October 2019

Minkun Liu: Emoji and managing rapport on Wechat group interaction among Chinese students

Event date: 
Wednesday 27 November 2019

 

27th November, 15:30-17:00, Room G13 Lister Learning and Teaching Building

 

Event:                  Language in Context Seminar

Date:                    27 November, 2019

Time:                    15:30 - 17:00

Venue:                 Room G13, Lister Learning and Teaching Centre, 5 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU

Speaker:              Minkun Liu (University of Edinburgh, Department of Linguistics and English Language)

  Jing Jing:  Mismatched priorities and approaches in China-EU Relations Revealed from a Corpus-driven Discourse Analysis of Their Official Discourse (1994-2019)

Event date: 
Friday 15 November 2019

15th November, 15:10-16:30, Room G13, Lister Learning and Teaching Building

 

Speaker:             Jing Jing (University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures)

Title:                   Mismatched priorities and approaches in China-EU Relations Revealed from a Corpus-driven Discourse Analysis of Their Official Discourse (1994-2019)

Hao Zhang: How to link Practiced Language Policies to pedagogies in foreign language teaching settings: a case study of two primary school Mandarin classes

Event date: 
Friday 1 November 2019

1st November, Room G13, Lister Learning and Teaching Building

 

Speaker:             Hao Zhang (University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education)

Title:                    How to link Practiced Language Policies to pedagogies in foreign language teaching settings: a case study of two primary school Mandarin classes

     

Professor Giuliana Pieri (RHUL): The Making of Modern Italy. Through the Looking Glass (Darkly)

Event date: 
Monday 4 November 2019 to Tuesday 5 November 2019

MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER

 

3pm, West Court, ECA Main Building, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh 

Professor Giuliana Pieri (RHUL): The Making of Modern Italy. Through the Looking Glass (Darkly)

[DELC Research Seminar Series – organised by DELC-Italian in collaboration with ECA]

Roundtable Seminar lasts 2 hours

Matt Jones: Designed in California... Whose future is it anyway?

SPEAKER:      Matt Jones

DATE:            24th October 2019

TIME:            4pm

PLACE:          Inspace
                     1 Crichton Street

[Centre for Design Informatics and ILCC Seminar]

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TITLE:     Designed in California... Whose future is it anyway?

ABSTRACT:

Professor Paul Starkey (Durham University): In Search of Identity: Faris al-Shidyaq and the 19th-Century Arabic Revival

Event date: 
Wednesday 30 October 2019
Location: 
David Hume Tower, Lecture Theatre B George Square

W.M. Watt Annual Lecture 2019 - Professor Paul Starkey

'In Search of Identity: Faris al-Shidyaq and the 19th-Century Arabic Revival'. A lecture by Professor Paul Starkey (Professor of Arabic, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University).

[Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies]