Events

12/11/2015
CLLEAR seminar Wed 18th November 2015: Prof Jeannette Littlemore

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 18th November 2015, 4-6pm Where: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C Who:  Prof Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham The Creative Use of Metaphor and Metonymy in Language Learning and Intercultural Communication Studies of figurative language (particularly metaphor) have […]

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06/11/2015
CGE Seminar Wed 11th November 2015: Prof Marion Demossier, Dr Will Baker and Dr Karin Zotzmann

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) open seminar. When: Wednesday 11th November 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Marion Demossier, Dr Will Baker and Dr Karin Zotzmann Perspectives on intercultural communication and intercultural communicative competence In our age of superdiversity and unprecedented mobility (both actual and […]

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15/10/2015
CLLEAR seminar Wed 21st October: Prof Theo Marinis

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wed 21st October 2015, 4-6pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTC Who: Prof Theo Marinis, University of Reading Acquiring definite and indefinite articles across populations: L2 children, children with SLI and children with Autism Spectrum Disorders In this talk I […]

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08/10/2015
CGE seminar Wed 14th October: Dr Ying Wang

When: Wed 14th October, 5-7pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTC Who: Dr Ying Wang, University of Southampton Chinese university students’ ELF awareness: Impacts of language education in China A wealth of research into the global phenomenon of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has motivated the call for the development of ELF awareness in language pedagogies. […]

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29/09/2015
Centre for Anthropology, University of Southampton Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)

“The Benefits of Conflict: Trust and the Politics of Heritage in a Troubled World.” When: Friday 6 November, 6 pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTB Photo credit: Archaeological Ethnography on Poros Island, Greece, directed by Y. Hamilakis (photo: F. Ifantidis).

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TNS seminar Wed 7th October: Dr Britta Schneider

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies seminar. When: Wed 7th October 2015 5-7pm Where: 65/LTC Ethnographic Insights into the Superdiverse Language Context of Belize In this presentation, I discuss the multiple indexical meanings of languages in a non-European and multilingual context with strong transnational traditions to study the links between social […]

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10/08/2015
Translating secularism conference: updated programme

Translating secularism/ Traduire la laïcité Varieties of secular society 18-19 September 2015 Institut Français de Londres Professor Michael Kelly  will be hosting a two-day conference at the Institut Français de Londres on 18-19 September 2015 on: Translating secularism/ Traduire la laïcité: Varieties of secular society. Please see below for the updated programme. To register for this event, […]

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11/06/2015
Registrations open for Translating Secularism conference 18-19 September

Professor Michael Kelly  will be hosting a two-day conference at the Institut Français de Londres on 18-19 September 2015 on: Translating secularism/ Traduire la laïcité: Varieties of secular society. Please see here for the full programme. To register for this event, please email :  tstl2015@soton.ac.uk with the following information :  full name / dept and […]

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20/05/2015
Translating secularism conference, 18-19 September Institut Français London

Professor Mike Kelly will be hosting a two-day conference at the Institut Français de Londres on 18-19 September 2015 on: Translating secularism/ Traduire la laïcité: Varieties of secular society. Please see below for the full programme. Friday 18th September 10.30-11.00 Welcome and introduction to the colloquium (Michael Kelly, University of Southampton) 1.00-12.30 Theories and Practices […]

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07/05/2015
CLLEAR seminar 12 May: Dr Boping Yuan

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) research seminar. Tuesday 12th May 2015 5.00-7.00pm Building 46 Lecture Theatre B/room 2003 (Highfield Campus)   Speaker: Dr. Boping Yuan (Cambridge University) Topic: The effect of computational complexity on L1 transfer: evidence from L2 Chinese attitude-bearing wh-questions Abstract: This talk reports […]

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