Conferences, Symposia and other Events
Engaging with Identities: Medieval Postgraduate Symposium
This interdisciplinary conference is aimed at postgraduate students exploring medieval topics during the course of their research. Our purpose is to foster communication and share research between postgraduates in a casual and friendly fashion, bringing researchers together under the impetus of the topic of ’medieval identities’
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Health Communication Research Centre 7th Summer School
Analysing Communication in Healthcare Settings
04 – 06 July 2012, Cardiff University
This intensive course is specifically targeted at researchers and professionals within the broad healthcare field. The course will offer exposure to different analytical frameworks, covering micro and macro perspectives on both oral and written data, in a range of healthcare sites. Each day is divided into presentations from the course leader followed by smaller group work involving a practical hands-on approach. There will be opportunities for participants to discuss their ongoing research (in the form of data sharing, poster presentations and consultations).
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Cardiff BookTalk
The School is very pleased to be involved in Cardiff University's book group with a difference - BookTalk. BookTalk is a book group with a difference. We read high-quality fiction and discuss the big ideas in the books as they relate to twenty-first century life.
At the first BookTalk event on 17 November 2011, Dr Anthony Mandal, Associate Director of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR) spoke about knowledge and gender in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, while Dr Keir Waddington in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion brought to life the gothic laboratory.
At the second BookTalk event on 23 February 2012, Dr Tomos Owen, Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, discussed narrative voice and the child detective in Stephen Kelman's Pigeon English, while other presenters from the School of Social Sciences and the School of City and Regional Planning examined the text from the perspective of youth crime, immigration and identity and urban geography.
The next BookTalk will be held on 12 July and will explore Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Please email publicbookings@cardiff.ac.uk to book a place at this event. BookTalk sessions are free and are open to the public.
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The 2nd LinC Summer School and Workshop in Systemic Functional Linguistics
3 - 5 September 2012
Location: Cardiff University, Wales
We are pleased to announce the 2nd LinC summer school in Systemic Functional Linguistics to be held at Cardiff University from September 3-5 inclusive, 2012, with welcome and registration taking place on September 2nd.
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Philosophy Cafe
Philosophy Cafe is a space for sharing and exploring ideas, which affirms that we are all philosophers, even if we don't quite know it yet.
It aims to exploit the enthusiasm of academic philosophers and social scientists for their subject to create stimulating debates in which anyone can participate. Topics up for discussion will range from the ethics of global warming to the nature of democracy and freedom, and from corporate social responsibility to the rights and wrongs of new technologies such as genetic engineering and nanotechnology.
On the third Tuesday of each month, join us in the Cafe Bar at The Gate to listen as speakers introduce insights and invite us to address key problems. Afterwards, why not continue the debate in our blog?
The emphasis is on joining in. Philosophy Cafe starts from the assumption that everyone's viewpoint is potentially a source of illumination. Our ethos is therefore that all opinions are entitled to respect, and that open, friendly discussion, disagreement, and debate is the best way to show them that respect.
Bring an open mind along, and change the way you see the world.
Free Entry - All Welcome
Philosophy Cafe takes its inspiration from the WorldCafe approach to the exploration of ideas.