Selena Daly presented a paper last weekend at a conference focusing on ‘The Great War in Italy – Representation and Interpretation’. Selena’s paper was entitled ‘Futurist Landscapes of War in Trentino’. The conference was at the University of Oxford on 20th and 21st April 2012.
Selena Daly has had a book review published recently. It’s a review of Clodagh Brook’s Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010) and can be found in Italian Studies, vol 67, no. 1 (2012), pp. 157-159.
Sheena Kalayil will be giving a paper at the LLAS (Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies) event at the University of Strathclyde this week (27th April). The focus of the conference is ‘Research in and for Languages’.
Sheena’s paper ‘One of us?’ – Voices of mixed-race Britons, investigates whether adult mixed-race (white and South Asian) Britons have maintained the Heritage Language of their South Asian parent, and how they relate to this loss or maintenance. While she examines the content of their views using the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Mikhail Bakhtin, she also analyses the language they … Continue Reading
Benoît Guilbaud will be presenting his work at the DILTEC (Didactique des langues, des textes et des cultures) conference at the Sorbonne university in Paris in June this year. His paper is entitled ‘Using Online Asynchronous Discussions for Peer-Feedback: a Case-Study’ and an abstract is available here. Details of the conference can be found here.
Guilbaud, B., 2012. Using Online Asynchronous Discussions for Peer-Feedback: a Case-Study. In: Langages – Cultures – Sociétés : interrogations didactiques. Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle ? DILTEC, Paris 20, 21, 22 June 2012.
Rob Drummond has just had an article published in Language Variation and Change. Details below.
Drummond, Rob (2012). ‘Aspects of identity in a second language: ING variation in the speech of Polish migrants living in Manchester, UK.’ Language Variation and Change 24(1):107-133.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=8523727
Dr Beate Peter is involved in this Faculty research programme event. The full title of the Salon is “Multiple Generosities; Challenging the Declining Community Thesis: Considerations from Michel Maffesoli’s Neo-Tribalism” and it will take place on Friday 11th May. Details below…
Salon
“Multiple Generosities; Challenging the Declining Community Thesis: Considerations from Michel Maffesoli’s Neo-Tribalism”
Friday, May 11th, 2012.
Venue: Sandra Burslem 210.
Time: 4.30-7.30pm.
Participants
Beate Peter, Dept of Languages, MMU.
James Horrox, Dept of Politics MMU, Manchester University, Open University
Sebastien Tutenges, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Copenhagen Campus.
Rupa Huq, Kingston University
Vincenzo Susca, University Paul Valery Montpellier III, CEAQ Sorbonne Paris.
Chair and Curator; Mike Tyldesley, … Continue Reading
Rob Drummond is presenting some results from his Vowel/colour project at the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) 2012 Colloquium next week at Leeds University. The poster is entitled ‘The blue GOOSE and the yellow FLEECE: a study into vowel/colour associations’. A pdf copy can be downloaded here.
An article by Idoya Puig has just come out in print. Details below…
“Cervantes’s presence in Javier Marías’s Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí”, Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura (CIEHL): “La novela española desde 1975”, Vol.16: 2011 Otoño/Fall, ISSN 1521-8007, pp. 133-41.
Dr Rob Drummond has been developing his interpretation of L2 phonological acquisition through a usage-based framework, and has been invited to give a talk on the subject at the Linguistics Seminar Series at Northumbria University on 27th Feb. His talk is entitled ‘Dialect acquisition in a second language – towards a usage-based explanation of vowel variation’.
A video of Benoît Guilbaud’s talk at the e-Learning symposium 2012, organised by The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies at the University of Southampton is now available to view online.
Benoît’s paper was entitled ‘Using Social Media for peer-feedback in a translation class: a case-study’ and can be accessed on this page (Direct video link here)
Dr Beate Peter has recently reviewed a book for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. The details can be found below.
Rave Culture. The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene. Tammy L. Anderson. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2009.
ISBN: 978-1-59213-934-7 (hardcover), 978-1-59213-934-7 (paperback)
http://www.dancecult.net/dj/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/50/87
POPULAR MUSIC AND AUTOMOBILE CULTURE
A One Day Symposium: Friday 22nd June 2012
Binks Building
University of Chester, England
Event organisers:
Dr Chris Hart, Dr Mark Duffett and Dr Beate Peter
From Cadillacs to tour buses, motor vehicles and popular music have developed in parallel as symbiotic commodities. Their intimate and intertwined relationship evokes issues and feelings that characterize life in modern society. The conference aims to outline and discuss this relationship between these two culturally charged commodities. Motor transport is a dominant feature of the modern world. Cars, buses, trucks and everything in between have their followers and dissenters. … Continue Reading
Edmund Smyth (Reader, MMU) has just published a chapter entitled ‘The nouveau roman and the New Aesthetics of the 1950s in The Lost Decade: the 1950s in European History, Society, and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011) edited by H. Feldner, C. Gorrara and K. Passmore . The chapter investigates the relationship between the nouveau roman and the cultural transformation in France during the 1950s.
Benoît Guilbaud is speaking at the e-Learning symposium 2012 organised by The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies at the University of Southampton from 26th – 27th January 2012 (details of the event here).
Benoît’s paper is entitled ‘Using Social Media for peer-feedback in a translation class: a case-study.’
Dr Beate Peter has recently reviewed a book for the journal Popular Music. The details can be found below.
Technomad. Global Raving Countercultures. By Graham St John. London and Oakville: Equinox, 2009. 312 pp. ISBN 978-1-84553-625-1 (hb), 978-1-84553-626-8 (pb) doi:10.1017/S0261143011000122