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7Jun

Our songs of courage; women's story project

Dates
Wednesday 7 June (10:00) - Thursday 15 June 2023 (12:30)
Location
Charles W Gillet Centre
Description
This women's story project will share songs that have inspired us throughout our complex lives. We will talk about the important moments that came after these songs that stirred change from within.
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15Jun

Noël Coward: Past, Present and Future

Dates
Thursday 15 June (00:00) - Friday 16 June 2023 (00:00)
Location
Edgbaston Park Hotel
Description
An interdisciplinary approach to Coward's influence beyond the realm of the theatre - novelist, short story writer; composer, lyricist, singer; actor, screen writer and director as well as the figure of Coward himself.
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19Jun

Bring Back the Bodies

Dates
Monday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)
Location
Arts 224 (Danford Room)
Description
One of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
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20Jun

Graduate workshop

Dates
Tuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)
Location
Alan Walters Building Seminar Room 111
Description
One of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
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22Jun

Filibusters in Birmingham: a Conference on Wyndham Lewis

Dates
Thursday 22 June (00:00) - Friday 23 June 2023 (00:00)
Location
University of Birmingham
Description
This conference will focus on the doubled and doubling identity announced in the title of Lewis's 1932 work: the filibuster.
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28Jun

The Literary Twilight Zone: Nonfictional Fiction, 1820–1920

Dates
Wednesday 28 June 2023 (00:00)
Location
Muirhead Tower 12th Floor Suite
Description
This one-day academic workshop, hosted by the Nineteenth-Century Centre, brings together scholars interested in fiction's relationships with the creation of knowledge.
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30Jun

Exploring a Mental Health Humanities Network for ECRs (Part Two)

Dates
Friday 30 June 2023 (16:00-18:00)
Location
Edgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RS
Description
Join us to explore a potential ECR Mental Health Humanities Network. This second event follows the progress made at our initial May meeting.
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30Aug

EuroSLA 32

Dates
Wednesday 30 August (00:00) - Saturday 2 September 2023 (00:00)
Location
Aston Webb building, University of Birmingham
Description
The 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association
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11Sep

Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2023

Dates
Monday 11 September (09:00) - Thursday 14 September 2023 (17:00)
Location
Online
Description
Our Corpus Linguistics summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own research.