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The Discourse of Plastic Packaging

The next speaker in our Institute of Humanities research seminar series is Professor Joanna Gavins from the University of Sheffield.

The talk’s title is Every little ‘help’: understanding the FAMILY frame in the discourse of plastic packaging

There’s an abstract below

Time: 4-5pm, Wednesday 4 June 2025

Place: Room 305, Northumberland Building, City Campus, Northumbria University

Also online: email Billy Clark to join online: billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk

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Language and Intangible Cultural Heritage

The next speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series is Professor Natalie Braber from Nottingham Trent University

The talk’s title is ‘Is our language part of our heritage? Intangible cultural heritage in the UK‘. There’s an abstract below.

This is an online session. Email Billy Clark to join: billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk

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Poems, Prose and Politics

The next seminar of the Northumbria Institute of Humanities Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 28th February 2024 at 2pm in Lipman Building, room 121, on our City Campus.

The speaker is Professor Lesley Jeffries from Lancaster University and her talk will be on ‘Poems, prose and politics: textual meaning in common‘ (there’s an abstract below).

The seminar will be delivered in a hybrid format so join us in person or online.

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