Events
2011/12 seminar series
We run three seminar series of the subjects of history, English and language and linguistics. Please note the key in the table below.
| Key | Date and time | Location | Speaker | Seminar title |
| History | Wednesday 12 October 2011, 5–6.30pm |
Owen 1026 | Dr John Singleton Sheffield Hallam University |
British financial conspiracy theories, c.1899-1939 |
| History | Wednesday 9 November 2011, 1–2.30pm |
Owen 1034 | Dr Caroline Bressey UCL |
Geographies of belonging - integrating global histories into the local |
| English | Thursday 10 November 2011, 12–1pm |
Owen 1024 | Emma Major University of York |
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - serpents, rocks, and the gates of hell - fearful imaginings in the 1790s |
| Language and linguistics | Thursday 17 November 2011, 1–2pm |
Oneleven 11003 | Professor Ben Rampton, Kings College London | Superdiversity and social class - the view from interaction |
| English | Tuesday 22 November 2011, 12–1pm |
Owen 943 | Gillian Woods University of Sheffield |
Renaissance - incorporating the past in one Henry VI |
| English | Monday 28 November 2011, 12–1pm |
Owen 1024 | Jane Potter Oxford Brookes University |
Contemporary and Modern - good old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes - spies, romance, and moral dilemmas in the Great War |
| English | Thursday 1 December 2011, 12–1pm |
Owen 943 | Amritesh Singh University of York |
Renaissance - the Queen's Queendom - the Elizabeth-Anjou courtship and the gaping gulf |
| Language and linguistics | Wednesday 7 December 2011, 1–2pm |
Oneleven 11004 | Dan McIntyre, University of Huddersfield | Modal auxiliary verbs in early modern English news journalism - a corpus assisted diachronic study |
| History | Wednesday 7 December 2011, 5–6.30pm |
Owen 1026 | Dr Matthew Roberts Sheffield Hallam University |
The material culture of nineteenth-century British politics - an exploration |
| Language and linguistics | Thursday 26 January 2012, 1–2pm |
Oneleven 11004 | Lesley Jeffries, University of Huddersfield | Corpus/critical stylistics |
