Vol. 5 Issue 16 – Symposium: ‘E-reading between the lines: 21st century literature, digital platforms and literacies’, Brighton – England, July 5, 2013

The 5th N.E.A.R. Language Education Conference will be held on Saturday, May 25, 2013, on the campus of the University of Niigata Prefecture in Niigata, Japan.

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Vol. 5 Issue 16 – Symposium: ’19th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes’, Vienna, Austria , July 8-10, 2013

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Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to participate in the 19th LSP Symposium to be held from 8-10 July 2013 at the Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna.

You are invited to submit abstracts for papers to be presented at the conference on the following topics:

·      Domain-specific languages (in domains such as law, medicine, business, engineering, etc.)

·      Languages for Special Purposes in specific languages, countries, regions of the world

·      Professional communication (more…)

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Vol. 5 Issue 16 – Conference: ’39th International Byron Conference’, London, July 1-6, 2013

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This conference will examine Byron’s engagement with politics in the widest sense: as a poet, as a member of the House of Lords, as a commentator on his time, and latterly as a would-be revolutionary.

Academic sessions might include:

  • Byron and the politics of culture
  • Political style in Byron’s writing
  • Byron and the politics of the ‘Other’
  • Byron and the politics of emergent nations (Italy, Greece, the Americas)
  • Byron and the House of Lords
  • Byron and Napoleon
  • Byron as social satirist (more…)

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