Events
Americas Research Group
Location: Research Beehive 2.22, Old Library Building
Time/Date: 1st February 2012 - 15th July 2012, 17:15 - 20:00
Join us for events of the Americas Research Group academic community (
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/). Read more about upcoming events...
Newcastle University holds its first open day of 2012 on 15 February
Location: Lindisfarne Road, Kings Road Centre
Time/Date: 15th February 2012, 12:15 - 16:15
Find out about taught and research opportunities, postgraduate study and funding at Newcastle: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/visit/open/index.htm
We look forward to welcoming you to our campus!
MEMS Public Lecture
Location: Research Beehive 2.20, Old Library Building
Time/Date: 6th March 2012, 17:00 - 18:00
A Public Lecture of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group: Early users of medieval books of hours and prayer books left signs of their reading in the form of fingerprints in the margins. The darkness of their fingerprints correlates to the intensity of their use and handling. A densitometer - a machine that measures the darkness of a reflecting surface - can reveal which texts a reader favored. This papers introduces a new technique, densitometry, to measure a reader's response to various texts in a prayer book.
le français à travers le temps: acquisition, changement, variation
Location: Newcastle University
Time/Date: 1st June 2012 - 3rd June 2012,
The
annual conference of the
Association of French Language Studies (AFLS) will be held at
Newcastle University from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd June 2012. The conference acts as a forum to encourage and promote language teaching activities and research in French linguistics in Higher Education. The theme of this year’s conference is « le français à travers le temps: acquisition, changement et variation ».
International workshop for scholars, postgraduate students, librarians and museum curators
Location: Research Beehive, Old Library Building
Time/Date: 5th September 2012 - 7th September 2012, 09:00 - 17:00
The School of Modern Languages of Newcastle University (UK) is organising an international workshop onkanbun and kanbun kundoku for scholars, postgraduate students, librarians and museum curators from Europe and America. The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with Nishōgakusha University (Tokyo). Nishōgakusha University has extensive experience in organising kanbun seminars for undergraduate and postgraduate students, but this will be the first such workshop in Europe for a wider audience. Through this project Nishōgakusha University and Newcastle University will jointly contribute to the advancement of the field of kanbun studies within the broader discipline of Japanese studies.
Americas Research Group event series 2012
Postgraduate Open Day
Kathryn Rudy (St. Andrews): Dirty Books
Association of French Language Studies Annual conference
"Reading Chinese as Japanese": kanbun and kanbun kundoku
