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 Every Wednesday morning during term time 9.30 - 10.30am the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies hosts an informal coffee morning open to anybody in the University who is interested in or engaged in research with a gender dimension. MA students, PhD students and all staff welcome to pop along. It is a good chance to network with others, make friends and 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 1 September 2011Wednesday mornings 9.30 - 10.30 am2012-07-052011-09-01 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 January - June 20121.10 - 1.50pm2012-06-202012-01-18 'New Horizons in Safeguarding Children'. Conference to be held in partnership between Lancaster University and the NSPCC, supported by Manchester University. Central Manchester, 23-24th of May. Website: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/newsandevents/cpconferences/new-horizons-safeguarding-children_wda86227.html. Over 40+ speakers, Chaired by Dame Moira Gibb, showcasing Lancaster University's own work from the ChildWelfare Research Unit withinApplied Social Science. Contact: k.broadhurst@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4043/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4043/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 23 -24 May 201223-24th of May2012-05-252012-05-23 Our biological heritage and our human future - living and flourishing sustainably. In this lecture, Sir John will reflect on how in the last fifty years biology has grown from a largely academic discipline into one of great social and industrial value. This shift has brought vast opportunities for research and investment, but has also brought the need to balance profitability with the demands of social justice. He will set out the challenges he sees that we now face in making choices - ethical, legal, social, and scientific - which will determine the future of humanity. Shall we choose to flourish, or merely survive? Professor Sir John Sulston is Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2002 jointly with Sydney Brenner and Bob Horvitz, for the work they had done in understanding the development of the nematode (worm) Caenorhabditis elegans. Sir John was also the Founder Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre from 1992 to 2000, where one third of the task to sequence the human genome was completed. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Chair of the Royal Society working group on 'People and the Planet' and an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Attendance is free but prior registration is requested. To Register http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3990/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3990/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 24 May 20125.30 pm doors open, 6.00 pm lecture2012-05-252012-05-24 In May 2012, J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, will be visiting Lancaster. We are proud to host (with the Department of Linguistics and English Language) a series of events on his thought and work.28th May 2012 Public Lecture: 'Literature Matters Today'Cavendish Lecture Theatre, 6pmAll Welcome http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4066/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4066/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 28 May 20126.00 pm2012-05-292012-05-28 A workshop exploring debates around young people, gender, sex and sexualisation, publics, bodies, aesthetics, time and futures. All welcome!Programme 2.00-3.00 'Little Publics: Young people and aesthetic citizenship' Anna Hickey-Moody (Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney) Chair: Debra Ferreday (Gender and Women's Studies andSociology, Lancaster) 3.00-3.30 Break 3.30-4.10 'Early puberty, "sexualisation" and feminism' Celia Roberts (Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology, Lancaster) 'No future? Young people, pre-emptive politics and austerity' Beckie Coleman (Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology, Lancaster) 4.10-4.20 Response: Debra Ferreday 4.20-5.00 Discussion There will be lunch, provided by CGWS, before the workshop from 12.30 - please let us know if you would like to come: rebecca.coleman@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4039/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4039/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 29 May 20122.00 - 5.00pm2012-05-302012-05-29 Bryan Maddox, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK will be speaking on: What happens when standardised literacy assessments travel globally? There is considerable debate about globalised projects of assessment and how they frame and produce statistically derived knowledge about literacy and about the efficacy of cross-cultural comparison.Hamilton (2001) called for ethnographic research on the politics and practices of literacy measurement regimes. This paper responds to that call, and is the result of an innovative collaboration between ethnographers and psychometric researchers in the UNESCO Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP). This paper presents ethnographic transcripts of literacy assessment events in rural Mongolia.The theory of literacy assessment events described in this paper is informed by Goodwin's 'participation framework' on language as embodied and situated interactive phenomena (Goodwin 2000, 2007) and Actor Network Theory (Callon 1986, Latour 2005). These draw our attention to the way in which literacy assessment events are shaped by an 'assemblage' of human and non-human actors (including assessment texts). The transcripts demonstrate how ethnography can inform the design and analysis of standardised test items, and help to identify sources of test item bias. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4070/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4070/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 29 May 20121 - 2 pm2012-05-302012-05-29 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 30 May 201209.30 - 5.30pm2012-05-312012-05-30 Dr Veronica Bamber Director, Centre for Academic Practice, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Co-editor of 'Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education' This seminar discusses ideas explored in a recent (Jan 2012) book edited by Trowler, Saunders and Bamber entitled 'Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education'. The book updates a subject initially dealt with by Tony Becher in 'Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual enquiry and the culture of disciplines' in 1989, and revisited by Becher and Trowler in 2001. The book's underpinning perspective of Social Practice Theory leads the authors to question the value of the 'tribes' metaphor, which seems to pin academic disciplines to relatively stable group epistemologies, and underplay the role of other complex, non-epistemological factors such as context. While the tribes metaphor still has merit, and doubtless emotional appeal, the assumption that tribal members share a relatively coherent set of practices, values and standard approaches to activities like teaching and research is now less convincing in times of interdisciplinary working, institutional and departmental accountability, and the intensification of academic labour - to mention just a few of the drivers and influences we are all too aware of. This seminar discusses some of these drivers, and looks at examples from a range of disciplines and countries. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4010/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4010/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 30 May 201212.30 - 2.00 p.m.2012-05-312012-05-30 Civic health: four public lectures on living well together What is a sick society, and what would a healthy society be? What relations does civic health require between citizens? What must citizens be or do or have to live well together? What does the current civic health agenda in politics have to say about these questions, and is it adequate? Visiting and local philosophers will reflect on these questions in this series of free public lectures, organised by the Department of Politics, Philosophy,& Religion at Lancaster University and funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Professor John O'Neill, Manchester University:'Living Well Within Limits' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4054/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4054/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 30 May 20127.30 pm2012-05-312012-05-30 In May 2012, J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, will be visiting Lancaster. We are proud to host (with the Department of Linguistics and English Language) a series of events on his thought and work.Wednesday 30th May Open Research Seminar: 'Some Versions of Romance Trauma as Generated by Realist Detail: Ian McEwan's Atonement'Bowland North Seminar Room 6, 2pm - 4pm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4067/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4067/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 30 May 20122.00 pm2012-05-312012-05-30 The History Department is pleased to announce the visits of Professor Patricia Clough and Professor Allen Shelton to Lancaster for 30th and 31st May this year. Both visitors will be conducting a PhD writing workshop entitled Ethnography and History: History, Affect and Language for FASS, Manchester and Liverpool students. Both PhD writing workshop sessions will take place in Bowland B153 from 2 to 5 pm on 30th and 31st May after the lectures. Students from Manchester and Liverpool requiring housing, please contact http://www.lancaster-conferences.co.uk/visitor-rooms.html. There are hotels in town as well, and if you require any recommendations, please do not hesitate to contact either Alex Wilkinson or y.wong@lancaster.ac.uk 1. May 30th, 2012: FASS meeting Room 3, 11:30 am to 1 pm Lecture - Patricia T. Clough: The New Aesthetic: Autobiography and Sociality Patricia Ticineto Clough is professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York. She is author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (2000); Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse (1994) and The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism (1998). She is editor of The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, (2007) and with Craig Willse, editor of Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (2011). She is currently working on Ecstatic Corona: Philosophy and Family Violence, an ethnographic historically researched experimental writing project about where she grew up in Queens New York. Clough's work has drawn on theoretical traditions concerned with technology, affect, unconscious processes, timespace and political economy. The writing workshop will begin at 2pm (2-5) on the same day in Bowland B153 2. May 31st, 2012: FASS Meeting Room 3, 11:30 am to 1 pm Lecture - Allen Shelton: Where the North Sea touches Alabama Allen Shelton is an associate professor of sociology. He arrived in Buffalo, New York in 1998 driving a Toyota one-ton pickup with 233,000 miles on the engine. He's sometimes considered a fictocritic. Six years later he sold his farm in Alabama, and his truck was stolen along with a ten foot chain, a pulley, and a tiny plastic World's Greatest Dad trophy glued to the dashboard. In the aftermath he wrote Dreamworlds of Alabama (University of Minnesota Press 2007). The book was seen as an exemplar of nomadic sociology. His new book Where the North Sea Touches Alabama is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. His website is http://www.softarcades.com/ and http://version.org/posts. The writing workshop will begin at 2 pm (2-5) on the same day in Bowland B153 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4072/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4072/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 30 - 31 May 201211.30am - 1.00pm (Lectures) and 2.00 - 5.00pm (PhD Writing Workshops)2012-06-012012-05-30 The Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLAT) Research Group are pleased to announce the following talk: Determinants of success in native and non-native listening comprehension Nomi Olsthoorn This study aimed to explain individual differences in both native and non-native listening comprehension. 121 native and 113 non-native speakers of Dutch were tested on various linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive skills thought to underlie listening comprehension. Structural equation modeling was used to identify the predictors of individual differences in listening comprehension and to test for differences between the native and non-native participants. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4074/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4074/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 30 May 20123.30-5.00 pm2012-05-312012-05-30 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 31 May 201209.30 - 17.002012-06-012012-05-31 In May 2012, J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, will be visiting Lancaster. We are proud to host (with the Department of Linguistics and English Language) a series of events on his thought and work.Thursday 31st May Film Screening: The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller (2011) dir. Dragan Kujundzic. The film will be followed by a question and answer session with Dragan Kujundzic and J. Hillis Miller. Marcus Merriman Lecture Theatre, 6pm. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4068/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4068/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 31 May 20126.00 pm2012-06-012012-05-31 In May 2012, J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, will be visiting Lancaster. We are proud to host (with the Department of Linguistics and English Language) a series of events on his thought and work. Friday 1st June International Symposium: J. Hillis Miller and the Theory to ComeAn international symposium on the thought of J. Hillis Miller with keynote lectures from J. Hillis Miller and Dragan KujundzicLICA Auditorium, 9.30am - 4.30pm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4069/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4069/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 1 June 20129.30 am-4.30 pm2012-06-022012-06-01 Professor Jenny Bimrose Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick Skills & competencies required by career practitioners to develop internet-based practice The increased use of technology by young people is placing new demands on career practitioners. In parallel, the current policy context emphasises the need to exploit the potential of new technologies and integrate their use into all aspects of career guidance practice. Implicit is the assumption that its introduction will not only extend access to services by clients and customers by increasing the flexibility of delivery methods, but that it will also help reduce costs by lowering the demand for face-to-face support. A small-scale, mixed-methods research study explored the skills and competencies required by career practitioners to deliver internet-based career guidance to young people and, importantly, gave young people the opportunity to express their views about how they want information and communication technologies (ICT) to be used in the future to deliver guidance services. Fieldwork involved 46 young people and 17 practitioners, together with the managers of services, across six dispersed geographical locations in England. Data were gathered from October to November 2009, using investigative frameworks developed from, and grounded in, the research literature. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4011/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4011/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 6 June 201212.30 - 2.00 p.m.2012-06-072012-06-06 Postgraduate students from within the Department will be presenting work based on their current research. Please come and join us! PROGRAMME* 12.30 - 13.10 The Search for Truth, Justice and Reconciliation by Charlotte Hall. Discussant: Amit Thakkar 13.10 - 13.50 Popular Culture and Intertextuality in the German translation of the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Nicholas Peat. Discussant: Rebecca Braun 13.50 - 14.30 A new Rhythmanalysis by Andrew Otway. Discussant: Graham Bartram 14.30 - 15.00 COFFEE BREAK 15.00 - 15.40 E.M. Forster's 'Aspects of the novel' as an operative framework to read Francesc Trabal by Nin Sauleda-Brossa. Discussant: Carmen Rios Garcia 15.40 - 16.20 The Europeanisation of policy ideas? A quantitative media analysis of the debate about the Common Agricultural Policy in the German and Spanish press by Ulrike Zschache. Discussant: Kostas Maronitis 16.20 - 16.45 Writing my Thesis: Discoveries along the wayAn informal talk by Ian Seed. Discussant: Cornelia Gräbner * Please note that the programme may undergo minor changes http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4061/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4061/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 6 June 201212.30 - 4.45 pm2012-06-072012-06-06 Seminar byBarbara Creed, Professor of Cinema Studies in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3986/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3986/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 11 June 201215.00-16.30 pm2012-06-122012-06-11 Allyson Fiddler will give a short introduction to the 'Piano Teacher' material before a screening of Haneke's 2001 film of that name. The Piano Teacher scooped the Grand Prix in Cannes as well as the prizes for best actor (Benoît Magimel) and best actress (Isabelle Huppert). Haneke's film adapts the most widely known novel of Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Elfriede Jelinek. Tickets can be obtained from the webpages of the Dukes Cinema http://www.dukes-lancaster.org/ or by ringing the box office on: 01524 598500. The Dukes event helps Lancaster University to kick off its Jelinek Season and points forward to the first ever conference on Jelinek in the UK (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/jelinek/) and to the world premičre of her 'Sports Play' in a translation by Penny Black (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/jelinek/theatre-performance.htm). Both events are generously sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum, London. http://www.acflondon.org/ v http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4060/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4060/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 11 June 20128.20 pm2012-07-152012-06-11 Denis Murphy, Professor of Biotechnology at Glamorgan University with over 290 scientific publications, 150 in international refereed journals Over the next few decades, the world will face serious challenges in maintaining adequate food production. Meeting these challenges will require increasing use of and/or intensification of land use for crop production. Different regions of the world are deploying different strategies, this presentation examines recent developments on oil palm genomics in South East Asia and how this impacts on an array of socio-economic-biological strategies such as biofuel investment, rainforest and peatland conservation policy implementation. Other major impacts contemplated are on the economic development of indigenous peoples, their climate change adaptation strategies and their sustainability agenda. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3988/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3988/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 12 June 201213.00-15.00pm2012-06-132012-06-12 Department of European Languages and Cultures Research Seminar Series Ewa Hanna Mazierska (UCLAN) Želimir Žilnik and the concept of Independent Cinema http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4021/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4021/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 13 June 20121.00 pm2012-06-142012-06-13 SLLAT Research Group Talk by Alan Waters, Dept. of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University AbstractThere are two main levels at which trends in ELT methods and methodology can be identified. One is in terms of the theoretical pronouncements of the 'professional discourse', as manifested by major publications, conference presentations, and so on. This talk therefore begins by briefly summarising the nature of developments of this kind from 1995 onwards. In this respect, the period as a whole is seen to be characterised primarily by increased advocacy of a 'communicating to learn' approach. However, methods and methodology also exist, of course, and to a much greater extent, in the form of actual classroom practice. The attempt is therefore made to characterise developments since 1995 at this level as well, by comparing earlier and more recent editions of a unit from a widely-used international ELT coursebook. Their methodology is seen to have remained relatively similar, and, in contrast to the theoretical level, to have taken a mainly 'learning to communicate' orientation. The talk concludes by also considering whether future developments in the area are likely to continue to present a similar, contradictory picture, and why. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4055/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4055/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 13 June 201203.30-05.00 pm2012-06-142012-06-13 In a period of economic constraint, policy actors are continually searching for new ways of reaching their complex goals and new partners for achieving them. Lancaster University has a long history of engaging with policy actors. The new Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion (PPR) wants to build on this tradition by hosting a 'dialogue session' with Northwest policy actors, non-governmental organisations and policy oriented groups. Each of the day's sessions will begin with a brief introduction to who we are, what we do and what we think we (and our students!) can offer you. Following these introductions, we are keen to listen to your needs, ideas and proposals to see how we can combine our efforts to make the most out of our potential 'knowledge exchange' and help to significantly improve the policy capacity in the Northwest. 12.30-1.30 Lunch served 1.30-2.15 Who we are, what we do and a Complex 'Collaborative' Proposal Professor Robert Geyer, Head of PPR; Ellie Brooks, ESRC-funded PhD Student Why a Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion? What are we doing now and what are our plans for the future? A brief introduction to a Complex 'Collaborative' Proposal. 2.15-3.00 Engaging with you Dr Martin Steven, PPR; Joe Bourne, LUSU INVOLVE In addition to our academic strengths, PPR has a tremendous group of energetic, motivated and intelligent students that are keen to be involved in the 'real world'. In this session, we will briefly outline some of the opportunities that are already in place and our plans to develop more. 3.00-3.15 Coffee 3.15-4.00 Engaging with us Dr Patrick Bishop, Director of Postgraduate Studies We are developing new programmes in Continuing Professional Development, public policy and Masters of Public Administration. Help us make these fit your needs. 4.00-4.30 Collaborative Engagement Professor Chris May, Associate Dean for Enterprise; Joe Buglass, Enterprise Officer The best policy making is collaborative policy making that includes all relevant stakeholders. Using our research to support policy decision-making and our ability to bring these actors together is what collaborative engagement is all about. Help us to build this vision at Lancaster. Please RSVP to Helen Caton (h.caton@lancaster.ac.uk, 01524 594260) by Monday 11th June and contact Dr. Martin Steven (m.steven@lancaster.ac.uk, 01524 592854) if you have any questions.The Conference venue is on the Lancaster University campus. There is free parking at the Hotel and directions can be found at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/contact-and-getting-here/maps-and-travel/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4071/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4071/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 15 June 201212.30 - 16:30 pm2012-06-162012-06-15 Professor John Holmwood of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham and the incoming President of the British Sociological Association (BSA) will give a public lecture on "Knowledge Regimes, Public Higher Education and the Future of Social Sciences".He is the editor of A Manifesto for the Public University (Bloomsbury). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4062/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4062/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 18 June 20124.00pm-6.00pm2012-06-192012-06-18 The Centre for Disability Research and theCentre for Gender and Women's Studies arejointly hosting a visit by Rosemarie Garland-ThomsonProfessor of Women's StudiesEmory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Rosemarie's fields of study are disability studies, feminist theory, and Americanliterature. Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing thefield of disability studies in the humanities and in women's studies.The seminar is open to all but it would be helpful if you could register your attendance with cedr@lancaster.ac.ukRosemarie has provided a supporting article for her talk which will be circulated in advance to all those who register. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4064/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4064/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 18 June 201215.30-17.00 pm2012-06-192012-06-18 This is a post-graduate workshop but open to all. Please register your attendance by emailing cedr@lancaster.ac.uk. There is a supporting paper that will be circulated to those who register.The Centre for Disability Research and theCentre for Gender and Women's Studies arejointly hosting a visit byRosemarie Garland-Thomson Professor of Women's StudiesEmory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.Rosemarie's fields of study are disability studies, feminist theory, and Americanliterature. Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing thefield of disability studies in the humanities and in women's studies. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4065/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4065/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 19 June 201214.00-16.002012-06-202012-06-19 History & Music Seminars/Lectures - Sponsored by the History Department Three Summer Seminars for PG Students to be followed by an Inaugural Lecture by Distinguished Professor Michael Beckerman, History Department, Lancaster, and Chair of the Music Dept, NYU In a series of three seminars and an inaugural lecture Professor Michael Beckerman will explore the connection between music, sound, and the rest of the world. The first seminar "The History of Sound and the Sound of History"looks at new research in the history of sound and sound recording and explores recent efforts to use sound as a way of understanding the past. "Everything a Historian Needs to Know About Music," the second seminar, is an attempt to give historians, especially those who are non-musicians, a general grasp of basic concepts of musical form, style, history, and suggest ways in which such things might be used in historical investigation. The third seminar, "Musical Form and Censorship in the Terezin Concentration Camp: Summer 1944" charts the way in which censorship and violence imprint themselves in various ways on both the details and the formal construction of musical works composed in the camp. Finally, a public lecture, "Black Sources in Epic and Miniature From the 'New World' Symphony to 'Happy Birthday'" explores the "collaborative" project of Antonin Dvorak and Mildred Hill. Both Dvorak in his symphony and Hill in "Happy Birthday" embed fragments of Black music for expressive, structural and political purposes as part a project to build a new kind of American music. Inaugural Lecture: June 22nd, Friday (Venue and Time: TBA): Black Sources in Epic and Miniature from the 'New World' Symphony to 'Happy Birthday.' PG Seminars (venue and time TBA) 1. June 19th, 2012 Tuesday The History of Sound and the Sound of History. This seminar/class/lecture (whatever you want to call it) looks at new research in the history of sound and sound recording and explores recent efforts to use sound as a way of understanding the past. 2. June 20th, 2012, Wednesday Everything a Historian Needs to Know About Music. This is an attempt to give historians, especially those who are non-musicians, a general grasp of basic concepts of musical form, style, history, and suggest ways in which the investigation of musical works is similar to the broad task of the historian. 3. June 21st, 2012, Thursday Musical Form and Censorship in the Terezin Concentration Camp, Summer 1944. This third seminar charts the way in which censorship and violence imprint themselves in various ways on both the details and the formal construction of musical works composed in the camp. Professor Michael Beckerman is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music atNew York University and Distinguished Professor in the History Department at Lancaster University. His research interests include>Czech and Eastern European music, Janacek, Dvorak, Martinu, nationalism, Gypsies, Mozart, Brahms, Gilbert and Sullivan, Schubert, and film music. He received the Janacek Medal from theCzechRepublicand is a Laureate of the Czech Music Council. He lectures widely and writes regularly for the New York Times. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4073/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4073/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 19 - 22 June 2012tbc2012-06-232012-06-19 With what language can we describe the politics of the Earth? 'Geopolitics' should be the name of that language; yet the geopolitical lexicon is strangely lacking in any reference to the Earth System, to its structures and resistances, its deep time and its sudden upheavals. In recent decades, social and political theory has undertaken a number of biological turns, giving rise for example to political ecology, ecological economics and theories of biopolitics. But, despite Deleuze and Guattari's exploration of 'geophilosophy', and Elizabeth Grosz's recent discussion of 'geopower', there has been no comparable geological turn: no concerted inquiry into the ways that the geophysical, as much as the biological, conditions what politics is and can be. However, debates around the advent of the Anthropocene epoch seem to mark a growing recognition of humankind as a geological force. At the same time, unregenerate seismic, volcanic and other geomorphological forces attest to the limits of the human, and point to our eventual mineral fate - but also can be seen as powers that propel and incite human agency, not least in the form of fossilised hydrocarbons. This workshop will explore the possibilities for a political vocabulary that can articulate the geophysical dimensions of politics and the political dimensions of the geophysical. We will touch on domains and structures such as tectonic plates and rock, fossils and soil, air and water, life and bodies, and on phenomena such as erosion, (de)stratification, flow and viscosity, in order to think the politics of an Earth that is constantly in becoming and in formation. Speakers will include: Nigel Clark (Open University), Deborah Dixon (Aberystwyth University), Stuart Elden (Durham University), Myra Hird (Queen's University, Canada), Arun Saldanha (University of Minnesota), Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) and Kathryn Yusoff (Lancaster University). Download poster here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4050/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4050/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 21 June 201211.00-17.002012-06-222012-06-21 The Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLAT) research group are pleased to announce the following presentation: TESOL Research and Practice: Teachers' and Teacher Educators' Perspectives Parvaneh Tavakoli Although the divide between TESOL research and practice has been documented for a few decades and is often referred to as a "damaging split" (Allwright, 2005) or an "already significant, perhaps growing divide" (Belcher, 2007), there has not been much empirical research to provide evidence on teachers' and teacher educators' views and beliefs about the relationship between research and practice. Little is known about why this divide has emerged or what contributes to its development. This talk aims to provide an overview of the literature in this area and will complement it with the findings of a recent research project that focused on investigating teachers' and teacher educators' views on their engagement with research and its usefulness in their practices. In the research project reported in this talk, a sequential mixed-method approach was adopted in which a total of 70 TESOL teachers and 10 teacher trainers from different teaching contexts and educational backgrounds in England participated by responding to a questionnaire or taking part in an interview. The results clearly suggest that although their views on research and its usefulness are positive, teachers are mainly sceptical about the practicality and relevance of L2 research, and hesitate about what research could offer them. Wenger's (1998) Community of Practice (CoP) is adopted as a conceptual framework in order to help understand teachers' views and beliefs about the relationship, relevance and association between research and practice and in portraying their reflections on their own professional experiences. The results of the analysis suggest that the teachers perceive both a gap between research and practice and a divide between researchers and practitioners and claim that they are often working towards divergent goals. Teachers continually use their different trajectories, identity and learning experiences to highlight this separation and allude to issues of membership and legitimate peripheral participation to distinguish the two communities. The initial analysis of the interviews with teacher educators implies that the research element in the current training programmes is restricted and that teacher engagement with research is not an essential requirement of the training programs. These results have significant implications for researchers, teacher training programmes and other mediatory institutions. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4046/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4046/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 27 June 20123.30-5.00 pm2012-06-282012-06-27 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 4-7 July 20120.00-0.00 pm2012-07-082012-07-04 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4019/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4019/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 4 July 201210.30 - 16.302012-07-052012-07-04 The UCREL research centre is pleased to announce its second Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. This will take place on Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th, and Thursday 12th July 2011 (half-days Tuesday and Thursday, full-day Wednesday). A provisional programme is available here.The event is free to attend, but registration in advance is compulsory, as places are limited.The UCREL Summer School is intended primarily for postgraduate research students (and secondarily for Masters-level students and postdoctoral researchers) who require in-depth knowledge of corpus-based methodologies for their degree projects. It is not aimed at raw beginners, but rather at PhD students who have at least some introductory experience of analysis using language corpora, and who wish to expand their knowledge of key issues and techniques in cutting-edge corpus research.The programme consists of a series of intensive two-hour sessions, some involving practical work, others more discussion-oriented. Tutors include Paul Baker, Jonathan Culpeper, Costas Gabrielatos, Andrew Hardie, Geoffrey Leech, Tony McEnery, Paul Rayson, and Andrew Wilson.How to registerAll PhD students who feel they would benefit from attending the UCREL Summer School are invited to apply for a place. UK and overseas students are equally eligible.Postdoctoral researchers and Masters-degree-level students are also welcome to apply, but in the event of excess demand, priority will be given to PhD students. Otherwise, places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.As noted above, there is no fee for attending; however participants will be responsible for arranging their own travel, accommodation, and food (lunch will be provided on the full day of Wednesday 11th July). Some links to possibly useful information on travel and accommodation are given below.To apply for a place in the Summer School, you should fill in this registration form: available in RTF format for completion on computer, in PDF format for printing out.Once you have completed the form, return it to Amanda Potts by email (preferably; to a.potts@lancaster.ac.uk) or by post (if necessary) at the following address:Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YT, United Kingdom.In addition to sending in the form, we also require your supervisor to write to us briefly, confirming that they support your application and that they expect your PhD research to benefit from attending the UCREL Summer School. This letter in support should also be directed to Amanda Potts, again preferably by email. (If you are a postdoctoral researcher, please ask your Principal Investigator or other research team leader to write in support of your application.)Your application is not complete until we have received both your formandthe letter from your supervisor.The deadline for registrations is the 25th May 2012.Any queries about the UCREL Summer School can also be sent to Amanda Potts who is the main contact person for the event. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4031/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4031/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 10 to 12 July 20129.00 - 6.002012-07-142012-07-10 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 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: The cost of registration 1 Day rate: £45 (£35 for students or the unwaged) which includes registration fee, lunch and refreshments throughout. 2 Day rate: £65 (£55 for students or the unwaged) which includes registration fee, lunch and refreshments throughout. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3960/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3960/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 4th & 5th September 20129.00-18:00 pm2012-09-062012-09-04 The Lancaster disability studies conferences have brought together researchers, practitioners, policy makers and activists from around the world, to share and debate research, ideas and developments in disability studies. 2012 will be the sixth Lancaster Disability Studies Conference. Confirmed keynote speakers are:Chris Grover, Lancaster University, UK.Rob Imrie, Kings College London, UK.Kristjana Kristiansen, NTNU, Norway.Sonali Shah, Leeds University, UKOnline bookingis now available via theLancaster University Online Store.Early bird fees available until 15th June.Delegate fees have been held at 2010 prices.Bookings will close on 30th July. More information can be found on thebooking informationpage. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4015/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4015/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 11 September 201211.302012-09-142012-09-11 The Lancaster disability studies conferences have brought together researchers, practitioners, policy makers and activists from around the world, to share and debate research, ideas and developments in disability studies. 2012 will be the sixth Lancaster Disability Studies Conference. Confirmed keynote speakers are:Chris Grover, Lancaster University, UK.Rob Imrie, Kings College London, UK.Kristjana Kristiansen, NTNU, Norway.Sonali Shah, Leeds University, UKOnline bookingis now available via theLancaster University Online Store.Early bird fees available until 15th June.Delegate fees have been held at 2010 prices.Bookings will close on 30th July. More information can be found on thebooking informationpage. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4016/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4016/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 11 September 201211.302012-09-142012-09-11 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 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, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 29 January 201309.30 - 17.002013-01-302013-01-29 Twitter and other micro-blogging platforms, with their short messages, in some cases circulated to millions of followers, were at first viewed with condescension and amusement: famously David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, opined, "Too many tweets make a twat." Other media initially treated Twitter as offering platforms for celebrities, pools of banality, streams of dumbed-down opinions. But people using Twitter quickly found an enormous range of diverse uses, revelling in opportunities for creativity that microblogging and associated applications offered. People involved Twitter in organising revolutions, disseminating scientific findings, promoting brands, communicating with friends and crafting new forms of artistic endeavours and communications. Where Twitter is not allowed, as in China, other microblogging platforms have taken on similar functions. This conference brings together a range of researchers doing detailed analyses of the discourse, practices, and social interactions of microblogging communities. Possible topics for submission may include: Microblogging and political activism Constructing knowledge in short messages Identities and relationships in contact and conflict Studying multimodality in microblogging Tweeting in action beyond Twitter Negotiating the information flow Affordances, emerging practices and creativity Studying the discourses of professional microblogging use Wit and humour We will be inviting presentation in three formats: • Single paper spoken presentations - 20 minutes • Visual presentations (posters) • Colloquia of three or more linked presentations We expect there to be a lively social media backchannel during the conference. Twitter feeds relating to the conference as a whole and individual sessions will provide the basis for regular discussion sections linking the various strands and sessions. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4059/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4059/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:09:53 +0100 10 April 2013-12 April 20132013-04-132013-04-10