Events
Open Days & Visit Days
Our regular University Open Days and Applicant Visit Days will help you to decide whether our courses are right for you. See our Open Days & Visit Days page for details.
Research Seminars
Research seminars are held regularly in the School, involving staff and visiting speakers. See our Research Seminars page for details of the 2009-10 programme.
Other Events
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Seminar Series: Cycles of Grammaticalization: Comparative views on the history of negation
Aston University and Birmingham City University are delighted to announce a series of one-day seminars on Cycles of Grammaticalization, funded under the International Network programme by the Leverhulme Trust. The seminars will seek to elucidate and diagnose the complex factors that lead to grammatical change through time, with particular reference to the negation cycle in English, French and German. More information.
Past Events
Past events have included:
- Public Reading: Now and in Time - In honour of Dr Samuel Johnson's genius, the School of English presented readings from the range of his works at the Birmingham Conservatoire on 20th October 2009, as part of the Birmingham Book Festival
- Seminar: Dr Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, University of Reading: Children’s Literature: New Approach, 21st May 2008
- Seminar: Dr Richard Ingham, Birmingham City University: English in the workhouse - Non-standard grammar in 19th century pauper letters, 7th May 2008
- Seminar: Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee, Birmingham City University, WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine: supplementing the traditional close reading of texts with corpus-linguistic techniques, 20th February 2008
- Colloquium: 'The Canon': Birmingham Conservatoire, in conjunction with the School of English and the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, 9th January 2008
- Seminar: The MeLLANGE Learner Translator Corpus, Natalie Kubler, Université Paris VII, 16th January 2008
- Symposium: Language over time - a symposium on Anglo-Norman in the context of medieval French language use, 19th January 2008
- Research Students’ Forum: Jean Jasper on Letters and the Negotiation of Treason in King Lear, 6th February 2008
- Seminar: ‘I wish to do as much by Poesy’ (Don Juan, x, 3) What did Byron wish to do? - Dr Tony Howe, 12th December 2007
- Seminar: Gender and Story Genre in Online Narratives of Illness - Dr. Ruth Page, 24th October 2007
- Conference: Victorian Memories - 15th September 2007
- Conference : Narrative and Multimodality - 27th-28th April 2007
- Conference: British Society for Literature and Science - 28th-31st March 2007
- Conference: Our Research and Development Unit hosted the 2007 ICAME conference at Stratford-upon-Avon.
- Seminar: Wittgenstein’s Private Language Argument and Self-Consciousness, Dr Mark Addis Reader in Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Birmingham City University, 21st February 2007
- Workshop : Middle English and Anglo-Norman Workshop - 1st-2nd February 2007