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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Supporting English Language Teaching

The next speaker in our Language and Linguistics Research Seminar series is our colleague Dr. Bill Guariento.

The talk’s title is ‘Supporting English Language Teaching students online in Gaza’

Bill will be telling us about his project supporting students in Gaza with online teaching.

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Rescheduled Shakespeare

We are delighted to be hosting this year’s (rescheduled) Babel lecture at Northumbria University on Thursday the 3rd of October.

The speaker is Ben Crystal, Ben is an actor, author, producer, an Associate Artist with the Shakespeare North Playhouse, and a consultant creative producer for Shakespeare companies around the world.

The talk begins at 6.30pm with refreshments available from 6.

You can find out more and register here:

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2024/10/public-lecture—annual-babel-lecture-2024/

POSTPONED: The Sound of Shakespeare

We’re sorry to say that this event has had to be postponed. It will now take place on Thursday the 3rd of October. We will make more announcements nearer the time.

We are delighted to be hosting this year’s Babel lecture at Northumbria University on Thursday the 13th of June. The speaker is Ben Crystal, Ben is an actor, author, producer, an Associate Artist with the Shakespeare North Playhouse, and a consultant creative producer for Shakespeare companies around the world.

You can find out more and register here:

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2024/06/public-lecture—annual-babel-lecture-2024/

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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