Dr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at Transmodern Perspectives Conference, Universidad de Zaragoza

Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at an international conference at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, 26th-28th April. The conference is entitled ‘Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English’ and Dr Dillon will be speaking on David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas and its film adaptation in relation to memetics and theories of cultural evolution. 

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Professor Page Plenary Talk on Performance, Imagination and the Early-Romantic Guitar

Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]

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Dr Laura Wright Plenary Address at 3rd Southern Englishes Workshop

Dr Laura Wright will be a plenary speaker at the 3rd Southern Englishes Workshop at University College London on February 19-20 2016. Hosted by the Linguistics Department at UCL, the Workshop will explore historical and synchronic dialectology, historical and synchronic sociolinguistics, language contact, multilingualism, dialect in literature, and other areas relevant to English and varieties of English […]

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