Conferences and Symposia Archive
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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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 third BookTalk was held on 12 July and explored Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
BookTalk sessions are free and are open to the public.
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Annual Themed Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference
Cardiff School of European Languages, Translation and Politics (EUROP), 65-68 Park Place
Thursday 28th and Friday 29th June 2012
This two day conference, organised by and for research students (with support from University Graduate College staff), encourages doctoral researchers to consider how a particular theme may come to bear on their own subjects of research. The approach allows participation by students from many humanities and social science disciplines, and provides a framework for interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation. The event attracts doctoral students - both as speakers and delegates - from departments and institutions across Wales, the UK and overseas.
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The Cardiff Series
Audiences at one of the world’s most famous literary festivals will be able to learn first-hand about some of the University’s world-leading research.
Six Cardiff academics – internationally recognised for their work- will speak at the 2012 Hay Festival as part of The Cardiff Series.
This year, Professor Julie Williams and Dr Ian Jones of the School of Medicine and the University's Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute; Dr Andrew Edgar, School of English, Communication and Philosophy; Dr Adam Corner, School of Psychology; Dr Isabelle Durance, School of Biosciences and the University's Sustainable Places Research Institute; and Steven Vaughan, Cardiff Law School will each discuss their area of work with audiences.
Running from 31 May – 10 June 2012, the festival attracts the most exciting writers, filmmakers, comedians, politicians and musicians, amongst others, to inspire, delight and entertain.
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Engaging with Identities: Medieval Postgraduate Symposium
2nd June, 2012
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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Multiculturalisms: Theories and Practice
International Conference
14th – 17th May 2012
The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners working in the broad areas of multiculturalism and cultural difference, across a wide range of disciplines, social and cultural texts and practices.
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Distinguished Lecture: Jefferson’s Taper and the Future of Books
Professor Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard University Library
Monday, 5 December 2011
School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University
On Monday, 5 December 2011, Professor Robert Darnton, Harvard University will deliver Cardiff University’s Distinguished Lecture on the subject of Jefferson’s Taper and the Future of Books.
To view this lecture please click here http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/dls/
Shield Maidens and Sacred Mothers: Medieval Women in Truth and Legend
October 7th 2011
This forthcoming interdisciplinary international conference seeks to examine images and representations of medieval women. Our aim is to promote new scholarship and innovative approaches to the study of this figure within the wider context of literary and historical studies. Our purpose is to foster an interdisciplinary discussion of the ways in which the medieval female is depicted within myth, folklore, legend and historiography.
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International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
Health Communication Research Centre, in association with Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University
23-24 June 2011
The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, especially language and communication research, and professional specialities (e.g., healthcare, social care, therapy, law, mediation, management, business, journalism, education). A special emphasis will be on cross-boundary collaboration and translation of research findings to ensure impact.
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Key 2011 Conference
Keystroke Language (and Text) Production: perspectives from cognitive and functional linguistics
23rd May 2011
Cardiff University
The use of keystroke logging as a methodology in language research is not a new field of study since the first Computer Keystroke Logging conference was held at Umeå University in Sweden in 2002. However to date this area of research has primarily focussed on written composition and translation studies. The KEY 2011 workshop and conference intends to broaden this perspective by extending the contributions keystroke logging can make to language production generally, including spontaneous language such as chat messaging. Its theme is to explore functional and cognitive perspectives on the use of keystroke logging in language research where the focus of interest is on the dynamic process of production rather than on the static product of language production.
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Tolkien and Wales: A Celebration
Saturday, 21 May 2011, 2 -5pm, Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building
J. R. R. Tolkien once wrote: ‘I love Wales … and especially the Welsh language'. At this event to launch a new book on Tolkien and Wales three scholars from Welsh universities will explore some of the many connections between Tolkien's writings and Welsh language and literature. The talks will be followed by a reception to celebrate the publication of Carl Phelpstead's Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity.
The event is open to members of the public and anyone interested in Tolkien's writings or in Welsh language and literature is very welcome to attend.
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Under-Represented Groups in Philosophy
26th November, 2010
Women in the profession of academic philosophy are in a minority. Discussion in print and online has recently focused on possible explanations of this, with attention being paid to the effects of stereotypes, solo status, and hostile or chilly environments in academic culture. Discussions have also highlighted the underrepresentation of individuals of minority racial or ethnic identities, disabled people, and from working class socioeconomic backgrounds.
There have also been a number of positive attempts to address problems that may face minorities in the profession, and increase their visibility in philosophy.
Further Details Available Here
Wales, Ireland and Popular Fiction
24th September 2010
In association with the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
A one-day symposium on role and meanings of popular forms of fiction in Welsh and Irish contexts. Topics include crime fiction, romance, suburban Gothic, weird fiction, trickster stories and fiction and popular beliefs.
Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research
Various Dates
The Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum, is collaborating in the organisation of three workshops in the series 'Literary Illustration: Conservation, Access, Use', to extend the series which was funded by a grant to CEIR from the AHRC in 2007-8. The first, on Travel Literature and Topology, is to be held at Lampeter on 18-19 March 2009. The second, on a theme to be announced, will be held at la Maison française, Oxford on 25 June 2009. The third is being run in Paris in 2010 by la Bibliotèque nationale de France and l'École normale supérieure on the theme 'Peut-on traduire les illustrations?'
Schizoanalysis and Visual Culture
1st - 2nd June 2010
What is schizoanalysis and how might it be applied to the analysis of contemporary visual culture?
This question is both daunting in its complexity and exciting in terms of the possibility for a whole new way of thinking about visual culture it offers. Answering it seems to require that we experiment with Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas and concepts to produce our own new syntheses adequate to the demands of the present creative, historical and theoretical conjuncture we find ourselves in today. That is the challenge this symposium will take up by bringing together some of the most creative and exacting scholars working in the twin fields of Deleuze studies and film studies today.
Gender and Difference
20th - 23rd May 2010
An interdiciplinary conference organised by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University and the Englisches Seminar at the University of Cologne.
Zoontotechnics (Animality / Technicity)
Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
12th - 14th May 2010
Since the founding of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory in 1989, when the prevalent currents were postmodernism, poststructuralism and postcolonialism, new developments have helped reshape the theoretical landscape. Key among them have been cyberculture, the digital revolution in technology, globalization, and the search for critical modes beyond the human. More recently philosophical-ethical revaluations of the 'animal' and renewed reflections on various aspects of technology and technics, both within and beyond the emerging framework of posthumanism, have provided two of the most stimulating developments in critical and cultural theory that might offer new departures. While there have been numerous conferences and symposia on each perspective, none has been organized with a view to encouraging a critical dialogue between researchers in these two usually separate fields. If Aristotle's definition of 'man' was that he is a zoon logon ekhon (animal having speech) and a zoon politikon (political animal), in what ways has he become a zoon tekhnikon? Is this ultimately necessary to ensure the survival of the species or is it conducive to its transformation? With an increasingly globalized 'humanity' installed in the post-9/11 age of a technology-led terrorism and the credit crunch, the conference will consider these overarching questions, as well as others outlined here.
In planning our 20th anniversary, we decided to address the future, rather than look back nostalgically on past achievements. This seems a more invigorating way of convening a truly celebratory event. With this focus on futurity in mind, we plan to include a round-table work on the Futures of Technology and Culture that will feature the activities interfacing new technologies and culture that are part of the remit of Beaubourg's Institute for Research and Innovation led by Professor Stiegler. Other conference events will feature performance art at the crossroads of the animal and the technical. We very much hope that the conference will prove to be an intellectual landmark.
Shakespeare and Wales Public Lecture and Symposium
Friday April 23rd, 2010
The afternoon will include a lecture by the award winning theatre director, Michael Bogdanov, and a symposium led by scholars from around the world.
Full details of the Shakespeare and Wales Public Lecture
British Philosophy of Sport Association
Annual Conference 2010
25th - 27th March 2010
Titles and abstracts (300-500 words) should be sent to Dr. Andrew Edgar, (edgar@cf.ac.uk ) by 8th January 2010. Abstracts should be sent as email attachments in a format readable by Word. A response can be expected by the end of January 2010.
Delegates will have 20 minutes for presentation, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.
AHRC Project: Reading Sartre on Phenomenology and Existentialism
Series of three one-day workshops in 2009 and a major conference in 2010.
16th July 2009, 17 September 2009, November 2009
This project brings together leading academics from the disciplines of Philosophy, French Studies, and Psychology, to discuss the philosophical writings of Jean-Paul Sartre in his early, ‘existentialist’ phase. Workshops will be discussion of works in progress. Final versions of these papers will be published as a Routledge book in 2010 and delivered at a launch conference.
Full details of the AHRC project: Reading Sartre
Deleuze and Activism
The Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, in cooperation with Culture, Imagination and Practice Research Group, School of Social Sciences
12th - 13th November 2009
Location: Cardiff University
When Deleuze and Guattari wrote Anti-Oedipus they hoped it would be a resource to arms for dissidents and political activists. Rather than set out a program of change, they tried to isolate the political, cultural and economic factors that inhibit change. In so doing they created a work that was instantly recognised as a philosophical watershed. It changed the landscape of political theory in a single sweep. Subsequent works developed this analysis further, creating a formidable armoury of critical tools with which to face a world increasingly indifferent to philosophy. This conference seeks to examine the Deleuzian legacy from the point of view of radical politics. It seeks to analyse both what he and Guattari wrote on the subject and more particularly to see what their writings enable us to say now.
Crime Narratives in Context: 2009 Colloquium
28 October 2009
CAPITAL CRIME: READING AND WRITING CRIME AND CITIES
This one day colloquium devoted to ‘Capital Crimes’ will consider how crime is represented in a range of capital locations, addressing issues, such as the significance of space and place in the construction of crime; the role of the capital city as crime metropolis and magnet; the relationship between real and imagined perpetrators and crimes within the capital city; and national crime cultures and circulation of criminal archetypes and myths anchored in the city
Supported by The British Academy
Cardiff University, Trevithick Building, The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 0DE
The Symptom in Theory
8th September, 2009
Location: Room 0.31, Humanities Building, Cardiff University
21st August 2009 - Abstracts and Draft Programme available
Conference organiser: Aidan Tynan
Some of the most influential theoretical contributions of the last several decades have sought to formulate the relationship between the body and its symbolic environments through the concept of the symptom. Perhaps the most influential of these was Lacan's conception of speech and desire, in which the symptom, as signifier, discloses a set of meanings which disturb conscious discourse. Deleuze and Guattari's subsequent insistence that schizophrenia should not be interpreted in negative terms, as the signs of a breakdown, but as the positivity of desire breaking through to a new, possibly revolutionary, plane of existence specifically attacked the psychoanalytic notion of the symptom by tying it to the structures of social repression. Beyond these debates, the symptom has figured in the theory of literature, historical materialism, embodiment and sexuality, and dialectics. This symposium seeks to situate the concept of the symptom in relation to these theoretical and political issues in order to ask what the symptom means for us today. How has the concept of the symptom persisted and how can it help us understand the relationships between pathology and thought, desire and language, praxis and theory, politics and art in our present age?
Further information is available here.
Ireland and Wales: Correspondences
16th July 2009, 17 September 2009, November 2009
A one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium to be held at Cardiff University on Thursday 17 September 2009 and hosted by the Wales-Ireland Research Network
‘Ireland and Wales: Correspondences’ forms part of the Ireland-Wales Network’s ‘Nations and Knowledges’ symposium to be held on 18-19 September 2009.
‘Ethics, Creation and Environment’: Conference in Honour of Robin Attfield
July 23rd
Professor Robin Attfield has announced his retirement at the end of the academic year following a long and distinguished career in environmental philosophy. The Philosophy Department at Cardiff University will be honouring Professor Attfield’s contributions to environmental ethics with a one-day conference dedicated to the themes and questions raised by his work.
Conference Details
COMET 2009
Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference
25 - 27 June 2009
Location: Health Communication Research Centre, Cardiff University
A conference of Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET). Proposals (individual papers, posters, workshops and colloquia) are invited up until 15 January 2009 on all areas of the conference.
The Cardiff Lecture 2009
25 June 2009
Location: Julian Hodge Building, Cardiff University
Further details available here
Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk
An international, interdisciplinary conference
2-3 July 2009
What are the cultural implications of living under conditions of global, manufactured risk?
21st European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop
8-10 July 2009
Choice could be considered the most important core concept in Systemic Functional Linguistics. It is perhaps the most controversial or challenging. What do we mean by choice? Although choice is a central notion in Systemic Functional Linguistics, it is rarely the explicit topic of research. The goal of ESFLCW09 is to consider the role of ‘choice’ as a core concept in theoretical and applied work.
Partitions Conference
The Anxiety of Belonging: Partitions, Reunifications, Modernity
15-17 July 2009
The Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, Cardiff, will host an interdisciplinary conference to explore the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of Partitions and Reunifications and relate historically located Partitions and Reunifications within contemporary discourses of nationalism, the postnational and the global.
Romantic Visual Cultures
Supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies
17th April 2009
Location: Room 2.51, Humanities Building, Cardiff University
This one-day international conference focuses on various aspects of the visual imagination, fine arts and aesthetics, and the complex relationships between them during the Romantic period
Islands of Thought
Early-Modern Mentalities and Politics
10 October 2008
Cardiff University's Renaissance Seminar is holding a one-day interdisciplinary conference, and graduate students from any discipline are welcome to send abstracts.
Gothic Locations
Wales and West Gothic Network Inaugural Conference
19 September 2008
Location: Cardiff University
The conference will address how the Gothic represents the notion of ‘place’ as a literary, cultural, historical, or ideological formation.
First International Deleuze Studies Conference
"One or Several Deleuzes?"
11-13 August 2008
The incredible body of research on Deleuze’s work that has emerged in the past two decades - well over 130 books and literally thousands of articles - has created a situation in which it is no longer possible for a lone scholar to keep pace with new developments in the field. As scholars in disciplines as far flung from each other as musicology, organisational studies, philosophy and cultural studies embrace Deleuze this problem grows ever more intractable. Compounding matters further, Deleuze scholarship spans most languages. In the process there has appeared a highly contested variety of Deleuzes - there is the political Deleuze, the apolitical Deleuze, the philosophical Deleuze (who is a Kantian, a Nietzschean, a Spinozist, a Stoic, etc.), the phenomenological Deleuze, the activist Deleuze, and so on. Sponsored by the journal Deleuze Studies, the aim of this conference is to bring all these Deleuzes into communication.
Welsh Women’s Writing in English
Voice, Space, Identity
7 July 2008
Location: Cardiff University
A postgraduate day-seminar supported by The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA) and hosted by the School of English, Communication and Philosophy.
The Cardiff Lecture 2008
Why not tell the truth? Communicating Uncertainty in Health and Medicine.
Date: 17 July 2008
COMET 2008
2-4 July 2008
The COMET conference 2008 in South Africa is an opportunity to highlight some of the unique challenges and the cultural and linguistic diversity of this context. We would like to announce an invited colloquium on the topic of HIV/Aids, given its significance in the African context.
Conference: The Spanish Civil War - History, Memory, Representation
Conference in collaboration with the School of European Studies
9-10 February 2008
Location: Temple of Peace, Cardiff
An International Interdisciplinary Conference organised by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in collaboration with the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University.
Cardiff School of European Studies Website: Conference Details
'Papering over Cracks’
A Cardiff University Colloquium on Material Culture
23 January 2008
Location: Cardiff University Graduate Centre, Vaughan Room
This Colloquium is the first event of a project on ‘Material Culture’. Our aim is to bring together students from different Schools to discuss the nature of ‘Material Culture’ and its relevance as a mode of analysis to specific fields.
Shakespeare and Derrida
An International Conference
29 September 2007
The aims of this conference are to commemorate the elective affinity between the French philosopher and English dramatist, to consider the importance of Shakespeare for Derrida’s thinking, and to project ways in which Derrida’s work might influence the future understanding of Shakespeare’s plays.
New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics
2nd Conference of the UK-Cognitive Linguistics Association
27-30 August 2007
The primary themes of this conference include a continuation of the New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics theme used for the first, very successful UK-CLA conference, together with a focus on Cognitive Linguistics, Applied (or more specifically, Applications of cognitive (linguistics) theories and methodologies). This second theme is very current and amplifies the importance of language research to not just describe language in use, but also to relate theory and practice to issues generated in contexts of use.
What is Special about the Gene?
A one day arts and humanities interdisciplinary symposium
11 September 2007
This symposium for 30-40 participants forms part of an ongoing project looking at the symbolic and cultural significance and meanings of the gene and genetics. It aims to harness arts and humanities insights and methods into a dialogue about understanding the significance of the gene. It is also concerned with the impact the gene and genetics might have on the shaping of arts and humanities disciplines and the things that they seek to understand and study.
Theory, Faith and Culture
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
4 - 6 July, 2007
This conference will look at the interface between Theory, Faith and Culture. It will explore a range of theoretical approaches to the subject and attempt to further our understanding of some of the most important and pressing issues of the day.
COMET 2007
28-30 June 2007
The fifth Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine & Ethics took place on 28-30 June 2007 at the University of Lugano (Switzerland).
COMET 2006
29 June – 1 July 2006
The Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine & Ethics will be hosted by the Health Communication Research Centre, Cardiff University. It will include three colloquia and a workshop.
International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference
1-4 July 2005
The 7th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law at Cardiff University, UK.
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