News University of Birmingham makes splash at Hay DescriptionLiterature festival invites academics to speak on the art of political rhetoric, storytelling, 19th century literature and wetland archaeology.Date:Wednesday 5 June 2019 Corpus linguistics and the digital humanities: Looking at fictional and real speech DescriptionProfessor Michaela Mahlberg and Viola Wiegand from the CLiC Project will be giving a talk as part of the Aston University's Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC) seminar series on 30 April 2019.Date:Tuesday 9 April 2019 United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad DescriptionRound two hosted by the Department of English Language and Linguistics, including a mini-olympiad for local schools.Date:Friday 22 March 2019 CLiC 2.0 release DescriptionWe are releasing the brand-new version 2.0 of the CLiC web app with a refreshed look, many new features and additional texts. As part of the upgrade, the CLiC server will be down on Thursday 7 March.Date:Tuesday 5 March 2019 CLiC Digital Reading Competition launched DescriptionThe CLiC Digital Reading Competition for Key Stages 3–5 has officially launched.Date:Wednesday 6 February 2019 New blog post by visiting CLiC advisory panel member Prof. Maristella Gatto DescriptionProf. Maristella Gatto (University of Bari), member of the CLiC advisory panel, visited the university this week and wrote a post for the CLiC Blog on "Enacting silence through punctuation in Heart of Darkness"Date:Saturday 19 January 2019 Liminality in David Copperfield DescriptionIn this guest post, Sophie Phelps explores 'liminal' Dickensian characters who are not quite children and not quite adults, as she shows with a case study of David Copperfield's "child-wife" Dora.Date:Friday 16 November 2018 College of Arts and Law confirmed as a focus for Fantastic Research DescriptionFour of the five films and podcasts launched this week by the University for its 'Fantastic Research' campaign feature academics from the College of Arts and Law.Date:Friday 16 November 2018 Displaying 1 to 8 of 116 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next