News and Events
Past events
Cultural Studies in Multilingual Contexts, 11.3., 18.3., 8.4.2011
A three-day course for post-graduate students from different faculties, whose doctoral dissertation is
linked to cultural studies, especially multiculturalism.
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Teaching Narrative and Teaching Through Narrative -
University of Tampere, May 26–28, 2011
International Conference organized by the Nordic Network of Narrative Studies
The conference is organized to explore the broad interface of narrative theory, literary pedagogy, and the uses of narrative as a tool for teaching and distributing knowledge in diverse disciplinary fields. How to teach narratives and materials from Joyce’s “Eveline” to “Baby Emily”? How to teach with theorists such as William Labov, James Phelan or Hannah Arendt? How to cope with the tension between research and teaching: to translate teaching into research and research into teaching? We invite papers on all text types carrying narrative relevance and amenable to pedagogical uses: from opera to obituary; television to testimony; Bildungsroman alongside with biblical narrative to blog. Participants are also invited to organize sessions on their favourite materials and their use in teaching and theorizing.
More information and details on the conference webpages
New Dynamics of Language Learning: Spaces and Places – Intentions and Opportunities
International conference in Jyväskylä, Finland, June 6–9, 2011
∗ Guest seminar on Tue. September 14 (Pinni B 5069, 16-18):
Professor Angeles Carrasco Gutiérrez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain):
Ver ('to see') as a verb of primary epistemic perception
∗ Plural symposium on Mobility on May 17, 2010 (Pinni B1097)
Plural organizes a one-day symposium on Mobility on Monday, May 17, 2010. The aim of the symposium is to discuss the many aspects of Mobility and offer new perspectives for research. Everything is on the move - are we? We ask what this concept means to us and for our research as scholars of cultural studies, translation studies and linguistics. What and who is mobile? What causes mobility and how does it affect our lives?
∗ Plural online
Plural Blog can be accessed via the Plural webpages or at www.pluralplural.wordpress.com.
We publish articles by staff members and visitors in those fields represented by the research centre.
Please send your suggestions to
Päivi Pahta (paivi.surname(at)uta.fi).
Plural also has an open Facebook group, which anyone interested in can join. All contributions are welcome!
∗ Plural Opening Seminar was held on December 4, 2009 at 10-17 in Pinni B 1097.
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