Lectures & Seminars

03/02/2009 12:45:59

Department of Continuing Education

1 April University of Later Life

A morning of lectures from senior Lancaster academics will be complemented by an afternoon finding out about a selection of the research, teaching and enterprise in which Lancaster is involved. There is no charge for the day, which is open to all and is planned with older adults in mind.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/conted/University%20of%20Later%20Life%20flyer.pdf

Contact Jan Petersen on extn. 92621.

CeMoRe / CGWS Sailing Proud Seminar

23 April Rethinking representation in the Museum: Camp, sailors
and sexuality
Pam Meecham, IOE, University of London

4.15pm - 6.00pm, IAS Meeting Room 2

This forms part of the Sailing Proud conference and seminar series jointly organised by Liverpool Museums, Centre for Mobilities Research and the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at Lancaster.

Department of European Languages and Cultures

Department of European languages and Cultures

DELC Research Seminar Series 2008/09 –

29 April Postmodernism: a Lesson from Tolkien (and Borges)?
Maurice Slawinski, Lancaster University

1.00pm, Bowland North Seminar Room 13

13 May Past Modernity? Social-scientific Idioms and the Othering of Society
Andreas Langenohl (Universität Konstanz)

5.00pm, Bowland North seminar Room 13

27 May Structural Violence and Irony in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's
film Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuba, 1968)
Amit Thakkar (Lancaster University)

1.00pm,Bowland North Seminar Room 13

ALL staff and students welcome

Enquiries: l.gilmour@lancaster.ac.uk

Symposium

8 – 9 May Nostalgia and Innovation in Twentieth-Century French Music
A two-day symposium at Lancaster University in association
with RMA, LICA, FASS, NTFS
Professor Nigel Simeone, University of Sheffield

Jack Hylton Music Rooms, LICA

A downloadable copy of the registration form is available at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/nostalgia (Registration is free for Lancaster students and staff)

The deadline for registering is Tuesday 31 March 2009. The provisional programme and other details of the symposium are now available on the website.

CeMoRe Seminar

26 May Cultural Hypermobility and Nomadic Identities: towards a theory
of Neo-Nomadism.
Anthony D’Andrea, University of Limerick

4.15 – 6pm Venue: IAS, Meeting Room 1

CeMoRe Annual Research Day

27 May

For those of you who have not been involved before, this is an opportunity for Lancaster researchers, working on aspects of mobilities research, to present short papers, make new contacts and develop fresh ideas.

Guest seminar - Eric Laurier (Geography, Edinburgh University) 'Caring in Cars'

Bowland North SR10 from 09.30am

More information about the scope of CeMoRe is at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/