{"id":545,"date":"2017-03-23T22:56:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/?p=545"},"modified":"2017-03-23T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:57:24","slug":"first-lancaster-ghent-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/2017\/03\/23\/first-lancaster-ghent-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressions from the first Lancaster-Ghent symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greatly enjoyed hosting a\u00a0wonderful group of colleagues and students from\u00a0Ghent University for the inaugural Lancaster-Ghent symposium. The symposium is part of our new research and teaching partnership (for more info\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\">please see our website<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The first event focused on &#8220;Discourse and Media&#8221;. A\u00a0great thank you to our invited speakers for their excellent presentations and to our delegates for their thoughtful comments and discussion. The symposium clearly indicated many fruitful avenues for future research and teaching\u00a0collaborations, and it will be exciting to strengthen the links between our institutions over the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Invited speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gent: Geert Jacobs, Jana Declercq, Eliza Kowal, Sophie Busschop<\/li>\n<li>Lancaster: David Barton, Daniela Ibarra Herrera, Elena Semino, Karin Tusting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next event takes place next month! The second Lancaster-Ghent symposium will focus on &#8220;Multilingualism: Learning, processing, teaching and testing&#8221; and take place on April 18-19, 2017. Both events are\u00a0funded by FASS Internationalization Fund, acknowledged with gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-190 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_8921-1-e1490307494702-1024x886.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-183 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_8936-e1490307691737-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-184 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_8942-e1490307654144-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-185 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_8956-e1490307598364-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-187 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_8960-e1490307565730-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-191 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-ghent\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_8979-e1490307724171-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greatly enjoyed hosting a\u00a0wonderful group of colleagues and students from\u00a0Ghent University for the inaugural Lancaster-Ghent symposium. The symposium is part of our new research and teaching partnership (for more info\u00a0please see our website). The first event focused on &#8220;Discourse and Media&#8221;. A\u00a0great thank you to our invited speakers for their excellent presentations and to our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-lancaster-ghent","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7CCEU-8N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rebuschat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}