CALL FOR PAPERS: 1st
Annual CLAS Postgraduate Symposium
April 27th-28th 2015,
University of Nottingham
Confirmed Keynote:
Professor Pat Thomson
This year, the CLAS
postgraduate community is pleased to be hosting the 1st Annual
Postgraduate Symposium.
We invite both taught
and research PGs to present their research in a friendly, informal environment
and would welcome as many contributions as possible on any theme or topic, in
the following suggested formats:
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Formal
papers, lasting 10-15 minutes
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Informal
research overview presentations, lasting 5-10 minutes
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Translation,
subtitling or interpreting demonstrations, readings of translations or other
creative contributions
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Offers to
chair panel sessions
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Posters
We are looking for
speakers from all departments to present their research however they feel most
comfortable, be that in a traditional conference format or a more informal
talk, such as a translated piece followed by a commentary. We’re very open to
all ideas, so please do get in touch if you feel that you have an alternative
format that you might like to try.
We ask for abstracts of
200-250 words, giving details of what you would like to present, and how you
would like to present it. Please be sure to include your name, degree course,
and department. Please email this to classymposium@gmail.com by Friday 27th
February, 2015.
The setting will be
informal and inclusive, and there will be an emphasis on discussion rather than
on presentation. We hope to enable students at all stages to benefit from the
knowledge and experience of colleagues, and to engage with each other’s
research.
The symposium does not
have an overarching theme; rather, we hope to be as inclusive as possible, and
arrange the panels by research interests with the aim of creating discussions
that will enhance our individual projects by sharing ideas across disciplines.
The concept behind the symposium is to share our research and build networks
across the different departments in the School in order to foster a livelier,
more interactive postgraduate community.
We are also very pleased
to announce that Professor Pat Thomson will be giving our keynote address.
Professor Thomson, of the University of Nottingham’s School of Education, will
be presenting a paper about postgraduate life. Her impressive academic profile
(http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/people/patricia.thomson) is supplemented with
an extremely accessible and helpful blog (http://patthomson.wordpress.com/) that provides
excellent academic advice for postgraduates and early career researchers on a range
of topics. In addition to her position within the School of Education,
Professor Thompson is Adjunct Professor at the Free State University, South
Africa, a Visiting Professor at the University of Haskoli Islands, Iceland and
a Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
We have also planned a
variety of parallel workshops, which are based around key issues affecting
postgraduates such as public engagement, social media networks, being an early
career researcher, and careers outside of academia (all
of these are yet to be confirmed, but this is to give you an indication of the
nature of these workshops). We hope to see as many CLAS postgraduates as
possible at the event, even those are not presenting, so look out for an
opportunity to register as an attendee in due course.
Kind regards,
PG Symposium Organising Committee
Sam Wilkinson (French)
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Nicola
Thomas (German)
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Irene
Hadjiloizou (CFM)
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Victoria
Gerstman (CFM)
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Isabel
Story (SPLAS)
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Olivia
Hellewell (RSS)
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Onur
Alptekin (SPLAS)
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Hongyuan
Chen (CETI)
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Timo
Schrader (AmCan)
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Coral
Leather (AmCan)
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Claire
Burdfield (CFM)
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Margarita
Escobar (SPLAS)
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Ya Chun
Liu (Translation)
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