The final programme for the ILC’s symposium ‘New Directions for Research in Language and Culture’ on Wednesday 6 November 2013 is now available. The full-day event will bring together researchers from Southampton and beyond to hear keynote presentations, engage in debates about the future of language and culture research, and hear about innovative research taking place in the Institute.

Registration is now closed for catering purposes, but all are welcome to attend the sessions.

Please join us for a day of lively debate and discussion!

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Programme

10:00 – 10:15

Welcome and introduction to the day (Professor Anne Curry, Professor Michael Kelly)

10:15 – 11:00

Keynote speaker: Professor Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool and AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Fellow

Translating Cultures: Variations on a Theme

Chair: Professor Mary Orr

11:00 – 11:30

Postgraduate poster session with coffee

11:30 – 12:15

Keynote speaker:  Professor Andrew Higson, University of York

New Directions in Film Studies Research: Changes and Challenges

Chair: Professor Lucy Mazdon

12:15 – 13:30 Buffet Lunch, North Corridor

13:30 – 14:15

Keynote speaker:  Professor Susanne Ehrenreich, University of Dortmund

Intercultural communication via English: Which English? Whose culture(s)?

Chair: Professor Jennifer Jenkins

14:15 – 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 – 17:00

Future Directions in Language and Culture Research: the Big Debates

17:30 – 18:00

Refreshments before inaugural lecture

18:00 – 19:00

Inaugural lecture of Professor Marion Demossier

Changing Places.  The taste of Heritage in Burgundy

Chair: Professor Ullrich Kockel, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh

19:00-20:00

Drinks following inaugural lecture