GLARE News Back to 'GLARE' NewsRSS FeedAtom Feed 'How to write a female villain' creative writing competition winners visit campus DescriptionThe three winners of the GLARE competition visited campus today, where Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Michael Whitby, presented them with a certificate and a set of signed books by author Robin Stevens.Date:05/07/2019 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:05/06/2019 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:05/03/2019 Pretty girls & brave boys. Fiction and the real world in children's literature DescriptionHold the date for our one-day Glare symposium on April 5 2019Date:14/01/2019 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:16/11/2018 GLARE at Heidelberg University DescriptionTo mark the halfway point of the GLARE project, Dr. Anna Cermakova will be giving a talk at Heidelberg University.Date:05/11/2018 CLiC and the Cadbury Research Library: The start of a collaboration DescriptionRead more about the beginning of the collaboration between the CLiC and GLARE projects with the Cadbury Research Library. The collaboration was kicked off with a seminar for library staff, introducing the CLiC web app and the opportunities it can offer to students, staff and visitors.Date:28/09/2018 Creating and recreating children's manuscript magazine culture in Victorian fiction DescriptionLois Burke writes for GLARE on how corpora of literary texts and using specialised software to search through these corpora can enrich both literary and socio-cultural studies.Date:26/09/2018 Children's Word of the Year 2018 DescriptionGLARE invited Professor Susan Hunston to offer an expert commentary on plastic, word frequencies, and corpus research.Date:08/08/2018 Robin Stevens for GLARE: Because Stories Matter DescriptionGLARE is delighted and honoured to announce that their project will cooperate with the award-winning children's writer Robin Stevens.Date:01/06/2018 Displaying 1 to 10 of 20 Previous 1 2 Next