary drama as a parasitic agent. Initially triggered by a commission by the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Jelinek's secondary drama is not simply a literary innovation but programmatically aims at innovative forms of theatre programming, processes and productions. These will be addressed by analysing Nicolas Stemann's production of Gottholt Ephraim Lessing's Nathan der Weise with Jelinek's Abraumhalde at the Thalia Theater. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3943/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3943/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 29 February 20121.00 pm2012-03-012012-02-29 This year's Annual Wordsworth Lecture, hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing, will consist of a reading from Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, followed by a question and answer session led by David Cooper (Department of History).Edgelands, by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, is their exploration of overlooked landscapes; the business parks, golf ranges, retail areas and wastelands of Northern England. To read a review and see a video clip of Paul and Michael discussing their inspiration for the book, please follow the link below. The lecture will also be the formal launch of a new Collaborative Agreement between the Department's Wordsworth Centre and The Wordsworth Trust, so the Directors of both will also say a few words about this venture. The event takes place from 5pm on Wednesday 29th February in the Peter Scott Gallery, and will be followed by a wine reception. All welcome http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3948/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3948/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 29 February 20125.00 pm2012-03-012012-02-29 The Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLAT) research group are pleased to announce the following presentation: Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition Patrick Rebuschat (Bangor University) The process of implicit learning, essentially the ability to acquire unconscious knowledge, is one of the central topics in cognitive psychology. The term "implicit learning" was first employed by Arthur Reber (1967) to describe a process during which subjects acquire knowledge about a complex, rule-governed stimulus domain without intending to and without becoming aware of the knowledge they have acquired. In contrast, the term "explicit learning" is usually applied to learning scenarios in which subjects are instructed to actively look for patterns, i.e. learning is intentional, a process which tends to result conscious knowledge. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, social interaction, music perception, and intuitive decision making, are largely dependent on implicit knowledge. In this talk, I will review a series of experiments that investigated the implicit and explicit learning of second language (L2) syntax. The experiments addressed questions such as the following: Is there implicit learning in the case of L2 acquisition? If so, how is this knowledge represented in the mind (rules, patterns, chunks...)? How do task instructions affect implicit and explicit L2 learning? Is there an implicit-explicit interface? And what is the role of individual differences (e.g. working memory capacity), in the implicit and explicit learning of languages? http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3973/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3973/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 29 February 20123.30-5.00 pm2012-03-012012-02-29 Reading Group Jacqueline Whiteside (Lancaster University) Details to follow http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3921/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3921/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 1 March 20124.00 pm-6.00 pm2012-03-022012-03-01 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3952/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3952/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 1 March 20121-2pm2012-03-022012-03-01 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3953/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3953/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 1 March 20127 pm till late2012-03-022012-03-01 Robert Johns (Government, University of Essex) Don't know or don't care? Civilian casualties and British public support for war http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3902/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3902/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 7 March 20124.00-6.00 pm2012-03-082012-03-07 Mat Francis, Mark Sedgwick, Marat Shterin, Mehdi Hasan , Ed Husain Since 9/11 and 7/7 billions have been invested in tackling and understanding religious radicalisation. This debate brings together academic and policy experts to consider what have we learned: About its nature and causes? About parallels and precedents? About the effect of policies designed to tackle the problem? About future threats and where we go from here? If you would like to take part in the debate, please email p.ainsworth@lancaster.ac.uk When registering, please let us know which of the following categories best describes you 'Academic', 'Faith-based Organisations and Voluntary Sector', 'Media', 'Policy', 'Religious Communities' or 'Other' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3908/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3908/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 7 March 20125.30-7.00 pm2012-03-082012-03-07 The Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLAT) research group are pleased to announce the following presentation: 'I have all my stories': A narrative approach to language learning motivation Lou Harvey (School of Education, University of Manchester) This talk will describe my methodological approach to my doctoral work, a narrative study of six UK-based university students' motivation for learning English. My research aims to foreground the experience of learners, who have rarely been given voice in past second-language (L2) motivation research, and to explicitly acknowledge the agency of individual learners and their power to accept or resist the pressures and influences they face, and the identities they are negotiating, as English speakers. Central to my approach is Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism (1981, 1986), which conceptualises dialogue as the essence of language in its relation between utterance and response. I demonstrate that Bakhtin's philosophy offers grounds for a theorisation of agency as both individual and co-constructed, a constant and creative process of self-authoring; which in turn offers a rationale for my choice of narrative methodology. I will conclude the first part of the talk by sharing my research design, illustrating my attempt to explicitly apply a dialogic approach to my research practice. I will then focus on the narrative of one participant, Emma, to demonstrate how the narrative concept can contribute to an understanding of her language learning experience and the way in which she interprets this experience. Emma's motivation was shaped by her perception of a shift in the English language from 'fictional', in her home country of Italy, to 'real', when she came to the UK. Drawing on Bakhtin, I suggest that Emma's language learning story represents a move from understanding English as a monologic subject to be studied and lacking communicative context, to dialogic, requiring agentive response to and engagement with other voices; engagement through which Emma is constantly re-storying her identity as a language learner. I argue that this view represents my contribution to an important move in language learning motivation research: to illuminate ways in which motivation may be socially negotiated and constructed. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3974/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3974/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 7 March 20123.30-5.00 pm2012-03-082012-03-07 Research Seminar Brian Ingram (Lancaster University) Epi-strauss-ium: D.F.Strauss, Ruskin and Biblical Criticism http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3922/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3922/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 8 March 20124.00 pm-6.00 pm2012-03-092012-03-08 The value of music: sociology, aesthetics, politics In many societies, music and other forms of culture and knowledge are increasingly prone to being treated as activities inferior to the accumulation of profit, or the pursuit of personal and corporate advantage. This talk discusses a book, in progress, which seeks to provide a critical defence of music by examining how and in what ways musics might promote human flourishing, and how and in what ways they might fail to do so. The talk is based on a chapter that deals with aspects of music's ability to provide collective experience. It discusses music in relation to nation, ethnicity, youth and class. David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3883/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3883/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 13 March 201216:30-18:002012-03-142012-03-13 Kate Marsh, University of Liverpool The Politics of Memory: Memorializing the French Empire, Forgetting l'Inde française Kate Marsh is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Liverpool and the author of Fictions of 1947: Representations of Indian Decolonization 1919-1962 (Peter Lang, 2007) and India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815 (Pickering and Chatto, 2009). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3801/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3801/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 14 March 20124.00 pm2012-03-152012-03-14 Jeremy Carrette (Religious Studies, University of Kent) Religion and the United Nations: Ending the romance of global civil society http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3903/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3903/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 14 March 20124.00-6.00 pm2012-03-152012-03-14 Research Seminar Matthew Bradley (Liverpool University) Apocalyptic Literature at the 'fin de siècle' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3924/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3924/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 15 March 20124.00 pm-6.00 pm2012-03-162012-03-15 Jeffrey Keefer Project Manager, Instructional Design (Visiting Nurse Service of New York, NY) Adjunct Instructor, Doctor of Nursing Practice Program (Pace University, NY) Adjunct Instructor, Management Communication Dept. (Stern School of Business, New York University, NY) 'Navigating Liminality:The Experience of Distance in Doctoral Education' (Thesis Working Title) This research explores the experiences of doctoral students who study at a distance and whose postgraduate activities involve passing through liminal or troublesome periods in understanding concepts or processes.These thresholds commonly involve ontological or epistemological shifts, resulting in transformed ways of seeing one's self and/or one's research. Thechallenges posed through using technology in such doctoral supervision areoften not acknowledged. Twenty-one interdisciplinary doctoral researchers from around the world were interviewed, with narrative inquiry as informed by grounded and actor-network approaches being used for the analysis. This research seeks to provide insights for tutors who engage in remote supervision. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3891/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3891/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 21 March 201212.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.2012-03-222012-03-21 Peter Lapos http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3904/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3904/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 21 March 20124.00-6.00 pm2012-03-222012-03-21 Sarah Johnsen, Adam Dinham, Peter Smith, David Blunkett Religious bodies were once crucial welfare providers in Britain. In recent decades several Western governments are keen to bring them on board again. But times have changed. Can 'faithful people' still deliver, and what do they currently have to offer? If you would like to take part in the debate, please email p.ainsworth@lancaster.ac.uk When registering, please let us know which of the following categories best describes you 'Academic', 'Faith-based Organisations and Voluntary Sector', 'Media', 'Policy', 'Religious Communities' or 'Other' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3909/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3909/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 21 March 20125.30-7.00 pm2012-03-222012-03-21 Ruskin Lecture Clive Wilmer (Guild of St George & University of Cambridge) Ruskin and the King James Bible FASS Meeting Room 2/3: 5pm - 6pm Please note this lecture will be followed by a wine reception, all welcome http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3923/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3923/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 22 March 20125.00 pm-6.00 pm2012-03-232012-03-22 Peter Jones, Maleiha Malik, Lisa Appignanesi No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.' Justice Jackson's famous ruling still resonates in the USA. But recent bans on veils and minarets, and rulings against individuals who refuse to perform civil marriages or let rooms to gay couples, suggest that Europe is moving in a different direction. Is religious freedom an absolute, or must there be limits - and if so, how do we draw the line? If you would like to take part in the debate, please email p.ainsworth@lancaster.ac.uk When registering, please let us know which of the following categories best describes you 'Academic', 'Faith-based Organisations and Voluntary Sector', 'Media', 'Policy', 'Religious Communities' or 'Other' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3910/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3910/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 18 April 20125.30-7.00 pm2012-04-192012-04-18 Please note that there will be an event on Saturday 28 April 2012 to commemorate the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War, on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica. Speakers: Paul Preston (LSE) Helen Graham (RH) Richard Baxell http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3941/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3941/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 28 April 201210:00am2012-04-292012-04-28 Pat Sikes Professor of Qualitative Inquiry University of Sheffield, School of Education Truths, Lies, Sex and Stories? Researching Allegations of Sexual Misconduct Made Against School Teachers In calling upon sociologists to invoke the 'sociological imagination' in such a way that 'the personal uneasiness of individuals is focused upon explicit troubles and the indifference of publics is transformed into involvement with public issues' (Mills, 1970, pp. 11 - 12), C Wright Mills put his cards on the table and made it clear that, for him, research was political activity. Mills' view was that 'much private uneasiness goes unformulated; much public malaise and many decisions of enormous structural relevance never become public issues ….. it is the uneasiness itself that is the trouble; it is the indifference itself that is the issue' (1970 pp. 18 - 19). In this presentation I want to tell the story of a particular research project which had its genesis in the personal uneasiness I felt when I first heard an account of what happened to a teacher and to his family after he was accused of a sexual offense against a pupil which he claimed he did not commit and of which he was later cleared. This story is troubling and complex, both in terms of its substance and with regard to issues around methodology, method and the research process per se. It provides an illustration of difficulties which can be faced by researchers who seek to use qualitative, specifically narrative, approaches to formulate unease with a view to provoking action rather than indifference. These difficulties can be particularly acute when the research challenges master narratives which privilege certain truths and accounts above others, with serious and sometimes devastating consequences for those who are not believed. In such circumstances what is considered to be 'the real evidence' becomes particularly contentious. This is not, however, a pessimistic, negative or defeatist story. Rather it offers an account of how qualitative research with an explicitly political aim can contribute to transformation. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3824/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3824/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 2 May 201212.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.2012-05-032012-05-02 Linda Woodhead, Grace Davie, Cole Moreton, Aaqil Ahmed Research on the Religion and Society Programme reveals dramatic shifts in religion and values in the last fifty years. This closing event summarises these changes, and debates their significance for politics and public life. If you would like to take part in the debate, please email p.ainsworth@lancaster.ac.uk When registering, please let us know which of the following categories best describes you 'Academic', 'Faith-based Organisations and Voluntary Sector', 'Media', 'Policy', 'Religious Communities' or 'Other' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3911/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3911/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 2 May 20125.30-7.00 pm2012-05-032012-05-02 The UK and Canada face many similar challenges around early childhood literacy policies. Both countries have immensely rich traditions as well as new innovative approaches towards improving children's learning opportunities in Early Years settings. Canada is a location for several exciting early literacy initiatives characterised by a participatory culture, respect for diversity and a carefully designed role for research. We are glad to welcome several notable scholars from Canada to participate in this unique one day conference, engaging in a dialogue with early literacy practitioners and researchers located in the UK. Plenary speakers: Professor Rachel Heydon, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario Learning opportunities: The production and practice of kindergarten literacy curricula in an era of change Professor Kathy Hibbert, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario 'The Salty Chip'; a Canadian Multiliteracies Collaboration that considers pedagogy in a participatory culture. Dr Joyce Bainbridge, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta This Land is My Land: The Many Voices of Canadian Picture Books Dr Rosamund Stooke, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario Learning Stories from an Early Childhood Literacy Program: Creating Writerly Assessments in Readerly TimesDr Lesley Lancaster, Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityThe Multimodality of Mark-Making in Early Childhood Interactive poster session.UK Literacy Association bookstallThe cost is £50 including lunch and refreshments. A link to our online booking form will appear here as soon as possible.This cost includes either a place in the minibus from Lancaster Stn at about 9.50 (to meet for example the train from London, leaving approx 7.30am, to Lancaster), returning at about 4.10, or a car park space.Each of these options has to be booked in advance for this to apply. No reduction if not taken up.NB. This is Bank Holiday Monday.This event is presented by the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre and supported by the UK Literacy Association and the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3942/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3942/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 7 May 201210.00-16.002012-05-092012-05-07 Once again the Centre for Mobilities Research will hold its annual research day. This is a great opportunity for people working on mobilities-related research to present their findings and do some all-important networking across departments, facultiesas well as with other universities and businesses. Further details and call for papers will appear in due course. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3870/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3870/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 30 May 201209.30 - 5.30pm2012-05-312012-05-30 Independent Living and longevity holds both potential and challenges for maintaining wellbeing and addressing social isolation. This seminar will address these issues within the context of contemporary policy debates. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3644/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3644/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 31 May 201209.30 - 17.002012-06-012012-05-31 The ninth conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 9) will be held in Lancaster, UK, from 4-7 July 2012. The theme for 2012 is "Metaphor in Mind and Society" and the confirmed plenary speakers are: Masako K. Hiraga (Rykkio University, Japan), Albert Katz (The University of Western Ontario, Canada) Andreas Musolff (University of East Anglia, UK). There will be two pre-conference workshops on: Corpus linguistics methods in metaphor analysis - facilitated by Anatol Stefanowitsch (University of Hamburg, Germany), Methods of researching metaphor and gesture - facilitated by Irene Mittelberg (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) and Cornelia Müller (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany). In addition to the social programme, the conference will involve a book launch as well as a metaphor-themed exhibition and performance in cooperation with the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3745/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3745/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 4-7 July 20120.00-0.00 pm2012-07-082012-07-04 This will be the first dedicated conference on Elfriede Jelinek in the UK. The organisers also hope to host a workshop on literary translation for postgraduate students, academics, and anyone interested in tricky translation questions! Jelinek's work will be one of the focal points. If the sporting Olympics, coming to London in 2012, are all about showcasing a diversity of disciplines, actively reaching out to the general public, and providing a stage to promote international cultural understanding, then the work of Elfriede Jelinek, Austria's foremost contemporary writer and Nobel laureate, could be read as a model cultural Olympics all of its own. Jelinek's intersections with a multiplicity of different artistic forms are legend. Not only has the author penned novels, plays, poetry, screenplays, and essays, but she can also point to libretti, to numerous of her own translations of other writers, and to collaborations with a wide variety of artists, composers and intellectuals. Furthermore, her efforts to speak to both highly specialized audiences and to ordinary individuals provide us with a model for understanding how elite performances are valued by multiple audiences and evolve in collaboration with them. Bearing all this in mind, it is perhaps no surprise that sport and the mass public consumption of cultural events has been a recurrent point of criticism and a frequent theme within Jelinek's work to date. With the impetus of cultural understanding and public engagement afforded by the London 2012 Olympics and the Cultural Olympiad that accompanies them, this conference seeks to explore a number of issues relating to cultural impact and to a writer's multiple publics through the compelling case study of Elfriede Jelinek. In so doing, it picks up on recent explorations of Jelinek's interdisciplinarity and intermediality (for instance by the Elfriede Jelinek Research Centre in Vienna), and it continues the discussion with regard to the question of Jelinek's presence outside the German-language 'arena'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3747/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3747/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 11 July 2012-13 July 20122012-07-142012-07-11 The Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching is organized by postgraduate students under the auspices of the Department of Linguistic and English Language, Lancaster University. The postgraduate conference aims to offer the opportunity for postgraduate students from various areas in linguistics and language teaching/assessment to come together to present papers related to their research and to exchange ideas. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3927/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3927/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 13 July 2012Full day2012-07-142012-07-13 Alongside the continued popularity of political themes in comics recent years have also seen the rise of religious themes entering into the medium. The aim of this conference is to explore the relationship between comics, religion and politics in greater depth, to show how through the unique properties of the medium comics have the ability to be as thought-provoking as they are entertaining. The conference will examine the history and impact of religious and political themes, their relationship to audiences, and consider the future of such themes in all forms of sequential art narrative. We invite papers that address religious and/or political themes in comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, or manga. Papers working at the interface of these two areas are particularly encouraged. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Comics as social, religious, political text Use of religious imagery and themes Fan culture Political cartoons and cartoonists Gothic comics Comics and magic Representation of politics, religion, spirituality Religious or political rhetoric of comics and their authors Myths, legends, fables Depiction of religious figures or politicians as comic characters Comics and science fiction Comics and propaganda Comics and conspiracy theories Representation of apocalypse, utopia, dystopia Representation of war Superheroes and religious, political identity Theoretical approaches to the study of religion, politics in comics Contributions are sought from researchers at any stage of their careers. Abstracts (300 words) for papers 20 minutes in length should be sent with a short biography to Emily Laycock (Department of Politics, Philosophy & Religion) at e.laycock@lancaster.ac.uk Deadline for abstracts: 31st May 2012 Venue: The conference will be held at The Storey Institute. Storey Creative Industries Centre, Meeting House Lane,Lancaster, LA1 1TH, UK http://www.thestorey.co.uk/ Details of registration: TBA http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3960/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3960/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 4th & 5th September 201210.00-17:00 pm2012-09-062012-09-04 A good evidence base is critical to the development of successful policy and practice. This seminar will focus on differing research techniques and interpreting research for policy agendas/knowledge exchange with older and disabled people. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3645/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3645/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 27 September 201209.30 - 17.002012-09-282012-09-27 This seminar engages with the shape and form of contemporary ageism, impairment and disabilism, and the challenges for developments and policies designed to address these issues. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3646/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3646/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:11 +0000 29 January 201309.30 - 17.002013-01-302013-01-29