We are beyond excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our 2017-18 Language and Communication Research Seminars at our Hendon Campus:
Term 1:
- Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16.00 – 17.30, Room C223: Christopher Norris (Cardiff): Rhyme and Reason: “creative criticism” and thinking in verse.
- Monday 13th November 2017, 16.30 – 18.00, Room C138: Jamie Tehrani (Durham): The long stories of short tales: genes, languages and the evolution of folk traditions.
- Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16.00 – 17.30: Stephen Cowley (Cambridge and Southern Denmark)
- Wednesday 6 December 2017, 16.00 – 17.30: Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary): New dialects in London and Paris.
- Wednesday 13 Dec 17, 16.00 – 18.00: PhD students’ presentations (Middlesex)
Term 2:
- Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16.00 – 17.30: James Kenworth (Middlesex): Revolution Farm.
- Wednesday 7 February 2018, 16.00 – 17.30: Jane Hodson (Sheffield): “No one talks like that. Sorry.”: What are people doing when they discuss accents in film and television?
- Wednesday 14 February 2018, 16.00 – 17.30: Mary Coghill (School of Advanced Studies, University of London) A Viewpoint is more than a Point of View: ‘Shades of Light’ and City Poetry.
- Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16.00 – 17.30: Sara Ponz Sans (Cardiff): Medieval English vocabulary
- Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16.00 – 17.30: Jonathan Delafield-Butt (Strathclyde): The development of children’s agency
Further information about the presentations, including room numbers, titles and abstracts will be published soon.
The Language and Communication Research Seminars are free and open to all staff, students and guests. For any questions or if you would like to lead a session, contact Anna Charalambidou.
