Literacy Research Centre Seminar Series

4 December Two research studies from Spain:

Being a "Good" Second Language Learner: A Critical
Sociolinguistic Ethnography in Madrid and Zhejiang Schools
Miguel Pérez Milans, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Lack of interest in reading: conversations with a 16 year-old
Cristina Aliagas Marin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

1-2 pm in MR2

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

Lancaster China Management Centre Seminars

30 November Provincial Investmnet Climate in China
Professor John Weiss, Professor of Economics and
Associate Dean for Research, University of Bradford
4.00pm , LT 10, Management School

For more information, please see:

http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/events/chinacentre/10758/

7 December National Launch of China-UK Entrepreneurship
Competition
The China-UK Entrepreneurship Competition launches on
7 December at LUMS. The competition provides a platform
for students to demonstrate their ideas and business acumen.
2.30pm, Management School LT 3

For more information, please see:

http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/events/chinacentre/12757/

7 December The rise of private and mixed companies in China’s
water & wastewater sectors
James Winpenny, Independent Economic Consultant
4.00pm, Management School LT 3

For more information, please see:

http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/events/chinacentre/10146/

Department of European Languages and Cultures

DELC Research Seminar Series

Lent term:

30 January Camus, Certeau, Colonialism
John Strachan, History Department, Lancaster University
5.00pm, IAS MR1

13 February Delirium in the Thought of Maria Zambrano
Bea Caballero, Stirling University
5.00pm, IAS MR1

27 February Genet's aesthetics
Carl Lavery, Theatre Studies, Lancaster University
5.00pm, IAS MR1

12 March The palimpsestic architecture of Williams Sassine’s
Mémoire d’une peau
Charlotte Baker, Lancaster University
5pm, IAS MR1

Summer term:

23 April Survival in Language: Poetry in the State of Exception
Cornelia Grabner, Lancaster University
1.00pm, IAS MR3

7 May Sophie Krossa, Lancaster University
1.00pm IAS MR3

Enquiries to: Linda Gilmour: l.gilmour@lancaster.ac.uk