The Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University met online from the beginning of January to the end of June 2021. We had an exciting programme of events on Fridays, at various times of the day to enable people to connect with us from different time zones.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2021
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UTC |
Speaker | Title | More information and registration |
| 8 Jan | 11.00 | Sam Duncan, UCL | Book launch: ‘Oral Literacies: When Adults Read Aloud’ | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oral-literacies-book-launch-tickets-132075065075 |
| 15 Jan | 15.00 | Ross Young and Felicity Ferguson, Literacy for Pleasure | Writing For Pleasure: theory, research and practice | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-for-pleasure-theory-research-and-practice-tickets-135534706957
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| 22 Jan | 12.00 | Oksana Afitska , Lancaster University | Use of academic language in primary classrooms: functions, patterns and learning outcomes | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/136620542721
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| 29 Jan | 12.00 | Emily Peach and Uta Papen, Lancaster | ‘Crying so hard that I’ll be physically ill over a piece of work’: academic literacy practices and student mental health. | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/136625742273
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| 5 Feb | 13.00 | Navan Govender, University of Strathclyde | “What are we supposed to do?”: Critical Literacies & Empire | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/136629828495 |
| 11 Feb | 13.00 | Colin Penny, Lancaster Castle Museum Director | “Gay Graffiti at Lancaster Castle” In celebration of LGBT History Month, we are joining the Lancaster University LGBT+ network. | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gay-graffiti-at-lancaster-castle-a-talk-with-dr-colin-penny-tickets-136800045619
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| 12 Feb | 12.00 | Boris Vazquez-Calvo, Autonomous University of Madrid | Language learning entering the digital wilds: Catalan gamers as guerrilla fan translators | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/137589990365 |
| 19 Feb | 15.00 | Rachel Heydon Western University and Shelley Stagg Peterson, OISE, University of Toronto | The Case of the Ontario Right to Read Inquiry: A Trans-national Dialogue on Literacy, Disability, and Pedagogy in a Science of Reading Era | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/138585959335
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| 26 Feb | 10.00 | Rachael Levy, UCL and Mel Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University | ‘No-one would sleep if we didn’t have books’: understanding shared reading practices in families. Book launch of Family Literacies: reading with young children | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/140283141653
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| 5 Mar | 17.00 | Hervin Fernandez Aceves, Lancaster University | Endemic social practices and autochthonous medieval texts: the charters and condaghes of Sardinia | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/141139228231
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| 12 Mar | 15.00 | Gee Macrory, Manchester Metropolitan University | “Commas in the air”: new orthographies in the primary languages classroom | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/142845806653
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| 19 Mar | 11.00 | Soledad Montes Sánchez, Lancaster University | Transitions in students writing: what do we know from theory and research? | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/142870598807 |
| 26 Mar | 13.00 | Jamie Duncan, Lancaster University
(currently based in Rio de Janiero) |
Researching Protest Literacies | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/142844518801
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| UTC+1
(British Summer Time) |
EASTER BREAK | |||
| 16 Apr | 11.00 | Philomena Osseo-Asare, Sheffield University | Book Launch:The Impacts of Language and Literacy Policy on Teaching Practices in Ghana | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/148422649139
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| 23 Apr | 10.00 | Lauren O’Hagan, Cardiff University | Reading, Writing and… Rebellion: Rethinking Working-Class Life Through the Edwardian Book Inscription Book launch | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-writing-and-rebellion-llrc-book-launch-with-lauren-ohagan-tickets-150714975549
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| 30 Apr | 11.00 | Katrin De Graef, Ghent University | Cuneiform Lives. Mapping Old Babylonian Society through Prosopography | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cuneiform-lives-katrin-de-graef-lancaster-literacy-research-centre-tickets-150872625083 |
| 7 May | no meeting | |||
| 14 May | 15.00 | Liz Brewster, Lancaster University | Experiences, interactions and interpretations: Bibliotherapy in theory and practice | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bibliotherapy-in-practice-liz-brewster-lancaster-literacy-research-centre-tickets-150876328159 |
| 21 May | No meeting | |||
| 28 May | 15.00 | Rachel Heydon, Western University (WU), Carla Ruthes Coelho, WU, Christopher Eaton, University of Toronto, Bronwyn John, WU, Pamela McKenzie, WU, Mary Ott, WU, Sandra Poczobut, WU, Wendy Shilton, University of Prince Edward Island, Zheng Zhang, Western University. | Reading Pedagogies of Equity: The Introduction of a Literacy Pedagogue Network to Promote Academic Reading in Teacher Education | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/151973588093 |
| 4 June | 12.00 | Fernando Guzmán-Simón,Alejandra Pacheco-Costa and Eduardo García-Jiménez, all at University of Seville | IMprovement Of multimoDAl LITeracY in childhood (3-8 years old): development of an inclusive model in Areas with Social Transformation Needs (MODALITY) | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/139668168251
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| 11 June | no meeting | |||
| 18 June | 15.00 | Maighread Tobin, Maynooth University | Literacy and Society in Ireland: 1900-1980 | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/138933741561
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| 25 June | 11.00 | Chris Bailey, Sheffield Hallam University | Meaning Making, Multimodality and Minecraft: Developing research around screen based play | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/140271183887 |