photograph'Transmissions'. Centenary Conference of the School of Modern Languages

Thursday, 24 March, 5.30 pm, Curtis Auditorium: Kate Adie: Key Note Lecture 

Friday, 25 March
Armstrong Building, King's Hall: Plenary Key Note Lecture
8:45am: Registration. Please pre-register via the registration form.
9:15am: Introduction (Elizabeth Andersen / Charles Harvey)
9:30am: Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) Transmitting Languages: Disciplinary Identity and Public Understanding
Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Level 1: Sessions

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Panel  ATransmission as textual transformation
Henrike Lähnemann/ Elizabeth Andersen; Laura Moretti; Valerie Pellatt

Panel B - Language change, language acquisition
Richard Waltereit; Nicholas Roberts; Florence Myles

12:30 Lunch

13:30: Panel CTransmissions of truth and memory in visual media
Sabrina Yu; Nick Morgan; Ximena Córdova

Panel D – Transmitting ideas, transferring values
Jorge Catalá-Carrasco; Jens Hentschke; Máire Cross

15:00 Tea

15:30 Panel E – Transmission as intertextual struggle
Beate Müller; Sarah Leahy; Francis Jones

Panel F – Identity in cultural transmissions: multiple media
Jo Smith Finley; Guy Austin; Rosaleen Howard

17:00-17:30 pm. Beehive 2.21/2.22 Plenary Round Table for all Presenters and Chair

The Conference 'Transmissions' (24-25 March 2011) is part of the Centenary of the School of Modern Languages, celebrating 100 years of language teaching in Newcastle. To reserve your place, please pre-register via the registration form.

Published: 13th March 2011