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 History is Fantasy: An Alternative Curriculum. Prioritising notions of Nation, State and the creation of a 'British' identity, Michael Gove's revised education curriculum attempts to (re)establish the constraining nationalistic borders of 'Us' and 'Them'. Britain is considered a pivotal point at the centre of its own self-constructed sphere of influence. Europe and the rest of the World are deemed secondary as areas to be influenced and dominated. Their historical narratives are exiled. 'Nationhood' is founded in and regulated by language. Mainstream histories are constructed through the (re)telling of dominant discourses through power and institutions. Consequently 'smaller or weaker countries have difficulty in making their voices heard, and dead kingdoms have almost no advocates at all'. Some histories are marginalised while others are obliterated completely. Thus the Nation is a fictitious entity comprised of distorted truths and hidden agendas. History is about how these stories are articulated and are subsequently remembered. This workshop aims to provide a space where the alternative histories of popular culture, media, literature, and fantasy worlds can be discussed. The papers provided will trace conceptual thought through objects of contemporary culture, providing different perspectives on how scholars view and mobilise their chosen subjects. Turning away from Gove's prevailing conventional lens the workshop essentially questions: How would the histories of fantasy worlds read? http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4396/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4396/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 24 May 201310am - 5pm2013-05-262013-05-01 Photographic Exhibition: 'Dear Lancaster'. James Perry, a third-year honours History student, has curated a photographic exhibition on display at the Lancaster University Library from April 24th to June 26th 2013. This exhibition was created as part of James' Special Subject (a third-year module), 'How the Camera Changed the World - The Photographic Image in History'. The exhibition blends the past with the present through the medium of photography and seeks to highlight both social change and architectural continuity.The exhibition is accompanied by a book which is on-sale from the exhibition website and from the library. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4397/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4397/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 24 April 2013 - 26 June 20132013-06-282013-05-01 ABSTRACT My talk will reflect on outcomes of using metaphor as a research tool in a five-year project on empathy. Empathy is characterized as activity that tries to understand the feelings and thinking of another person, from their perspective. Metaphor analysis was used as a central method in investigating empathy in contexts of violence and conflict, with spoken data from UK, N Ireland, USA, Brazil, and Kenya. Firstly, I will elaborate my hypothesis that 'metaphor favours the negative', and show how metaphors particularly contribute to the construction of negative alternative scenarios that speakers use to justify particular choices. Secondly, I will discuss 'social landscape metaphors' that apply physical locational vehicles to social phenomena, such as divided communities or (9/11) is close to home. I show how people's embodied social interactions on local landscapes provide the basis for metaphors they use in moral reasoning about other people, and how metaphors of boundaries and home construct emotional responses to fear of violence. Thirdly, I will show how findings from metaphor analysis are informing my choices as I build a dynamic model of empathy in dialogue. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4412/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4412/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 20 May 20131.00-2.00 pm2013-05-212013-05-20 Poems are often found in public spaces: they are inscribed on buildings or recited in public transport, and poets occupy public squares or public buildings to contest hegemonic discourses and methods of distribution. Conversely, the experience of public spaces is often to be found in poems: the rhythms of poems pick up those of the cities that surround them, and landscapes or built environments find their ways into metaphoricity by way of imagery. Public space becomes a home to poems that embrace medial hybridity, heteroglossia, and interdiscursivity. The role of the poet is remade by poetry in public space, especially where poetry moves away from lyrical subjectivity and instead, pluralizes voice, introduces rhetorical and persuasive devices and, in short, emphasizes alterity over identity, and plurality and difference over singularity. This opens up poetry to social movements, who draw on poetic language as an alternative to hegemonic political discourses. The interdisciplinary workshop Contemporary Poetry in the Public Spaces at Lancaster brings together researchers from the UK and Canada for an afternoon of presentations and debates on Contemporary poetry in the public space. Contributions address poetics, poetry and poetic practices from the Americas and Europe, through an interdisciplinary and comparative framework and from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Keynote Lecture: Professor Daniel Chamberlain, Queens University: Radical Meeting Places, Poetry and the Public Domain This event is supported by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and by the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4376/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4376/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 22 May 20139:30 am - 5:00 pm2013-05-232013-05-22 The Language, Ideology and Power (LIP) Research Group is pleased to welcome Kristiina Kuslapuu (University of Tartu) who will give a talk entitled:"Debate on Socioeconomic Issues in Recent Media Discourse in Estonia"Wednesday 22 May, 5-6 pmALL WELCOME http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4416/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4416/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 22 May 20135-6 pm2013-05-232013-05-22 Theorising Surfaces: An Interdisciplinary Seminar Friday 24th May, The Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster, 10.00-17.00Places are limited. To register by 21st May: http://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=394 Confirmed speakers:- Patricia Cahill, English, Emory University, USA'Surface impressions: Skin terrors and textures in early modern moor plays'http://english.emory.edu/people/faculty/cahill.htm - Sarah Casey, Contemporary Art, Lancaster Universityhttp://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/sarah-casey(8fa2bbc9-ea4d-446f-a320-c6a8f1443735).html - Tim Ingold, Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK'Beyond superficiality and depth: Surfaces and the interstices of things' http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/wap001/staff/details.php?id=tim.ingold- Celia Lury, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK'Interface methods and folded surfaces'http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/staff/lury/ - Daniel Rozin, Interactive Digital Art, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USAhttp://www.smoothware.com/danny/ - Jen Southern, Sociology and Digital Arts, Lancaster University, UKhttp://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/Jennifer-Southern/ - Kathryn Yusoff, Geography and Environment, Lancaster University UK'Subterranean surfaces in the Anthropocene'http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/people/Kathryn_YusoffOn Thursday 23rd May, 14.00 - 16.30, there will also be a workshop open to Lancaster staff and students, where those interested in surfaces can present 10 minute 'position papers'. Please send a 200 word abstract by Monday 6th May to the organisers:rebecca.coleman@lancaster.ac.uke.oakley-brown@lancaster.ac.ukThe aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars at Lancaster who work on surfaces in different disciplines and from different approaches. If you are interested in attending, please contact Beckie and Liz.Accompanying the seminar is theSurfaces in the Making exhibition, The Reading Room, The Storey, 11.00-17.00,24th May - 1st June (excluding Sunday 26th).There is an exhibition opening, Thursday 23rd May, 18.00, The Storey. All welcome!This free exhibition explores ways of working on and with surfaces, and features work by:Daniel Rozin(ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University)Rozin works in the area of interactive digital art, creating installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer.http://www.smoothware.com/danny/Sarah Casey(Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University)Casey is primarily engaged in making drawings that test the limits of visibility and material existence.http://drawingthedelicate.blogspot.co.uk/http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/sarah-casey(8fa2bbc9-ea4d-446f-a320-c6a8f1443735).htmlKaren Shepherdson(Media, Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University)Shepherdson's work repeatedly examines both geographical and human liminal spaces through the photographic and mixed-media.http://www.karenshepherdson.com/karenshepherdson.com/Home.htmlJen Southern(Sociology, Lancaster University)Southern and her collaborators work with hybrid places as lived environments, experimenting with the idea of what it might mean to inhabit media.http://www.theportable.tv/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4294/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4294/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 23 - 24 May 20132013-05-252013-05-23 UCREL Corpus Research SeminarUncovering Complex Facts in Natural-language DocumentsColleen E. CrangleThis talk is about text data mining, specifically about automated methods of discovering complex facts in documents. Applications include biomedical research where articles appear in the scientific literature faster than the scientific community can compile the findings in them. Articles on cellular processes alone, for example, have grown over the past ten years from approximately 9,000 to more than 20,000 a year. Other applications lie in the analysis of large amounts of unstructured text data, such as email exchanges or collections of news stories, to find evidence of a topic or idea not previously noticed. What is needed is not simply a tool to find snippets of data in a document, but a tool that can unearth complex facts synthesized from several places in and across documents.The starting point for this work is the idea that natural-language documents can be treated as time-series data - that is, modeled as sets of stochastic processes - in order to uncover important semantic information in them. Time-series data consist of sequences of data points for which there is a natural one-way ordering; well-known examples are acoustic data, economic data, hydrology data, and time-varying biological data from sensors such as electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms. Two defining characteristics of time-series data apply directly to natural-language data. First, data points close together in time are more closely related than those further apart; in language, words close together constitute the syntactic structures that give form and meaning to language, and meaningful passages are made up of contiguous sentences and paragraphs. Second, in time-series data the values of data points for a given period depend in some way on the values of earlier data points. The intrinsic temporal order of natural language means that complex facts are built up from the words and sentences, paragraphs and sections as they follow one another in text.In text data mining, a document is typically represented as a "bag of words." All occurrences of a word in a document are counted and the collection of frequency counts for the words of interest represents the document. With this approach all temporal structure in the occurrences of the words is lost. Document representations are needed that better capture the patterns of distribution of significant concepts throughout the document. This talk presents new such methods of document representation and shows how they lead to the identification of complex facts in document collections. Examples are drawn from biomedical articles and news stories.Colleen E Crangle is currently the Fulbright-Lancaster STEM Science and Technology Scholar at Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom (January to July 2013). Her home institution is CONVERSPEECH, a small business in Palo Alto, California that provides computational analyses of text, spoken language, and neurolinguistic data. She is an affiliated scholar with the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. She has a PhD in Logic, Philosophy of Language and Science from Stanford, and MSc and BSc degrees in computer science and mathematics. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4418/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4418/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 23 May 20132.00-3:00 pm2013-05-242013-05-23 'Politics, Sovereignty and Indecision' - a public lecture by Simon Critchley6pm, Tuesday 28th May, Cavendish Lecture Theatre. All welcome. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4344/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4344/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 28 May 20136.00 pm2013-05-292013-05-28 Graduate Seminar with Simon Critchley http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4345/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4345/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 28 May 20132.00 - 4.00 pm2013-05-292013-05-28 Professor Gemma Moss Professor of Education Department of Humanities and Social Science Institute of Education, University of London Taking numbers to task: exploring PISA data on reading engagement This paper will consider whether qualitative research traditions can interact with quantitative traditions in ways that work for the common good. To date, critical exploration of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data and their role in policy discourse has tended to focus either on the reliability of the test instruments employed to assess participants' literacy levels; or on the use of the findings, expressed as country by country rank orderings, within policy discourse. By contrast this paper will consider PISA data as an example of specialised knowledge making that travels out into policy domains, in the process losing the caveats, qualifications and uncertainties that characterise statistical thinking. The paper will focus on the use of the term "reading engagement", as a key variable that explains variation in reading performance in the OECD reports, exploring how far this acts as a case study for the social construction of statistical data. The paper will conclude by asking when and under what terms numerical data have a useful function to play; and the role qualitative research traditions have in making this happen. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4369/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4369/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 28 May 201313.00-14.002013-05-292013-05-28 At this joint event organised by the Literacy Research Discussion Group and the Language, Identity & Power Group at the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Educational Research, Gemma Moss, Institute of Education, University of London, will be "Taking numbers to task": This paper will consider whetherqualitative research traditions can interact with quantitative traditions in ways that work for the common good. To date, critical exploration of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data and their role in policy discourse hastended tofocus eitheron the reliability of the test instruments employed to assess participants' literacy levels; or on the use of the findings, expressed as country by country rank orderings,within policy discourse. By contrast this paper willconsider PISA data as an example of specialised knowledge making that travels out into policy domains, in the process losing the caveats, qualifications and uncertainties that characterise statistical thinking.The paper will focus on the use ofthe term"reading engagement",asa key variablethat explains variation in reading performance in the OECD reports,exploring how far this actsas a case studyfor the social construction of statistical data. The paper will conclude by asking when and under what terms numerical data have a useful function to play; andthe rolequalitative research traditions have in making this happen. NB: Different venue: B89 (Video Conferencing Room), County South http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4409/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4409/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 28 May 20131 - 2 pm2013-05-292013-05-28 Dr John Potter London Knowledge Lab Department of Culture, Communication and Media Institute of Education University of London Researching digital media and learner lives This seminar, based on a series of case studies with younger learners, explores the arguments for shifting the focus of research into education and technology away from specific devices and artefacts and into an engagement with the lived culture and new literacy practices of the digital age. I will draw on a set of research experiences, tracing the trajectory from a doctoral study of young children's video-editing practices through to others which research both learner lives and the possible interrelationships between media production and educational experiences. There will be opportunities to look at research data, videos and other kinds of work by children and young people, particularly those in which children are agentive in cultural forms which are significant to them. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4131/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4131/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 29 May 201312.30 - 2.00 p.m.2013-05-302013-05-29 The Tragic: A Symposium with Simon Critchley Programme: > 9.30am - Opening Plenary 'Jesus and Tragedy' Terry Eagleton (Distinguished Professor of English, Lancaster University) 10.45am - Tea and Coffee Break 11.15am - Panel 1 'Unbearable Life: Tragedy, Sovereignty, Biopolitics' Arthur Bradley (Reader in Comparative Literature, Lancaster University) 'After Tragedy: Bush, Blair and the Baroque' Michael Dillon (Professor Emeritus of Politics, Lancaster University) 'Critchley versus Cavanaugh' Charlie Gere (Professor of Media Theory and History, Lancaster University) 12.30pm - Lunch 2pm - Panel 2 'Touching the Tragic in Elizabethan England' Liz Oakley-Brown (Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies, Lancaster University) 'Wallace Stevens: Reinventing the Real' Tony Sharpe (Senior Lecturer in English, Lancaster University) 'Orpheus/Transmitting: The International Necronautical Society's Death Trip' Brian Baker (Lecturer in English, Lancaster University) 3.15pm - Tea and Coffee Break 3.45 - Keynote Lecture 'The Hamlet Doctrine' Simon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, The New School of Social Research, New York). 5pm - Round Table Discussion on Tragedy Simon Critchley Michael Dillon Terry Eagleton Alison Findlay Chaired by John Schad (Professor of Modern Literature, Lancaster University) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4346/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4346/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 29 May 20139.00 am-6.00 pm2013-05-302013-05-29 The 2013 CeMoRe Research Day is an informal event at which staff and research students associated with CeMoRe can present and get feedback on their research. Short papers (20 minutes) present research results, research in progress or ideas for new projects. All aspects of mobilities research are covered from a wide range of disciplines. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4372/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4372/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 29 May 20139.30am to 5pm2013-05-302013-05-29 Keith Wrightson, FBA, Ralph W. Townsend Professor of History at Yale University, and formerly Professor of Social History at Cambridge University, will be visiting the History Department on 29th and 30th May 2013. He will be giving a research seminar paper, a postgraduate masterclass and a public lecture. All are welcome to these events: Wed 29th May, 5pm, FASS MR 2: 'On or About: Dating Events in the Early Modern North East' Thu 30th May, 11am-1pm, Bowland Main B137: PG Masterclass 'Reconstructing Neighbourhood in Early Modern London: The Evidence of Church Court Depositions'. All PG students are welcome to attend the masterclass. Please contact the PG Director in History, Dr Deborah Sutton (d.sutton@lancaster.ac.uk) for copies of readings. Thu 30th May, 5pm, FASS MR 2/3: 'All Present and Hearing: The Common People in the Age of Elizabeth I.' Wine reception to follow. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4398/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4398/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 29 May 20135.00 pm2013-05-312013-05-29 Amanda Holt will be joining the Law School from the University of Portsmouth on 1st September. Her current research projects address adolescent-to-parent abuse, anti-violence strategies in schools and pluralities in qualitative data analysis and her research interests are: Youth justice Families and Crime Qualitative methodologies Critical Psychology Psychosocial Criminology Everyone is very welcome to attend http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4403/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4403/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 30 May 20132.00 pm2013-05-312013-05-30 UCREL Corpus Research Seminar"To any count, to all counts, to what is man": finding patterns of gender in Early Modern playsHeather Froelich (University of Strathclyde)The statistical computation of possible collocates creates a distance view of the Shakespeare corpus as a whole. To produce a close reading of these examples in context, I use various digital tools including WordHoard, AntConc, Open Source Shakespeare, the Oxford English Dictionary and Historical Thesaurus of the OED to create a cross-section of gender. In this paper I select highly prototypically gendered nouns which illustrate high, neutral, and low formality: lord/lady, man/woman, knave/wench. These specific nouns have been culled from both intuition and representative collocational patterns in Shakespeare while remaining illustrative of highly prototypical titles and social roles relevant to the early modern period.I aim to identify some salient patterns of gender representation across a model corpus of Early Modern Drama by highlighting a number of collocational patterns which construct both gender and formality in the Shakespeare corpus. I hypothesize that formality levels will be consistently represented in relationship to female characters rather than male characters, but from this process I ultimately suggest that a formality distinction is closely tied to femininity, rather than masculinity, in Shakespeare. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4419/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4419/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 30 May 20132.00-3:00 pm2013-05-312013-05-30 Schedule 13:00 - 14.30 Wellcome Trust Funding Talk · Opening Presentation on the Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Programme - Paul Woodgate (Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Adviser) · Senior Investigator Award In Medical Humanities 'The Donation and Transfer of Human Reproductive Materials' - Professor Stephen Wilkinson (PPR) · Wellcome Trust Funding Opportunities - Paul Woodgate (Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Programme Adviser) · Question and Answer Session 14:30 - 16:30 Individual "Clinic" Meetings Following the presentation a series of one-to-one clinic meetings will be available for staff to talk to Paul Woodgate on an individual basis. These will be of interest if you either have or are interested in applying for Wellcome Trust funding. Clinic meetings will take place in the FASS Building, Meeting Room 5. > http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4390/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4390/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 3 June 20131.00 pm2013-06-042013-06-03 The Department of History will be running a three-day programme of lectures, discussions and live performances on Roma music and history, led by Professor Michael Beckerman. All lectures will be held in Bowland North SR 26, and alnyone iswelcome to attend. Monday, June 3rd 2PM Prof. Judith Okely (University of Oxford/University of Hull), 'Historical and Ethnographic research on the Romany Gypsies, Travellers and Roma' 3:30 PM Siv Lie (New York University), 'Fieldwork as History, History as Fieldwork' Tuesday, June 4th 2 pm Prof Michael Beckerman (Lancaster/New York University), 'The Search for Roma as the Search for History' 3:30 pm Petra Gelbart (New York University) and Michael Beckerman, 'Roma, Music, Holocaust/Porajmos, Memory' Concert 7:30 pm: The Storey Institute in The Music Room "From'Gypsiness'to Romani Music" (Mike Beckerman, Petra Gelbart, Siv Lie) Wednesday, June 5th 2 pm Siv Lie '"Everyoneis proud of Django!": Cultural Politics and Romani Representation in Jazz Manouche'? 3:30 pm Lecture discussion on Django, Jazz and Gypsiness Concert 7:30 pm: The Storey Institute in The Music Room "Django's Legacy" (Special Guests: Lollo Meier, Samuel C Lees and Friends) The concerts are open to everybody but please email v.longden1@lancaster.ac.uk to confirm attendance for which day/days and numbers in your party. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4404/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4404/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 3 June 20132.00-3.302013-06-062013-06-03 . . . . . . Dr Sondra Cuban Senior Lecturer Department of Educational Research 'Transnational Families Caring and Learning Through ICTs' This paper focuses on findings from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) study concerning the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among 30 migrant workers and their learning and caring for their away-families. I will discuss these transnational dynamics across geographic borders between family (both old and young) who are often referred to as, 'the left-behinds' and their meanings. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4132/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4132/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 5 June 201312.30 - 2.00 p.m.2013-06-062013-06-05 Neil Kibble draft title (subject to possible change) - To be Confirmed http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4323/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4323/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 5 June 201312 noon2013-06-062013-06-05 The eighteenth annual postgraduate conference will be held from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 June 2013. This year's keynote speaker will be Professor David d'Avray (University College London) who will give an address entitled 'Motivation, Legitimation, and Historical Interpretation'. Register online http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4422/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4422/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 7 - 9 June 20139.00 - 5.002013-06-102013-06-07 Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century?A conversation between Michael Beckerman (New York University/Lancaster University), Jindrich Toman (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Derek Sayer (Lancaster University) and Peter Zusi to celebrate the publication of Derek Sayer's new bookPrague, Capital of the Twentieth Century(Princeton University Press).A Czech beer and wine reception will follow. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4410/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4410/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 10 June 20136.30 p.m2013-06-112013-06-10 The Literacy Research Discussion Group is pleased to welcome Charles Bazerman (University of California, Santa Barbara) who will be talking on: Intersections of Genre, Intertextuality, and Evidence in Academic Writing: Textual, Historical, Social, Cognitive, Theoretical, and Pedagogical In my historical, social, and textual research on scientific and academic writing genre has been a central organizing concept, but within that the production display and use of evidence and the positioning of texts within intertextual systems have been important components, crucial to persuasion and coordination within activity systems and the accomplishment of communal goals. The same triumvirate of genre, intertextuality and evidence have emerged as central to my teaching of academic writing (reflected in my textbooks) as well as my theorizing about the nature of genre and activity systems in writing (reflected in my forthcoming theory volumes). A recent set of studies of cognition I have participated in also indicate that these same three elements contribute to cognitive growth of individual writers. In this talk I will explore the implications of this intersection of these same three factors across multiple perspectives.Please note the change of venue: Faraday Building, Cavendish Colloquium. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4421/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4421/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 11 June 20131 - 2 pm2013-06-122013-06-11 Sofia Kopela draft title (subject to possible change) - 'title to be confirmed' Angus MacCulloch draft title (subject to possible change) - 'title to be confirmed. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4322/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4322/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 12 June 201312 noon2013-06-132013-06-12 The Language, Ideology and Power (LIP) Research Group is pleased to welcome Bob Jeffery (Sheffield Hallam University) who will give a talk entitled: "The Absent Community: Conservative Interventionism and Simulated Engagement in a Splintering City"Wednesday 12 June 5-6 pmALL WELCOME http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4417/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4417/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 12 June 20135-6 pm2013-06-132013-06-12 "Despite its many attractions, the world of research can be a challenging place to be. From the current funding cuts to the demands of the 2013 REF, many of us are looking to re-evaluate how we do research - or indeed why we do it at all.... This one-day event is for all those who do research-related work within academia - whether as lecturing staff or contract researchers. Together, we'll explore the opportunities and the challenges of work in this environment, looking at how better to support ourselves in our research careers both within and beyond the confines of the academy. So whether your goal is to progress within your current role or to find out more about how you could use your research background to open new doors, we invite you to come and explore the possibilities within a supportive and stimulating environment." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4389/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4389/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 13 June 201309.30-16.30 pm2013-06-142013-06-13 Programme: 10.00: Keynote Stacey Abbott (University of Roehampton): I Want to Do Bad Things to You: The TV Horror Title Sequence 11.15: Break 11.30: Panel 1: Monstrous Bodies Chloe Buckley: 'No Remorse, No Pity': Shelley, Dickens and Mister Creecher on the Making of Monsters Alan Gregory: Mythologising the Monster: Masquerading Disability and the Exaggeration of Bodily Difference in Patrick McGrath's Martha Peake Sarah Post: Soul Food: Consuming the Migrant Body in Helen Oyeyemi's White Is For Witching 12.45: Lunch (please make your own arrangements) 1.45: Panel 2: Gothic Across Media Lauren Randall: 'Find Yourself Here': How the Dream of the Beach becomes a Gothic Nightmare Vivien Leanne Saunders: Full House of Usher: Performing the Gothic in Usher's Waltz Dawn Stobbart: Letters to Esther: The Haunted Landscape in Dear Esther 3.00: Coffee 3.30: Panel 3: Gothic Television Rhianon Jones: 'We fight like siblings but we fuck like champions': Incest in True Blood Jo Ormond: 'Look at you - all retro': Exploring Costume and Doubling in The Vampire Diaries and Rebecca David McWilliam: Examining the Victims of Ned-Victorian Politics in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street 4.45: Break 5.00: Question and Answer Session Dominic Mitchell (Screenwriter, In the Flesh) Lancaster University, FASS Meeting Rooms 2/3 For more information, please email Catherine Spooner c.spooner@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4420/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4420/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 14 June 201310.00 am-6.00pm2013-06-152013-06-14 Professor Liz Thomas Director and Chair, Widening Participation Research Centre, Edge Hill University Awaiting title and abstract http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4133/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4133/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 19 June 201312.30 - 2.00 p.m.2013-06-202013-06-19 Catherine will present her Work in progress paper entitled 'Promoting Access and Inclusion in the Big Data Debate'. Ben's Work in progress paper will be on the topic of'Access to Land' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4379/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4379/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 19 June 201312 noon2013-06-202013-06-19 We are delighted to announce that the next conference for teachers of A Level English Language will take place on Friday 21st June 2013 at Lancaster University,9.30-4.30, organised by the Linguistics and English Language department.Speakers from the Department will present research and discuss issues relevant to A-level English Language. Topics covered will include language acquisition, language variation and change, impoliteness, grammar, and paperwork in the educational workplace; a full programme and registration details will be posted on the event's website soon. There will be opportunities for discussion and networking with staff of the department and with colleagues.The day is not narrowly restricted to any oneA Level syllabus, but should provide useful material on cutting edge research which can be incorporated into A Level English Language teaching across the board. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4235/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4235/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 21 June 20139.30 am - 4.30 pm2013-06-222013-06-21 The 'Missing Women' in Higher Education Leadership Conference Wednesday 26 June 2013, 9:15 - 16:00 at Lancaster University Hosted by the Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing and the Centre for Higher Education and Evaluation within the Educational Research Department in association with The Academy for Women, Diversity and Leadership in The Management School. This one day conference, hosted by The Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, contributes to current debates within and beyond higher education about 'the missing women at the top'. A wide range of senior academics and leaders will be speaking on topics including: the work Vice Chancellors are doing in their own institutions to address the issues; the pioneering work of the Equality Challenge Unit; the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education's work on leadership development diversity; and recent research on leadership and gender. There will be opportunities to discuss the themes that arise during the day, and an emphasis on how we can work together to bring about change. Fee for this event: £10.00 (fee includes refreshments and lunch) Free for guest speakers and PhD students. Registration: Please go to the following link and follow the instructions. If you have not used the University's online store before you will need to register as a new customer first - this is indicated on the webpage at: http://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid=1597&deptid=6&compid=1&prodvarid=0&catid=386 Booking deadline is Wednesday 19th June 2013. Places are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment. Please note: we cannot enrol people on the day unless this has been arranged in advance. This conference has been organised and funded through a 'Lancaster University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Knowledge Exchange Fellowship' awarded to Paula Burkinshaw. For further details please contact: Jo Dickinson, Conference Administrator, Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD Email: sjwe@lancaster.ac.uk Tel: 01524 593189 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4378/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4378/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 26 June 201309:30-16.00 pm2013-06-272013-06-26 The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Sixth Form Conference is designed to provide an engaging and enjoyable insight into what it's like to study for a degree in Arts and Social Sciences and what career opportunities are available to you after graduation. The Conference is free to attend and is a good opportunity for students in the lower-sixth form who are undecided on which university to apply for, to spend half the day hearing sample lectures in English Language and Linguistics, and the other half hearing about English Literature, Law, Media and Film, European Languages, or a number of other courses. You'll also be able to ask questions that you may have about studying at University, talk to graduate employers about the opportunities available after graduation and meet our current students. Full details and online booking or contact James Perrin on 01524 593 724 for further information.Places on academic sessions are limited so early booking is strongly advised to guarantee your first choices. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4312/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4312/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 5 July 20139.30am - 3.30pm2013-07-062013-07-05 Public Lecture to be given by the leading scholar and activist Virginia Eubanks. Virginia Eubanks is Associate Professor, Women's Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York. Despite widespread celebrations of Twitter Revolutions and social media activism, the relationship between new technology and the social justice goals of peace, freedom, equality and dignity for all people is deeply contradictory. In this talk, scholar-activist Virginia Eubanks will reflect on fifteen years of efforts with three grassroots organizations - Our Knowledge, Our Power: Surviving Welfare; the Popular Technology Workshops; and Women at the YWCA Making Social Movement - to make technology serve the needs of oppressed and exploited people in the United States. Virginia is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age, and the co-founder of a number of grassroots community organizations focused on making technology serve social and economic justice. She teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. In past lives, she edited the cyber-feminist 'zine Brillo and was active in the community technology center movements in the San Francisco Bay Area and Troy, NY. Please note: spaces are limited for this event and booking do need to be made, contact Jo Dickinson. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4393/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4393/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 10 July 201316.30-18-302013-07-112013-07-10 Thirty years ago saw the publication of Geoffrey Leech's Principles of Pragmatics. To mark that event and the subsequent flowering of pragmatics at Lancaster we are holding a Pragmatics Summer School. The distinguishing feature of this event is that all the speakers will have taught or been taught, or both, at Lancaster. They include: Geoffrey LeechJenny ThomasKen TurnerHelen Spencer-OateyJonathan CulpeperMaria Elena PlacenciaDawn ArcherDerek BousfieldClaire Hardaker Topics areas will include: the semantics-pragmatics interface, cross-cultural pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, variational pragmatics, historical pragmatics, Spanish Pragmatics, pragmatics and corpus linguistics, (im)politeness, (im)politeness and CMC. This two-day event is intended primarily for postgraduate research students, and secondarily for Masters-level students, postdoctoral researchers and academics. It is not aimed at raw beginners, but rather participants who have at least some introductory knowledge of pragmatics, and who wish to expand their knowledge of key issues and cutting-edge pragmatics research. The programme consists of a series of intensive 75 minute sessions (which includes ample time for questions and discussion). Each speaker will provide an overview of their intellectual trajectory, how it fits/shapes the field of pragmatics, and discuss an issue and/or method they are currently working on. We will also include a briefer session on getting published in pragmatics.Date: 9.30am on Saturday 13th July to 5pm on Sunday 14th July 2013 Registration and accommodation To register, decide on which package below suits you: Packages including accommodation: (a) The student package including accommodation (13th July) (includes morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea on the 13th and 14th of July, and accommodation for the 13th July): £120(b) The academic package including accommodation (13th July) (includes morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea on the 13th and 14th of July, and accommodation for the 13th July): £160(c) Additional accommodation (12th July): £35(d) Additional accommodation (14th July): £35 Packages excluding accommodation: (e) The student package excluding accommodation (includes morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea on the 13th and 14th of July): £85(f) The academic package excluding accommodation (includes morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea on the 13th and 14th of July): £125(g) The package for current Lancaster students excluding accommodation (includes morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea on the 13th and 14th of July): £40 Booking To book go to the Lancaster University online store, and purchase the relevant package. The deadline for registrations is the 25th May 2013. No refunds are possible after this date. Travel The University's travel page contains information on getting to the University by road, rail or air. The nearest major airport is Manchester. Contact Any queries about the Pragmatics Summer School can be sent to pragmatics-school@lancaster.ac.uk Our administrator, Kristof Savski, will respond as soon as possible. A scheduling note: The Pragmatics Summer School has been scheduled directly before the Lancaster Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (Monday 15th July 2013), for the convenience of students who may wish to attend both events. However, there is no expectation that people attending the Summer School will necessarily also attend the conference. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4301/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4301/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 13-14 July 20139.30am-5.00pm2013-07-152013-07-13 The 8th Lancaster University International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching which will take place at Lancaster University on Monday, 15 July 2013. This one-day conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates from various areas in linguistics and language teaching/assessment an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting. The conference is organized by postgraduate students under the auspices of the Department of Linguistic and English Language, Lancaster University.Keynote speakers: David Barton & Alison MackeyWebsite: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/laelpgconferenceFacebook: http://ww.facebook.com/LancsPGconferenceLinguisticsTwitter: http://twitter.com/LAELPostgradCon http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4313/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4313/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 15 July 20139.30am-5.00pm2013-07-162013-07-15 An Event Celebrating the Donation of the Patrick Hagopian Papers, with a Keynote Address by Dr. Patrick Hagopian. Research in archives, libraries and private collections in all fifty states in the United States generated a substantial collection of photocopied and photo-documented materials pertaining to state and local Vietnam veterans memorials. These materials formed the basis of the research in Patrick Hagopian, The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009). Because the materials, including meeting minutes, correspondence, press clippings, and dedication ceremony programmes, pertain to literally hundreds of memorials, only a small proportion of the documents and of the memorials they described found their way into that book. Many of the materials have not been reposed in an archive or library, although Hagopian encouraged their custodians or owners to ensure that they were preserved in that way. Hagopian has arranged to donate the whole collection to one of the principal international archives with a special collection dedicated to the history of the Vietnam War. The network of supporters and users of Texas Tech University's Vietnam Archive, and its digital offshoot, the Virtual Vietnam Archive, includes Vietnam veterans, school students, and other members of the public as well as scholarly researchers. As a result of the donation and the Vietnam Archive's willingness to conserve and accession the documents, the rich trove of materials Hagopian gathered will be accessible in perpetuity for those who want to study the political and social impact of the Vietnam War on the United States through the public commemoration of the war. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4400/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4400/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 18 July 201315.00 pm2013-07-192013-07-18 The Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics isto be held in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics 2013 conference.The aim of this series of workshops is to create a venue for exploring progress in the field of research into the Arabic language using corpora, from across the many areas of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics where the analysis of Arabic structure and usage is an active issue. The scope of the workshop encompasses both (a) the design, construction and annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora in research on the Arabic language - in any relevant area, including (but not limited to!) lexis and lexicography, syntax, collocation, NLP systems and analysis tools, contrastive and historical studies, stylistics, and discourse analysis. All varieties of Arabic - including the different Colloquial Arabics as well as Classical/Qur'anic and Modern Standard forms of the language - are within the workshop's purview. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4274/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4274/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 22 July 20139.00 am- 5.00 p.m.2013-07-222013-07-21 The seventh international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2013) will be held at Lancaster University from Tuesday 23rd July 2013 to Friday 26th July 2013. The main conference will be preceded by a workshop day on Monday 22nd July.The conference topics include but are not limited to:Critical explorations of existing measures and methods in corpus linguistics;New methods and techniques in corpus development, annotation and analysis;Corpus approaches to the study of new media;New tools and techniques developed in corpus-based computational linguistics;The application of corpus approaches in the social sciences and humanities;The extension of corpus linguistics to an ever-wider range of (non-English) languages;The interface between corpus and theory;The use of corpora in discourse analysis;The use of corpora in second language acquisition studies and language pedagogy.See the conference website for more information. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4168/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4168/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 22 July 20132013-07-292013-07-22 Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research We are pleased to announce the Global Conference on Mobility Futures, 4-6 September 2013, at Lancaster University, UK. Fulldetails of the 'Global Conference on Mobility Futures' We look forward to seeing you in Lancaster! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4352/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4352/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 4 September 201312.302013-09-052013-09-04 Lessons of War: Gender History and the Second World War This is a call for papers for a conference to be held at Lancaster University on 12 and 13 September 2013. The forthcoming seventieth anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War offers an invitation to gender historians to consider how their approaches to the history of the War have introduced, contributed to, and reshaped understandings of the significance of the War and its impact across space and time, on men and women. We are pleased to announce that the key note lecture on 'Gender, Grief and Mourning in Wartime' will be offered by Dr Lucy Noakes (University of Brighton). We invite papers on all aspects of wartime gender history, with a particular interest in ensuring wide global and thematic coverage, including such as issues as political representation, employment practices, combat, propaganda, popular culture, sexual activity, legislation, disability and commemoration. A selection of papers will be included in an edited collection to appear in Palgrave Macmillan's 'Gender and History' series. If you unable to attend the conference but would like to be considered for the edited volume, please contact the conference organisers. Proposals from postgraduate, postdoctoral and early career researchers are very welcome. Abstracts or panel proposals should be sent to both Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird (c.peniston-bird@lancaster.ac.uk) and Dr Emma Vickers (E.L.Vickers@ljmu.ac.uk) by Friday 3 May 2013. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4377/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4377/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 12 September 201309.30-18.002013-09-132013-09-12 Study Start is a 2-week intensive study skills course designed to help international students get the best possible start for their degree at Lancaster University. Starting a university degree, especially if you are moving far from home, can seem a frightening prospect. Often students come with many questions, for example: How will I get used to my new university?Where is the library and how does it work?What kinds of classes will I have, and will they be similar to those in my previous studies?What conventions do I need to follow when writing essays, reports or dissertations?How can I avoid plagiarism?What is the best way to organise my time so I can get everything done?How can I get good marks on my assignments and exams? Study Start will not only help you find the answers to these questions: it aims to help you become an independent and confident student. You will learn how to get the most out of being at a world-renowned university.The course will run 16-27th September 2013For full details see the website http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/studystart/index.htm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4305/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4305/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 16-27th September 20139.00 am - 4.00 pm2013-09-172013-09-16 The Creative Exchange are hosting'The Knowledge Exchange: An Interactive Conference - Academic Engagement with the Creative Sector' on 26 and 27 September 2013 at Lancaster University. The Conference is aimed at exploring and propagating new mutually beneficial exchanges between academia and the creative industries. This will not be a traditional 'sit and listen' conference. There will be a high degree of both experimentation in the form of the conference and interaction throughout the conference. The submission requirement is a 2,000 word paper for peer review and inclusion in the conference activity. Please take a look on the Creative Exchange website http://thecreativeexchange.org/The-KE-Conference which explains the objectives, but overall it is to build a body of knowledge and a shared community around KE practice and research. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN. The Conference will close at 12.00 noon with lunch on the 27th September, and we would like to invite you to our CX 'Showcase Event' from 14.30pm - 18.30pm at the BBC, Quay House, MediaCity. Transport will be provided at 1.00pm to take you to and from the BBC. The aim of which is to showcase the projects we have commissioned so far through CX and once again engage you in discussion about the projects, the next phase is to discuss further the notions and themes of the Digital Public Space and possible future directions that we can take under The Creative Exchange project http://thecreativeexchange.org/. If you would like to attend the Showcase Event, please contact Pam Allen (p.allen1@ Lancaster.ac.uk). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4395/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4395/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:42 +0100 26 September 201310.00am - 17.00pm 26th Sept and 09.30 - 12.00noon 27th September2013-09-282013-09-26