Dr Nikolaos Vryzidis (SOAS/BSA): Greek-Orthodox Costume during the Ottoman period: between Tradition and Innovation
16 Feb 2017 16:10 – 17:00
Speaker: Christopher Shank (University of Bangor): Investigating the impact of structural factors upon that/zero complementizer alternation patterns in nine verbs of cognition: A diachronic corpus based multifactorial analysis.
2 Mar 2017 16:10 – 17:00
Speaker: Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester) On the lexical semantics of lexical categories
pm Dr Helen Van Noorden (Cambridge): The Sibylline Oracles and Apocalyptic Discourse
30 Mar 2017 16:10 – 17:00
Speaker: Heike Pichler (University of Newcastle) Grammaticalization is gradual, innit: question tags in Multicultural London English
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS AND EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Dr Erle Rikmann (University of Jyväskylä, Finland / IASH Fellow): Transnational civic activity online and offline: young Russian-speakers in Finland and Estonia
The Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to invite you to a symposium to discuss contemporary opportunities and challenges for Celtic Studies in general and Celtic and Gaelic Studies departments in Scotland in particular.
Please join us for an afternoon symposium presenting new research and creative work in the ecological arts and humanities. The symposium is free to attend and has been organised with the support of IASH, the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network and Landscaping Change, a British Academy-funded project based at Bath Spa University. Confirmed speakers: Alexandra Campbell (Glasgow), Katy Hastie (Glasgow), Colin Herd (Glasgow), David Farrier (Edinburgh), Lila Matsumoto (ECA), and Alice Tarbuck (Dundee).