Calendar

Evolution, Popular Culture and the Evolution of Popular Culture

Time: 5/23/2013 at 12:00 PM
Location: Faculty of Arts, Renströmsgatan 6

Event type: Workshop

A workshop hosted by SPL. 
The workshop participants are both Literary scholars and Linguists from Aarhus, Lund, Stockholm, Södertorn, Umeå, Uppsala and, of course, Gothenburg.
This workshop has been organized as part of SPL¿s Popular Culture research profile. There are a very limited number of places available for non-participants to attend, so please contact Joe Trotta if you would like to listen in. You can find more info, along with the program and abstracts, on the GUL page for the workshop.

The Languages of Tanzania

Time: 5/29/2013 at 10:00 AM
Location: Faculty of Arts, Renströmsgatan 6 - H323

Event type: Workshop

The SIDA project on the Languages of Tanzania, based at SPL and at the Linguistics Dept. of the University of Dar-es-Salaam, is organizing a workshop at SPL to present some results of the project. All are welcome!

Lecturer: Prof. emeritus Karsten Legère, Prof. H.R.T. Muzale, Prof. Josephat Rugemalira, Malin Petzell, Tove Rosendal, Eva-Marie Ström

Change in tense constructions: What can we learn from diachronic corpora?

Time: 5/29/2013 at 3:15 PM
Location: Faculty of Arts, Renströmsgatan 6 - G412

Event type: Research Seminar, Research profile seminar, Guest lecture

Guest lecture within the Diversity and Universals in Language research profile, department of Languages and Literatures. All interested are welcome!

Lecturer: Asst. Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert, Université de Neuchâtel

The Semantic Scope of Slavic Aspect

Time: 6/10/2013
Location: Faculty of Arts, Renströmsgatan 6

Event type: External conference, Conference

Fourth Conference of the International Commission on Aspectology of the International Committee of Slavists

Lecturer: Ju. D. Apresjan, A. V. Bondarko, Ö. Dahl, S. M. Dickey, Je. V. Paducheva

Typographic Landscaping. A Marcus Wallenberg symposium.

Time: 6/17/2013 at 9:00 AM

Event type: Symposium

This symposium brings together scholars from different fields (linguistics, graphic design, cultural studies) and practitioners of typographic design for an open dialogue on cultural, political, economic and technological aspects of typography. In particular, the invited papers deal with how typography is used in the urban landscape in order to construct and contest identities, communities and power relations.

Lecturer: Barbara Brownie, UK Melissa Curtin, USA Eva Engstrand, Sweden Nay Hannawi, Kuwait Markus Hanzer, Austria Welby Ings, New Zealand Adam Jaworski, Hong Kong Johan Järlehed, Sweden Indra Kupferschmid, Germany Theo van Leeuwen, Australia Johana Londoño, USA Geraldine Marshall, UK Barbara Mayor, UK Hinrich Sachs, Sweden & Schweiz Francesco Screti, Schweiz Sydney Shep, New Zealand Jürgen Spitzmüller, Schweiz Arina Stoenescu, Sweden & UK

1st NordClass Conference

Time: 10/16/2013 at 4:30 PM
Location: Faculty of Arts, Renströmsgatan 6

Event type: External conference