Dear colleagues,
Please find below our Research Seminar program for Semester 2. All welcome!
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 4 pm
This is a Worldwide Universities Network virtual seminar*
Rob Howell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Social networks and language contact in the early modern Dutch Republic
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 5 pm
Chris Homewood (University of Leeds)
From Baader to Prada: 'Terrorist-Chic' and the legacy of the RAF in Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 4 pm
This is a Worldwide Universities Network virtual seminar*
Patrick Stevenson (University of Southampton)
The times of their lives: time, place and space in Central European language biographies
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 5 pm
Wini Davies (University of Aberystwyth)
The role of (lay) linguistic myths in the production of sociolinguistic norms in the German context
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 5 pm
Cedric Krummes (University of Bangor/Humboldt Universität Berlin)
What's Hard in German?: A corpus-based approach to German learner data &
Svitlana Kurella (University of Leeds)
Comparative linguistic resources for teaching cognate Slavonic languages
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 5 pm
Bill Dodd (University of Birmingham)
The discourses of German 'inner emigration' during the Nazi period
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 5 pm
Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds)
The women who were there: German feminists' claim to experience of the First World War &
Dr Jonathan Sutton (University of Leeds)
Some aspects of Russian literature's engagement with religion
Research seminars normally take place at 5 pm in Baines Wing Seminar Room 23, University of Leeds.
However, please note that the *Worldwide Universities Network virtual seminars will take place at 4 pm in Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 16, University of Leeds. These seminars will take place in 3 additional UK sites - the University of Bristol, the University of Sheffield and the University of Southampton - and simultaneously at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at 10 am Chicago time. For more information see the WUN Leeds FIRC project website, including abstracts for the virtual seminars: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/german/WUN.htm
with best wishes,
Kristine
Dr Kristine Horner
Lecturer in German and Sociolinguistics
Director of Postgraduate Studies in German/Russian
Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
www.leeds.ac.uk/german/staff/kristine_horner.htm
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