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Date: 08/12/2018
Description: This is a one day symposium of the Midlands Network for German, Russian, Central and East European Studies (MCEES). The topic of this symposium is the centenary of the end of WWI in 1917/18 which saw the reshaping of Central and Eastern Europe from multinational empires to modern nation states.

Date: 08 - 09/11/2018
Description: Recent elections and referenda have thrown up some unexpected results - outside candidates have emerged rapidly to take power, and established politicians have suffered an unexpected decline or increase in support. Traditional institutions such as political parties and trade unions have experienced a revival in membership. Received wisdom on public opinion and political behaviour has been disrupted, not least assumptions about the political engagement of millenials. This conference will explore mediated communication of politics in the context of such instability and insurgency.

Date: 24/10/2018
Description: On the 60th anniversary of Michael Young's seminal text 'The Rise of the Meritocracy' join the debate about the state of meritocracy in contemporary Britain. Panelists: Helen Goulden, Faiza Shaheen, Nick Timothy, and Toby Young.

Date: 19 - 20/10/2018
Description: Interdisciplinary conference investigating the impact of the distribution of musical and other performing arts media via radio, television and digital broadcasting on communities in eastern Asia and the Pacific nations.

Date: 22/09/2018
Description: This is a workshop and networking event for Early Career Researchers on the influence of standard language ideology on non-standard language(s).

Date: 21/09/2018
Description: This symposium seeks to challenge the narrow content-orientation of much existing periodicals scholarship by engaging with new, deeper and more complex contextualizations of these unique textual objects. In particular, it will showcase work that offers considerations of the American periodical from the perspective not of its content-providers but the perspective of the multiple human and nonhuman actors responsible for assembling and distributing what in the aggregate is a mass of literary material simply too large and various for conventional interpretive approaches.

Date: 12/09/2018
Description: This is an ARTIS event for PhD students and established researchers who will consider the relevance of the notion of the paratext to a broad spectrum of translation studies research.

Date: 29/06/2018
Description: The Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies are hosting a 1-day event that addresses the usefulness and the use of Google Translate in the context of education.

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