News from the School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies 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 People & Pages, 26th February, Wayland's Yard DescriptionAn arsenal of Midlands poets offered up readings tacitly concerning how Midlands identity can be approached from diverse, and intentionally surprising, angles. at the 'People & Pages' event at Wayland's Yard cafĂ©.Date:Friday 15 March 2019 The role of metaphor in 'witchcraft' DescriptionProfessor Jeannette Littlemore's presentation at the Association of Child Protection Professionals Conference.Date:Sunday 10 March 2019 ELAL doctoral researcher wins thesis presentation competition DescriptionWalaipun Puengpipattrakul won the prize at the 8th Thai Student Academic Conference (SACC-TSAC) held at Imperial College London in Febrary,Date:Friday 8 March 2019 One Minute Movie competition 2019 DescriptionThe Department of Film and Creative Writing is pleased to announce its 2018-2019 One-Minute Movie Competition, which is open to all University of Birmingham students. Deadline: 10 May.Date:Wednesday 6 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 How British Sign Language developed its own dialects DescriptionAdam Schembri writing for The Conversation (with Kearsy Cormier, UCL).Date:Tuesday 5 March 2019 Room at the Top: A Writer's Week in the Rotunda DescriptionBirmingham Poet Laureate, Richard O'Brien, to tell Writing West Midlands about his residency in the Rotunda in central Birmingham.Date:Thursday 28 February 2019 Displaying 1 to 8 of 945 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next